Do you Wash New Clothes?

The only new thing I can recall washing, was a Father Christmas double duvet set, when little Gdcs were coming for Christmas 2 years ago - they share a sofa bed.
It was new, pure cotton, but very cheap, and the material felt very stiff.
I washed it twice, to soften it enough.

No, I don’t wash new clothes. I do wash new towels though.

No, never have done with new clothes. Charity shop clothes, if they smell ok I don’t bother, tbh if they smelt rank, I wouldn’t buy them.

Clothes from a charity shop = yes.

Clothes from a 'normal' shop = No.

No it wouldn't even occur to me.

Sorry! This was addressed to HowVeryDareYou

Me neither !

No, I've never washed new clothes

Only if I feel the need of there is some odd odour but seldom. Sometimes air them out on a fresh fresh Spring day( they're coming!). My folks used to do it regularly though.

No, it has never occurred to me.

Yes, because some of them smell really horrid when you unpack the. Brought a T shirt from M&S recently, it smelled of chemicals. Nearly threw it in the bin.

silverlining48

I don’t wash new clothes ot towels etc other than clothes I have bought from a charity shop.

I recently mentioned this on another thread.
In the 80s I caught scabies from charity shop stuff.
My parents and I had to cover ourselves in blue paste and isolate for a week

I used to go to the Market on a Saturday and buy a length of fabric , I had a favourite dress pattern , the best place to cut it out was on the living room floor , sewed it up on a pedal Singer and wear it that night to the local dance .
The only thing that went wrong was when I forgot to sew the zip in and wore it with the tacking , it held ok ! But the dress looked clean and smelt clean , in spite of the market stall and the living room floor !

silverlining48

The maggot story may encourage me to start washing new underpinnings highlanddreams

Sorry ! It was many years ago but I've never been able to forget it. ?

my brother learnt a harsh lesson recently, he bought 4 pairs of jeans from M & S and washed them then found they didn't fit him! He neglected to measure his waist to see if he'd 'grown'. lol. his wife who used to buy and do everything had died sadly. He couldn't return them.

The maggot story may encourage me to start washing new underpinnings highlanddreams

I don’t wash new clothes ot towels etc other than clothes I have bought from a charity shop.

Yes I do because of that plastic smell, but also one time I bought a multi pack of briefs from Tesco and when I opened them there were some dead maggots on the inside, I threw the whole pack away. I knew that even if I disinfected & put them through a hot wash cycle I wouldn't be able to get the thought of them out of my head and would never have been able to wear them, bleurgh!

No, at least partly because they’d probably need ironing afterwards and I do as little of that as possible.

BlueBelle

I m amazed I m still alive with all the chemicals and dirty handling that I ve put straight on my body for so many years ???

Me too, BlueBelle. It would never occur to me. I'm not dead and neither are any of my family...

In fact, it seems like a really weird thing to do (apart from if done for hypersensitivity to 'dressings' reasons)

No, I wear them once then throw them away

FannyCornforth, yes - as my late husband, and one son, were/are allergic to the finishing starch in fabrics.

I wash new things, except coats, mainly due to allergy concerns and always washed new baby clothes as I was unsure of their cleanliness.

I think we'd be suitably horrified if we saw the conditions under which fabrics/clothes were made and stored.

No….

I m amazed I m still alive with all the chemicals and dirty handling that I ve put straight on my body for so many years ???

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