TS: New clothes vs Clothes washed more than once

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Which is better, the feeling on your skin of clothes that are crisp and fresh and havent been washed yet, or clothes that have been washed at least once and are now soft and just a little fuzzy?

I say: clothes that have been washed.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 1 October 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link

depends if it's american or european clothes

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Third day jeans are the best feeling in the world.

OK, not the best smell, but the best feeling.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 1 October 2004 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link

why? (american or european)

what about asian?

all american clothes are really asian anyway.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 1 October 2004 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link

sometimes the smell is good too

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link

dryer warm clothes on chilly skin

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 1 October 2004 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

our dryer is so shitty and vicous I'm afriad to put most of my clothes in there.

really though, shirts need to be washed before they're comfortable, usually.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 1 October 2004 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link

why? (american or european)

european clothes are designed to be not washed regularly.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 October 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I always postpone the first washing, because I feel certain I'll ruin my new shirt/skirt/whatever. But once you wash it - hopefully successfully - it truly becomes yours.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Third day jeans are the best feeling in the world.

Newly-washed jeans feel tighter, and therefore better.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 1 October 2004 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

It's bittersweet to wear jeans right after I buy them, because I know they'll never look quite that good again.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 1 October 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link

"european clothes are designed to be not washed regularly."

Is this another 'Europeans are smelly' belief?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 1 October 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

A former co-worker once declared that he would, from that point forward, only wear brand-new never-washed socks. He would wear them once and throw them out. He decided that his salary could support it, and that since nothing felt better in the world than brand new socks, that is what he would do. I think he got bored of it after a week or two though.

― mikef (mfleming), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

DECADENT.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

The answer to the main question is, clothes washed more than once.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I hope he threw them in the direction of a poor, sockless person.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

What I'm really wondering about here, though, is: where does everyone stand on clothes washed once and once only?

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I am never wearing new clothes without washing them again. I have an awful rash now. There is a lesson here for us all.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

New clothes, for definate. (I am a complete fool behind an iron, but I like uncrinkled stuff, so the only solution seems to be to wear stuff once, take it back for a refund, and repeat).

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

i have a pair of jeans that i've only washed once in 4 years. i love them

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

washing your clothes is for suckers.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, 1 October 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

having the neighborhood koreans wash your clothes for you, however, is for kings.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 1 October 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

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