Aug 17 2009
Wearing a 30 year old Shirt
Is that so wrong?
I don’t think anyone else can tell. Men’s styles don’t change much.
My wife thinks I should just throw out stuff when it gets old, but if I like a shirt, I will keep it and wear it until the collar frays.
Cuffs can fray and I will just roll up the sleeves, but when the collar threads start to show, I will give it up.
Once I am finished with a shirt, it can’t really go to Goodwill, as you may have guessed. I use them for paint rags. I don’t usually have a lot of old shirts to use as paint rags.
My Mother says she is just like me. She keeps stuff FOREVER! I know it was really (REALLY!) hard for her to downsize from a big house to a little apartment. Frankly, I am surprised she doesn’t still have stuff in a storage rental somewhere. (Maybe she does; I know I would)
I think my oldest shirt is 39 years old. I wore it in college, back in 1970 and ‘71. There is a lot of sentimental attachment to some of my old shirts. I can remember (vaguely) getting extremely drunk in one of my oldest shirts. I’m fairly certain that I made a fool of myself in my oldest shirts; something that I did with fair regularity back in 1970 and ‘71. Those were great years.
Most of my oldest shirts don’t get worn very often. First of all, I have to wear them when my wife isn’t around. Secondly, they won’t last much longer if I have to wash them very often.
