Donated men’s clothing tends to be dead man’s clothes
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.
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Literally what everyone should be doing now for the environment. Clothes waste is a huge problem. The fact that people throw away stuff that can still be sold at thrift stores is appalling. Understandable if your body shape has changed or something, but “getting bored” of clothes is indefensible. This extends to people “getting bored” of phones and cars too, which is terrible.
Also: I’m in this picture and my wife hates me for it. I have something from 25 years ago thats still wearable.
OP’s post has also missed the category of “sleep clothes”.
If your body shape has changed, donate your old clothes! My wife lost a bunch of weight because medical reasons, and she recently went through her entire wardrobe; I dropped five 30-gallon bags of perfectly serviceable clothes off at a nonprofit thrift shop.
That’s what I did. I hope they don’t end up in a landfill in Africa :(
That’s part of the fun?
30y/o.
I have bought a grand total of 3 brand new pieces of clothing in my whole life(not including underwear/socks). Every single other piece was either given to me for xmas/birthday/random gifts or bought from thrift stores. Anything I can’t wear anymore has either been donated back to thrift or cut into rags myself.
I’ve also directly worked in a thirft store, where anything unsellable get tossed into ‘rag out’ where it’s donated to a company that turns it into cheap bags of shop rags: so even stuff that’s falling apart is still worth donating.
In England they tell us not to donate anything that we wouldn’t consider worthy of gifting to someone. They have to use volunteer time to soft/sort (and I guess clean) all items. If it’s not something anyone will buy then best to take it directly to clothes recycling drop offs rather than charity shops.
(and I guess clean)
May be a difference between regions, but thrift doesn’t clean clothes around me. You’re expected to donate clean clothes; But if it’s visually in such rough shape that it needs to be washed first, it’s ‘rag out’, otherwise it goes on the sales floor. Laundry is a huge expense for a nonprofit; instead, they expect you to wash it yourself before wearing it.
I’m not aware of any seprate clothes recycling facilities around me, and can’t find one with a quick search. Just the typical thrifts.
My friends and I have been doing clothing swaps with the local femme community and honestly its been a huge game changer for closet refreshing! We had like 260 people come through last time and anything left after the swap is done is donated to local youth/addiction/women’s centres :)
I’ve gotten some of my favourite outfits from the swap!! And it’s completely free!
That’s such a great idea!
Thanks! Feel free to have your own clothing swaps, the more, the better!
All my homies love sustainability :)
Well, I had 260 people come through me just last night at our emergency church service at midnight that definitely wasn’t a booty call on my congregation
I have a sweater that my grandma got me when I was 7. It’s purple with a handful of printed comic panels featuring Harry, a snow dog. It goes “Harry is a snow dog. Harry is a good dog.” and you can see Harry doing snowboard and stuff.
I am 35 today. It’s worn out a bit but still my dearest, most beloved pajama. It still fits, somehow
Are you a dwarf? XD
It was very baggy back then but today it fits perfectly. Great foresight on her part. Ah, grandmas…
My mind is also reeling at the idea of something fitting you both at ages 7 and 35. I’m roughly 5/3 as tall as I was then and weigh about four times as much. Do you have a pituitary gland?
Do you have a pituitary gland?
It’s in there somewhere, let me take another look
Not quite that extreme but I’m older than they are and still have some clothes from when I was in 7th grade.
It’s more plausible that someone stopped growing around that grade.
Growing taller maybe.
W grandma
Are they really throwing it away if it ends up at a thrift store? I wear my clothes until they’ve disintegrated but if someone wants to keep up with trends is donating them so someone else can buy some gently used nicer stuff at a lower price really that bad/wasteful?
I only throw shit out if there are holes or massive stains. I thought everyone was doing that…
This is rag material or clothes for gardening, painting, etc.
No
I got a pair of 25 year old Chuck Taylors I’ll still wear. I had no idea they came back in style among the Gen z kids until my buddies 12 year old daughter was impressed by them. Lol
I’ve had the soles of a couple pairs of Chucks fixed. One is almost a decade old. I got the leather kind so I can keep repairing them
Those will always be in
I think this is a different case, they never really went completely out of style, and are totally back. It’s just like doc martens.
For the same price, men’s clothing are often far thicker with better quality fabric.
Next time you see a simple men’s t-shirt, look at the equivalent for women. It’s more expensive and thinner.
People always say ‘vote with your wallet’ as if women didn’t already have to deal with the ridiculousness of non-standard sizes, bloating, bra compatibility, and constantly being heavily judged for appearances. Taking all of this into account, better fabric and pockets are a premium that can’t always be afforded or not even offered.
What does my head in is the way so many casual clothes like t-shirts are pointlessly gendered. There’s way more variance between one individual person and the next, versus the difference between men and womens’ bodies as an overall group. There’s plenty of top-heavy guys just as there’s plenty of justice-chested ladies, so why not just market casual clothes based on what shape they are rather than what gender you should conform to in order to wear it, and let the customer decide whether a given design is too girly or manly for them.
Sports shoes are the worst offenders, because stylistically these days 98% of them look absolutely identical but are split by gender anyway for no fucking reason.
This is so spot on I feel like the person that made this meme has been sneaking around my house to spy on me.
So men are better for the environment?
On that front, yes. But then there’s our usual fascination with engines/computers/power tools (you have to pick at least one) so it probably evens out
And don’t forget about all the methane.
We do be venting
“Probably” is doing a lot of work here.
But I drive a small sports car with a reasonably sized engine while she drives the v6 supercharged SUV and I’m using those tools to extend the life of things around the house… Got me on the computing front though lol
I’m currently wearing my painting clothes, working on painting the front hallway. The shorts are around 25 years old, and the shirt is about ten years old. The shorts only have a couple of small paint spots on them, and I admit that I wear them for everyday too. In preparation for painting, I used an old t-shirt as a rag.
Apart from underwear and socks, nearly all of my clothes are at least ten years old. My winter parka is about 35 years old and still looks fine, the color is just a bit faded. I have a belt that’s over 40 years old, I got it in high school. It’s my favorite belt.
I’m old, no one really cares what I wear as long as I’m decent.
I still have a leather Dickies belt I got at Zumiez about 25 years ago. Only in adulthood did i start paying attention to materials, and I’m still a bit surprised that the cheap skater belt i got as a teen was evidently quality leather.
There’s no point to discard something that is still useful.
Clutter.
Clutter is a slur invented by big minimalism to sell more less.
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You have never lived with a hoarder…
Yeah that works until you have a stack of 20 pizza boxes you’re saving “just in case.”
Why is everything either 0% or full tilt with some of you folks?
Throw your trash away, keep the things you like. For fuck’s sake. Judgement exists.
Used pizza boxes attract ants. They are net-negative usefulness.
Or even worse cockroaches!
They’re useful for putting down before an oil change. But that’s like, one every six months or so. Not 20.
Could just use any old cardboard for that. Pop open your recycle bin and just grab whatever box you broke down recently.
Pizza boxes are a bad example, they are compostable
You can make great papier mâché out of cardboard
Better solution for that is not to get new shit when you don’t need any
Yeah, when I turned 18 I just went out and bought everything I’d need for the next 60 years or so. Doesn’t everyone do this?
Thanks for the idea :3
That would honestly be awesome. Me, I just buy stuff as the need arises
You don’t have to keep buying new shit all the time. If you keep your old, still working stuff then you don’t need to buy new stuff
I can’t remember the last time I bought something just to replace and throw out a perfectly good item. That’s not how clutter originates.
Well, how else am I supposed to maintain my anxiety and anger?
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.”
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.
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
Why not sew the holes? When washing the laundry I check all clothes, pile them alone and do quick stiching.
If working in a professional career while wearing a band tshirt is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.
Depends on the Bands really…
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”
holes are only fashionable if you paids 100s or 1000s for them. not if you created them yourself
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
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.
I really don’t know the last time I got rid of an article of clothing besides shredded socks. I like this post.
Socks make excellent dipstick wipers, then once well impregnated with oil, they’re good for lubing bike chains
And once they’re 51% oil, they’re self-lubricating cum socks.
And when they are so full of dried cum that you can’t bend them any more, they make excellent roof shingles
Omg… I remember fixing my bike chain in the freezing winter. Would have been perfect.
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.
Protip, a pin badge works to cover those holes around the tshirt/shirt pockets. You can also learn to live with the holes below the belly button, especially if there’s some crumpling going on down there. This further blurs the line between home and outside clothes and elongates your public enjoyment of holey clothes. For shorts, cotch holes adds some nice airflow, and once all socks are more hole than sock, you just switch to sandals.
And the problem with this is?
It makes the fast fashion people very sad
Shit, TIL I’m a man.
Ah well, now to pick which hole-ridden shirt will be my pajamas tonight.
Holey shirt.
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 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.
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I don’t know if that’s a women thing. I think people with that precision are the minority regardless of gender.
There are people of all genders who do so, but I think society places more pressure on women in particular.
I don’t think women just naturally oscillate between +/- 30 lbs?
Not as a rule but a good chunk do
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!
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.
It’s more cultural I’d argue. You can design clothes so that it’s adjustable.
Don’t lose weight then, so there won’t be need to buy more clothes
I have lots of stuff from my youth as a woman. I still wear my prom dress lol.
