# What Not to Wear wardrobes donated?!?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-to-wear-wardrobes-donated/386413>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 2, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-to-wear-wardrobes-donated/386413 "2007-01-02T14:52:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-to-wear-wardrobes-donated/386413/21 "2007-01-02T20:46:18Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=Autumn Almanac]  
My wife and I always disagree about donating old clothing to charity. She says that anything in bad shape (sweaters that have lost their shape, shirts with stains or small non-obvious holes, etc.) should just be thrown away so the charity doesn’t have to bother with it. I say give them everything and let them decide whether they want to use it; after all, a misshapen sweater or pants with frayed cuffs still might be a lot better than what a homeless person is wearing now.  
[/QUOTE]

There was a story on our local news about this last week. They said the stuff like “misshapen” or “slightly stained” was sent to Africa, but quite a bit had to be thrown away, at a cost of $1million/year. They throw away anything torn, ripped or broken.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-to-wear-wardrobes-donated/386413/22 "2007-01-02T20:59:13Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=Otto]  
Apparently British women have some measure of difficulty in selecting bras of the proper size. Personally I blame the metric system.  
[/QUOTE]  
😉 Seriously, they say that about American women too, that the majority are wearing the wrong size bra and should get measured. I say that doesn’t solve the problem when two bras of the same size fit me totally differently. :smack:

[QUOTE=ShelliBean]  
There was a story on our local news about this last week. They said the stuff like “misshapen” or “slightly stained” was sent to Africa, but quite a bit had to be thrown away, at a cost of $1million/year. They throw away anything torn, ripped or broken.  
[/QUOTE]  
That’s the case at the thrift store here that I mentioned. They get so much stuff that they drive truckloads to the dump. When they are ony going to use a fraction of it, it saves them time if you just dump the chaff yourself. I know we must be very fortunate here; there is real stratification and the folks who replaced their wardrobe every year pass the old one on.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-to-wear-wardrobes-donated/386413/23 "2007-01-02T21:17:51Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=Otto]  
Apparently British women have some measure of difficulty in selecting bras of the proper size. Personally I blame the metric system.  
[/QUOTE]

Perhaps a handy chart converting D-cups into… litres… gills… fluid barrels… 😕

Hrm. I find I’m sadly undereducated on British women’s breast sizing. I should do something about that.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-to-wear-wardrobes-donated/386413.md?page=1)