Wash Clothes Before You Wear Them

as if i don't already have vaginal organisms all over me?...

Most fabrics (and items made of fabric, i.e.: clothing, towels, sheets, etc.) are also sprayed with pesticides before being exported from their originating countries; countries that have very different laws regarding chemicals than we do here. Many pesticides are based on neurological toxins. The more interesting (and possibly, terrifying) study would test what chemicals are still present in new clothing.
Perhaps that tic in your eye isn't quite as innocent as you hoped.

You don't really think they give the sweatshop people cozy bathroom breaks do you???? They hand 'em a bucket and everyone keeps on sewing....

I caught scabies from trying on clothes at a store. At least, that is what the doctor and I concluded. I thought that it might be okay to try on because it was in a seemingly unopened package.

Nevertheless, one of my very first jobs while in college was as a 'fitting-room checker' at a major upscale department store. Fairly frequently, I would come upon merchandise that was smeared with feces, or semen, and the tailor's helper would clean them off and then back to the rack. Returned merchandise was also given a quick once over and then back to the selling floor.

Also, that bathing suit you just bought? It seemed to me that most people tried on a bathing suit while naked. Pervs would try on dozens of Speedos and strut about, and then drop the suit to the floor. Boxers were also tried on by the gross, and some guys would stand in front of the public mirror, stripping off and putting on the next one.

If you are not washing the clothes that you buy, welcome to everything another person can excrete, emit, ooze, flake, and shed.

That's what you people get for cheap labor. Serves you right!

Well, there's trace amounts of fecal matter on just about everything, face it, we're dirty animals no matter how much we try to hide it.

Second, I'm a dude and so I had no idea people try on clothes at the store.

wait. you can try them before you buy? :D

wel we have signs here saying you should keep your underwear on, well fitting signs.. im geussing not evryone does as their told.

that being said, i syill wear em fresh, builds up my system for the next flu :P

Not surprising.....but then I can't imagine how much "excretions" we consume each week when we don't wash and cook it ourselves. Those cookies Sue brought from home and put in the break room? Like her cats haven't been all over them before her kid sneezed on them after they came out of the oven.

Those doorknobs you and many others are using all the time to get inside and outside rooms everywhere? Ah, well, best not to think about it :-D

I am more worried about pesticides and fungicides wich the clothes are sprayed with to make them able to withstand weeks in a container on sea (As @Nightbird already pointed out).

A lot of these studies are just media fear mongering to drive up readers/viewers. Nearly everything we touch, eat, drink and breathe has bacteria on or in it and it's no surprise that they find stuff when they break out the microscope. Before you have a full on panic attack though remember that our immune systems are the product of literally millions and millions of years of our near constant exposure to filth. That doesn't mean you shouldn't ever wash your hands and eat whatever you find lying on the ground but also understand it's impossible and impractical to sterilize everything around us.

To the person who caught scabies though that does suck. I can see why you'd make a point to wash new clothes before you wear them now but something like that is probably fairly uncommon.

Heh... I've worn new clothes without washing them. Never had a problem, but now, maybe think twice.
Just never thought about it before, but it makes sense.
All the people touching the clothes, or trying them on. All the unwashed hands.... bleh.

I learned this lesson when I bought new pants from Garage once. I got a rash, it hurt like hell too. Not goodtimes.

Wow, and I thought it was scary finding a face full of some other woman's make up on the inside of a shirt on the rack every now and then. Although I suppose anyone who has ever been inside a public restroom, or seen the floor of a movie theater, knows that most people are just really disgusting and will never treat things that they don't personally own with any care at all.

I worked, post-divorce, at Wal-Mart. I sometimes worked the phones/fitting room. Nasty stuff. Trust me, you want to wash YOU after you try on clothes. You don't want to wear the clothes before you wash them. The same holds true of consignment stores. It is easy to iron a dirty outfit, put dirty clothes on a wire hanger, add the plastic laundry bag, and drop it off~! (Yes. I did.)

Hmm... that will make me think twice before buying anything that says "Dry clean only"... having the pricetag of dry cleaning added to your clothing before you even wear it? That dosn't sit well with me.
(Or just never buy anything that says "dry clean only"... Might be wiser.)

Or I can just continue to not care and wear clothes 3 or 4 times before they go through their first wash. Cheerio!

Very true, Matt. At least then you know it's only your OWN dirty ass that's been wearing them.

This is true. It is better, especially for kid clothes, to wash them first before using. This is to lessen risks of fungal infections. You can just use the quick wash cycle of your washing machine for this. If your washing machine has steam fresh cycle, all the better to remove germs and bacteria.

You people are total hypochondriacs.

i also heard of a detergentless washer ...imagine that no detergent and no water !!!!! smart appliances doing what we want when we want them sounds interesting. I heard from a friend installing the new smart grid in people’s homes – how this smart grid thing would alert you by phone when you get low of milk in the fridge!!!! pretty cool having reminders like this automatically ;)