STUDENTS are returning to the squalid Young Ones era of bad hygiene, a survey has found.
A poll of more than 100 students found that male undergraduates admit they only wash their pants once a fortnight and wear socks an average of four days before throwing them in the laundry.
Women aren’t much better – on average they wash their bras just six times a year.
But the survey, commissioned by cleaning experts Dr Beckmann, also found students don’t have much underwear to wash in the first place.
The average male student owns eight pairs of pants, while women own 12 pairs of knickers.
And like the unwashed students portrayed by Rik Mayall and friends in the hit 1980s BBC sitcom The Young Ones, more than half of male students admit to masking less-than-fresh clothes with deodorant and aftershave.
