10 Secrets About Jeans

1. Be sure to figure out beforehand whether a pair of jeans will shrink. Generally speaking, primary-colored jeans are sized when bought, they need to be soaked in water and depulped, some pants will shrink, the waist circumference will be reduced by one or two inches, and some styles have been treated with anti-shrinkage treatment and will not shrink. But remember, the fabric of any kind of jeans has some malleability and will become loose after wearing it for a while.
2. Remember, desizing is not washing pants, just soaking in clean water, the bigger the container, the better, the best choice is a bathtub. The higher the water temperature and the longer the soaking, the more the pants shrink. But do not use boiling water, this will damage the color of the jeans and the cotton fibers.
3. After pulping, it cannot be dried or exposed to the sun, and it should be carefully dried in the shade. It is best to put them on before the pants are dry, this is the best time to get in shape. Once upon a time, some crazy young people would lie down in the bathtub in their newly bought pants and go straight out in wet pants.
4. To wear a sharp fade, jeans need to have a little hardness, so if your jeans become soft after wearing them for a long time, you can try using starch, just like people used to wash sheets.
5. Someone always tells you not to wash your jeans, if you really do this, what you get is beauty, and what you lose is health. If you wear the same pair of pants every day, it is best to wash them once every three or four months, and if there are several replacements, you can wash them once every six months or a year. Instead of using laundry detergent, it is better to use a special detergent – thoverite, or replace it with shampoo. It is also best not to use a washing machine.
6. If you don’t wash it for more than a year, bacteria will use cotton fibers as food, and your pants will become a bacterial petri dish.
7. Compared to the washing machine, the refrigerator is more suitable for cleaning jeans – after wearing it for a while, fold the pants and put them on the freezer layer for a period of time, which can effectively remove odors and kill bacteria.
8. Open the hem of your pants, the color on the back is the color your pants will end up with. The fabric of jeans is divided into vertical warp threads and horizontal weft threads, the warp threads are dyed blue, the weft threads are generally natural white or yellow, the warp threads determine the color of the new pants, and the weft threads determine the color of the pants after they fade.
9. Some jeans are dyed evenly, some surfaces look unevenly dyed, and the fabric is not smooth, in fact the latter is better. This fabric is generally woven on an old-fashioned loom, and due to technical reasons, the density of the fabric is uneven, but the color fade and shrinkage effect is better and more natural. To make it look more obvious, I chose black fabric as an example.
10. Those with red ears are not necessarily good pants, and good pants do not necessarily have red ears. The so-called red ears are the two edges at the trouser line on the inside of the pants. In the past, the width of the fabric of the old-fashioned loom was not enough, and only one trouser leg could be made, so the hem was placed in this position. Now, new looms can also imitate this kind of edging, and some good fabrics do not deliberately pursue edging for decoration.