Yuck!
Experts advise not to wash our jeans
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Beurkz, the very idea of stepping into unwashed jeans is disgusting to our author. Nevertheless, experts advise it, for these reasons.
by Lena Selinger
I love freshly made beds, they smell so good and feel nice and soft and cozy. It’s the same with clothes. Fragrantly clean, hygienically clean shirts and pants: Put them on and feel good. But jeans experts now want to ruin my well-being! They do not recommend washing jeans.
Just not into the machine!
So far, I have always ignored the advice from sellers that I shouldn’t machine wash the jeans I just bought. After all, I wear them a lot. At some point it’s like washing your hair. I am well aware that I shouldn’t wash them that often, but at a certain point I just don’t feel good anymore and the shampoo or the machine inevitably has to be used. But why shouldn’t we wash our jeans now?
This is behind the no-wash policy
With every wash, our newly acquired favorite jeans lose some color, the fabric can get rougher and the jeans are actually made to get dirty. After all, it was originally conceived as pure workwear. This then results in the individual character of the jeans, basically everything that you can already buy today: holes, prints, stains – just a used look. Jeans are only unique if you rub things in yourself or leave them dirty.
What if the thing is covered in dirt?
Seriously now, at the latest when you’ve spent an evening in your jeans in the club, the kids wiped their french fries hands on them for the tenth time, or you’ve ridden the subway with them 100 times, all you want to do is throw it into the washing machine and rinse out all the dirt that you feel. Experts, however, recommend: ventilation. Either outside on the clothesline or in the dryer. An overnight stay in the freezer should work wonders against other germs, bacteria and the like, and dirt and stains should ideally be carefully removed with a damp cloth or toothbrush. But be careful: rubbing too wildly can not only make the stain worse, it can also remove the color from the material. Incidentally, this only applies to real denim jeans, so no mixed materials. They have to go into the machine.
This goes too far!
I think the “I-don’t-wash-my-jeans-anymore-concept” is of course super sustainable, resource-friendly and environmentally friendly, because it saves water and the pants last longer if you wash them less often. But at the thought of not washing them, a chill runs down my spine. You also want to feel a little good in your clothes. But maybe I’ll just wash my jeans less often now and then I’ll see how I feel about it. Maybe it’s completely ok, like a little dirty pig in a used look.