stinky jeans

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Separately, please stop returning clothes after you wear them twice because you realize they are "too big". Presumably they were too big when you tried them on and bought them and took the tags off. This kind of total abuse of the retail system creates environmental waste and pushes up prices for the rest of us.

Are you posting from 1993? You've heard of online shopping, yes, and that virtual fitting rooms are not yet an existing technology?

[Anonymous]

I bought a Lucky Brand shirt once that had the same problem. The stink never went away.

[Anonymous]

Lucky jeans are junk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Separately, please stop returning clothes after you wear them twice because you realize they are "too big". Presumably they were too big when you tried them on and bought them and took the tags off. This kind of total abuse of the retail system creates environmental waste and pushes up prices for the rest of us.

Are you posting from 1993? You've heard of online shopping, yes, and that virtual fitting rooms are not yet an existing technology?

You don't go out and wear them for two days and then return them. You get the box delivered, try them on and then if they're too big, return them. What's wrong with you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I finally graduated from Gap and Old NAvy and bought myself a pair of lucky jeans, and they stink! I actually returned the first pair (both b/c they stunk and b/c they were too big) but the ones I replaced them with stink just as bad. I never washed the first pair b/c I realized quickly they were the wrong size, but I've washed this current pair twice and this smell just will not come out. I'm ready to return these too but wanted to check and see if others have experienced this and been able to get this horrendous smell out. I'm 42 years old and this is the first time I've experienced this. It's so weird. Not to mention gross. Thanks in advance!

It's the stench of wealth and privilege.

[Anonymous]

Maybe it’s your crotch that stinks. 🤷‍♂️

[Anonymous]

Do they have stretch? I think the roast and causes the smell. Stick to 100% cotton

[Anonymous]

It’s the stanky leg collection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Separately, please stop returning clothes after you wear them twice because you realize they are "too big". Presumably they were too big when you tried them on and bought them and took the tags off. This kind of total abuse of the retail system creates environmental waste and pushes up prices for the rest of us.

NP. Your concern is misplaced. If a company accepts returns of used clothing, they have already factored returns into the price. Also, the real creator of "environmental waste" is fashion trends and poorly made items. I buy classic styles of everything and wear them for years. I just recently bought new clothes because I lost weight and what I had didn't fit. Prior to that, I was mostly wearing clothes I purchased 7 - 10 years ago, along with some newer stuff because it's hard to find clothes that hold up for multiple seasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to work in the corporate part of a flash sale website (think Rue La La, etc.) and this was a big problem with some of our less-expensive, direct-from-wholesale stuff.

With items that weren’t jeans, we got a lot of stuff that smelled like kerosene and other chemicals. You would be sad to know the conditions a lot of this cheap clothing is made in- it’s a lot of rundown factories or people’s homes (for pattern cutting or finishing) and so clothing picks up whatever is going on there, including spilled kerosene from heaters, random chemicals, and cooking smells.

Jeans seem to be a particular problem and I don’t actually know why but my theory is that less expensive denim washes are achieved through processes that use a lot of water and not necessarily clean abrasives. Your jeans are picking up the local water smell and then sitting in gross conditions before they’re shipped, so they get that garbage-y weird funk to them. Denim is also slow to dry, so any moisture picked up in the shipping container is going to be absorbed and sit there while absorbing cardboard/plastic smells.

+1 All of this. Everlane has a great video of how much water waste happens creating jeans, and how their process uses less water. There’s no win, but it makes sense why jeans would stink.

To remove odors I’ve put items into the freezer for a couple days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Separately, please stop returning clothes after you wear them twice because you realize they are "too big". Presumably they were too big when you tried them on and bought them and took the tags off. This kind of total abuse of the retail system creates environmental waste and pushes up prices for the rest of us.

NP. Your concern is misplaced. If a company accepts returns of used clothing, they have already factored returns into the price. Also, the real creator of "environmental waste" is fashion trends and poorly made items. I buy classic styles of everything and wear them for years. I just recently bought new clothes because I lost weight and what I had didn't fit. Prior to that, I was mostly wearing clothes I purchased 7 - 10 years ago, along with some newer stuff because it's hard to find clothes that hold up for multiple seasons.

Here is the Lucky return policy. Returns must be new and unwashed and unworn. Unless defective. This is what most stores' policy is, unless it's a ghetto ass store like Target or Walmart. Returning clothes after 2 wears because you realize you didn't like it or it didn't fit is fraud and theft. No one is going to challenge you on it, because it's not worth the drama by the stores' employees. But it doesn't change it from being theft, and the stores absolutely have to build in this kind of theft into their pricing.

Online purchases may be returned by mail within 60 days of the purchase date for a full refund to the original form of payment used for this purchase (including gift purchases). Online purchases can be returned in store for a refund. Exclusions Apply. Items must be unwashed and unworn, unless determined to be defective. Swimwear and undergarments can only be returned/exchanged with the price tickets attached. Refunds for returns by mail will be issued within 30 days of receiving your returned package. Store returns with a gift receipt will be refunded onto a store credit at the selling price on the gift receipt. Shipping and handling costs, gift box costs, and other charges are non-refundable. Please note that purchases returned using a Lucky Brand return label will have $8 deducted from your refund total for the use of the label.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Separately, please stop returning clothes after you wear them twice because you realize they are "too big". Presumably they were too big when you tried them on and bought them and took the tags off. This kind of total abuse of the retail system creates environmental waste and pushes up prices for the rest of us.

This.

[Anonymous]

OP, what do they smell like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Separately, please stop returning clothes after you wear them twice because you realize they are "too big". Presumably they were too big when you tried them on and bought them and took the tags off. This kind of total abuse of the retail system creates environmental waste and pushes up prices for the rest of us.

This.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anthropologie jeans I have smell faintly of mothballs.