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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.”