Science! Does putting APC Jeans in the Freezer Make them Smell Better?
If you know about the whole raw denim thing, just skip down to the spot that says $$$.
I've got this pair of APC jeans that you can't wash.
I mean, like, not "it will break the washer" but "you're not supposed to wash them." They're raw denim, meaning they were never washed after being dyed. They look damn good in part because they're really dark and not that lame light blue dad-jeans color:
*shudder*
Anyway, the idea is that as you wear them, they will naturally wear in a more intense way than normal jeans will. Washing them removes a lot of dye and softens the jeans, making them less prone to creasing and fading. And you want that creasing and fading it you're a weird jeans fetishizer person like me. So...you don't wash them.
Of course, this means they smell a bit eventually. I'm at about 3 months of steady, at-least-five-days-a-week wear, and they have a smell. Sometimes they feel funny too. Let's not get into it.
$$$
So people have all these ways of dealing with the smell--hanging them out, Febreeze, and the freezer trick. The idea is you put them in a ziplock bag in the freezer and leave them there for a night or something, and the smell is somehow magically reduced. I did it--I didn't think my jeans would fold up to fit into a gallon ziplock, but they did. I folded and had to shove them in to fit, though.
Well, it works! The jeans now have a substantially reduced smell and they haven't felt weird in the past two days of wearing. Also, when you first pull them out, they're awesome to touch. Cold, cold denim is cooler to feel than I expected. So I recommend the method...in some circumstances.
My jeans didn't smell that bad anyway--no one was complaining but me. So for more serious cases, I don't know how the freezer trick will go. Also, I think it softened the jeans some, and as explained above, you don't want that. However, if you already have washed them, or if you have gone through your 6 or 12 months or whatever of breaking them in and you think the changes made by wearing them longer are going to be pretty minimal, then you don't have to worry about the softening thing.
I've got this pair of APC jeans that you can't wash.
I mean, like, not "it will break the washer" but "you're not supposed to wash them." They're raw denim, meaning they were never washed after being dyed. They look damn good in part because they're really dark and not that lame light blue dad-jeans color:
*shudder*
Anyway, the idea is that as you wear them, they will naturally wear in a more intense way than normal jeans will. Washing them removes a lot of dye and softens the jeans, making them less prone to creasing and fading. And you want that creasing and fading it you're a weird jeans fetishizer person like me. So...you don't wash them.
Of course, this means they smell a bit eventually. I'm at about 3 months of steady, at-least-five-days-a-week wear, and they have a smell. Sometimes they feel funny too. Let's not get into it.
$$$
So people have all these ways of dealing with the smell--hanging them out, Febreeze, and the freezer trick. The idea is you put them in a ziplock bag in the freezer and leave them there for a night or something, and the smell is somehow magically reduced. I did it--I didn't think my jeans would fold up to fit into a gallon ziplock, but they did. I folded and had to shove them in to fit, though.
Well, it works! The jeans now have a substantially reduced smell and they haven't felt weird in the past two days of wearing. Also, when you first pull them out, they're awesome to touch. Cold, cold denim is cooler to feel than I expected. So I recommend the method...in some circumstances.
My jeans didn't smell that bad anyway--no one was complaining but me. So for more serious cases, I don't know how the freezer trick will go. Also, I think it softened the jeans some, and as explained above, you don't want that. However, if you already have washed them, or if you have gone through your 6 or 12 months or whatever of breaking them in and you think the changes made by wearing them longer are going to be pretty minimal, then you don't have to worry about the softening thing.
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