The only reason I ever gave clothing away was when my fat ass got even fatter and didn't fit anymore.
Oh and when I finally left the consultant lifestyle behind me and gave away all my suits.
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My dad still uses tshirts from the 80’s as rags
Sounds about right. Way to go dad!
That's make sense🤔
This isn't a gender thing, it's a working-class thing. Let's not get divided unnecessarily divided.
Huh? Which part is strictly a working class thing?
There's a large spectrum between "I'll wear it until it falls apart," and, "I've never worn this but I need space for new clothes so it's going to goodwill," and working class people fall all over it.
Women generally tend to be the ones who will more frequently refresh their wardrobe. All you have to do is go to a thrift store to see the difference between genders. The women's clothing section will be massive, and the men's section significantly smaller.
My son loves the goodwill women's section. I swear that kids gonna be a fashion designer or a runway model.. if I can keep his ass outta jail lol 😓
I get what you are saying. But in this context this is kind of like a “dad joke.” Do we think being pedantic about the terminology is really reinforcing some kind of negative gender stereotype here? Or minimizing the working class?
Lemmy cannot stand jokes while we currently live in a world.
I will never cease to be amazed about what people on Lemmy can get offended at. Today it's a lame joke about old clothes.
I'm offended by your amazment of...
Yaaaay, my mom never ever throw a shirt, clothes are so expensive, she couldn't afford a new one every time she does anything that could damage them.
(Tbh, I do the same for the same reasons)
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Meanwhile companies like Shein encourage their customers to wear their cheap synthetic clothing a single time and then throw it in the garbage as a sacrifice to the gods of super-fast-fashion
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One slightly different path here is socks. If a sock lives long enough for its elastic to wear out it can go to "garage clothes" category. Socks missing a mate can also go here being pair up with another sock with a missing mate. Another path for socks to "garage clothes" is if fashion trends finally evolving so far that wearing those socks will get admonishment from the gf/wife if worn out in public. However, as soon as a sock has a hole in it, it skips the "garage clothes" step and heads straight to the "rags" category.
I don't know what it is but no matter how nice of socks I get or how well I take care of them, they will get a hole in the big toe area within a year at the very latest. I've never had socks last long enough to have the elastic wear out
Also yes my nails are kept short so it's not that
Ever heard of Darn Tough socks? Expensive per pair, but they come with a lifetime guarantee.
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And for underwear the path is "maybe I'll get laid" then "still no holes so I can be seen in them" and finally "I'm not going out today so I don't care that one of my balls fell out through the hole". And then rags.
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That's exactly how I manage my clothes.
My favorite shirt is sitting on the top shelf of my closet because I can’t bring myself to downgrade it to a rag. It has a hole on the armpit that I could fit through😂
I have like a hundred shirts I got at shows in college in a vacuum sealed bag in my closet. Because one day - for sure. definitely. I am 100% going to do this. I have not been putting it off for over a decade - I'm going to turn them into throw pillows
I've started retiring sentimental shirts early so they don't wear down like that. They aren't really shirts anymore, but shirt-like objects tied to memories.
They can also be turned into crop tops
I’m a very middle aged dad, I still have t-shirts from high school that I wear on occasion. Granted, they are in the survivor pile now, but it’s a point of pride that I still have them, and still fit into them. Fun to dust off my old concert t’s every now and again.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in the form of men's clothing.
This is quite accurate.
The life cycle is pretty similar for pants too.
Do women not do that? Where do they get rags from?
They get married.
I'm single, maybe some of You ladies need a good source of rags?
By stealing my perfectly fine and wearable rough work clothes, claiming they are 'unfit to wear'.
The final evolution is Turing the old rags into cord for the garden.
You forgot the stage after garage clothes, that would be PJs. Then it gets turned into a rag.
I think PJs goes before garage clothes, not after
For me they are interchangeable. Garage clothes and PJs are often the same stage.
"Are those oily stains on your crotch, are you an octopus and happy to see me?"
“No, these oily stains are from the Italian sub I’ve been eating in bed, not the car I was working on earlier.”
"KISS ME YOU FOOL"
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my best shirts and hoodies have the diablo 2 etherial tag on them
Before that it’s a going-out shirt.
And there's the pajamas season as well.
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