Do you wash new clothes before wearing?

[FridgeJenga]

I always do with the kids clothes but sometimes CBA to do the adults.
Is there a hard and fast rule?
I mean, we've not succumbed to any chemical burns or mysterious rashes ~ yet ~ 😳

I do if possible, but sometimes there isn't time.

I think it's best to do it, but doesn't really matter if you don't. A bit like breastfeeding!

I do because I think they smell stale

Never.

Never, for me or kids

never

I do for DS because he is very smell sensitive. Generally don’t with mine

I don't. I love the look and smell of something brand new.

I do. I read on here once that some warehouses have bugs in them!

Mostly.So many people have handled them & so many chemicals used in manufacture & packaging, I just prefer to. Defintely bed linen & towels etc

however, if I needed to wear something straight away it wouldn't stress me, also not with items like a coat

In the textile industry clothes are washed with standard detergent and rinsed repeatedly before the final stage of ironing which is with ‘clean’ steam generated with distilled water. Otherwise the machinery would scale up and the clothes may be marked. Therefore, the clothes are likely to have fewer chemicals in than if you had washed them. There are no health reasons to wash them unless you don’t like the shop smell.

Always. I run them through a 15 or 30 min cold wash on their own. I hate the smell of new clothes. My laundry detergent is cheap, sainsburys own brand, leaves minimal smell, line dry, iron if needed. Then I can wear the nice new thing with my perfume and smell like me.

No way apart from shirts to get the creases out

If only there werent a bazliilion other threads asking the same...

I've never bothered to do this.

Usually yes, you don't know where they've been and one of my DCs sometimes gets a rash if she wears new clothes unwashed.

Always. Who knows how long they've been sat in warehouses, or if they been purchased, worn/tried on by others, returned and sold again 🤮

Yes. I do.

Yes, always.

Depends if they smell weird or not

Absolutely always.

Working in retail for years has made me realise exactly how minging and grotty some humans are. Anything that has been out in the open around the general public is getting washed!

I always wash DS new clothes, he refuses to wear them otherwise.
He can't understand how we are unaffected by the smell, which we don't notice, but he says is terrible.

Yeah cos sometimes people try stuff on and send it back to the warehouse, you order it and the garment comes to you and it smells. Don't want to wear someone else's sweat. Don't bother with coats as there's no chance they've been against the skin of a stranger

Depends - when DC was small advice was to wash clothes before wear, so I did for about 18 months.

Some items need washing first - denim often states it should be; anything sweatshirty, jersey shorts or trackies with that sort of fabric which shed fluff if not washed first.

I love a box fresh t shirt and the feel of new clothes, so I only wash them before wear if it’s necessary.

This is a thing? I had no idea.

You've clearly not read the bazliilion threads ShuvieTupya apparently has! 😉