I would love to see a picture of Sonia’s Homecoming dress!
My oldest piece of clothing that I still wear is a black mini skirt with a white pattern – from any distance whatsoever it looks abstract, but if you get up close, it’s white writing that says “la plage et le soleil” (the beach and the sun, I think) over and over. I got it in 1986, and I still wear it, although these days, I mostly wear it over a bathing suit if I am in fact at the beach.
Also dating from the 80s, I have my concert t-shirt from the Cure’s Head on the Door tour, it is now tissue-paper thin and could not possibly survive one more trip through the laundry so it is more like a collector’s item.
I seem to have a lot of clothing items that are keepsakes, including two sweaters that belonged to people who died and I really like having them even though I wouldn’t wear them. (One is too ratty and the other is too fugly - okay, sometimes I wear the fugly one around the house if I am cold.) This never struck me as that odd until I just now wrote it out to post on the internet.
I have a 1934 Chicago Century of Progress tie bar, and some ties that are about that age. Next oldest thing I have is a tan Harris Tweed 3pc suit probably made in the late '30s.
A U.S. Navy G-8 jacket that was a gift from an F-4 pilot at NAS (now MCAS) Miramar that I got around 1973. It wears squadron patches (VF-1, VF-2, VA-196) and the ship’s patch (CVAN-65) that a family friend, Ordnance Officer on USS Enterprise (now CVN-65), gave to me a couple of years later.
An old blue, cowl necked sweater that my old boyfriend’s mother made me…he’s dead now and every time I wear that sweater I think of good times. …even though there were bad times…I remember him when I wear it. Because he, and his wife, have a duplicate. 'Cause I know she wears his.
I have a T-shirt from The Who’s 1989 reunion tour, the first rock concert I ever went to. The back of the shirt lists all their albums with all the songs on them.
I don’t wear it since I don’t think it will survive going through the wash much more. I am, however, will to wear the baseball cap I bought at the same concert.
I actually have a 1989 Who shirt that I think could be from the same tour. It was hung up in my old apartment, but now it’s in storage because this place is a little smaller. Lucky you got to go see them. I was only 3 at the time.
It was one of many outfits I wore as the drummer of many 60’s bands.
Incidentally, I am looking for a Navy peacoat to replace one I lost sometime during the last century.
I know I can buy one all over the place, but the one like the one I lost is kinda “special” in that the “cut” of it was tapered in at the underarms instead of just hanging straight, if y’all know what I mean?
Think Robert Redford in the film Three Days of The Condor, and that will give you an idea of what it looks like.
The material used was called “Melton”, I believe. Very sturdy stuff.
Made in the USA cotton bandanas. A red and blue (pretty warn). Do they make them anymore in the US? The Chinese ones don’t seem to ‘soften up’ as well.
I have a t-shirt from one of the radio stations I worked at that dates back to 1975.
Not sure if it counts as an article of clothing, but I have a baseball glove that I used in the mid-1960s. Not only do I still use it, I had it relaced.
The oldest thing I actually wear is a pair of boots that are coming up on 30 years old.
I still have an ultra-wide silk necktie, green with a peacock on it. Very florid. It was a Christmas gift to me about forty years ago. Last time I wore it was a couple of years ago. When I tell a younger person, “I have neckties older than you,” it’s not a joke…although that tie might be.
I’m wearing it today. A beaded, black crepe 1940s day dress that my Great Aunt gave me more than twenty years ago. I can truthfully say that this dress has been in my family for generations.
I’m a pack rat–so I still ave a lot of clothing from high school (1964-69). LIke Sonia, I have a prom dress. Mine is a deep green velvet. I’ve modified it over the years and wear it once in a while. I also have (gasp!) my gym suit (a horrible one-piece blue shirt/shorts combination with a zipper up the front); I actually wear it for painting. I have a brown mini skirt that I’d never dare wear any more–it fits but just doesn’t look like it did when I was 16.
