My wife knows better than to try to buy clothes for me. It’s not like my tastes are at all complicated, it’s just that I still need to be the one to pick things out.
We typically go shopping together, and I’ll suggest a particular color/style if I see something he might like. Usually he picks out his own stuff and asks my opinion on which one I like better or think fits better. If I know for sure that he needs socks or underwear I’ll just buy those. Sometimes I have to call and ask if he wants the 34/36 waistband or 36/38 waistband for his boxer-briefs, but there’s not that much difference otherwise. However, if I’m a thrift store and see something that really catches my eye, I’ll just go ahead and get it. If it doesn’t fit or he doesn’t like it, it goes back.
I would never try to buy his shoes though. Even after almost 12 years together I can’t remember what size he wears.
I don’t like to shop. She hates to shop. Every few months I have to coerce her to go on a big shopping trip (“you only have one pair of pants without holes”). Usually it’s the two of us, but sometimes she’ll go with friends. She’ll help me pick out stuff when we’re out together, but she’ll never buy me anything without me.
My husband buys almost all of his own clothes. We had a long chat about this issue before we got married. It is one area where he likes to retain his independence/express his individuality, so that’s why I don’t buy regular clothes for him. The only stuff I get him is the occasional “team shirt” for his favorite basketball team.
Every now and then, we’ll hit up the thrift shop on dollar day. Then I’ll help him find stuff on the racks. He will often ask my opinion on whether a color suits him, or how a shirt fits across the shoulders, but it’s ultimately his decision what to buy. However, when we are dressing for an important occasion, he’ll ask me for, and usually accepts, my suggestions on suit/shirt/tie combinations.
My sweetie is hard to shop for AND hard to size, as am I. Well, I’m a lot easier to buy for and he frequently will buy me shirts he’ll know I’ll like <and he’s right> but something for him is really difficult. He does, however, want me to shop WITH him for his clothes, and that is cool.
My husband hates shopping for anything so I buy everything. He also has a very busy work schedule so any free time is for doing fun things. I can only think of a few times when he had to go to Nordstroms to buy suits. I also bought the furniture, found the house and put an offer on it before he had even seen it. But he did see it on the weekend when he was off though. It’s pretty easy to shop for him. I have good taste and he generally likes what I get. For shoes I will buy a couple of pairs and see what he likes. If he has a favorite shirt I go out and buy more of the same. We are both pretty easy going about what works and I love to shop. I also buy my kids clothes and she has no preference yet. On the other side my husband doesn’t buy clothes for me or our daughter unless it was Christmas pjs.
Carhartts and jeans don’t require a fashion maven. I can do that just fine by myself.
He’ll buy his own shoes and suits and that’s about it. I buy the rest. When he does shop, he overspends because he’s too lazy/eager to wait for a sale. He recently got two new suits and two dress shirts and spent over $1200. :eek:
My husband cares way more about clothes than I do, so he mostly gets his own stuff. I’ll occasionally get him work t-shirts or jeans, but he gets his own work clothes. I do try to encourage him to try colors other than black and gray, and it’s working - he bought some shirts in blues and greens and even reds, so yay for that!
If he had his way, he’d buy all my clothes too. Like I said, I really don’t much care about clothes.
My husband wears a uniform to work, so he doesn’t need much as far as new clothes. More often than not, it’s stuff like underwear and socks that he needs. And since I do most of the shopping, he’ll just say, “Hun, when you go to Wal-Mart next, pick up some socks for me.” So I do. As far as clothes like jeans and shirts and such, sometimes he’s with me, but usually it’s me thinking ahead. I’ll notice he needs a dress shirt for a wedding, I’ll look through the closet, see that he doesn’t have anything that fits, then I’ll buy him a shirt to go with my dress. (We’ll at least doesn’t clash. I don’t want to be too matchy-matchy.)
In general, he doesn’t wear through clothes that often that we need to buy much for clothing. Just chef coats, chef pants, socks and undies. All of those I am totally capable of buying for him.
My husband wears the adult version of Garanamals. Polos and Dockers, every day. In the winter, long-sleeved twill shirts and Dockers, every day. And he regularly ruins them at work, and then we go get more. He probably has two dozen solid-colored polos in his closet right now, and he will get a half a dozen covered with grease that won’t come off, and rip a couple of his Dockers, and I’ll keep an eye out for when they’re on sale, and the cycle will continue. It may as well be a uniform.
As far as shopping for clothes is concerned, I could be your husband. My wife says that when we walk into a store, especially a clothing store, I just go somnolent.
My husband would not buy clothes if I didn’t tell him we were going shopping for them. I have proof of this - when I met him he had tshirts, shorts, and boots. Except for the boots, his clothes were all grey. Not originally, they were just so old and faded that’s the colour they became. Ugh.
Plus, now he has to wear suits to work.
Typically, we take a day, I go with him. He picks out his own stuff, though I will give my input. This is everything. I might pick up up a pack of socks or undershirts or underpants without him there, but not anything else, because he won’t wear it. He’s incredibly picky, he just can’t be bothered to shop for clothes because he’s not interested.
Weird.
My husband doesn’t want to spend money on his clothes, and his main objective is comfort. I make sure his shoes, leather jackets etc are shined and go in for repairs. I buy him new clothes occasionally and he gets to say which clothes he wants to keep and which ones I return to the shop. It is a thankless job and I do less and less of it.
I WON’T let her buy my clothes, because she has neither my taste nor does she ever get the sizes right.
While I do buy his clothes I sure as hell don’t dress him or decide what he will wear on any give day or occassion.
CLothing for for work is practically uniform, chinos and an oxford shirt. Colors are in blue, black, grey or beige. Shirts are solid or striped. SHopping for him is sort of like stopping at the grocery store to stock up on basics, wait for a sale and no list required.
He would shop for himself but he would be putty in sales person hands, probably leave there all dandied up and $500 poorer.
This - only from the other side.
Wife: my husband and I share the shopping for him.
We generally go together. He has gone/is capable of shopping for himself. Sometimes if I’m out and I see a shirt or something I think he’ll love, I’ll get it, but that’s rare. It’s the same for me. If I need to go shopping for clothes for myself, he usually goes with me.
We both hate shopping, so we figure if we have to do it we might as well spend the time together.
The only articles of clothing I have purchased in the eleven years I’ve been married have been a few pairs of shoes. My wife really cares about clothes and other aspects of personal appearance, while I am somewhat oblivious (she would remove the somewhat). She knows that if I were left unattended, I would probably dress myself in a way that would not make her happy. She seems to enjoy buying clothes for me, and my only occasional objection is that I have too many things to choose from. Her response to that complaint is to help me choose. 
I’ve got a question to y’all who let your SO do your shopping for clothes: How on earth did you manage to look half way decent when you were single? Or did you go directly from “Mom buys all my clothes” to “wifey buys all my clothes”?