Your oldest article of clothing still in regular use?

[xenon]

A black leather jacket from about 20 years ago. The lining is a bit nackered, the zip doesn't work and it doesn't get much wear between April and October. But I still like it. It has a pleasing thickness and weight to it.

 

[Spymaster]

Probably a 30 year old Barbour Border, with more patches and stitches than a quilt.

"In regular use" is pushing it though because Mrs Spy refuses to be seen with me in it, so it's been relegated to my emergency kit in the boot of the car.

 

[JimW]

I've got one black Diesel shirt that was quite shiny when I bought it but is very faded now but still going strong, fitted and still looks good. The wife likes to see me in it even. That is definitely thirty years old. One of the priciest items I ever bought but got my money's worth by now.

 

[andysays]

I recently wore my wedding suit, 27 years after I first got it. The trousers have definitely shrunk round the waist

I still have and occasionally wear the jacket of a linen suit which I bought for my Dad's wedding nearly 30 years ago.

The trousers unfortunately shrunk round the waist many years ago...

 

[bellaozzydog]

A baseball cap from a job in 2012

Started off black now light grey and smelly

 

[Aladdin]

I have a pair of DMs . The only pair I have kept. I am pretty sure I got them in the late 80s. Pascals. Flowery ones.

Also a woollen waist coat with embroidery from 1995 from Laura Ashley. Still fits.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I recently wore my wedding suit, 27 years after I first got it. The trousers have definitely shrunk round the waist

I wear my birthday suit sometimes, but only in the house. It's looking pretty worn out, TBH.

 

[Lord Camomile]

I dread to think...

A good number of my shirts/t-shirts I've had since uni, so they're coming up to 20 years. Suspect I have a few things from my teens too, though.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Oh! I have a hoody that used to be my dad's and I definitely remember him wearing it when I was a kid. So that could well be from the 80s, or possibly earlier if he had it before I was born.

(We are also rather different shapes, so a bit curious it fit both of us... )

 

[Duncan2]

i have a jumper with a design on it reminiscent of the earliest iteration of Space Invaders.I have not only owned this jumper since the early 1980s it is almost certainly the garment i have worn more than any other in all the intervening years.Perfect for the garden

 

[dilute micro]

I've got a button down Oxford from I think 1999 that I still wear. It has holes that I sort of fixed.

 

[WouldBe]

I wear my birthday suit sometimes, but only in the house. It's looking pretty worn out, TBH.

Has it shrunk round the waist as well?

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Has it shrunk round the waist as well?

Oh, quite the reverse

 

[WouldBe]

Got a leather jacket I bought early 90's that still gets worn.

 

[Epona]

I own the sum total of about 6 t-shirts, 2 pairs of jeans, summer joggers, winter joggers (I don't like wearing joggers but they are useful for when I am grubbing about in the woods looking at grubs), a couple of fleeces and 2 jackets. Half of that was given to me by my mum.
Oh and some undies and a couple of sets of jimjams.
A pair of paint splattered trainers (which are about 15 years old and leak) and a pair of walking boots from Lidl.

Oldest item is either the trainers, or a Red Bull Air Race t-shirt which OH keeps trying to nick despite the fact he has about 200 t-shirts.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Used to have some white trainer socks that I got for Christmas in 1984, but they finally got binned last winter.

Title now goes to a plain 1970s tracky top that I got from a charity shop in 1995. It's quite slim-fitting, and after a few years when it was too tight, I was chuffed to lose enough weight to start wearing it again.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Oldest item is either the trainers, or a Red Bull Air Race t-shirt which OH keeps trying to nick despite the fact he has about 200 t-shirts.

I do admire getting by on so few clothes. When I’m working on ships I get by with 5 sets of shirts/undies/socks, but that’s because I access to a reliable laundry and even then I get anxious.
(Google says red bull air race started 2003. I have yet to try red bull)

 

[Epona]

Actually I don't want what I just posted to be common knowledge so have edited it out and replace it with this:
Getting by on few clothes is not something to admire, it's a bad financial situation.

 

[sealion]

Pair of Armani jeans that i've had for 17 years now. Have never washed them or any of my other jeans with detergents. Just cold wash inside out and don't tumble dry them.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

…

I’m sorry for being flippant. It’s like that boots theory about not having the money to buy good boots and buying cheap ones that don’t last and ending up spending more..see all the 100 year old Barbour jackets up-thread…not my cup of test but they were pricy but last for ever.

 

[Epona]

I’m sorry for being flippant. I feel bad now. Can I send you socks? It’s like that boots theory about not having the money to buy good boots and buying cheap ones that don’t last and ending up spending more..see all the 100 year old Barbour jackets up-thread…not my cup of test but they were pricy but last for ever.

Thank you for the offer, but I'll manage - I do appreciate it and sorry to have brought the thread down a bit - having a difficult time tonight, thank you for being understanding and kind

 

[sealion]

Actually I don't want what I just posted to be common knowledge so have edited it out and replace it with this:
Getting by on few clothes is not something to admire, it's a bad financial situation.

Hope things pick up for you asap!

 

[friendofdorothy]

I have hats I've worn for 40+ years. One of those hats probably dates from the 1930s

 

[friendofdorothy]

buscador has a lot of tatty old t shirts an extensive collection of pre milleum t-shirts.

Also a leather jacket that she was wearing when I met her nearly 30 years ago, that she won in a card game in the 80s. The lining was held together with gaffer tape. I relined it in red satin a few years back.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Thank you for the offer, but I'll manage - I do appreciate it and sorry to have brought the thread down a bit - having a difficult time tonight, thank you for being understanding and kind

Don’t worry. I’ve made some edits. You’re one of the (many) wonderful people that makes me keep coming back to this place. The offer stands.

 

[friendofdorothy]

Think I've got a couple of dresses I bought in the late 1990s but I don't wear them so so often now. No doubt they will come back in fashion or I'll just decide I want to wear them again.

My favourite summer coat was wearing really well, still looked new even though I bought it in 1995ish. Unfortunately I left it's on a bus a few weeks backs and it lost for ever.

 

[muscovyduck]

I've still got tshirts in rotation from when I was 13.

In terms of the actual age of clothes, I tend towards vintage items anyway. Lots of handmedowns from my mom, lots of stuff from charity shops, depop, and wherever, that are Very Old but difficult to put a date on.

 

[Elpenor]

I have heard of depop but struggle to understand the concept of buying clothes I’ve not tried on first.

 

[mojo pixy]

I still wear a few t-shirts that date from 1990 or so, Carcass, Carter USM and Sonic Youth in particular. I still occasionally wear a leather coat I've had for 20-odd years, and the coat itself was made in the 1930s so a good deal older than me. The silk and wool lining is pretty fragile by now but the leather is great, I wax it every so often which is slightly arousing.

Stopping now as tmi.

 

[geminisnake]

My Barbour bought at the same time got rained on and shrunk

Actually my walking boots from the same era and worn a lot still, seemed to have escaped shrinking

My Barbour, over 20 yrs old, hasn't shrunk, I don't see how they can.
I tried on a number of things about a week ago, first time since both hips were replaced and I'm gutted that several of them are now too tight, I think they fitted cos my hip socket wasn't in the right place. Scared to try my vintage versace jeans I have woollen 'scottish widow' type coat that must be about 30 yrs old, it will be coming otu of the wardrobe shortly so grandgirl and I can go down the street as plague doctors I bought grandgirl a cloak for her outfit