Washing Different Types of Jeans

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Molly Herring with Expert Village. We're here to show you how to wash your jeans. Right now we're here to discuss different types of jeans and how to separate them into various loads. Now, because you have different washes on your jeans and different types of cloth, you want to think about how you want to separate them into different loads. When you're washing jeans, you want to think about the different types of cloth and different washes that you have. We have a colored jean, we have a dark wash, a light wash, and a duck cloth. Things to be aware of with your jeans are a dark wash jean, the first couple of times you want to wash it, you probably want to wash it on its own. A dark wash, with all that dye in it, it does tend to bleed out. If you're washing them with anything else, the duck or the colored jeans here, you want to be careful and not allow that to bleed into these other colors of jeans. After the first few times of washing, generally it'll stop doing that. I have seen some jeans that do continue to bleed throughout their life cycle. Just be aware of what you have and definitely wash your dark jeans for the first couple of times on its own. Generally as a rule, you can wash any of these jeans together, especially once you've had them for a while and you know how they're going to react with each other. Something to be aware of if you're washing work cloths is what that person does for a living. If you have oil, grease, or anything like that on your pants, you definitely want to wash them separately from all your other clothes because those things can jump onto your other clothes. Also, it's something that's pretty hard on your washer and dryer. Think about going to maybe going to a laundry mat and doing that separately. That covers separating your jeans into various types of loads. Next, we're going to be talking about caring for new jeans."