Is it gross to rewear clothes?

[Sparksi]

I have one pair of maternity leggings that fit. I had them on yesterday all day and want to wear them again today. I didn’t go anywhere in them other than a brief trip to the shop and was otherwise at home all day. Is it fine or bad hygiene to wear them again today?

YABU - gross, find something else
YANBU - things like that are definitely fine for a second day

Pure wool and cashmere knitwear doesn't need washing after one wear. In fact it's bad for it. Wool doesn't smell unless it gets soaked in sweat (in which case you may need a different anti perspirant.)
Polyester and acrylic might.

Being very serious I think women are subtly conditioned to think their crotches smell. Hence the sale of perfumed sprays for 'down there' and 'feminine wipes' and perfumed sanitary pads.

If you have normal, healthy discharge, use thin panty liners to keep your pants dry.

Let’s just say, people can do their laundry how they please.

and help to ruin the planet in the process.

Water, detergent, fuel.

Let’s just say, people can do their laundry how they please.

Up to a point.
Let's just say that we all have a responsibility to look after our planet.

I wear my work trousers four days in a row unless I get stains on them. Work tops I usually wear twice sometimes more. Not sorry.
I shower and change underwear everyday.
Horror of horrors 3 of us share the same bath towel and 2 of them are men 😉 and I only wash that when I think about it.

Only things I wear and wash are my gym clothes after running (I usually get a couple of wears out of gym clothes if I exercise at home and dont get sweaty).
Also pants, socks and bras and t shirts (I wish I could get more wears out of the bras a t shirts but I have sweaty pits!).
Other then that I tend to have about 3 outfits on the go at the same time so I can rotate and not wear the same thing every day.

TBH I live alone and get away with being a slob most of the time. My manky old fleece bedtime jumper gets worn for weeks and currently smells of ketchup coz I spilled some and couldnt spot clean the smell away.
Im not terribly bothered and the dogs are thrilled when I smell like food!LOL 😅

I presume you’ll wear a clean pair of pants underneath? And proper pants not gross thong style ick.

This over-washing of clothes is a new thing.

It's come about in the last 50 years because of the cheapness of clothing (slave labour often) and the fact we have many more clothes. And made of synthetic fabrics that dry faster. And automatic machines.

It's not that long ago that I remember how 'wash day' in many homes (my Gran) was a Monday, ironing day was a Tuesday, etc.

The wash was a 'weekly wash'. And it took all day, doing the whites first then the coloureds in the same water.

I'm not suggesting we go back to the 1940s, but I've read these posts here so often and it's actually quite worrying.

The demand for energy is huge and even on cold washes, you're still using valuable resources, putting detergents into the rivers, and funding child labour overseas by buying cheap clothes.

Please get some realism into this.

That’s quite disgusting actually and not something I’d brag about (the sharing a bath towel and rarely washing it)

Horror of horrors 3 of us share the same bath towel

Sorry, but that is rather urgh.

If bottoms smell and need a wash after one wear maybe it’s worth having something less skin-tight and made of natural or man-made natural material? Like wide-legged linen or tencel trousers in summer instead of leggings? I’ve had the same inexpensive, classic pair for approximately 10 years, I don’t need to wash it often so it still looks new. Win for me and for the planet.

Same with my running clothes. My running top is wool. I do sweat but it’s enough to just air-dry it and it’s nice and fresh without washing. I have heavy duty, thick wool sweaters that I wash once every couple of years, it’s enough to air them because wool is naturally antibacterial.

You do realise that when we've showered we are actually clean.

Do they smell clean and look clean? If so,they're fine for another day. Life is too short to be forever adding to piles of laundry.

We are a family of 2…I buy from and donate to charity shops, haven’t flown in years etc, no children, I’ll do my washing whenever I choose…

How is using panty liners everyday any better for the environment than just washing your clothes when needed?

Leggings are worn right next to your underwear and yes, it smells at the end of the day for all sorts of reasons - sweat, periods, normal discharge etc. I put my underwear in the wash everyday and do the same with leggings, tights etc for the same reason.

I don't wear "pure wool smart trousers" and never would, so I can't answer that question for you.

The wash was a 'weekly wash'. And it took all day, doing the whites first then the coloureds in the same water.

How can you tell how often people are doing laundry based on how often they change clothes? I wear clean leggings etc. daily but that doesn't mean running the washing machine daily

How are they worse- tell me that?

You can buy eco-friendly panty liners that are chlorine and plastic free.

Unless your leggings are getting 'wet' from bodily fluids - sweat, blood, discharge (in which case try more substantial gussets) then they aren't going to smell.

I'm looking at the whole picture of most people buying so many clothes (so they can change into clean ones every day) and the impact of that on the planet, washing clothes after 1 wear, using water, detergents, electric, maybe tumble drying, and being quite unrealistic about the 'smell' they think they have.

Unless someone has their nose in your crotch, ( a dog?) they won't smell anything. And if you think they can, air your clothes at an open window after wearing.

I don't smoke but I work with smokers so my clothes always stink by the time I get home. I can't re-wear them. That doesn't mean they get washed every day though. They get thrown in the machine at the weekend.

Wear your clothes as many times as you want. No one will know unless they are marked or smell.

You can't. But if they do the laundry once a week that means 7 pairs of leggings. Think of the impact on the planet of all the polyester, which never disappears, in landfills, the child labour needed to make it, the air miles to ship it to the UK, etc etc.

But surely showering twice a day (instead of just once in the morning and freshening up as necessary) and buying pantie liners is just as bad as washing my clothes?
One way or another if I want to be clean it will use water and cleaning products.
I wonder how many times a year the people criticising my washing habits fly for example (I can count on one hand the number of times I have been on a plane in my life). The fact we are human at all is ruining the planet and we probably all contribute in our own way, unless we go back to living in mud huts and washing irregularly in the river I can't see how washing less and recycling Amazon packaging etc will make a difference - oh that and shutting down the huge factories in China and elsewhere, now that might actually make some difference.

Something that is also worth doing is airing your clothes, hang on the line for a few hours or even hang on wardrobe with windows open.. it does make a difference and you wear again. I don't wash unless needed. Leggings after sports, yes, hanging around, no.

I’m wearing a pair of cropped wide legged trousers that I’ve been putting on every evening after work. They are clean. I am showered every day. I am alive! 😂

Definitelybworth hanging them out to air.. you might be surprised.

There are people that believe that if they wash clothes like mad and use heavy amounts of softener, it makes them a better person/ parent. It doesn’t . It just makes you a bit bonkers.

Of course you can wear them again if they still look and smell clean. Why on earth not?

I often wear my outerwear for around 3 days, with the exception of t-shirts because they seem to get very sweaty. I put on clean underwear (pants and socks) every day. I shower every day. So no problem.

Laundering clothes too much is bad for the environment and also wears them out faster.