To those of you unfortunate enough to still be working in the office, how often are you changing your work shirts?
For the past 2-3 years, I have been changing my work shirt daily.
I have just come to the realisation that there is just no reason for me to do this, especially since I'm sitting at a desk not getting smelly.
Is there some unspoken rule that we shouldn't be wearing the same shirt to work?
Thanks for the input everyone.
I’ll continue to change shirts daily.
I thought I was some kind of genius when I came up with this idea to save time washing/ironing.
I’m calling BS on that. I reckon you are intending to start changing daily but won’t follow through 😜
Haha. You’ll find out if you see thread titled ‘How do I let me coworker know that he stinks?’
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Mate, wear a sweater to save on ironing.
Or just wear shirts that don't look terrible when unironed.
any that you can recommend?
I've tried some from uniqlo and they still looked a bit crinkly after getting washed.
@Sleeqb7: I've been doing that a bit and just wearing normal t-shirts if not meeting anyone important.
Put your "dirty" shirt on a hanger. Rinse under shower or garden hose. Hang overnight to dry. Will smell fresher and be wrinkle free 👍
at home (2-3 days) no movement no sweat. it goes without saying that everyone should use deodorant, and you should shower daily, if that is done and you work from home, there isn't really a reason to change daily. if you are at home and your shirt fookin smells than change it, every person is different, they way i go right now is every 3 days, and my shirt would still smell like laundry liquid even on day 3, yet i still change it.
office (daily)
Keep in mind that different people sweat differently. While some may be okay changing less than daily (assuming this is people whose shirts are all identical anyway?), don't trust your own opinion, as people have said you get used to your own odour. If you're doing this, confirm if you smell with someone you trust to be honest, who doesn't live with you (as they will also get used to your odour).
"Deodorant" smells worse than natural sweat. There's so many times I wished I could tell people to go have a shower and wash it off, and stop stinking the place out.
Sweat is fine, it's the BO from people not washing themselves/their clothes as often as they should that's the problem.
You mean you don't love the smell of a man-child's Lynx Africa?
B.O.
Every 2 days unless it gets dirty - same for pants. Why waste more resources on laundry? I'm lucky I don't get bad BO like some.
man these comments are lies, we all know ozbargainers shower once a week to save water costs
It depends. Sometimes I get one day out of it. Sometimes I get 2 or 3. My wife has an above average sense of smell and is a reliable arbiter of the level of smellitude so I'm comfortable that my practices are not leading to me being perceived as a 'stinky person'.
I've recently become interested in the environmental cost of washing clothes (as well as the time cost) so I'm attempting to reduce the amount of times my clothes are washed.
shirt, pants, cardigan, everything, daily!
top, bottom, front, back, inside, outside, daily.
Daily you filthy animal.
Trigger warning:
Due to genetic and dietary differences, there are some groups of people who definitely need it daily
even twice daily for them
Daily. Wash and iron is $15 for 5 shirts if you cbf.
Daily on shirts, as even in a cool environment my pits do their thing lmao.
But depends, if its not particularly hot, and I'm doing physical work on a saturday I will usually not change (unless I'm going to be seeing people) until I shower.
Pants is several days, but maybe I'm too lax on that sometimes.
Shirt every day.
Pants every week
Jumper every week.
……. this explains the stink in my office. Anyone who works with me and ticked anything other than daily, consider this a 1st warning.
Disturbing that this is a thread… "Daily" of course.
How is this even a question? You should change your shirt each and every day. There's no excuse not to.
Even in winter, you smell.
It’s easy to have a clean one daily and wash all on Saturday.
Weekly for pants is not enough either. No wonder you people smell like ball sweat.
Dude. You are not saving anything by doing this. Change your shirts, underwear and socks every day. You will save yourself skin problems and social stinking.
God, it's too easy for me to make a mess of my shirt during the day ,then again I work in a supermarket where it's easy to get potato dirt, meat blood, or even sauce on yourself. Plus, most of my co-workers are woman, so fresh shirt it is a day (plus I feel gross if I don't wash/change shirts every day).
Also, imagine coming into the office 2 days in a row with the same shirt, the social implications would be disastrous!
wfh since lockdown. been wearing the same 5 t-shirts. wife says she is bored of me now :(
It comes down to the individual
Some people just stink more than others… you need to talk to those close to you
Are you one of the chosen few or of a particular race that doesn't stink…
I wear undershirt, and wear that once. The allows me to wear the work shirt 2-3 times before washing it as well.
I use stick deodorant which helps not have smelly armpits.
Wear an undershirt so you don't need to clean/iron your work shirt daily.
I don't seen a issue with working in the office honestly..
1 shirt for monday/Wednesday, and another for Tuesday/ Thursday. I air my shirts outside/undercover in between + febreeze.
Casual friday.
to be honest, I change my shirt weekly or monthly.
There are some dirty people here!
Just because you can’t smell your own odour, doesn’t mean others can’t?
Working from home; yes; I do change my whole outfit daily, as the office can get a bit hot running laptop and coffee all day.
Each week is 7 pairs of underwear; and 1 shirt (team meetings on Fridays).
Holy dooley! Do your workmates a favour and wear a new shirt everyday. Go to Kmart this arvo and get a cheap one.
not changing a shirt daily is filthy (except working from home then 20+ days is acceptable)
nothing worse than a colleague with rancid BO, yet HR can't tell them as the snowflake may get offended
as if not changing daily after loading up so many tm lewin and charles tyrwhitt pre pandamic
Since I changed to the rexona "clinical protection" 72h as long as it isn't really hot I can get a couple of wears. Usually after letting it air for a few days anyway. Before that (on those nivea roll ons (48h) it was hard to get more than 1 wear.
here is another thing to try…
at any given time of the day, go and floss your teeth, after doing so smell the floss. whatever you smell there is what other people smell when you open your mouth and speak.
People will not tell you that you stink due to respect or not to offend you but they will certainly speak behind you to their colleagues or friends.
I know few of them to stink and smell first thing in the morning even though you look perfect.
So please wear a clean shirts and wash them in your own laundry machine using good quality detergent and iron them out.
I accumulate my shirt separately and wash them in one batch to avoid any colour bleeding from other day to day clothes as separate batch and iron them out over the weekend when watching TV.