Hippies. /smirk
Not only do I wash my clothes, I use starch and iron my nice Church clothes.
Jeans are something that longer with a rinse and air dry than getting beaten to death in a washer and dryer. Of course, getting them dirty (real dirt) requires a wash. Otherwise, you can wear them for a while without a run through the machine.
What America used to be:
Roaring 20s New York Life Restored to Color and Sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaKEkvInhIU
“Ways to put the Funk back into the Wagnal.”
from Diaries of a Lazy American Schlump.
Torn jeans and now filthy jeans (the article mentions wearing jeans 150 to 200 times before washing).
“until they have been worn 150 or 200 times, Szabo estimates. “Some of these pairs, as it’s coming up on the end of the year, I wouldn’t want to handle up close,” he says. “They would probably smell wrong.” A few of his raw denim friends go even further, abiding by what he calls a “never-wash philosophy”. “[For one of them], in very tight spaces like a small elevator or something like that, if the dude is wearing certain pairs you can smell it a little bit,” he says. “Some of his best faded examples are also displayed in jeans trade shows. [They have] an aroma... It’s not an unpleasant smell, per se, but it’s a smell.”
It will save water just like low flow toilets.
No thanks.....
One can wash them by hand. You can also dry them outside. Not a lot of water used.
Well, I think the article is intermingling two groups here. There’s the raw denim crowd who avoid washing their jeans in order to get the best wear patterns. This was kind of a Millennial thing and peaked probably seven or eight years ago. Then there’s the no-wash people who avoid washing for reasons of wokeness. This seems to be a newer trend.
Here in Arizona you can tell some of the snowbirds believe in this.
It’d take a chick from Budapest to deal with that.
In construction you need to wash your clothes or you’ll stink, so sorry, this Deplorable family won’t join the no wash movement.
Why is it that every conceivable stupid idea is having a burst of popularity these days?
I usually wear the same jeans for a week or so before changing to another pair. It’s more from laziness.
The article talks about smell. A day in the sun would eliminate that without washing.
I had a sleeping bag. It was brand new when I took it in a weeklong backpack trek in 90 deg. 90% rh every day. To say it reeked at the end would be an understatement. I considered throwing it away.
Washing a sleeping bag will damage it often beyond redemption. Instead I laid it on the grass for a couple days. The smell was gone.
I used that bag for 15 years and never once washed it.
At the apt I live at we got a used Speed Queen Ultra High Efficiency Front Load Commercial Washer and I see hardly any water in use. Looks like the clothes are made wet then tumbled thru a gallon of water. I prefer the top loaders and lots of water.
“When I was a child, I thought like a child, acted like a child, when I became a man, I put away childish things”
1 Corinthians 13
These people never worked with their hands, backs, legs and muscles. Spend a July day roofing or a day hauling in coastal fish or working on cars and tell me you won’t wash your clothes.