I had to say good-bye to my favorite jeans yesterday…worn through where I couldn’t patch them anymore.
Ah, but I still have my “Work Sucks…I’m Going Biking!” t-shirt from Moab, and my “official” Oscars 2000 sweatshirt. They are just presentable enough to wear when doing laundry.
What items will you wear until the holes get too big?
Jeans here too. What is it about jeans anyway? As soon as they’ve reached the most comfortable stage, they fall apart.
I have a pair of flannel pyjamas that I’ll wear until they are in tatters.
Sigh, my outrageously expensive Moody Blues tie-dye t-shirt has gone to another world almost in shreds.
My underwear. I’ve got pairs that are more than 10 years old. After my wife yells at me for a year to throw a particular pair out, the tatered remains go in the trash.
My “Brains of Steel” T-shirt I bought when I was taking a class at the U of Chicago. It has holes in some rather embarrassing places, and maybe someday I’ll try sewing them up or patching them. In meantime, I just don’t wear it in public without something else underneath.
I’d love to just buy another one, but no luck finding one so far.
My Good Wear Leathers A-2 flight jacket. I dunno about the tatters part, though. I’m 41 and the thing feels like it might outlast me.
I was on academic exchange to the University of Minnesta in . . . :: doing math :: . . . 1989. The U of M sweatshirt I bought that year is the one I’m currently wearing. It doesn’t have any holes in it, but some of the letters have worn off. It now says MI NE OTA.
I have a blue Embry-Riddle sweatshirt I’ve had for nigh on ten years. I had to cut off the wrist elastic because they were so frayed. I’ve worn and washed it so much it’s developed a hardened, outer cottony shell on the exterior–but it sure cuts the wind!
Tripler
That, and I have six RED HORSE t-shirts I will wear until I’m 95.
My husband got me a UCLA sweatshirt in 2002 that I still wear all the time. It’s in pretty sad shape but its my lucky charm during finals. I noticed today some of the appliquéd letters are coming off.
My thundercats T-shirt. I love that shirt, even though it has holes in it all over the place.
Most of my clothes fall into this category - I hate shopping and I’ll wear anything until it falls off. I’ve only got two pairs of jeans right now, since I just discovered a hole in the buttcheek of one of my favorite pairs so I’m going to have to take them out of rotation. Several of my t-shirts have odd holes along the bottom from being used to open beer bottles, so I have to wear layers underneath, but I still wear one (Whey Gourmet! Double the Isolates, Double the Flavour!) out in public all the time.
I also wear clothes that were already in tatters when I got them. I steal my dad’s work jeans when they get too holey and frayed for him to wear to work anymore. I guess I just like looking like a bum.
Add me to the jeans group. I also buried a much beloved denim jacket last year at the tender age of 22 years. RIP.
I have a “San Francisco: Year of the Horse” T-shirt that I got in 1981 (though '78 was the year of the horse in question) that I still wear around the house; it’s tissue-paper-thin and sporting a full array of holes, so some might suggest it’s already in tatters.
My hand knitted mohair jumper that I bought from a charity shop in 1982 - best five bucks I ever spent.
Oh, and to respond to the OP… I have an ancient mint-green leisure suit jacket I picked up from a thrift store when I was a freshman in college. I wore it pretty much constantly all four years, and it has been so patched, mended, stained and otherwise destroyed as to make my wearing of it a crime around the little woman.
I’m determined to be buried in the thing.
almost all my clothes. I have sweatpants and a sweatshirt from grad school - so 1990. I still have a cloth belt from about 30 years ago. I still wear it on weekends. that sucker supported me through high school, university, all my China trips, and I think went on every backpacking trip I have ever taken including all my Tibet trips. It’s a bit frayed
How in the world do you open a beer bottle with a t-shirt?
There’s an ordinary pink T-shirt that I still wash, dry, wear, wash … and the holes get a little bigger on the back, but I still don’t chuck it away. Just had it a long time, and can’t see the need yet to end its days.
I had a denim jacket once that I wore to rags. Looking around for another one still – it’d probably be worn until I got superannuation, and then still be there. I loved my jacket.
If I may . . . American beer bottle caps twist off, but they are nevertheless made of metal, have some crimping around the edges, and can require a good solid twist to get off. You can hurt your hand doing it (especially if you are delicate little feminine flower), and so it helps to protect your hand with a thin-ish piece of cloth. Like, say, the hem of your T-shirt.