Denim's Things #17 5 way to keep your jeans save

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Carl Chiara tips and trick to treat your jeans

It's an annoying situation when your favorite jeans become to worn-out. The color starting to fade, the jeans begin to torn and your jeans not stretching well again.

According to Carl Chiara, Director of Brand Concept in Levi Strauss & Co, This is cause because wrong treatment. Denim should washing with machine every six month. In the rest you simply washing it with hand.

On The Wall Street Journal, Chiara divide trick how to treat jeans like he always do. He usualy fill water (room temperature) to bathtub (15 cm deep), then he add 2 spoon liquid soap. Then he put jeans in flat position into the bathtub. After 20 menit, he hang up the jeans and let the water to dripping until it's dry. So jeans not squeezed or rolled. With this method, the jeans will more lasting then washing with machine every week.

5 way to keep your jeans save

There's another tips or trick to treat jeans from other fashion expert:

1. Pick your jeans with high quality. Material jeans is variety depends on the jeans brand. And not easy to pick jeans that can last over the year and which is not after washing with machine repeatedly. "Check the inside area at the tip of the pants where you can find the stitching in color" Advice from Loren Cronk, the owner of Loren, Jeans store in Brooklyn, New York City. "That is the prove that jeans has been woven on it's edges.

Jeans like this commonly a vintage jeans and usualy more lasting than a jeans that has been made this day. The stuff is more thick and more heavier too.

2. Clean up the stained area first. Jeans is not always to be wash, sometime you only have to clean the stained area to keep the shape of the jeans. Chiara advices to try the glass cleaner to clean difficult stain. You can use hand soap to keep the back area of zipped clean and smell good

3. Turn the inside area of jeans to the outside. To keep the jeans color not to fade, turn the inside of jeans to the outside, Used water with room temperature to wash your jeans. If the jeans color already fading, wash your jeans with other jeans that has stronger color. Other trick, chiara version is to add vinegar in the wash. Vinegar will keep the jeans color.

4. To keep safe your jeans from torn and thin. If your jeans damaged because of washing machine, Dont use this method. Cronk suggest to use environmentally friendly detergent that without whitening. "Washing jeans without soap sometime can clean up the jeans without damaging the jeans"

If you see a hole or torn on jeans, immediatly overcome this problem. You can stitch with soft or patching from the inside. This will prevent torn more wider

5. Keep the original shape. This thing is the most damaging the shape of your jeans, when you dry your jeans in drying machine.  If you want to dry your jeans in it, make sure to set the machine in low setting.

Moving a jeans in moist condition and immediatly hang it up until dry is the most suggested. This will keep the jeans from wrinkled, shrink, and keep the original shape of your jeans. When the jeans is perfectly dry, hang up the jeans in the closet (never fold your jeans)

For jeans with stretch material, use the opposite method. put the jeans to the drying maching more longer time, this will keep the flexibility your jeans. But never to put your jeans in long time at drying machine.

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