# Oldest garment you own and still wear **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062 "2022-01-19T15:52:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/21 "2022-01-19T21:27:44Z")
Raincoat purchased at a military surplus store while visiting relatives in Texas, I think around Christmas of '99. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/22 "2022-01-19T21:47:06Z")
I have a Minnie Mouse nightshirt I bought as a beach cover-up at Disney World in the mid 1980s. It has been washed and worn so much it is almost sheer. I rotate it through my sleepwear wardrobe–super soft and comforting. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/23 "2022-01-19T22:05:43Z")
I have a crew (rowing) shirt that I won from an opposing team in 1974. I wear it to reunions and when I’m around my old room-mates, but that’s the only reason it’s survived so long. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/24 "2022-01-19T22:17:33Z")
Probably the lined flannel that my grandfather used to wear hunting. It’s one of my go-tos for “the house is too cold; put on something”. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/25 "2022-01-19T22:31:33Z")
Not currently, but when I was 9-13 years old I regularly wore clothing that had belonged to my great grandmother for Halloween [I think I might have a picture of me at like 11 in one of the dresses at my parents house in the big desk, I can look =)] And in my late 20s, until I gained weight, I regularly wore my dad’s issue M43 US Army issue field jacket, complete with name tags and unit patches. I still have it =) I also have a couple other uniforms of his - one was his enlisted uniform from before they sent him to college to get a degree so they could commission him. Otherwise, I have some random tshirts from the 70s and 80s that get occasional wear but not in regular rotation. mrAru has some Ocean Pacific stuff still =) Well, he also can wear his original boot camp issue 1983 dress blues, damn him!!! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/26 "2022-01-19T22:34:54Z")
40 year old t-shirt. I know it’s that old because it has a date on it. Still wear it, but not that often. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/27 "2022-01-19T22:36:38Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I also have a couple other uniforms of his - one was his enlisted uniform from before they sent him to college to get a degree so they could commission him. I have my dad’s Tech Sergeant’s uniform from WWII. He was extremely near-sighted, so he never saw combat. He was in the Middle East – mostly Iran, but also Iraq. All I knew was that he was in the motorpool and once drove Jack Benny when he was over for an entertain-the-troops gig. He brought back a Russian karakul with a large enameled red star with the hammer and sickle (I still have it, too) badge on it. He said he traded it for his hat with a Russian soldier on a train. I didn’t discover until decades later than he was with a joint American-Soviet team during the war. I always wondered if he didn’t mention it because of the Cold War and post-war anti-Russian feelings. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/28 "2022-01-19T22:54:02Z")
My senior year of high school someone had some “Class of 1998” t-shirts printed up and sold them to their fellow classmates. I bought one because at the time it seemed really important to have some memento from my high school. Then when I got to college I stopped wearing it pretty quickly because I found it embarrassing to “still” be wearing something from high school, which is probably why it didn’t get worn out. At some point I rediscovered that shirt as an adult, and now old enough be over any sort of embarrassment, decided it would be a shame for that shirt to go to waste, so I added it back into my t-shirt rotation. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/29 "2022-01-19T23:09:04Z")
Round about 1985 or so, my buddy and I were going to take a trip to New Orleans. Only my car died, so I had to put the money towards getting a new one. He went on without me, but he did bring me back a Neville Brothers tee shirt. I still have it, though it’s a bit tight these days. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/30 "2022-01-19T23:11:47Z")
I have 6 or 7 flannel shirts I wear as overshirts in the winter. Most are solid colors, two in plaid. I’ve had 'em for at least 30 years, and I can’t seem to wear them out. They’re all from the JCPenney Big & Tall catalogs, which hasn’t existed for a while. I also have a batch of belt buckles I’ve had a long time. They’ve outlasted belts I had. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/31 "2022-01-20T02:41:10Z")
I used to be a member of ACT-UP, and I still have my SILENCE = DEATH t-shirt from the early '80s. When were SDMB t-shirts made? I still have mine. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/32 "2022-01-20T03:04:55Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Let’s rule out heirloom-type things - like Grandma’s fur coat; keep it to regular things - bought specifically for you, but I guess a hand-me-down of a regular garment would count. Well I have a ~110-year-old nice woolen coat that I bought at a vintage store 15 years ago, specifically bought for me because I wanted a warm coat. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/33 "2022-01-20T14:01:48Z")
Green corduroy waistcoat, handed down to me from my grandad, I’ve worn it since 1987. Don’t know when grandad got it - the lining is some synthetic, so not what I’d call vintage (but vintage clothing stores would) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/34 "2022-01-20T15:08:58Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The t-shirt I bought at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. It has a map of Alaska on the front that shows the route of the oil pipeline. I bought it when we drove up there in about 2006 or so. I like it because it’s comfy and I’ve never seen anybody else wearing one. I’ll have to get one when I drive up there. I’ve been wanting to drive up there since before I joined SDMB 10 years ago. I really need to do it! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/35 "2022-01-20T15:46:39Z")
I still have the blue blazer I wore when I got married in 1990, and it was already a couple of years old then; it still looks pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/36 "2022-01-20T16:21:25Z")
I’m loving these stories! Close runners-up to my earlier items: A nightgown that I bought in 1994 - I was nursing my newborn son, and had nothing that buttoned up the front, so I went out and bought one. I think I’ve still got a nightshirt that I bought once when travelling on business - I’d forgotten to pack anything to sleep in so I went to a nearby mall and bought something. That would have been 1991 - so it actually predates that Secret Garden t-shirt. And a t-shirt from an internet parenting newsgroup - that would be early 1995. I’ll post the message here on the off chance that a fellow parent will stumble across it: ```auto YKYAPW you're ROTFL about the CTTS on misc.kids OTOH, YMMV ``` ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/37 "2022-01-20T16:55:57Z")
I used to regularly wear some of my dad’s old clothes - especially a neat mohair cardigan. But wearing them was really wearing them out. So now the sweater hangs in my closet. My go-to belt was hs. No idea how old. I had to replace the leather part, but I still have the buckle with his - and my - inits. Wearing it right now. And I have a REALLY nice pair of his oxblood calfskin shoes which are my go-to dress shoes, for weddings and such. Of my own, I get a chuckle when I see pics of seeing my eldest in the hospital when she was born 33 years ago - because I’m wearing a flashy Guess outfit my wife bought me. Blue plaid shorts, and a blue and gold paisley shirt. Still fits, and I wear it to a couple of summer parties each year, not not too many, as it needs dry cleaning. My down-lined leather bomber is probably 30 yrs old and just getting better. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/38 "2022-01-20T17:10:23Z")
I’m currently wearing a belt I bought from Duluth Trading in 1996. I wear it pretty much every day. (Does a belt count as a garment?) ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/39 "2022-01-20T17:37:45Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > My senior year of high school someone had some “Class of 1998” t-shirts printed up… Wait, I thought of a slightly older one. I have a polo shirt that I’m pretty sure I got around my junior year of high school. It’s looking kind of ratty at this point, but I still wear it on the weekend if I’m just going to be wearing it around the house. And I always marvel at the thought that it’s so old I didn’t actually buy it myself; my _mom_ bought it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062/40 "2022-01-20T19:12:42Z")
It’s worth it just to pull over at the Chandalar Shelf and sit on the tundra looking at the scenery. Also, that 12% grade to get over Atigun Pass is entertaining. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-garment-you-own-and-still-wear/958062.md?page=3)