keeping clothes so you can "someday fit into them again": classic or masochism

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ugh

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Classischism.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:29 (twenty-two years ago)

the only way i'll fit into my pants with the 29" waist again would be either via disease or amphetamine addiction

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

haha "29" waist"...jim are you trying to make me feel WORSE

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be happy if I could, uh, like, get a 40".

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

But I'm the same size I always was!

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i told myself i was never going to go up a pants size again but i really thought it would never be an issue.

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

let this be a lesson to you kids: if someone offers you two jobs, one a freelance writer, the other a longshoreman, take the latter job.

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha i used to do this all the time, i only stopped because i left most of my clothes behind when i returned to nz. when i eventually get my stuff sent here im sure it will be really difficult to give up on some items :-(
its called living in hope ( or possibly denial is more appropriate )

― donna (donna), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

my 29" is now a 34" if that helps

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:38 (twenty-two years ago)

it does not :(

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean, i know i'm probably like half a foot taller than you but it still makes me feel like a fatass

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I know that I'll never be small, and that in my best shape, which would be close to my ideal weight, I was probably a 36" or even 38". I'm just a broad guy. But still, Christ, looking for clothes and having to say, "... yeah, they don't have my size," I could do without that ever happening again.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

All my stories would go in the opposite direction (for now) - the shirts and jackets I can't wear without looking like an idiot.

I've gained almost ten pounds since I quit taking 240mg of pseudoephedrine every day (about a month ago). I don't really need it for my sinuses anymore, but if it was that effective at weight control with no noticeable side-effects, fuckit I'll pop speed like candy.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 1 September 2003 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

could i like, get a 40?

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 1 September 2003 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

my closet is like
the elephants graveyard, all
ancient sloughed-off slacks

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 1 September 2003 06:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I have clothes that I bought as intemediary garments & I cant even get into them now! :-( My fave 28" waist jeans are long gone, never to return! Dud, dud, dud!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I REFUSE to get rid of perfectly good jeans just because my waist has hormonally induced delusions of grandeur. I wouldn't care at all about putting on a bit of extra weight if it wasn't for my *sob* bootiful clothes... < /denial>

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

*sobs*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

But it can happen! I keep my clothes not just in the hope of fitting into them again, but also as documents of how I was at the time (oh God this sounds sad as a fully formed thought, maybe I'll get a big enough collection to give to the V &A at the time of my death. 'A life Through Costume' or some such bollocks).

Anyway ...

I discovered last autumn I had lost some weight and sudenly I could fit into clothes from when I was 18. Okay, some of them were tighter than they had been years ago, but they still fit and it was like having a shopping spree for free. Now i have put some weight back on again and only half of them fit, but I live in hope. I refsuse to believe this was a freak occurance. (And anyway the Victoria and Albert museum of 2090 needs that Ned's Atomic Dustbin t-shirt and hippy skirt with bells on from 1993.)

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I totally live in hope of the bonus 'new' wardrobe, yeah. Matt owns TWO pairs of trousers in the WORLD. (I guess that is lucky really or we'd have to buy another few wardrobes...)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt owns TWO pairs of trousers in the WORLD

But seven on Mars?

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I got lucky in that I used to like my pants a LOT roomier so pants that I thought were too small turned out to be just right a few years later even though I really don't think I've lost any weight.

But it's masochism if the idea of keeping them bothers you at all.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd feel a lot more comfortable with the idea if he DID have a secret stash of trousers on another planet... both pairs are IDENTICAL as well.

(This is obviously just me being a complete gurl about it.)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

this ranks up there with looking at old pictures of yourself in dudliness

― jonas lefrel (jonas lefrel), Monday, 1 September 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it different when you have clothes that you know damn well will never fit again (or that never even fit you at any time), but you just keep them because you think they're neat? I have some of those.

― Poppy (poppy), Monday, 1 September 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I still had my Bowie concert T-shirt even though it was worn-through and dryer-shrunk, until I lost it pre-move. So yeah, that's different :)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a tshirt from when I was 4 that I grew out of and kept on my favorite stuffed animal (though it's way too big on him). Sentimental value--my supercool grandpa got it for me. I don't think I could ever fit into that again. I don't know where the tshirt/stuffed animal are anymore, but they're around.

However, I kept a pair of cutoffs from high school (jeans I'd probably bought in 1990 or something)...they were waaay too tight but they were boxed away in my parents' basement for years. After college I gradually lost a good bit of weight, and now they're loose on me, and now I have these reallly soft, worn-in cutoffs. That's only classic because they were in a basement for years rather than in my closet mocking me or something though.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 1 September 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Waist is err.. not a problem.

But I do have a couple of pairs of trousers that shrunk lengthways in the wash and which I can no longer wear without attracting hilarious 'did your budgie die?' comments.

I guess I'm waiting for the day when someone saws my feet off just above the ankle.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 1 September 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

actually an interesting side effect of getting thinner/fatter is that your trousers get longer/shorter. Cos the fabric has to go further round there's less to hang down.

Personally I live in hope that I will oneday fit all the clothes I like. I do periodically throw things away, but that's if I no longer like them.

― isadora (isadora), Monday, 1 September 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if 'not having thrown away yet' is the same as 'keeping', but there are still a couple of pairs of jeans lying around that I haven't junked yet. I put on some weight when I gave up smoking, and my smallest jeans don't fit any more, sadly. I'm half reluctant to give up on the idea of their fitting again sometime, but I don't think the odds are good. Next clear-out, I'll get rid of them.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i've been sorta the same weight since 1998, though my weight seems to naturally fluctuate about 5kg throughout the year. my wardrobe is more of a collection than a bunch of clothes, so it doesn't bother me if they don't all fit me: theres 40 crimplene frocks in there to choose from. the ones that don't fit me are usually too big for me, not too small.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i wear the same sort of clothes i did when i was 15 or so... some i have owned that long, too and they still seem to fit

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I am convinced that one day, again I will fit into those clothes! Including a Prada dress that cost £370 & I only wore once. Although that was the time in my life when i was the slimmest I have ever been. *sigh* I also have clothes that I will never ever no way fit into again, but I dont want to throw them out or give them away.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually ... I've just thought. Some people like being masochists ;-)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

But sometimes saving clothes turns out being handy! Twice in my life I've lost a great deal of weight and was able to wear most of my old clothes again.... but of course I gained the weight back both those two times.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

So what is the answer? Refuse to buy clothes when you are at your thinnest? But then that would take the fun of looking super-good on shopping sprees away...

Not a problem for me and my fast metabolism though, my 28" jeans are a bit tight but 30"-32" are both just fine. When I was nine I owned a t-shirt which was the baggiest thing ever at the time... now it is my tight skinny one.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no, there is no point to skinnyness if you cannot buy tiny clothes!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

haven't done this so i still wonder if i could fit in those two super-slim trousers i bght a couple of years ago. i was a few pounds (5 pounds?)lighter. i felt like a feather. i feel like a brick now even though i only ate a mushroom salad. :-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

(hi nath!!!)

i do this all the time. my closet, as a result, looks like it is bursting, even though i wear the same outfit days at a time (i was originally doing this as a 'ha ha these fellows i work with will never notice i'm wearing the SAME THING EVERY DAY' joke, because i take what i can get as far as entertainment these days, but then it turned into a 'oh man this is the only outfit i think i look good in, hm' thing which is really no good at all when you think about it)

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Maura - I am exactly the same at the moment!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

me too. it really is not good.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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