I can’t stand the rough feeling of sizing on me, so I absolutely wash clothes before wearing them. Sheets and towels, too.
I wash all clothes before wearing. To not would be…icky.
If I buy them at the thrift store, yes. If I get them out of the underwear bin, yes. If they have visible stains, yes (plus I will ask for a markdown, and usually will get it) (obviously, some stains will eliminate the item from consideration; I’m talking about makeup, mascara, and other things I can get out). Otherwise no. Love that new-clothes smell.
Is this underwear bin at the thrift store?! That’s too horrible to contemplate.
I wash them before using them for everyday use. I however do wear them when trying them on for fit, so none of your answers are relevant except the last. The biggest reason I wash them is I don’t need to turn the color of the fabric dye or have an allergic reaction to the manufacturing residues in the clothes.
I always launder machine-washable clothes before the first wearing. Dry-clean-only and hand-washables are another story for obvious reasons.
New clothes smell of well, new clothes. I launder to get rid of it.
Underwear. My mother is near-hysterical about wearing new underwear without washing it first, and it had never occurred to me that I could just wear it out of the pack until similar previous threads.
Yes.
So much stuff comes from China these days and they seem to be careless with toxic materials.
Underwear and socks, no (there are, to me, few greater pleasures than wearing brand-new never-been-washed white tube socks).
Everything else: yes.
Underwear, yes. I’m never sure if there might be some packaging chemicals on it or whatever, and since that area is particularly sensitive to such things and I don’t want any infections or nastiness, I wash it. Everything else, whatever.
Though I did see an episode of House where 2 boys nearly died because they bought cheap jeans that turned out to be covered in a pesticide that was absorbed through their skin. That gave me pause.
I wouldn’t use House as much of a barometer for reality.
I never wash new clothes before I wear them. There’s nothing on them.
Second-hand clothes are always washed before they’re put on the racks, by the way.
I don’t have any sense of smell, so I wash things for my own peace of mind. I would anyway, just at the thought of all the people who touched my new clothes before me.
I never used to, and frankly still wouldn’t, but my wife insists on washing new clothes. “You don’t know how many people have tried that stuff on…without underwear!” Ok, dear.
How is it that you know this? Walk into Plato’s Closet sometime — there’s an odor. A great, big “unwashed clothes” odor.
If I buy it from a website, no. Otherwise, yes.
Do people actually try on underwear in the shop? :eek:. Also, what is this “sizing” you people are talking about?
I’ve never washed new anythings before use (unless my husband sneaks it into the laundry basket while I’m not looking) and I’ve never had any ill effects from this, so I’m pretty much going to keep doing it. I mostly buy from second-hand shop, and I blithely assume everything’s been washed before donation (I’m sure there are icky people who donate unwashed clothes now and again, but I’ve never encountered any making it as far as the rack - I think you could tell fiarly easily!) And since I’m quite comfortable touching floors, or other people, it doesn’t bother me in the slightest that my clothes might have done so too.
“Sizing” is the starch they put in new clothes, I believe.
Chemicals, dust, excess dye that can rub off onto your skin, that sort of thing. Also, new clothes often feel stiff and uncomfortable to me until they’ve been washed the first time, probably due to the chemicals and excess dyes and such.
Doesn’t it smell like Thrift Store when you bring it home, though? I always try to wash that off before wearing stuff.