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Washing new clothes before wearing them

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    #32
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Christina Rich Curler wrote: »
    Well I'm allergic to many things and react to new clothes but not to my one particular washing powder. So yes. Washing them gets rid of the problem chemicals (insecticides).

    Do you find it makes a difference? I've very sensitive skin myself, maybe I should try it. Sounds like hassle though. What washing detergent do you use?


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    #33
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Na, what I don't know won't hurt me.


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    #34
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,164 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Of course! Who knows what sweaty fcuker has tried them in before?

    Do you sanitize your hands every time you open a door or sit down? Do you wash the seat on the bus/tram/train/taxi before you use it? Do you bring your own delph and cutlery to a restaurant, along with your own pots pans and food? As these have more contamination than new clothes.

    Not to forget the actual filthy things we use every day keyboard, mouse, remote control and dish cloth.


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    #35
    r93kaey5p2izun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    anna080 wrote: »
    Do you find it makes a difference? I've very sensitive skin myself, maybe I should try it. Sounds like hassle though. What washing detergent do you use?

    Fairy Non-Bio is the only one I don't react to. It makes a difference for me because I would be guaranteed to come out in a rash otherwise. I react to new furniture too. I don't it find it a hassle. I'm not buying new clothes every week.


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    #36
    Prune Tracy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 162 ✭✭Prune Tracy


    I bought a dress once that I didn't notice the smell of b.o. off until I got home, so I naturally washed it.

    Otherwise I wouldn't bother. So long as it smells clean, that's enough in my opinion. Over sanitation is not good for the immune system. People's skin being irritated by the chemicals is different though - that makes pre washing a necessity.


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    #37
    Aspadeaspade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭Aspadeaspade


    Christina Rich Curler wrote: »
    Yes because of the chemicals they are sprayed with. I worked for years in a major department store and you had to leave the area after a new shipment was opened due to the fumes.

    wow. why are they chemically sprayed? I never heard of this.


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    #38
    Prune Tracy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 162 ✭✭Prune Tracy


    Aspadeaspade wrote: »
    wow. why are they chemically sprayed? I never heard of this.
    I assume it's the "new smell" stuff. I particularly notice it on bedding. I presume it's what "stiffens" new sheets.


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    #39
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    In my 30 odd years I've never done this. How many diseases have I acquired? Zero.

    Washing brand new clothes is the act of a deranged and paranoid mind. Those who do so should be quarantined from the rest of society and studied.


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    #40
    Aspadeaspade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭Aspadeaspade


    Prune Tracy wrote: »
    I assume it's the "new smell" stuff. I particularly notice it on bedding. I presume it's what "stiffens" new sheets.

    I reckon sheets are steamed industrially before packing. Don't think it's chemicals. I was asking the poster of that comment if they know what the reason is.


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    #41
    r93kaey5p2izun
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    Aspadeaspade wrote: »
    I reckon sheets are steamed industrially before packing. Don't think it's chemicals. I was asking the poster of that comment if they know what the reason is.

    We were told it was pesticides. Nothing to do with the new clothes smell as far as I know. The fumes were nothing like that and I never got the same smell from the clothes that were ready for distribution to stock rooms, only when shipments were initially opened.


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    #42
    [Deleted User]
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    I started doing it a while back as I don't like or trust the smell off new clothes


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    #43
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    What about the people who buy new clothes just because they don't have any clean?


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    #44
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    whoopsadoodles wrote: »
    What about the people who buy new clothes just because they don't have any clean?
    Goddamnit, whoops, that was my first thought, and I read through the whole thread to make sure no one had made the point already, and then, just as I was nearing the end and getting all excited about the five thanks I was going to get for my observational humour, you had to go and ruin everything with the very last post. Thanks :(


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    #45
    PickleJar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭PickleJar


    Most of the time I do - unless I'm gagging to wear the thing. Mostly to do with chemicals.


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    #46
    whoopsadoodles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    Ficheall wrote: »
    Goddamnit, whoops, that was my first thought, and I read through the whole thread to make sure no one had made the point already, and then, just as I was nearing the end and getting all excited about the five thanks I was going to get for my observational humour, you had to go and ruin everything with the very last post. Thanks :(

    I wasn't trying to be funny :pac:


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    #47
    Dick Rimmington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭Dick Rimmington


    i didnt do this regularly until i starting working in retail.
    of course most of us are very clean, then you get the people who might be generally very clean but try on clothes after a long day at work or after going for a run BUT a handful of times a week you get the ones who are just manky.
    you can smell them before you even see them and god help you if you are working on the fitting rooms when they are trying on clothes, it is incredible how much a human body can smell.
    of course the smell will linger on the clothes (and everywhere else) for a while but at some point it does kind of disappear and wouldnt be instantly noticeable anymore.

    long story short, just wash new clothes before wearing them.


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    #48
    pauliebdub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭pauliebdub


    That's very strange, it would never occur to me to wash new clothes before I wear them. People need to seriously get over themselves.


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    #49
    Malayalam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭Malayalam


    Del2005 wrote: »
    Do you sanitize your hands every time you open a door or sit down? Do you wash the seat on the bus/tram/train/taxi before you use it? Do you bring your own delph and cutlery to a restaurant, along with your own pots pans and food? As these have more contamination than new clothes.

    Not to forget the actual filthy things we use every day keyboard, mouse, remote control and dish cloth.

    Nope. But I sure wish I could. Peak weekly trauma is shopping trolley touching...gah... :(
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    #50
    Rumpy Pumpy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Rumpy Pumpy


    I always washed my clothes after I bought them. Did it with my ex’s wedding dress after she bought it. You think an item of clothing that cost a couple of thousand quid would stand up to a cotton cycle in a washing machine? Not a fücking chance. Fell to pieces.

    Now I live in a bedsit, get to see my kids once a month, and have advanced liver failure. So my advice is to never wash your clothes after you buy them.


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    #51
    crossmolinalad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭crossmolinalad


    I always wash new clothes before put them on
    They are full of chemicals to keep them mould and bug free while stuffed in sea containers for transport and never want that **** on me
    New clothes have a bad smell also


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    #52
    mdwexford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    Didn't even realise this was a thing.

    Bizarre carry on.


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    #53
    Skerries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    the clothes from Japan that I buy, I insist on them being worn first
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    #54
    Rumple Stillson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Rumple Stillson


    Seeing so many people washing new clothes before putting them on makes me feel a bit better about being a Nazi.


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    #55
    LadyMacBeth_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭LadyMacBeth_


    Skerries wrote: »
    the clothes from Japan that I buy, I insist on them being worn first

    Take a good sniff :D


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    #56
    Irish Guitarist
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    I wouldn't wear anything new without washing it. It's most likely been tried on by dozens of sweaty people who have then thrown it carelessly back on the rack. It's then probably fallen on the floor and been stepped on by another couple of dozen people.

    What's with people saying they're too lazy to wash clothes or that they don't have the time? You should throw out your washboard or clothes mangle and get one of those newfangled washing machines. It only takes a few seconds to throw some clothes in them, then you walk away and let the machine do all the work.


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    #57
    Rumple Stillson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Rumple Stillson


    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    I wouldn't wear anything new without washing it. It's most likely been tried on by dozens of sweaty people who have then thrown it carelessly back on the rack. It's then probably fallen on the floor and been stepped on by another couple of dozen people.

    What's with people saying they're too lazy to wash clothes or that they don't have the time? You should throw out your washboard or clothes mangle and get one of those newfangled washing machines. It only takes a few seconds to throw some clothes in them, then you walk away and let the machine do all the work.

    I assume you never try clothes on then?


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    #58
    server down
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    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    I wouldn't wear anything new without washing it. It's most likely been tried on by dozens of sweaty people who have then thrown it carelessly back on the rack. It's then probably fallen on the floor and been stepped on by another couple of dozen people.

    What's with people saying they're too lazy to wash clothes or that they don't have the time? You should throw out your washboard or clothes mangle and get one of those newfangled washing machines. It only takes a few seconds to throw some clothes in them, then you walk away and let the machine do all the work.

    I don’t think people are saying they are too lazy to wash clothes but don’t see the need to wash new clothes, what with them being new. That’s the topic, not the general washing of clothing. I also think you knew that.

    If you are buying the clothing that’s been trampled on you probably should be more selective.


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    #59
    Fred Swanson
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    #60
    server down
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    I buy most of my clothes online so I never have to try anything on.

    So I just wear new stuff straight out of the box.

    Me too but the new clothes washers wash that too because of the flesh eating pesticides. Or somehat


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    #61
    Poochie05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,506 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    I wash sheets and bedclothes because of the chemicals. You can smell them when you open the packs.
    But I wouldn't wash new clothes, never occurred to me. But I suppose they're not usually in sealed packs so the chemical vapours have probably gone. Agree with whoever said about the fumes from Penneys, wouldn't fancy breathing those in all day long.


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