Clothes - how old is too old?

The_Arbiter said:
I'm pretty much with most here, wear to it's worn out. Relegate worse stuff to DIY, gardening, etc.

When i was younger i did buy a good few Tees, hoodies, etc to support small companies, but i now i just don't despite wanting to, it's just wasteful. I have enough Tees for a life time now. And yet the Tee i'm wearing right now is at least 15yrs old, and that's with lots of bike riding usage in it too.

I've had plenty of additional wear out of holey underwear too.

Though i do have some decent "outdoor" gear which will probably last forever.

I bought a 5 pack of sport socks from M&S, absolute garbage. Think those will go in the clothing bank when i can be bothered. Fluffy, but just stay in place. These days i just cba to spend money willy nilly, so much rubbish out there, so easier to not bother. Consequently holes in underwear :D
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Re the outdoor gear, I'd love to find a replacement for the Craghoppers shorts/trousers I used to love.

They were frequently had for £20 a pair (in sales) and were more than acceptable quality, back in the day. Until they changed them and made them awful.

So the other brands I tried after, Paramo, and a bunch of others, were stupidly expensive and didn't fit nicely like the Craghoppers did. What I've found is that the outdoor type gear tends to be more more slim fit rather than relaxed fit. I guess they assume only fit/slim people will be buying them :p
 
Malevolence said:
If I see something I like when out and about I'll get it.
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Sounds about right, although every five or six months I’ll buy a couple of shirts, must be button down and must have a breast pocket.
A throwback to when I was driving a Black Cab, I wear reading glasses, and if a trip came up on the on board data terminal screen I’d need to read it, and the cord hanging around my neck that was attached to the glasses would get caught under a shirt collar that wasn’t buttoned down.
The breast pocket was where all the 5, 10, 20, and occasional 50 pound notes were stuffed.
Dollar bills and euro notes too in the good old days.
 
Think how you treat clothes helps. I never ram my washing machine with washing. Have no more than 7 items of clothing (socks don’t count towards the 7) and on high spin. Don’t iron clothes, hang them by the armpits for tops and waistbands for trousers/shorts.

Have seen friends washing about 18 items of clothing (adult) in a wash and clothes are all screwed up.
 
New clothes when old ones have holes/stains that are excessive. Old clothes then become work clothes.

Clothes are one of the last things I choose to buy unless it’s technical clothing like a jacket or clothing for the bikes.
 
Some of my favourite clothes are really old. I have a lot of clothes and don't tend to wear a couple of sets and wear them to death, I might wear something and then not wear or again for a few months.
 
FoxEye said:
Re the outdoor gear, I'd love to find a replacement for the Craghoppers shorts/trousers I used to love.

They were frequently had for £20 a pair (in sales) and were more than acceptable quality, back in the day. Until they changed them and made them awful.

So the other brands I tried after, Paramo, and a bunch of others, were stupidly expensive and didn't fit nicely like the Craghoppers did. What I've found is that the outdoor type gear tends to be more more slim fit rather than relaxed fit. I guess they assume only fit/slim people will be buying them :p
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Have you found a close replacement? Most of my trousers are craghoppers, unfortunately their design changed every time I got new ones, they went from stretchy to zero stretch and also tight fit like you say. I’ve never found a decent replacement so I’m still wearing my old ones with holes!
 
Lakeland said:
Have you found a close replacement? Most of my trousers are craghoppers, unfortunately their design changed every time I got new ones, they went from stretchy to zero stretch and also tight fit like you say. I’ve never found a decent replacement so I’m still wearing my old ones with holes!
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Like you say, the modern ones are garbage. They kept making the pockets smaller and smaller until you couldn't even get your hand or your phone inside, they kept narrowing the leg, probably all cost-cutting measures. They also made the belt thinner and cheaper and other unwanted quality erosions.

I guess you can't blame them when the other brands were charging 3x as much per pair. But I'd rather they upped their price a little, instead of ruining the product.

And no, I've yet to find a replacement. Some of the other outdoor brands only go up to size 36 waist, heh. No good for a fat arse like me. And they all seem to be ultra slim fit as well. I guess they're designed for active outdoorsy people, hence the slim fit.
 
Ill add a few pieces a year. Nothing gets thrown out though just slowly moved over to farm workwear and then eventually rags when it literally wont hang on my body anymore.

Ive got some 20 year old tshirts at least, probably some 15 year old pants lying around somewhere...
 
I think I bought a new pack of boxers a few years ago.

I think the time before that was buying t-shirts about 15 years ago.
 
I do a policy of only buying clothes if I got rid of something - bin (badly stained, full of holes) - charity shop (doesn’t fit or don’t like it)
 
The other day, I wore a t-shirt from Sainsbury’s TU and it was dated 2008.

If have any TU clothes, the date is easy to find on the label. It will say either SS (spring/summer) or AW (autumn/winter) then a two digit number which is the year. Today, it will say SS21.
 
Acquire a responsibility (or focus on one you have but don't attend to) and this kind of irrelevant nonsense makes itself obviously so.

Also, don't wear clothes to work or social occasions that are obviously worn out.
 
To the people wearing 15-20 year old t shirts - regardless of how good quality they were when they were new, unless you wear them like once a year then they're knackered - throw them away.
 
yeah usage is prob more important than age...I've got decent clothes I'd wear for going out etc then the ones I'd wear for work/going to the shops etc then the clothes I'd only wear at home...so the decent stuff lasts for ages!

have some ancient boxers that the waistband elastic has perished, only wear at home but need to be combined with trackies/joggers that don't have the same problem :p
 
It also depends on how many clothes you have. Have about 50-60 tops, plus an additional 14 jumpers for winter and 10 strappy tops for summer.

I know people who literally have 5 t-shirts
 
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