• Iconoclast@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    I haven’t worn jeans for probably over 15 years. They don’t last a year use so I stopped buying new pairs and go with cargo pants instead.

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      I still have two pairs of jeans from when I was 15 they still fit and they still look new.

      The jeans I bought 8 months ago are already falling apart and the zipper has gone to shit.

      Same brand of jeans I always bought. They just are shit now.

  • Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Where did this ‘never wash your jeans!’ mentality come from?

    It feels like jeans - regardless of designer or ‘raw denim’ status - were clothes until about seven years ago, then they became fragile and precious jewels.

    News flash: if you’re worried about washing your jeans, you’re inventing problems because you have none of your own.

    • paulcdb@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Where did this ‘never wash your jeans!’ mentality come from?

      The same place all religious and other propaganda comes from. Plus it’s useful to spot the gullible and easily led people so you can avoid them to save your sanity!

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        Just get into the hotub with them after your workout, but take them off just before you fuck your boyfriend.

    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      I went to Europe in 2007 or something and a pair of Levis were stupid expensive. They just make that shit up and create value out of bullshit. Levis have been $30 when they last raised minimum wage in The 90s. These prices make no sense.

    • IWW4@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      Same place the “never wash your cast iron pans” notion came from. Internet hivemind bullshit.

    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I remember the raw denim trend in like the early 2010s ans you allegedly weren’t supposed to wash those, but even then that’s a very specific type of jeans we’re talking.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      4 months ago

      The 60’s - when jeans were still very rough material and needed a LOT of breaking in.

      Today’s jeans are wimpy by comparison.

      But regardless of the material, I wash my pants when they get dirty, not every time I wear them.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Jeans & shirts & pants I hang up and don’t wash often. I have lots of them, so not sure of the interval but maybe 10 - 15 wears? Underwear and workout clothes I wear once and wash.

    Office job, I do bike in but not far. Merino wool t shirts or loose shirts for work.

    Of course if I spill something on them I wash them.

  • BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info
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    4 months ago

    When they smell bad. Even when I wash I use delicate detergent and use the handwash setting and no spin/wring. It’s overkill but I like the ritual of caring for clothes.

  • Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I probably get a month, possibly two, out of them between washes. I work from home though, so they don’t really get that dirty.