How often do you change your trousers?

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I know we have had threads on doing laundry / personal hygiene before but this is specific. I had to take Pete to task for wearing the same trousers 3 days in a row at the weekend, gross. It seems men's leg hair protects their trousers from dirt or something. And when I questioned my (male)colleagues it seems that they too think it is OK to wear the same trousers 3 days running! Is this acceptable or not?

― Emma, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It depends if you just peed in'em or not. If so, change the next day.

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you wash your jeans all the time they fade. Mine don't smell. They don't look dirty. I haven't spilt Ribena on them. So I'm not changing them. I've been wearing my twister jeans for about a week and I have every intention of just putting them back the cupboard when I decide it's time for a change, to be taken out and worn again a few days later. Maybe women are just dirtier than men?

― Nick, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jeans, usually weeks on end before they get washed, trousers a week, I've got underwear on damnit, my legs ain't that sweaty!

I would say it's perfectly acceptable for anyone to wear the same pair of trousers for a week.

― jel, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This seems to confirm the theory that men think that women like them to smell 'natural'. I have too many clothes so I only wear an outfit once then chuck it back in the wardrobe. I suppose it is possible that I wear things 3 times without washing but not in a row. However I am very accident prone and tend to get beer, wine, fag ash, blood etc. on my clothes all the time.

― Emma, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you're only supposed to wash jeans every 6 months or so I've heard, to prevent them from going rubbish, and then it's supposed to be dry clean. Me I wash 'em when they look dirty.

Hardly ever wear trousers so wouldn't know, the current suit I own has only been worn 3 times, a wedding, a funeral and a job interview.

― cabbage, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Washing your jeans is just plain silly. I rarely do. Of course that pair that hangs down to my knees are a wee bit filty. But ah who cares? Other pants get washed after having worn them a couple of times.

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You are all mentalists, I wash my jeans pretty regularly and they are fine. I like the way they go all stiff and tight after you wash them. Someone I work with just told me he has not had his suit dry cleaned in 6 months despite wearing it nearly every day in the office.

― Emma, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jeans are designed to go out ride bulls, herd cows, eat buffalo steaks and spit tobacco during the day. Then you can just brush them down and go out in the same jeans line dancing with the local beauties, drinking whiskey and spitting more tobacco. They are at no time supposed to be washed unless one of your cowboy chums chucks you in the horse trough for a laugh... For some reason I really want to watch Seven Brides for Seven Brothers now or maybe Bonanza.

― Martin, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jeans get washed when dirty ie after three or four days wear or when beer or food gets spilt on them. If I had to change my trousers every day I would quickly run out of trews.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Martin, have you ever smelt a cowboy? It ain't purty. I am truly surprised to discover an area in which I am cleaner than the average person.

― Emma, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Of course, sniffing cowboys is my middle name.

― Martin, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's nothing! You should hear how many months Paul has gone without dry cleaning his suit, and he wears that fucker every day! The trousers are starting to walk on their own, I'm scared of them.

I generally wash my jeans after I've worn them twice. Sometimes once if it's after a really nasty night out, or if I wore them for a long time. Otherwise, they truly start to smell. I'm really paranoid about my clothes smelling, especially jeans. I've got jeans I've had on 3 days now, and I can smell them from here, especially cause I wore them for my customary morning walk.

I don't know if women *notice* smells from below the waist more, or if we just smell more below the waist (hormonal thing, maybe?) but I don't like unwashed jeans on women. On men, well, if they're dirty dronerock boys, well, you know my feelings on that.

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I only wash trousers when they are visibly dirty or out of shape. The tight clean jeans thing is nice, but can also reveal weight gain which is not good. A night out in a smokey club can be counteracted with a liberal application of Febreze. The bits of me that might make my trousers yucky are covered with knickers and anyway, I smell like roses.

I change tops after each wearing though.

― Madchen, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm training my suit to go to work on its own. In my place.

Usually, I think wash trousers at least every few days, after they've been worn. I think my suit trousers are different because they're work related and I can never get to a damn dry cleaner before it closes.

― Paul Strange, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

er, I wear the same pair of trousers for ages on end.

Oh no, this means everyone at work thinks/knows I'm a stinker. Disaster. I'm all self conscious now.

― The very dirty vicar, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emma, do you actually notice man trouser stink a lot?

― Nick, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oddly she had never noticed it on me before the weekend, and they weren't trousers they were shorts. I wear trousers and jeans for weeks on end and they generally stink of pubs, which is what I generally stink of - what with working above one and generally spending most of my time in them.

I think it was a thinly veiled attempt for her to get me to put my legs away. Of course on Saturday she also had my purty pert nipples to contend with too.

― Pete, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well whenever men are near me they tend to be pumping out loads of pheromones anyway so maybe it's just them that I can smell.

― Emma, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought humans didn't produce pheromones and that was why the sunday supplements advertise those moth stink sprays. Is everyone wearing these nowadays? Have I been left behind? AGAIN!?

― Nick, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well if human beings don't produce pheromones I don't like to think what all my adoring fans are pumping out.

― Emma, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Human pheremones are most definitely real. However, they are unique for species, so anyone who goes spraying moth pheremones or whatever on themselves is sadly deluded.

Pheremones don't smell bad, in fact, in many cases, they don't smell at all, they are picked up by receptors located in the nose, but not the scent organ. It's weird, though, how breast sweat smells completely different to any other kind of sweat. Some males have even been known to report that breast sweat smells "mmmm... kinda nice..." However, whether this is just an excuse to get their face in my tits, I'm not exactly sure.

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I only wash my underwear, Miss Giantbreasts.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can this thread be said to have reached rock bottom yet?

― Madchen, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The thread doesn't reach rock bottom until Mike shaves the ocelot!

(kind of like our fat lady singing, but I sing all the time, so it doesn't count...)

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My sister makes fun of me because I rarely wear anything besides coats or hats more than once before washing. It happens, but probably only half a dozen times in a month, if that. If you ever see me in the same pants or shirt two days in a row it either means I'm camping or I haven't gotten home yet from the night before, which occassionally takes a whole day to do. You people are filthy, and I can smell you from here.

― Cryosmurf, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wear like everything I own, besides underwear, at least like 5 times before I wash them. Maybe that's gross, but I don't have time to do laundry more often than that. Jeans, forget it, I never wash them, what's going to make them wicked dirty that they need to be washed?

― Ally, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NYC makes everything dirty. Just asl Madchen the Hausbrotchen

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want the names and addresses of these males, Kate!!!

Can't imagine anyone finding the smell of me attractive. I cover it up by using so many deodorants and anti-perspirants it's unreal.

― Paul Strange, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, Paul, your deoderant spraying frenzy in the bathroom actually made me CHOKE yesterday morning.

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

HOw often does Paul have "accidents " in his trousers?

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whenever I pick dandelions.

― Paul Strange, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You rascal!

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My mother always told me when I was a child that if I picked dandelions I would have an accident.

So, there are no accidents in this world. Just too many dandelion pickers.

― Paul Strange, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did she also tell you taht one about " If you shag without a rubber you make a human?"

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nope, she clearly never told him that one... ;-)

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

don't wash trousers or jumpers, unless stained.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

c-man to thread.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

so to speak

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I once had the misfortune of having to sit in the middle of a six-person heated office debate about whether picking dandelions made you pee yourself. One poor girl was denounced as a mentalist for failing to convince everyone else of this story of which she seemed so certain - although I no longer work there, and had no input into the debate, I am sort of glad that she wasn't the only person in the world to think this. Is this a common old wives' tale - I'd never heard it before and my mum is the queen of that kind of thing.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

...

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 19:05 (seventeen years ago)

The word "dandelion" derives from the French dent-de-lion, or "lion's tooth" after the plant's serrated leaves. The French themselves call dandelion pissenlit, or "pee-in-bed", a reference to the diuretic properties of the herb.

http://www.herbalcuisine.com/Dandelion.html

― Finefinemusic, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 20:13 (seventeen years ago)

You people are filthy, and I can smell you from here.
-- Cryosmurf, Wednesday, August 8, 2001 5:00 PM (Wednesday, August 8, 2001 5:00 PM) Bookmark Link

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― rev, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 20:16 (seventeen years ago)

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