I’m still wearing clothes with holes in them. It’s not fair, if someone buys brand new ripped jeans that’s “fashion,” but if I do it I’m a “slob.”
holes are only fashionable if you paids 100s or 1000s for them. not if you created them yourself
The problem with real ripped jeans, at least with all of mine, is that they usually come apart at the knees and the hole tends to expand downward every time you put them on and your big toe snags into the hole, which makes them impractical and bad looking in the long run, compared to “designed” holes that may also be reinforced so you don’t accidentally make them larger when putting the pants on.
My husband won’t stop wearing band tees with holes in them. He’s a tech executive. I keep telling him showing up on zoom like that isn’t doing him any favors. Man doesn’t care. Can’t help but respect his convictions.
If working in a professional career while wearing a band tshirt is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.
I am a chief engineer in a national governement agency where I live. I am pretty specialized with 20 years experience.
Every day in a hoodie is a win.
But there is something in the fact that if you show up in a shirt, suit/ suit trousers and a sweather you show respect for the people you are meeting. Meeting someone and they did not even care enough about the meeting to wear something “decent”
I keep telling him showing up on zoom like that isn’t doing him any favors
As a programmer, I’d trust a tech exec with a scruffy beard and/or wearing dilapidated band shirts over some guy with nice clothes and an impeccable shave any day of the week. You’re right that it probably doesn’t help him with other execs or finance guys though
Depends on the Bands really…
Gotta learn the art of tastefully slobbish. The secret is
Spoiler
Money
Also, be hot
Be rich.
Your fucked up clothes go much further if you see extra stitching and fabric. The way it drapes.
Cheap plastic clothes look like shit new or fucked up.
No the secret is not caring enough to
We all need to adopt this attitude to clothes
No no no. My entire outfit cost me $2.50. How will I get such good prices if you all hold onto your clothing?!?
And the problem with this is?
It makes the fast fashion people very sad
Well fuck, where do you think all that dust and lint in the house comes from? Shit doesn’t just magically waltz in all by itself. Takes effort, you know. You’re welcome.
There’s another aspect of this. Y’all are assuming cycling out your wardrobe regularly is “normal” and men are “abnormal” because they don’t. But the reason women cycle out their wardrobe regularly is not because of some universal law that men ignore, it’s because women go through weight fluctuations that render their old clothes unwearable. You’ll hear a woman talk about losing 30 pounds and having to buy new clothes because of that… the fact that women’s fashion includes a lot of form-fitting items (whereas men’s fashion is often looser or more forgiving) certainly contributes to this as well.
I have some items I’ve had for over 20 years I could still wear, because I haven’t had any significant changes in figure in that time… because I’m a guy.
I’m a man. I went from 220 pounds on the vodka diet to quitting booze for a while. I lost 50 pounds.
The dope Japanese jeans I bought forever ago fit!
It’s more cultural I’d argue. You can design clothes so that it’s adjustable.
Yes, as a woman that does not like shopping, I still have to buy clothes more often than my boyfriend. Even with a relatively stable weight (+/- 3 kilos over the years) clothes stretch out and loose form, which makes the fit bad. The shirts that survive are the shirts with a more boyish loose cut, the form-fitting stuff looks bad after a while.
That said, I do put them in the home/nightwear category until significant holes appear or they don’t feel comfy anymore.
I don’t think women just naturally oscillate between +/- 30 lbs?
I think the more prominent difference is fashion, and the cultural approach to clothing.
Women are expected to “keep up” with the latest trend, and are influenced to dress like the celebrities and influencers they see. When my wife and I go back and look at pictures of ourselvelves, my wife can guess the year by the waistline of the jeans she’s wearing. Meanwhile I’m always there in the same jeans, with the same styles of t-shirts, buttoned-shirts, flannels, or thermal shirts depending on the formality and temperature of the occasion.
I don’t know if that’s a women thing. I think people with that precision are the minority regardless of gender.
I definitely own a shirt that is “good enough to fall off a roof in” and half a t shirt in the wood shop I cut up for wiping on varnish.
The good men’s clothes you find at thrift stores are there because the owner passed away and their next of kin donated them.
Yes, this. That’s why the clothing in op shops are frequently classic, dated styles. Sometimes you get more modern things (maybe a young adult moved out and the parents cleared their old room) but anytime I walk into an open shop, it has ‘estate sale’ vibes.
Another thing i notice is that all of the clothes in my local OP shops are pretty dated, but the women’s section is always ten times larger (or more!) The same is true for places that sell modern, returned goods, too: Women’s clothing gets returned/exchanged at far higher rates than men’s.
If good mens clothing was that hard to find in thrift stores, we would never have gotten the lyrics:
I wear your grandad’s clothes,
I look incredible.
From what I’ve been seeing in memes recently, I wonder if this is just another shitty thing only seen at Goodwill, the worst thrift store chain ever.
See those lyrics are proof of the lack of selection in men’s clothes.
90% of the donated clothes are something you’d see old people wear. My theory is that this is from families clearing out closets after someone dies
Pretty much. Not that fashionistas aren’t on the lookout for vintage fashion.
Exactly, these just happen to be the clothes that he hadn’t yet worn into oblivion
My clothes are cheap, and my nicest shirts are half-plastic.
As someone who’s always hot (and as someone concerned about micro-plastics), the widespread use of polyester in clothes is something I loathe. If I’m lucky, I’ll find 100% cotton in my price range. Still looking for some quality linen, I hear that’s the best for hot days. Would love to try it someday, if I can ever find it.
I don’t shop for clothes online - it’s nearly impossible to ensure sizing is accurate, and the place I live isn’t a good location to have boxes sitting outside all day.
Shopping isn’t really convenient for me where/how I live, so I just do aggressively mediocre sewing repairs. That often don’t even last because polyester (and I didn’t use backing). Just using binder clips on the waistband of pajama shorts I got as gifts years ago.
I have never seen a linen shirt in my life 🫤 I would have to buy it from Amazon or a specialty online store probably
Linen starts at like banana Republic type stores. That price point.
Ahh yeah, the Jerry Seinfeld strategy! Wear your underwear until they’re so thin that they barely retain the properties of underwear, then open a window and let them waft out on the breeze like a dandelion.
I use my scrubs this way. And my jeans. Nothing else really lasts that long and I kinda blame the additional wear and tear from my boobs. I buy thick socks and mend them when they get a hole I guess.
I’ve just accepted wearing my (thick) socks with a hole on the heel… why tf have I never considered mending them‽ I feel a bit (very much) embarrassed about that, and I appreciate the thought. Also excited to realize I can reclaim like 4 pairs of my socks. So thanks for making me feel a little dumb, friend!
I ain’t darning socks. I’mma just wear mismatched socks without holes before they hit the rag bin. And while I will use my own washed wornout underwear for rags, I ain’t no way in hell ever going to use yours.
Signed, Old Man in the forest.
I…uh…any time? lol.
My sister was on the rag that I sent to space. Shit was bloody everywhere
I sew my clothes back together when they start to fall apart. Until they are so threadbare that there’s not enough structure to hold a hole together. Then they become rags.
This is true. I wear my socks until they are more hole than sock and I currently have a couple of shirts in the “home clothes” level that I got about 15-18 years ago.
Fuck fast fashion. Be a man. Save the planet.
I approve this message and hope you have a delightful cake day. ~
Shit, TIL I’m a man.
Ah well, now to pick which hole-ridden shirt will be my pajamas tonight.
Holey shirt.
