<P> 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 . Carl Chiara, Levi Strauss director of brand and special projects, has a credo: The less you wash your jeans, the better your jeans become . 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: </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> 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 disputed as ineffective and replaced with the suggestion of baking them for ten minutes at 250 degrees Fahrenheit. (120 ° C). </P> <P> Jeans are covered under laws regarding trousers . As well, there have been some notable legal cases involving jeans specifically: </P>

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