This is how often you should wash your jeans (and, yes, you’re doing it too often)

You can always rely on Tan France to give the best advice, and when it comes to daily matters of the wardrobe there are few people we would trust more than this certified fashion icon.

Which is why, when a recent video began circulating of him being interviewed on the Jennifer Hudson Show discussing how often you should really be washing your jeans, many were shocked.

Let’s rewind, shall we? How often do you wash your jeans?

Some people wash them after every wear, the same way they do with every other item of clothing. Others give their favourite pair two or three wears before they’re relegated to the washing basket. But very few of us would go, let’s say, many more than ten wears before washing.

Well, if it were up to Tan France, our jeans would be lasting double that time.

When asked by Jennifer “How often do you think you should wash your jeans?”, Tan answered: “Not very often… I’m going to say, like, every twentieth wear.”

“Listen! I know you think that’s gross, but find a way to clean them that’s not necessarily washing them. [If you wash them] you’re going to fade them, you’re going to ruin the fit.”

“If I were you I would put them in a freezer bag and put them in the freezer and kill that bacteria.”

Of course, TikTok users had something to say about Tan’s washing tips.

“That’s such a guy answer he doesn’t have a leaking situation,” noted one, with another writing: “as a lady person I can’t wear them more than once or twice before they pick up a scent in a particular area”. Many also pointed out the potential lifestyle factors: “people who can get away with wearing jeans 20x are people who don’t take public transport everywhere”.

“My jeans fit best right after I wash them”, pointed out one user, with another referencing the stretch issue, confirming that she’d like to know how to “stop them from getting ‘knees’ in the first five minutes of wearing them”.