This is so spot on I feel like the person that made this meme has been sneaking around my house to spy on me.
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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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
So men are better for the environment?
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
And don't forget about all the methane.
We do be venting
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.
Kilts and those long soccer socks is one way to work around that
But those aren't pink or purple, and i'm no Scot.
laughs in auld alliance
I'm afraid I can't do anything about the socks color though
I'll wear your clothes too, for a long time, if you let me
Or, Dog's New Sheets.
Yes, my das grabs his old shirts and uses them to cover the dog at its bed.
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.
Then finally to fine microplastic mist.
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