Accepted amount of days you can wear pants before washing them? - Off-Topic - Giant Bomb (2024)

If you buy raw denim (it's what a lot of good designer /Japanesedenim is nowadays) you're supposed to wear them for about 4-6 months before washing them.

3 years and counting!

I wear black jeans, I own one pair that I wash every time my laundry basket is full. This can be a week or more between washings. Naturally, if something horribly messy happens to them in the intervening time, I will throw them in the wash, but otherwise, they last quite a while.

A week.

Actually, make that two as long as it didn't get dirty.

2-3 days is what i think. Wearing the same pair of pants for more than that isunnecessary.

Usually about two days.

Your not meant to wash jeans that often.

I think it depends on what happens whilst wearing them. If it's just normal business, I think a few days is fine. If you go rolling around in mud, or get manure dumped on you Biff style, you might want to change them sooner.

I wash mine every week, but I've definitely heard (from respectable sources) that you don't need to (and maybe even shouldn't) wash them except for every several months.

I wear mine only once before washing them... same with shirts, socks and underwear.

A week or two, as long as your undies are clean.

As long as they pass the sniff test.

i was goin to say one day then turn them inside out the next then i noticed you were american .

I'm so creeped out by some of your answers...

You guys wash jeans after wearing them only a couple of times? I wash my T-Shirts after each wear, but jeans? Mine go about a month, maybe more.

Jeans about a month, T shirts/shirts 2-3 wears. I mean if they're dirty, stained or sweaty ofcourse they go into the wash otherwise why waste the time and clothes

3 days

I have no time stamp on it. I just know it on the smell.

" I wear mine only once before washing them... same with shirts, socks and underwear. "

NEVER

This depends on many factors.
A major factor, here, is whether or not you have a girlfriend (or in some cases a wife). If you do, 1 day is the most acceptable.
If not, it depends on how many pairs of pants you have.

" This depends on many factors. A major factor, here, is whether or not you have a girlfriend (or in some cases a wife). If you do, 1 day is the most acceptable. If not, it depends on how many pairs of pants you have. "

i wear work pants, khaki cargos, at least 3 days, unless i get a colorful stain. shirts, socks and underwear get one wear and then a wash. i don't wear jeans very often, so they may go a month or more between washes, but that may only be 4 wears.

I don't understand why some people in this thread feel creeped out by people not washing jeans for a few weeks. It's not like your jeans are touching your junk, and your shirts need to be washed because of your armpits. What reason wouldyouhave to wash your jeans after wearing them once? Unless they get a stain on them, or you fall in mud, there is absolutely no reason you should wash your jeans after wearing them once.

So there are people here who wear the same pants for more then 4 days in a row? Gross.

You have to wash pants?


Well sh*t

" I actualy was thinking about this because I was wearing the same pair of jeans 3 days in a row now. In your opinon, what is the acceptable amount of days that you can not wash a pair of pants and still wear them without feeling gross? Me personaly i dont see a problem with not washing them for a few days, but when you hit about the 4th or 5th, no matter what, I think its time to wash them. Pants/shorts dont really show dirt that much unless their white, or atleast not as much as a t-shirt. So I think you are able to get away with not washing them for a few days more then you do a shirt. What do you think? "

3 days. After that, it all depends. Personally, I'd wear pants for a week and a half, wear them in so they're nice and soft, but social responsibility makes me look at 4-day-old jeans in disgust.

3 but if they dont look clean/smell clean less.

When in doubt ask your nose, that´s what I do :)

Wear pants?

" As long as they pass the sniff test. "

I wash my jeans once a month - theyre really not designed to be washed after every use.

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i try not to wash my jeans too often because I find it really f*cks them up, plus they look better when they're worn and not cleaned. And when I say that, I mean aside from any messes that you may happen to spill on them or whatever.

" 3 years and counting! "

4 days max for me.

I have pants in a cycle, when the same pants pop up for a second time, I toss it in the laundry

THE DEFINITIVE ANSWERS TO ALL QUESTIONS EVER ASKED:

Pants - They can go 3 or 4 days without a washing, but I usually wash after only two days.
T-shirts - Wear them once and then put them in the wash, you disgusting pig.
Dress shirt/polo shirt with undershirt worn underneath - Dress shirt washed after 2 or 3 days, undershirt washed after 1 wearing.
Underwear - For the love of humanity, wash them after one day or less.

BONUS: Wash your sheets twice every month, children.

" f*cking gross. Wash that stuff after every wear. "

I Was my pants every to days if i do lite activity and do not get them messy ifI do heavy activty or they get messy thenI wash themin one day.

2-3 days. Same with shirts.

Jeans? Every month maybe. But keep a lot of pairs in rotation.

My suit pants? Eh get 'em dry cleaned before I wear them, everytime. I mean.. I wear suits like 2-3 days a year, so it's not insanely expensive.

Other pants I tend to wash right away, but that's because if I'm not wearing jeans or suit pants, I'm probably wearing pants to work out in.

3 Weeks for jeans, 1 wear for shirts

Depends on how messy they get. But mine are always brand-new looking!

Anything but jeans/things with jean material after 2 or 3 days, for jeans never unless they actually get dirty.
That doesn't necesarilly mean you should wear them indefinitely, that's just bad style unless you're specifically trying to keep a single style.

If I spent a lot time in the house it does take longer, but in a normal situation, 3 to 5 days.

Until you buy a new pair.