Do you wash new clothes before you wear them?

[TheMidnightLibrary]

I’ve just bought a lovely green jumper from TK Max. My friend asked what I was wearing this evening and I replied “my new jumper”. Her question was would it be washed in time? I must confess it hadn’t crossed my mind to wash it!

How about this one...

I wear vinted purchases without washing them and gasp charity shop finds.

Still alive

It's not something I have ever done and I felt a bit embarrassed when my DIL said she was washing all the new clothes I'd given her for the baby. If I'd known I would have done it before I gave them to her.

I used to work in retail and I can’t imagine not washing before wearing. The same items tried on loads of times before you buy it, falling off the hanger and people walking on them before staff pick them up and dusty warehouses.
Let’s also not forget not everyone has basic hygiene, trust me. The general public is grim 🤣🤣

Yes, you don’t know where they’ve been!

I also always wash new towels and bedding. I once watched a friend take bedding out of its packet and put it on a bed. I was horrified 😆

It completely depends what it is.
Bedding, towels, pjs and anything that has that chemical smell yes.
When DC were little-mostly yes.

I would wear a new jumper without washing though.

No. I have enough washing as it is.

Yes always, not just clothes but bedding too. They’re stored for long periods of time in warehouses etc & are sprayed with chemicals to prevent wrinkles & moths etc.

Absolutely not and in all the many years I have been ‘absolutely Notting’, nothing ever untoward has ever happened.

No. They NEVER look as good once washed. Got to show them off in prime condition.

I would do that. It’s the rat piss from the factory that I’m avoiding.

I don’t wash anything that’s for me unless it’s secondhand. I wash everything for DS2 who is 13 and prone to dermatitis. DS1 orders the mankiest looking stuff from Vinted that looks as though it’s from the 1970s and just starts wearing it, even though I offer to wash it. Ah well, he has survived thus far😅

Yes I do, so does my husband. Don’t know who may have tried it on or if it’s been kicked around a factory.

This, they smell awful and everything feels scratchy on my skin too

I wash new underwear, towels, bedding before I use/wear them. That's all. Couldn't bear to use a towel or sleep under sheets that weren't washed first.

No! I'm aware other people may have tried them on but I have too much washing on the go to create a new problem. I do wash second hand clothes.

Really, new bedding from a packet?

Wow. The number of people who do this just astounds me. How on earth do you have time for that kind of paranoia in life?
And I don’t buy the argument that ‘ppl in shops have touched them’ because - so what? If I worried about that then I would never get past the fact that literally thousands of ppl have sat on the seats I have to share on the tube before I have and touched them too?

When my child was a baby yes I washed her stuff and now she's a toddler only thing I insist on washing first is any new underwear she has.
For me... Absolutely not!

Always!! If you’ve ever worked in retail you’d understand.
Clothes end up on the floor in the warehouse, sometimes by mistake or sometimes just for labelling and are just repackaged - most warehouses at some point have had rats (yes even those high end ones) and that’s just once they arrive here. So god knows what has happened to them and the fabric before manufacturing and dispatch from countries of origin.

I don’t think k it is paranoia though. It’s knowledge of where clothes are made. Theres a documentary on iplayer, where Stacey Dooley is 19 and she goes with a group of other teenagers to work in sweatshops in India. I couldn’t care less if people in shops have touched them.

I've always done that. And always will. It's so beautifully crisp when it's new. It's a treat. I've saved bedding in the packet before for ages when I was moving and wanted the first night in the new place to have brand new bedding specially.

No... and honestly never knew it was a thing people did!

Not with clothes, not with towels, not with bedding...

My favourite thing is whipping new bedding out of the packet and onto my bed.

Anyone who washes their bedding first is missing out

Always

Sorry you may have misunderstood. My reply was to question why wash new bedding from a packet. I agree with you, straight out of the packet for me too! Xxx