Editing Jeans (section)

== Care and wear ==
Despite most jeans being "pre-shrunk", they are still sensitive to slight further shrinkage and loss of color from being washed. The Levi Strauss company recommends avoiding washing jeans as much as possible.<ref name="Wash My Jeans? Hardly">{{cite news |url=http://www.levistrauss.com/blogs/wash-my-jeans-hardly |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911121229/http://www.levistrauss.com/blogs/wash-my-jeans-hardly |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 11, 2010 |publisher=LS&CO. UNZIPPED |title=Wash My Jeans? Hardly. |date=July 30, 2012}}</ref> These and other suggestions to avoid washing jeans where possible have encountered criticism. Cory Warren, editor of ''LS&Co. Unzipped'', clarifies in a response to such a criticism:

{{blockquote|text= Our advice is to wash less often, but clearly, you have to judge for yourself what's appropriate. Hot day, dirty job? Wash your jeans. Please! Cold day, office job? Maybe you can wear them twice or more before they go back to the washing machine. Personally, if I wear a pair of jeans to work on Friday—cool climate, office job—I tend to wear them on Saturday. And if Saturday is spent indoors and I'm not spilling food all over myself, I might even wear them on Sunday.|sign=Corey Warren<ref name="Wash My Jeans? Hardly"/>}}

For those who prefer to refrain from washing their jeans there have been suggestions to freeze them in order to kill the germs that cause odor. However, this advice has been proven ineffective.<ref>{{cite web |title=History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places &#124; Smithsonian |url=http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2011/11/the-myth-of-the-frozen-jeans/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111150041/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-myth-of-the-frozen-jeans-129092730/ |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |access-date=October 28, 2015 |publisher=Blogs.smithsonianmag.com}}</ref>