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Hang your jeans on a clothesline or a shower rod overnight. If you have some outdoor space, and nice weather, you can dry your jeans outside on a clothesline. In either case, leave them to dry overnight. You can also use clothespins to attach your jeans to a clothesline, or a hanger to hang them from a rod. Take your jeans down before they are fully dry. Feel the jeans for dampness. The best time to take them down is when they are slightly damp.
Letting them dry only most of the way avoids possible damage to the fabric. You may have to brush off bits of leaves, or even insects. Hanging the jeans in sunlight will help them dry a little faster.
This works whether you hang them inside or outside! Wear the jeans for a while to loosen them. Air-drying jeans can make them feel stiff. Though it might not be the most pleasant sensation to have wet denim clinging to your legs, wearing them for a little while right after taking them down will stretch the fabric and return it to normal.
Walking, bending, and other lower-body movement is good for stretching jeans, not to mention being good exercise! Method 2. Place your jeans in the dryer. You can load them either by themselves, or with other like items of clothing. Be sure to clean the lint filter!
Wash your jeans less frequently, wash in cold water, and line dry your jeans. Properly caring for your jeans will not only help the environment, but also help preserve their color and fit. There are detailed instructions on how to do this in the guide below. Want to do more? Patch your jeans when they get a hole or try hemming your jeans so that they can be relengthened as kids grow.
When you can no longer use those jeans, pass them along to someone else or upcycle them into something awesome—don't let our precious water go to waste. Learn more about the environmental impact of your jeans at Patagonia. If your jeans have buttons or any other fasteners, be sure to close those as well. You can adjust this to whatever size load of laundry you are doing.
Just be sure not to overload the washer, which not only is bad for your machine but creates additional wear on your clothes. Not sure what overloaded is?
Check the guidelines in your user manual. Hot water can damage the fibers of your jeans and cause them to shrink.
Never wash your jeans in hot water. With the water running, pour in your laundry soap, following the instructions on the bottle. Never pour laundry detergent directly on clothing; always pour it into the water.
Pouring soap directly onto the clothes may cause discoloration. We recommend Seventh Generation Free and Clear liquid laundry detergent. After the washer has stopped, remove your jeans from the washing machine and take them out to your laundry line. Never dry jeans in the dryer. The heat and tumbling can damage the fibers and shrink the jeans.
Instead, hang your jeans up to dry using a laundry line, towel rack or even your shower head. Take one pant leg and fold the cuff over the line, overlapping the back side of the pant leg by a few inches. Grab a clothespin and clip it in the middle of the pant leg, securing it to the laundry line. Always place your clothespins vertically. Placing clothespins at an angle can cause warping in the clothes or can cause the clothespin to fall apart. Starting from one end, roll up the jeans inside the towel nice and tight.
This will help to soak up any of the water and cut down the drying time. If you happen to sit on it as well, this will also help to squeeze out some more excess water. After doing this, you could air dry the jeans. Hanging them outside in the sun is a great option, but just make sure the jeans are not surrounded by other clothes so you can get maximum air and sunshine to them.
This is when you can use an indoor clothes line or even hang them over the back of a chair. Some people like to dry out their clothes right near a radiator, but you need to be careful with this method of drying.
It is never a good idea to hang the jeans right on top of the radiator, because they can heat up very quickly and may start a fire. The best way to approach drying with a radiator is to hang the clothes on something else, such as a chair. The direct heat will begin to dry them out pretty quickly, but you may need to turn the jeans to get the heat to all parts of them.
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