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[quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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