I've been doing my own laundry since I was 10. I count my socks before I throw them in the washer. I dilute the bleach before I add it to the wash? I don't use Clorox on colored laundry. I read the wash instructions. I turn the pants legs inside out. The pants took on a weathered worn appearance in just 2 weeks of my wife doing the laundry, but up until then they put up with laying on the ground, kneeling in dirt, sitting on concrete and getting hugged by ice cream toting, chocolate-smeared, sticky-handed juveniles I coach for baseball. Without a scratch.