Do you Wash New Clothes?

I always wash new clothes after I read/saw something about the chemicals/germs on them.
Have just checked on Google and yes the advice is to wash
the chemicals off.

I'm sure all new towels and bedding comes with a label recommending that you wash them before use.

A woman I worked with years ago bought a new top from a well known clothing store. When she got it home to try it on, she saw that someone has taken the side seams in by hand and not very well either! Needless to say, she took it straight back and never shopped there again.

Assuming its something that you can wash I always wash them to avoid having the fabric stiifener they use against my skin. I hadn't thought about the dirt aspect.

Yes, always. I saw a programe once - fiction, but even so - where the "victim" died because he was allergic to some product that had been used to spray the cotton.

Yes, if they will be next to the skin. Or if they have a heavy dye in them, red or blue type colours.

Mokryna: ah, I see. At least they're quick to wash and dry!

Years ago I had a boyfriend who was fussy about his clothes, and I must say he always looked good. Well, whenever he bought a new shirt he would ask me to wash it for him. I did this to start with, but of course that meant I had to iron the shirts as well. I got wise to this and in the end I would just give them a spray with an air freshener, hand them back and he was none the wiser.

I dont wash new clothes i love the way they are all lovely and pristine. I start going off them as soon as they are washed and ironed as they never look the same again. DH insist on ironing everything first.

My friend’s son had a weekend job in McDonald’s before leaving school to train as a chef. He worked in a 5 star hotel and said the kitchen hygiene standards were far superior in McDonald’s.

I agree about seeing tv chefs handling food with bare hands and going from raw to cooked food without washing their hands. Some do give their fingers a token 2 second splash under the tap then dry in the tea towel.

If that’s what they do on tv in full view of cameras I can imagine what their standards are behind the scenes in their upmarket restaurants.

No only bedding and towels,I love new clothes

There are chemicals used on fabrics to stop mould, set dyes and stop them from wrinkling. Specifically formaldehyde which is used to stop wrinkles is a carcinogen and also some people are allergic.
Personally I would always wash clothes before I wear them.

Bluebelle I can back up your comments about restaurants, but only the two I worked in. One was fine, the other was everything you imply. I’d like to see behind the scenes staff permanently wearing masks etc. Watching Masterchef type programs, where they fiddle about arranging the food I’m about to eat makes my toes curl too. Almost raw meat and it’s trimmings handled with bare hands .?

Greeneyesgirl no there is no quarantining of the clothes in charity shops any more I can t say about retail shops
I can’t bear clothes or shoes bought online they either don’t fit or look lovely in the picture of a slender young woman with long flowing hair but horrible on me

I have never had any illness or disease connected with hygiene

For those people who feel the people who handled the new clothes may not be clean all I can say is Never never never eat out having worked in the back of restaurants and hotels (in my bringing up children days) your hair would curl at some of the ‘goings ins’ ???

Not usually. Most things come packed.
Always wash new bedding since the doc, after peering from a distance at a rash down the side of my face, neck and arm, said, “Have you bought new bedding recently?”

I have only once bought clothes on ebay, and that was at least 5 years ago. The garment, a winter coat, was too all appearances brand new, so I didn't see any need to get it dry cleaned.

Charity shops are meticulous about making sure clothes they put out are clean, and I wouldn't dream of giving to a charity shop any clothes that were not freshly washed or drycleaned and I haven't ever bought any whose cleanliness I suspected.

Funny how people always assume that other people are the ones with filthy habits that threaten our health. That is how they see us.

No- not if brand new. Always if from eBay or charity shops! Do love a bargain/recycling but couldn’t wear /store anything like this unless washed first

Yes I do I don't trust other people who might have dirty habits.

Yammy
I agree with towels, they don’t seem absorbent until you wash them.

No waste of time. Like the feel of new clothes.

Only undies.

No, I don't wash new clothes but I do wash new towels and bedding my mum always did.

No.

Trisha57 I wash underwear because of the the fabric finish on them makes me itch.

It’s never even occurred to me TBH.

I've never really thought about it before reading this thread. In the "old days" I used to wash new jeans before wearing as I found they turned my legs blue if I wore them without washing first! Knickers in sealed packs I would assume are clean - are they not?