How many times do you wear your breeches/jodhpurs?

Tiddlypom said:
Oh I see :D. This is a personal hygiene issue?

Even after a few days wear riding, my jodhs will only pick up a mild aroma of saddle soap and warm horse (a rather pleasant combination). The lack of 'other' aromas could be a consequence of my daily bathing and my sturdy M&S knickers, maybe?
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Daily showering (twice daily when riding), sometimes dubious choices made in the undergarment department, but I still won't wear them more than once.
In the summer if I ride in short boots and gaiters I get sweaty calves - it would just be minging not to wash them after every wear!
 
buddylove said:
Daily showering (twice daily when riding), sometimes dubious choices made in the undergarment department, but I still won't wear them more than once.
In the summer if I ride in short boots and gaiters I get sweaty calves - it would just be minging not to wash them after every wear!
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I sweat a lot, it's part of a syndrome I have. And I wear long close fitting rubber boots in winter. Sweat doesn't smell until it's turned by bacteria. I take off my damp jods and put them in a warm cupboard to dry. I can do that for days and they don't smell. Well, not of old sweat, anyway :D

This sounds more like you don't like the thought of it (and there's no problem with that) than that your jods actually smell of sweat?
 
Tiddlypom said:
Oh I see :D. This is a personal hygiene issue?

Even after a few days wear riding, my jodhs will only pick up a mild aroma of saddle soap and warm horse (a rather pleasant combination). The lack of 'other' aromas could be a consequence of my daily bathing and my sturdy M&S knickers, maybe?
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lol well yes, i see it as a personal hygiene issue :D... but not mine as I wash my jodhs after I wear them :D I also shower every day and it’s not an aroma thing - I just think it’s hygienic to wash tight fitting clothing that you do physical exercise in ;)
 
SwishMyTail said:
lol well yes, i see it as a personal hygiene issue :D... but not mine as I wash my jodhs after I wear them :D I also shower every day and it’s not an aroma thing - I just think it’s hygienic to wash tight fitting clothing that you do physical exercise in ;)
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Definition of hygienic:

conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease
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Is that the way you meant it? That you think you will suffer less disease and have better health if you wash your jods every time you wear them?

If so, can I ask if you are part of the young generation which doesn't like eating blue cheese because it's mouldy?
 
ycbm said:
Definition of hygienic:



Is that the way you meant it? That you think you will suffer less disease and have better health if you wash your jods every time you wear them?

If so, can I ask if you are part of the young generation which doesn't like eating blue cheese because it's mouldy?
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No lol, that is a bit extreme. to clarify; I do not think I will suffer less disease by washing my jodhs after I ride in them once. However, I do think washing the clothes I wear to exercise, (be it riding, running or going to the gym) after each session rather than put them on again the next day is just generally cleaner, nicer & fresher and not, as another user aptly put it, minging! :D And yes I do like blue cheese :) , I just don’t want my clothes to ever go the same way ;)
 
Urgh. Only wear mine for a day. Wouldn’t want to wear anything tight fitting for more than that. (And I shower twic a day too! :D )
 
SwishMyTail said:
No lol, that is a bit extreme. to clarify; I do not think I will suffer less disease by washing my jodhs after I ride in them once. However, I do think washing the clothes I wear to exercise, (be it riding, running or going to the gym) after each session rather than put them on again the next day is just generally cleaner, nicer & fresher and not, as another user aptly put it, minging! :D And yes I do like blue cheese :) , I just don’t want my clothes to ever go the same way ;)
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Hehe.
 
Laundress is a bit slack at mine and only washes at the weekends and I can't afford a pair a day!

White competition breeches after every wear - whose dumb idea was white!

A couple of pair a week for the every day jobs.
 
Don’t really know as often have three pairs on the go at any time clinic ones, every day ones, the ones I actually like to wear ones. Mine live out tho and are rugged so there’s not a huge amount of smells involved other than normal horse smell. I don’t tend to get dirty despite doing an outdoors dirty sort of job. I’m very sensitive to odours so hopefully I don’t stink. My mother is even more sensitive and not horsey so would definitely notice if I did!
 
I think it might be time to change mine. Or maybe they'll go a few more weeks. What do you reckon?

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Nah, no need to wash them yet, Aus, it's only mud, just hang them to air, they'll do a bit longer yet :D.

What IS minging, IMHO, is horsey types wearing their stinking of horse pee clothing and filthy muck encrusted boots and half chaps whilst stomping around the supermarket. Very common in these parts, eargggh. Can't they change out of their filthy footwear and top layer beforehand, lazy stinky mingers :mad:.
 
If I didn’t wash my jodhpurs for a year I wouldn’t be that filthy TP so one would have to wonder what sort of conditions their horses are kept in, that they can be so filthy.
 
Oh cripes Aus, thats grim!

I change mine when I feel like it, tho I pop them on every morning, I do change when home from yard and have a pair of scuzzy jeans for afternoon duties (usually, unless I've forgotten to change out of breeches in the morning. I do have quite a number of pairs and 'could' go every day for almost 2 weeks with a clean pair every morning :)

That said, I am a bit like JFTD :D Mine can do 1 day, or 5 or 6 days, depending on grimness.... :D
 
Tiddlypom said:
Nah, no need to wash them yet, Aus, it's only mud, just hang them to air, they'll do a bit longer yet :D.

What IS minging, IMHO, is horsey types wearing their stinking of horse pee clothing and filthy muck encrusted boots and half chaps whilst stomping around the supermarket. Very common in these parts, eargggh. Can't they change out of their filthy footwear and top layer beforehand, lazy stinky mingers :mad:.
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I have been known to pop to the shops on the way back from riding, in my riding togs. But as I'm in the squeaky clean, one time wash group, I feel almost virtuous haha!
 
If their competition ones then definately washed every time as obviously they're such a stupid impractical colour! If normal home ones then I can wear them for a few days, it really depends what Ive done in them. I dont have to muck out stables or anything though and only ride one horse a day so I imagine that makes a big difference as to filth/smell levels.
 
Mine are like jeans... Wash as little as possible.

I don't do the yard in my riding clothes if I can avoid it, so they stay clean. I have a long coat that's practically grown legs of its own for mucky jobs.
 
I ride for around 8 hours a day at work on Sundays so they get washed after this day but otherwise about once a week although I do alternate between my jods and joggers.
 
Every time I put them on I am obsessive about clean clothes cant wear anything more than once. I have a very sensitive sense of smell and it turns my stomach being near some of the people around the shops. Those that think rubber matted stables and shavings stables dont stink also probably think they dont in their horsey clothes. Anyone that owns an animal of any kind smells. There house smells and their car smells it is unavoidable it is just a question of which is more important the love of the animal/child (as kids and babies stink too) as opposed to putting up with the smell
 
This time of year I don't muck out Mon-Fri so a pair lasts me all week usually. But they are worn for about 1.5 hours each day (journey to yard plus a quick hack) and that's it. So if you add that up it's not much more than a day's wear.
At the weekend I live in them though and they get much more dirty so one pair will last 1-2 wears. Currently only got 2 pairs that fit so try to rotate. I have asked Santa for more though! Lol.
 
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