Bernard O'Shea: 'I've got the same unwashed jeans on for four weeks now. So what?'

Bernard O'Shea has been wearing the same pair of unwashed Levi 502’s consistently for four weeks, two days and seven hours... and counting. Hey, it's not disgusting - he has science to back him up

Bernard O'Shea and his unwashed jeans.

“How can you still be wearing those disgusting dirty jeans ?” uttered my wife as she pointed to them with a Barbie umbrella we had just confiscated from our seven-year-old. I was wearing the same pair of unwashed Levi 502’s consistently for four weeks, two days and seven hours.

What she didn’t know was that I was armed with several formative years of wearing football jerseys that were rarely washed and smelled of lorry container dressing rooms, sweat and Deep Heat. More importantly, I had scientific research on my side to prove that my “disgusting dirty jeans” were as clean as anything else we were wearing.