• FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works
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    Protip, a pin badge works to cover those holes around the tshirt/shirt pockets. You can also learn to live with the holes below the belly button, especially if there’s some crumpling going on down there. This further blurs the line between home and outside clothes and elongates your public enjoyment of holey clothes. For shorts, cotch holes adds some nice airflow, and once all socks are more hole than sock, you just switch to sandals.

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    3 hours ago

    This is so spot on I feel like the person that made this meme has been sneaking around my house to spy on me.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I’m currently wearing my painting clothes, working on painting the front hallway. The shorts are around 25 years old, and the shirt is about ten years old. The shorts only have a couple of small paint spots on them, and I admit that I wear them for everyday too. In preparation for painting, I used an old t-shirt as a rag.

    Apart from underwear and socks, nearly all of my clothes are at least ten years old. My winter parka is about 35 years old and still looks fine, the color is just a bit faded. I have a belt that’s over 40 years old, I got it in high school. It’s my favorite belt.

    I’m old, no one really cares what I wear as long as I’m decent.

    • Drewmeister@lemmy.world
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      I still have a leather Dickies belt I got at Zumiez about 25 years ago. Only in adulthood did i start paying attention to materials, and I’m still a bit surprised that the cheap skater belt i got as a teen was evidently quality leather.

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    5 hours ago

    This is true. I wear my socks until they are more hole than sock and I currently have a couple of shirts in the “home clothes” level that I got about 15-18 years ago.

    Fuck fast fashion. Be a man. Save the planet.

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    Only problem we have around here is it gets pretty humid so the older clothes sometimes catch on a weird smell, but if you wear them a couple of times in fresh air it goes away…

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    And the actual reason for this is that it’s impossible to find good clothes as a Murican-shaped man in the first place.
    We have to wear them until they fall apart because we don’t know whether we will ever find new ones that fit.

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    I sew my clothes back together when they start to fall apart. Until they are so threadbare that there’s not enough structure to hold a hole together. Then they become rags.

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      6 hours ago

      On that front, yes. But then there’s our usual fascination with engines/computers/power tools (you have to pick at least one) so it probably evens out

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    Sure, i do wear my clothes for a long time. But i’m still bored by the selection, and i wish skirts & thigh highs were more accepted in society.

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    Ahh yeah, the Jerry Seinfeld strategy! Wear your underwear until they’re so thin that they barely retain the properties of underwear, then open a window and let them waft out on the breeze like a dandelion.

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    9 hours ago

    I’m still wearing clothes with holes in them. It’s not fair, if someone buys brand new ripped jeans that’s “fashion,” but if I do it I’m a “slob.”

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      My husband won’t stop wearing band tees with holes in them. He’s a tech executive. I keep telling him showing up on zoom like that isn’t doing him any favors. Man doesn’t care. Can’t help but respect his convictions.

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        If working in a professional career while wearing a band tshirt is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.

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        I am a chief engineer in a national governement agency where I live. I am pretty specialized with 20 years experience.

        Every day in a hoodie is a win.

        But there is something in the fact that if you show up in a shirt, suit/ suit trousers and a sweather you show respect for the people you are meeting. Meeting someone and they did not even care enough about the meeting to wear something “decent”

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        I keep telling him showing up on zoom like that isn’t doing him any favors

        As a programmer, I’d trust a tech exec with a scruffy beard and/or wearing dilapidated band shirts over some guy with nice clothes and an impeccable shave any day of the week. You’re right that it probably doesn’t help him with other execs or finance guys though

    • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      The problem with real ripped jeans, at least with all of mine, is that they usually come apart at the knees and the hole tends to expand downward every time you put them on and your big toe snags into the hole, which makes them impractical and bad looking in the long run, compared to “designed” holes that may also be reinforced so you don’t accidentally make them larger when putting the pants on.

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      No no no. My entire outfit cost me $2.50. How will I get such good prices if you all hold onto your clothing?!?