Using a Dryer

[greentalks43]

Is there any downside to using a dryer to shrink the jeans back into the original shape and get rid of the smell? I threw my jeans in the dryer for about 20 minutes with a dryer sheet and it worked great but can I still get a good fade? Im two months in and dont want to wash em just yet, so I figured throwing them in the dryer would be okay.

"Patience, both we and our words are overproduced by influence"

[denimdestroyedmylife]

just jeans.

Using chain stitch, your train of jeans is fading wind.

[Cue]

they will be fine

[Geowu]

throw them inside-out, not folded (if it is folded you may get faded "lines" where the folds were), and don't do it too much. Some 2 or 3 times a month should be fine.

[airfrogusmc]

Just hang'm outside all day inside out.

[Jetta]

Yeah the biggest thing is to turn them inside out, mostly because dryers beat the heck out of stuff as they spin around.

[Serge d Nimes]

Probably use a low heat setting also.

Carpe Denim! (not the jean brand silly!)

[sybaritical]

Don't get me wrong, I haven't got a dryer. But if your jeans stink, surely that means they're full of bacteria, right? so isn't putting them on a nice warm spin cycle just going to make them the fabric equivalent of an overflowing petri dish?

[__3xL]

Makes complete sense what syb said . Although the bacteria that would be come from a body that is 90 degrees or less the dryer heat if used on high might kill them .

I've tried to put jeans in the dryer to remove smell , thought it worked , smell was back worse than before 2 days of wearing .

[walletboy]

I get more shrinkage from washing and air drying several times, and the fabric is less beat up. Use cold water to prevent fading.

[keri]

if you're worried about bacteria, you could mist with lysol.

but in all seriousness, a romp in the dryer inside out wont do any damage to your jeans, but if you want to get the shape back better, you might have tolightly spritz them with a water bottle, this will make the fibers contract more

Masochism at it's finest.

[shinobi2000]

regarding bacteria, actually, a dryer would help because it would dry up moisture -- dry environments are not compatible with life for most organisms

[swyche]

petridish did you just say

thx syb my jeans suddenly feel like they have a life of its own... feeling the creeps all over

[Serge d Nimes]

There are probably a lot of yeast there too. Detergent kills microrganisms by lycing cells or by pH extremes or by mechanical action. A dryer will kill them by extreme heat, and dehydration. Other people have mentioned putting jeans in bag in the freezer. This will kill cells by lysis as well. There will still be some cells that survive the freezer and the dyryer, but they will be fewer than there were before.

Carpe Denim! (not the jean brand silly!)

[crisis]

I agree with your views on detergents but i'm not quite sure about the freezing aspect. Freezing can kill cells if frozen quickly, the intracellular water freezes and the cell is destroyed. Freezing slowly allows for water to leave the cell and is frozen extracellularly which preserves cell.

[sybaritical]

Quote: thx syb my jeans suddenly feel like they have a life of its own... feeling the creeps all over

LOL .

This is all entirely too scientific. Just wash the goddamn jeans already!!

[keri]

just wanna speak up and say a cold wash inside out on the gentle cycle wont kill them

Masochism at it's finest.