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Do you need to wash your clothes after each use? Probably not. And your underpants? It’s called “Don’t Wash Yourself” and it’s a movement that started with not washing your hair and has now reached your clothes…maybe your insides.
According to The Guardian, the ‘Don’t Wash’ movement started by not washing your hair with shampoo, just water, and there are already signs that clothes will be the next ‘guinea pig’.
In a Vox opinion piece, the writer Rachel Sugar explained that in the United States, apps and services that promise to take care of laundry largely failed.
Unlike other tasks, which have become easier to perform with advances in technology, “laundry defies the rules of lifestyle innovation and the promises of capitalism.”
He also says that there are no brands of detergents that can minimize the chore to do the laundry.
Denim fans were the first to popularize the tendency not to wash clothes. “I don’t wash denim unless there’s a disaster like spilling milk on my pants,” he says. Danielteacher.
“It gives you a better fade – the blue jeans age much better, lasts longer. You don’t always have to spend money on jeans. This is better for the environment.”
“Jeans — unwashed — doesn’t smell bad“, he insists. “If I went to a barbecue and there is a slight smell of smoke, maybe leave them outside overnight to air them out.”
A climate crisis may have helped consider the environmental impact of hot washes, water use and high carbon detergents, whereas rising energy prices got you thinking about the cost of each load of laundry.
“I stopped doing so much laundry in the winter of 2022,” he says. Jenny. “For me, the driving factors were rising energy costs, the effect on the environment and the inability to easily dry clothes indoors. It occurred to me that I had no needed to do the laundry as often. Most of the clothes just needed a change”.
Ken, a retired university professor, says, “We used to do our laundry about six times a week. NOW, we only do it once a week“.
“We use soap nuts and wash at 30°C. I put the clothes in the wash during the night, to consume less electricity. He says he is motivated “by the climate emergency”.
Rosie CoxProfessor of Geography at the University of London and co-author of the article ‘Dirt: The Dirty Reality of Everyday Life’, says it’s only relatively recently that we’ve taken linens for granted.
“In fact, it is very complicated, technically. What happens inside the house is only due to great metamorphoses: having running water, the invention of washing machines that fit into houses, being accessible”.
only from 60s, he says, is that most households now have a washing machine. Currently, this percentage approaches 100%.
The other element is how our clothes have changed. Basically, has become more washable.
Before second half of the 20th century, many garments were made of woolen fabric. “Dry clean occasionally, but often brushing, wiping, that sort of thing,” he says. coxswain. “People would have had fewer things and they would have been more durable.”
the advent of synthetic fibers and cheap manufacturing of fibers like cotton “it happened at a time similar to when we started having washing machines,” he says. So clothes could be washed – and more and more people had the machines to do that.
What we consider to be proper is “culturally, historically and socially specific”.
“It’s common in our society to think of cleanliness in visual terms: does it look clean? Are your whites white?
“That’s why many of us, seeing a small mark that seems to stain an otherwise clean garment, decide to throw it all in the laundry basket. This is also why the manufacturers promote stain removers and lighteners“.
“We are also concerned about the smell – not just to eliminate odors, but to introduce other odors. Currently we have all these things, like scent enhancers.
Will there be people who will join this movement from pants and shirts, but in terms of underwear? Could he?
