Yeah yeah, back in my day, Gregorian Chants were chart-toppers…
I beat you all! I have a US Navy SeaBee sun helmet, purchased in 1963 (but never issued)-I wear it in the garden to keep my brain cool. I also have a Dutch army tank top from around 1955, which my wife wears.
That’s the joy of military surplus-you think the government has reached its stupidity limit-then you find out they still are warehousing uniforms from 50 years ago! In fact, you can still buy K-rations that were canned in the Vietnam War era. I also have Korean war vintage army mittens (warm as toast)! Anybody know why the government mysteriously buys all this stuff, never uses it, then sells it for pennies?
Hmm… makes me wonder what happened to my purple shirt… it disappeared awhile ago probably somewhere in a rag bin somewhere, if not still at my Mom’s house that is. Clothing disappeared into our laundry room often and was never seen again.
But the oldest thing I have is well… a pair of blue jeans. They are around 7 years old and are holey as hell, as well as patched. I usually wear them around the house on cleaning/laundry days and sometimes I wander in them outside too.
I also have a number of shirts from Body Shop which are falling apart, I wear them on cleaning days also, or just as pj tops as they are too small to wear as a nightgown themselves.
The majority of my clothes are old actually… I only go clothes shopping when I absolutely need something, and sometimes when I don’t but that’s only the odd shirt or pants when I have spare money. Most of my stuff I wore constantly in the 90’s and some of it has now been relegated to house clothing.
I wear a hat that my mum bought in about 1966. I didn’t think that second-hand counted.
WOW, I thought I was bad. My girlfriend hates the shorts that I’ve got on at this very moment. “You need to get rid of those”.
They’re 3 years old!
Hmph
A leather bomber jacket which my then-girlfriend (who is my now-wife) bought me for Christmas in, oh, approximately 1990. It was just this year demoted from primary fall outerwear to working-on-the-car fall outerwear by the arrival of its replacement, a brand-spankin’ new leather bomber jacket which my now-wife (formerly my then-girlfriend) bought me for our tenth anniversary. My anniversary gift to her, incidentally, was a diamond ring with a stone that is actually visible to the naked eye, a feature that her engagement ring, bought when we were both stone broke, lacks.
I asked her whether, since there seemed to be a pattern developing, she planned to buy me another jacket like this one for our 20th anniversary. She said “Depends. Do I get another diamond ring?” I told her I thought we could probably come to some arrangement.
I still wear my nine inch nails “Sin” t shirt(the black on black one) circa 1989.
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t-shirt circa 1979. Coolest t-shirt I ever owned. It stopped fitting me about about twenty years ago which is why it still survives.
early eighties paisley-patterned hawaiian-style shirt. Initially I thought this gift was a candidate for Goodwill, but instead I cook in it every Sunday.
Mr. AdoptaMom graduated high school in 1971 … I wear his letter jacket with jeans occasionally in the winter time. My kids think it’s cool.
It’s looking pretty ratty, but AdoptaKids will have to pry it off of my dead body before they get it.
I still have my T-shirt from when I was on the “High-Q” high school quiz show back in 1990. It’s getting too holey to wear much, though.
Older than that, however, is my beloved T-shirt from The Who’s 1989 reunion tour, listing all their songs on the back. I’m never going to throw it out, but it’s getting so thin I’m afraid to wash or wear it again.
I still wear a lot of clothes that I bought in college (I graduated in 1988). I even wear them out of the house! In fact, the shirt I have on right now dates from that era - its a long sleeve shirt of the type we currently call “Henley” but back then were called something different. I have a number of what are now called golf shirts and were then called polo shirts dating from the same era (Eddie Baurer polo shirts hold up very well).
I wear dress pants from back then too (jeans and khakis wear out, but wool dress pants last forever - I just don’t wear them often). They still fit!
Would you believe…I have a Battlestar Galactica Colonial Warrior jacket, very nicely made, from the late 70s. And it still fits!
As for something I wear on a more regular basis: a pair of pajama shorts, purple, from Mervyn’s. The elastic around the waist is darn near gone and shredded, but they are soooo soft and comfortable.
I guess it’s not that old compared to what some of you people have, but I’m only (almost) 25, so I don’t have much that still fits that’s very old.
I have a t-shirt that I got during my 8th grade class dance that has my school name and “Class of 1996” on it. I still wear it to work out in from time to time (it’s a bit grungy for normal wear, and I’m usually not into wearing HS clothes anymore, but it’s ok for working out). So, it’s a little over 10 years old…I got it in May of 1992.
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Well, I too have quite a bit of vintage clothing. Some of it I got at thrift stores and don’t know how old it is, but some of it is from my granddad. I have a three-piece suit that dates back to the 1940’s, as well as many, many ties that range between 30-60 years old. I also have my dad’s letter jacket from high school, which was the late 1950’s. But I haven’t worn it in many years. Oh, and his US Air Force shirt that he wore in Vietnam in 1970. I used it as a jacket in college; you know us crazy liberal-arts students. Mostly, it was worn over tie-dyed T-shirts. 
As far as clothing that is original to me, in 1989 I underwent a self-imposed makeover, from hippie to club kid, and I have three shirts (combinations of black and/or white which button up all the way to the neck) and a pair of boots from that era. Plus one bolo tie and a neck brooch, although one could argue that those aren’t actually clothing.
The oldest thing, though, is probably a T-shirt from a company my mom used to work for, called National Petroleum Systems [or possibly Services] (how’s that for an impenetrably ambiguous name?). It dates back to, probably, 1983 or 1984. It’s mostly polyester, so apart from a couple of paint stains, it’s still pristine; no holes or anything. I wear it all the time; I think it’s actually bulletproof.
I have a 100GRX t-shirt that I bought at the Maryland State Fair in '88. That radio station is long gone but, thanks to my shirt, not forgotten.
I win, I win!
I have some clothes with trims that are from the 1850’s and c.1800.
Yes, I am that odd
Ok guys, whats wrong with you? I’ve got underwear that’s at least 7-8 years old. At least that old because I know I had them when I was in college at that was 7 years ago. I still wear the damn things at least once every two weeks or so.
As for other things I have some t-shirts from the early to mid 90s that I still wear. Oh wait I have something even better I have four t-shirts from a place called “County Seat” that went out of buisness in the early 90s, maybe before then, I got these shirts in high school 12 years ago and I still wear them and they have not faded a bit. Only one has a hole in a seam. I wish I could find more of those shirts.
Ok guys, whats wrong with you? I’ve got underwear that’s at least 7-8 years old. At least that old because I know I had them when I was in college at that was 7 years ago. I still wear the damn things at least once every two weeks or so.
As for other things I have some t-shirts from the early to mid 90s that I still wear. Oh wait I have something even better I have four t-shirts from a place called “County Seat” that went out of buisness in the early 90s, maybe before then, I got these shirts in high school 12 years ago and I still wear them and they have not faded a bit. Only one has a hole in a seam. I wish I could find more of those shirts.
My WRUC T-shirt, dating from about 1974. I don’t wear it often, but occasionally I do put it on.
Tho you said shoes don’t count, my nicest pair of dress shoes used to be my dad’s. They are at least 20 years old. Oxblood calf. Mmmm!
I have a belt he was given in the 1950s.
As far as clothing is concerned, I have (and regularly wear) his brown mohair cardigan. He certainy had that sweater as long as I can remember, and I’m in my 5th decade.