my best shirts and hoodies have the diablo 2 etherial tag on them
My favorite shirt is sitting on the top shelf of my closet because I can’t bring myself to downgrade it to a rag. It has a hole on the armpit that I could fit through😂
I've started retiring sentimental shirts early so they don't wear down like that. They aren't really shirts anymore, but shirt-like objects tied to memories.
They can also be turned into crop tops
This isn't a gender thing, it's a working-class thing. Let's not get divided unnecessarily divided.
Huh? Which part is strictly a working class thing?
There's a large spectrum between "I'll wear it until it falls apart," and, "I've never worn this but I need space for new clothes so it's going to goodwill," and working class people fall all over it.
Women generally tend to be the ones who will more frequently refresh their wardrobe. All you have to do is go to a thrift store to see the difference between genders. The women's clothing section will be massive, and the men's section significantly smaller.
My son loves the goodwill women's section. I swear that kids gonna be a fashion designer or a runway model.. if I can keep his ass outta jail lol 😓
This is the cycle even for me and I'm independently wealthy. Wealthy as a horse, if you will.
(I have many leatherbound books.)
I get what you are saying. But in this context this is kind of like a “dad joke.” Do we think being pedantic about the terminology is really reinforcing some kind of negative gender stereotype here? Or minimizing the working class?
Lemmy cannot stand jokes while we currently live in a world.
I will never cease to be amazed about what people on Lemmy can get offended at. Today it's a lame joke about old clothes.
More like a manual labor thing tbh. Plenty of working class folks who are no less working class but don't need to cycle through clothes
i still have tshirts i bought in my 20s. the collars of a couple of them are starting to detach but theyre still wearable
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in the form of men's clothing.
Meanwhile companies like Shein encourage their customers to wear their cheap synthetic clothing a single time and then throw it in the garbage as a sacrifice to the gods of super-fast-fashion
You forgot the stage after garage clothes, that would be PJs. Then it gets turned into a rag.
I think PJs goes before garage clothes, not after
For me they are interchangeable. Garage clothes and PJs are often the same stage.
"Are those oily stains on your crotch, are you an octopus and happy to see me?"
“No, these oily stains are from the Italian sub I’ve been eating in bed, not the car I was working on earlier.”
"KISS ME YOU FOOL"
Man what the fuck, you live a wild life
I’m a very middle aged dad, I still have t-shirts from high school that I wear on occasion. Granted, they are in the survivor pile now, but it’s a point of pride that I still have them, and still fit into them. Fun to dust off my old concert t’s every now and again.
Some people have to realize that men usually don't waste clothes. If it's ruined in one way, we recycle it in another way.
Do women not do that? Where do they get rags from?
They get married.
I'm single, maybe some of You ladies need a good source of rags?
From rags to bitches
From bags to witches
By stealing my perfectly fine and wearable rough work clothes, claiming they are 'unfit to wear'.
One slightly different path here is socks. If a sock lives long enough for its elastic to wear out it can go to "garage clothes" category. Socks missing a mate can also go here being pair up with another sock with a missing mate. Another path for socks to "garage clothes" is if fashion trends finally evolving so far that wearing those socks will get admonishment from the gf/wife if worn out in public. However, as soon as a sock has a hole in it, it skips the "garage clothes" step and heads straight to the "rags" category.
And for underwear the path is "maybe I'll get laid" then "still no holes so I can be seen in them" and finally "I'm not going out today so I don't care that one of my balls fell out through the hole". And then rags.
This is quite accurate.
The life cycle is pretty similar for pants too.
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