Wash Jeans in Shower

[mrboilwash]

Are "shrink to fit" jeans still on the market today?
Those were actually larger in size than the inch numbers indicated and this was the type some may have worn in the bathtub for a perfect fit.
And those who didn`t want to bother with this would just buy them in their known size and let the washer and dryer do the rest.

Today we have (and we`ve had them for a long time) slim fit, skinny fit, even "spray on" jeans and it`s difficult to find jeans in general that don`t have elastics like Spandex in the fabric.
Don`t get how those could possibly gain for a better fit in the shower.

I think the Levi CEO should better focus on going back to a better product quality and communicate it.
If today`s expensive jeans wouldn`t fade and wear so fast anymore there wouldn`t be need for BS marketing advice like this.

 

[mrboilwash]

It may also be worth to note that the inseam of modern male jeans doesn`t go all the way up to the crotch anymore.
This way there`s room for whatever you`ve got or not no matter how tight they are, which makes them kind of safe even for the North American market. LOL

Personally I don`t like this trend in jeans fashion just like the decline of European men wearing Speedos on the beach these days, but what can I do?[this post was last edited: 12/12/2023-07:49]

 

[launderess]

Pegged leg jeans, that takes one back!

https://recollectionsofplay.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/totally-80s-pegged-jeans/

https://the80sand90s.com/articles/peg-legs

 

[gelaundry4ever]

washing jeans

I'm sticking to washing jeans on the normal cycle in the washer and drying them on the same cycle in the dryer. Thank you.

 

[wayupnorth]

Nope, I wash my jeans in the washer and my body in the shower.

 

[ea56]

Re: #22

In the 60’s pegging the legs of our pants had nothing to do with rolling up the cuffs, at least not in California and my neck of the woods. Pegging our pant legs was all about making them tighter, nothing more. We would have NEVER worn our cuffs rolled up in the 60’s, that would have been old fashioned and too much like the 50’s. I’ve never before seen cuffs on pant legs being referred to as pegging.

Eddie

 

[launderess]

I'll take your word on it Eddie

Wasn't around then and only memory one has is from 1980's...

 

[angus]

Yup- pegging pants here in Connecticut also just refers to how tight you make the legs. In fact when I started high school in the fall of 1971, our school had a guide called the "Pilot" that every student received and outlined the behavioral expectations, etc... . It also had an extensive dress code section that specifically stated"no pegged pants for boys" and "slacks" for girls were only to be worn between December 15 and April 1 (to allow for our cold winters), and they were never to wear "culottes". No jeans were permitted and girls were always to wear "hose" (no bare legs). Only shirts with collars and sleeves (no T-shirts) were permitted, no facial hair or "ducktails" on boys' hair and "Bermuda" shorts were permitted during spring final exams only, to complete the picture. I'm sure there are others I am forgetting... And this was a public school.

 

[ea56]

Angus,
Our dress code wasn’t quite as restrictive as yours. I entered HS in the Fall of ‘65. Boys were allowed to wear pegged pants. Girls however weren’t allowed to wear any kind of pants, except underpants, but culottes were allowed and some of the girls wore them. There was no requirement that the girls wear hose, bare legged was OK, but lots of runs were not. Long Granny dresses were very popular and allowed.

Boys had to be clean shaven, no mustaches, excessively long sideburns or goatee’s. I started to shave in the 8th grade and had a very heavy beard. Until I was a senior I used an electric razor and by the afternoon I’d have a 5 O’clock shadow. Once the Woodshop teacher told me that if I came to school like that again he’d shave me with a rusty blade. Boys hair couldn’t touch the collar. Once a senior was told to get a haircut, his hair wasn’t long at all. So over the weekend he shaved his head in protest. That resulted in a 2 week suspension for”radical behavior”. The entire student body protested over this and he was reinstated to school.

There was no prohibition of tee shirts, which was good because those horizontally stripped Surfer shirts were all the rage in ‘65.

When I entered Beauty College in the Summer of ‘69 the female students couldn’t wear their skirts more than 1” above the knee. The supervisor's stood in the lobby when students arrived in the morning with a ruler and measured the skirt length, over 1” above the knee and missy you were sent home to change.

I think kids heads would explode today if these restrictions were imposed on them. They had us under their thumbs in my day. You were at school to learn, not make trouble.

Eddie[this post was last edited: 12/14/2023-09:57]

 

[angus]

I forgot about boys' hair being "neatly trimmed and above the collar, with no excessively long sideburns". The funny thing was that no one in our school (total around 1,600 students from freshmen to senior) felt it necessary to protest. We just went on with our lives. There were kids who were sloppier than others and those that just made it on the hair length, etc.. but overall it just wasn't a big deal. I can't imagine any school imposing those conditions today. I see neighborhood kids walking to school in anything and everything, basketball shorts, distressed jeans (they look to me not like "distress" but "agony"), flip-flops and tank tops included.

The skirt length I recall from parochial grammar school. The principal would come around to each class and spontaneously select several girls to measure the Uniform's skirt length and it had to be no more than 1 inch above the knee. Otherwise their unsuspecting mothers got called to school. I say unsuspecting because the skirts were actually an acceptable length. But the girls would roll the waistbands to make the skirts shorter once they were out of the house. My mother got a few of those calls for my sister both in grammar and high school (she went to a Catholic all girls high school so it wasn't a new trick and obviously had been around for ages.

 

[circlew]

School clothing

In elementary school my mom usually sent me in corduroy or twill pants, as I was a "town" kid. Occasionally I'd wear jeans if it was bad winter weather. In junior high I'd go in jeans about half the time, and in high school, either jeans (sometimes shorts) or cords.

Our school (public) had no restriction on boys wearing jeans, as it was a fairly rural area. Most of the farm boys wore them on a regular basis. However, until junior high, girls had to wear dresses or skirts with a top unless it was extremely cold and snowy. They were also expected to wear bras if they had anything much to put in one.

In high school there was a girl named Trudy that would routinely get sent home for wearing VERY short skirts, and low cut tops. When she bent over to drink from the fountain, she'd attract lots of guys. My sister got sent home once for too short of dress, and mom said it was NOT to happen again if she knew what was good for her.

As for hair, the main thing was it had to be kept clean. Some boys my senior year ('74) had a moustache and/or sideburns, which were fine as long as they weren't extreme. Anything more than on Burt Reynolds in the attached pic would have probably caused a problem.

 

[yuccadew]

I never heard of this until more recently years. Wouldn’t try it. In the 90s when I was in college, Levi’s 501s were all the rage, but I don’t recall hearing about people doing this back then, either. My friend and I used to comb thrift and vintage clothing stores for the right fade and fit, usually going for ones from the 70s, and I’d wash and line dry. I still have some Levi’s and would wear them now, but I have a few pounds to lose before I can fit into them .

I do remember the pegged legged jeans from the 80s, and also tucking them into socks (about circa 1987). I also had a Bomber jacket like the girl’s in the right.

 

[yuccadew]

I never heard of this until more recently years. Wouldn’t try it. In the 90s when I was in college, Levi’s 501s were all the rage, but I don’t recall hearing about people doing this back then, either. My friend and I used to comb thrift and vintage clothing stores for the right fade and fit, usually going for ones from the 70s, and I’d wash and line dry. I still have some Levi’s and would wear them now, but I have a few pounds to lose before I can fit into them .

I do remember the pegged legged jeans from the 80s, and also tucking them into socks (about circa 1987). I also had a Bomber jacket like the girl’s on the right.