seperis | right, a poll! let's make this scientifical

Okay, poll. Context below the cut. Do not read context before giving your answer!

[Poll #1435167]

Filled it out? Good. Now click.

seperis: <--sleeping in jeans to break them in
svmadelyn: *dies*
svmadelyn: i..you are a special snowflake
seperis: You don't?
svmadelyn: These jeans killed my clothes budget for six months.
svmadelyn: nobody does!
seperis: Sure they do.
seperis: That's how you break them in.
seperis: These suckesr are going ot last.
svmadelyn: ...okay, poll on this.
seperis: Okay
svmadelyn: and don't give any hints as to who thinks what
svmadelyn: you're a bnf and they'll side with you. *sniff*
seperis: I can't paste the convo?
seperis: *sulks*
svmadelyn: if you paste it after the poll
svmadelyn: with a cut tag
seperis: So thsi has some, say, context?
svmadelyn: and explicit directions that they have to fill out the poll FIRST
svmadelyn: then you may.
svmadelyn: who needs context.
svmadelyn: but a very UNBIASED POLL.

ETA: THIS IS A TOTALLY UNBIASED POLL TRUFAX.

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While I admire your dedication, I think

1. that's going to leave marks.
2. it's moving about in jeans that breaks them in, not staying still.
2.5 ... unless you sleepwalk! In which case this is utterly brilliant. <3

It's more I have a bad habit of falling asleep in jeans and I need to be prepared. Plus new jeans, like post-washed jeans, are weirdly tight in the oddest and most random places on me the first few weeks. IT IS SELF DEFENSE.

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monanotlisa.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-07-26 11:15 am (UTC) - expand

You'd better be glad your AC is fixed. Sleeping in jeans is *hot*. (As in sweaty...)

Sleeping in jeans is so uncomfortable! Even accidental 20 minute naps! Ouch.

I've never done it myself but I have a friend who says it works. I probably wouldn't try it - they'd probably press into all my tender points. And I have enough trouble with sleeping already without being uncomfortable.

I do it. I wash the pants at least once to get all the store stink and left over dye cleaned off, then I sleep in them at least one night, more if I can.

I think it's a easy way to stretch jeans out so they fit right when I finally wear them out.

Yes, this! Exactly! I cold wash and do not put in the dryer and sleep in them so I can tell how they are going to fit once the newness wears off and to break them in. Exactly.

Re: You Are Not Crazy... at least in this

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zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-07-26 05:58 am (UTC) - expand

Re: You Are Not Crazy... at least in this

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seperis.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-07-26 06:15 am (UTC) - expand

Well that is one way to insure that you are looking hot all night long...

~L

Okay, so I'm half asleep (and not in jeans, crazypants) and so I filled out the wrong answer and can't be bothered to change it. So: have you been drinking?

*sulks quietly* Just locally owned free trade organic coffee!

(apparently, I am supposed to clarify my coffee politics when speaking of coffee? I apparently fail at being green adn progressive--that's a lot of words to say "coffee, delicious", y'know?)

I am going to second everybody who said "ow". But I suppose it is ingenious, if you can stand it. Making use of all that wasted time!

My question is, do you dry clean them to keep them from shrinking? I can't even imagine buying a pair of *super* expensive jeans that really fit and then throwing them in the dryer, but if you don't, then they're stiff.

Although I have had wool and linen (not together! Although it'd be Interesting) slacks that DID shrink during dry cleaning.

Also, pls spill the brand. Not that they'd probably fit me anyway -- to get a real pair of jeans that fit I'll probably have to wait until the high waist comes back in, and it's been almost 20 years *now*. It might not happen in my lifetime. Yes, I ran across a Britney cd from 1992 where she's wearing low-rise.

True Religion. And srsly, comfy as hell. I even bought a size smaller to compensate for the fact jeans stretch and they still rock.

I don't (usually) dry my jeans, but put fabric softener in teh washer and then hang them to dry outside (under a tree) or during winter, in teh garage. Only when they get stretched out too much do I dry them regularly. Honestly, even fabric softener isn't usually necessary depending on detergent.

I take naps in my jeans, but I can't imagine sleeping in them -- as soon as I wash them they go back to being their usual uncomfortable selves, until I suck it up, wear them once, and break them in again (until another washing), even if I cold wash/don't dry them. It is a horrible vicious denim cycle. :/

...I was going to say it only makes sense if you put them on Friday night and wear them all weekend before going out in public..........but then I realize how craz-ee that sounded.....

...that maeks sense if I had somewhere important to be on Monday....

I would not be able to sleep comfortably in jeans. I would lay awake all night and wonder why I was wearing jeans to bed.

I... have never heard of anyone doing this. Like, on purpose, and to some specific end. (Taking a nap in jeans just because I'm too lazy to change happens all the time.) Have I just been that sheltered? Is there a whole world out there of sartorial nighttime shenanigans that's been lost to me? I'm not sure whether to feel grateful or deprived. O_o

You win for most fun use of vocabulary and the word sartorial used correctly in context!

*TROPHY GOES HERE*

Admittedly, I no longer wear jeans, but of course you should sleep in them. At least, I thought it was obvious until I saw the poll results. You sleep in clothes, then wash them, then sleep in them, so that way they are nice and soft and broken in sooner!

This is freaking brilliant. YES THIS. I do this with new clothes all the time to get used to them and find teh perfect way they are supposed to fit.

See and here I was just going to let that slide in IM.

But now that you've made a POST about it. There is mocking. It is great mocking. There are names and drawings and everything. Somewhere there's a pie chart. The only time I have 'slept' in jeans is when I have gone out and come back in the morning. There was possibly no sleeping. Or soberness. So it counts.

You are not a believer. I scorn.

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amireal.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-07-26 04:39 am (UTC) - expand

Learning about other people's secret jeans habits. Wai to go.

People need to not be ashamed and bring it out. BRING OUT YOUR SARTORIAL HABITS. It's progressive, yo.

to break in jeans I run them over with my Jeep at least once, then put them on and wear them day and night until they start to smell bad. this may or may not include sleeping in them, depending on the weather.

I'm getting sweaty just thinking about it! Maybe in the dead of winter?

I used to sleep in my jeans occasionally, but not as a breaking-them-in thing. I've never been a tight-jeans person, so breaking them in isn't really a necessary step for me.

I don't usually sleep in new jeans, but I am terrible about remembering to change out of jeans before napping, so honestly, I see nothing strange about it at all. It's not like it gets in the way of sleep.

I never have, but I am in favor of the idea!

I don't much like wearing jeans myself, but it was still my understanding sleeping in them was a perfectly normal way of breaking them in, so either I've been seriously misinformed or your poll results aren't currently representative of serious jeans-wearers. (Actually, I think I remember something about washing them by wearing them in the bath? But that was probably old fashioned jeans - modern designer ones are made of much less rugged denim.)

Sleeping in jeans gives me such a headache (as does sleeping in anything more than shorts and a t-shirt), but I can see how that would break them in well!

I've never really thought too much about breaking in jeans. I tend to like the way they feel brand-new (when washed once, that is), but that might make me rather strange. o.o

You're a crazy person.

I am totally pushing you into a canal in venice.

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eleveninches.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-07-26 06:20 am (UTC) - expand

oww.

and rubbing.

And moist crotch from the heat.

ewwwww.

B

I ticked no but I will when I kinda already have but anyway.

Jeans get super warm to sleep in. Also my jeans are a little fitting and hence not so comfortable to sleep in but I do nap in them with the button unsnapped and zip pulled down a little so it's more comfortable.

I like this idea of sleeping in them to stretch them out but I only have ever napped in them for the express purpose of stretching them out, never had a night's sleep in them [unless I'm passed out on a friends couch without pjs etc].

I think I just repeated myself. I'm little in lala land.

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