Wearing the same pants two days in a row...

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You think your coworkers will notice and think you're a slut or a drunk, but when do you ever really notice what they're wearing?

― andy --, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

welcome to my life

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

if i find jeans that i really like i'll buy more than one pair, so it probably looks like i wear the same ones repeatedly. oh well.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

haha "two days in a row"

― james van der beek (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

i wear my jeans until they're barely maintaining the properties of jeans

― james van der beek (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Jeans are exempt.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

b-but i dont own any other kind of pants?!

― james van der beek (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Um, I do actually notice. I've been known to ask one of my colleagues if she was wearing the same pair of (admittedly very distinctive) pants two days in a row. She was. Fortunately she was amused by the whole thing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

rude.

― james van der beek (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

It took me quite a few posts to figure out you meant trousers. I was disgusted before that.

― She's In Parties (kate), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

i wear my cords 2-3 days in a row.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

washing trousers ruins them

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Is it different if you alternate? Like, the same pair of cords M W F and jeans T Th. It's no better but possibly keeps the Laurels off balance.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I know it's rude, but I was kind of zoned out and it was more a matter of checking my own memory, until I realized that a normal person would probably be offended. But by then it was too late. In any case, she's another very direct person w/o much filter between brain and mouth, so I think she understood.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes, I just iron my jeans rather than washing them. There's no need to wash 'em too often, if you're wearing underwear, how sweaty can yr legs get in winter?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

not only do I wear them two days in a row, I'll wear them until there is an unacceptable amount of baby puke on them. The ones I'm wearing now have an acceptable amount.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

(XP) If you're wearing underwear, indeed.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Tracer is right with the alternation theory.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

That's the thing about these 'going commando' people, I always think they must be kinda stinky.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

i ain't changed my pants in MONTHS.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I spilled coffee on my crotch yesterday, and I am very sad, because the pants had just come out of the laundry, and I generally get about a month's worth of wear from pants before washing them again. The worst part (aside from hot coffee on the penis!) is that the pants are sort of coffee coloured (I guess a khaki jean?), but not exactly the same as the coffee I was trying (and failing) to drink. So I spent the rest of the afternoon with a giant slightly darker than the rest of the pantalons SPLOTCH on my CROTCH.
I wish I had someone in my life who could have found out of my crotch tasted coffee-like in a pleasant way.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

ian otm. unless there's some sorta hideous stain, why change pants?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

I often do this; but all my work trousers are similar enough that you have to look very very closely to notice which pair is which anyway. My more stupid cow-orkers probably think I only have one pair of trousers, in fact.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Because they get too bagged out to put yr ass in the best light...besides, the dead skin cells that one sheds eventually sort of clog up the weave and make the fabric feel creepily smooth and plasticky. Don't get me wrong, I only wash jeans about once a month. But there are disadvantages.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

bagged out? wtf does that even mean?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

stretchy butt?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I used to work with someone who used to DELIBERATELY dress up in the same clothes as the night before, without bothering to shave, so people would think he'd been having sex the night before.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I don't always think my coworkers will notice I'm here.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

My buddy's father was a rockabilly-greaser dude in in the 50's and he told us they NEVER washed their jeans, they could stand up in the corner by themselves.

― andy --, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Stency, baggy! The fabric stretches on the bias across curved parts of the body and areas that were closely fitted become droopy. Is this just a girl thing? I have jeans that only really fit when they come out of the drier...three weeks later, they're prone to sort of slide down from the waist and I have to go around hiking things up.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

after a while, jeans just get too loose feeling.

but don't get me wrong, i too only wash jeans about once a month.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I alternate two pairs of pants through the week and then jeans on Friday.

Today I wore the same pair for the second day in a row because I pulled a sickie on Monday and it's not helping my horrible attitude about everything. It's psychologically uncomfortable knowing that there is possibly someone like Laurel in my building who has made some mental note of my pants and is now thinking about what a lazy asshole I am. Which is not far removed from the truth, but I am already spending all day thinking about what a lazy asshole I am, it's completely unnecessary to double up.

Unfair to start this thread on the one day I've done this in probably over a year.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

how to freshen pants:

open drier door
set drier to 20 minutes (10 hot, 10 cool)
throw in pants (check pockets!)
add 1-2 bounce sheets
close door
turn drier on
wait
added bonus - dewrinkle!

i dont know how anyone would notice if guys were wearing different pants to work. they only wear black, tan and brown, no? you'd expect them to have a few pairs of each.

its harder for girls, i guess. more distinctive outfits. i wouldnt wear the same thing to work twice. i feel bad wearing the same t-shirt at home two days in a row. i always wear skirts to work and theyre not a pain to wash at all. that said, sitting in my cubical right now, thinking about who ive seen around the office so far today, i cant remember what anyone was wearing.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I think you're making this all up, Laurel.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

It's true, at the end of a week my jeans have gained like two sizes.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Tom, stop. The pants that I remembered on my colleague were a very loud plaid, NOT at all the sort of normal office wear that most boys are prone to.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

but bounce sheets have strychnine and strontium-90 in them i thought

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

DRESS FOR THE JOB YOU WANT NOT FOR THE JOB YOU HAVE, PEOPLE!!
- love boring alpha corporate guy

(does that mean i get to come to work in a astronaut suit?)

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

but bounce sheets have strychnine and strontium-90 in them i thought
-- Tracer Hand (tracerhan...) (webmail), Today 12:05 PM. (tracerhand) (later)

i didnt say eat them

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
A Mets uniform would cramp my anonymity.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

"i feel bad wearing the same t-shirt at home two days in a row..."

What?? I have a favorite tattered black pocket tee that I'll wear 'til it smells like a calvary saddle.

Incidentally, I've run into Tom Waits in Sonoma County a few times and he ALWAYS wears black jeans, black tee, motorcycle jacket and boots, all grubby looking.

― andy --, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

the only jeans i ever have to hitch up are the ones that are already too baggy on the waist, no matter how worn they are.

do you guys like set out your shit to wear the night before? does it take you a half-hour to decide what to wear each day? just askin'.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

my much-loved and sadly defunct sergio valente stretch jeans could only go about four wearings without bagging a bit in the rear and getting too loose in the waist.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm. Maybe the problem with jeans getting baggy over wearings is a consequence of having hips an' shit.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

i mentally work out what im going to wear the night before but its more about making sure ive got something clean to wear and therefore avoiding a 6am clothing panic. and it only takes maybe a minute or two at night, whereas if i was trying to work out what to wear at 6am id probably stare blankly into my closet for a good half hour.

x-post to hst.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'd probably be more concerned about what I wore if I had a job where shit like that mattered.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Jeans stretching by 1/2 size then shrinking again when washed is a well known phenomena. I have one pair that is only comfy when they're dirty, and the other have the falling down problem.

I have been wearing the same pants for a whole week, with a break for the weekend. This is because they are my special field work pants and I keep thinking they might be called on. But I would never wear the same skirt or blouse in a row.

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

I hate it when jeans and other washable pants come out of the dryer. They are so tight to put on and then I wonder if I have gained weight. Or, if you do the air dry thing, they are all stiff and uncomfortable. I prefer when pants feel loose. I do like clean clothes though; it's a conundrum.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

(To answer the titular question: I think I only do this with nondesccript black work pants. But, the best dressed person at my work wears the same pair of wool grey pin-striped slacks nearly every day. He always wears a different patterned (often shiny) shirt or sweater and often cuff links and nice boots though--which must drawn the eye away from the offensive repeaters. He claims it's because he has an unusual waist-length measurement that makes it difficult to buy pants. He volunteered the information, by the way; I had never noticed. He asked me if had noticed and I said no--perhaps he thought I was just being polite.)

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I would wear a pair of jeans for a few days in a row I guess, though I tend to change every day these days cos I've got more jeans. In leaner times though I guess I'd have stretched things further.

It is weird tho, I do often worry about people thinking I wear the same clothes every day, even though I don't. Nice to see others have the same mentalism.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

I really avoid washing jeans because I live in a dorm and have to pay $1.25 for every load of wash. So that usually works out to three or four times before I spill something on them or run out of socks and need to do laundry anyway.

Right now I'm on a week long trip and I'm wearing the same jeans for probably day five...I don't even care if anyone's noticed, should I?

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

I have 2 pairs of jeans I got recently which say "do not wash for 6 months". I am not really sure if I'll go the distance.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

At work I rotete through a series of trousers, but no one would know as They mostly look identical (a few are identical due to a bargain Muji Sale). I then have another set for when I feel set one has to go to the dry cleaners (set two are machine wash only). No one would know or care if I wore the same trousers two days in a row.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't washed these jeans or this hair in months!!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

these black jeans are handy

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

You're not supposed to, you live in glasgow.

xpost

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

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