The life cycle of Dad's clothes
15 hours ago by The Picard Maneuver to c/microblogmemes
I don't know what it is but no matter how nice of socks I get or how well I take care of them, they will get a hole in the big toe area within a year at the very latest. I've never had socks last long enough to have the elastic wear out
Also yes my nails are kept short so it's not that
I’m here with you. Do you feel like you have exceptionally hard nails? I sure do.
I almost never wear out the toes. For me its balls of the feet holes or occasionally a heel hole. I'll also say that my socks last a long time.
I bought a 12 new pairs of Adidas socks for a 2 week trip I took. Came home with 2 fewer socks because I put holes in the toes. It’s absolutely insane and it happens with all brands.
Really high quality brands like SmartWool last longer, but the big toe is still what fails first.
I bought some heavy duty socks, and so far the only holes they’ve gotten are from the dog. I still wear them because they’re on the top side.
You're probably walking wrong (like, in a requiring orthotics way)
Shoes too tight? Or maybe on one foot.
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.
Nah, maybe how it once was and now I only wear Darn Tough socks. Lifetime warranty, basically a sock club. Most definitely buy once cry once and it doesn't matter whether you pay full price or get them on sale. They always warranty the value of the sock on what they sell for on their website. It's so awesome. I haven't needed to buy socks since 2017 when I filled my sock drawer.
DT is the way.
Nah, maybe how it once was and now I only wear Darn Tough socks.
You're wearing a $20-$30 pair of socks to mow the lawn or change the oil in a car? I'd be worried about messing those nice socks up.
I have about 25 pair, unsure exactly. I've paid an average $14 per pair and it's 100% worth it.
And yes, I wear a fresh pair for work or daily engagement and then they get set aside and used when I'm working around the house for a day or two.
The wool blend makes them never stink, it's pretty amazing. I bought the majority in 2016 or so from a now debunked website called MassDrop. They'd buy stuff in bulk for discounts then resell them at great prices. I just checked my old emails and paid two pair for $28 and three for $41. Later I bought a few more from GoBros.com for at least 25% off. Checking my emails I got most of them from MassDrop though.
Here's the thing, DT doesn't care how much you paid or how you got them, they credit the full value upon return and then you shop direct from their website for value credited. When I first started I'd used the rertuns like sock club, I'd send my thick winter ones back in the spring and get thinner summer ones. I'd do the reverse in the fall. My first few years I was swapping out socks twice a year. Now I have enough I wait until the ankle is loose on a few pairs then return in bulk to replace, every 3 years or so.
You don't need any excuse or reason to do a return that they need. You don't need a receipt.
I’d be worried about messing those nice socks up
That's the best part, because they're warrantied you can abuse tf out of them.
I avoid step two by just never wearing matching socks.
I'll just get like 6 same pairs, if the old are out because of holes, so no problems with missing pairs.
"Garage clothes" is a peculiar way to say "make loads of cool sock puppets"
Socks missing a mate can also go here being pair up with another sock with a missing mate.
I do not match my socks, I'll wear two completely different socks at the same time. If one loses a mate, then that's fine
I know it’s irrational, but I feel “off balance” if I wear mismatched socks 😭
Reading this thread has taught me that when I have a girl over and she tells me that I am not a normal male, I really had no idea how much I didn’t do as a male that other men do all the time….
I wear all of my clothes until they show clear signs of being worn out and then determine whether that it should be donated or trashed. And i have one shirt then I’ll probably never throw away and it’s one that I’ve had since the 80s, my goonies shirt.
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
Encourage, or just enable?
I've never heard of Shein telling anyone to do it. I just know their prices are so goddamn cheap you COULD do it if you wanted to. Some people probably do. But I suspect a lot of people just want cheap clothes and will wear them until they have holes in them (which even for Shein clothes has to be multiple wearings usually I'm pretty sure)
In the German documentary I've watched a few years ago it definitely looked like their business model was selling their customers insane amounts of cheaply produced clothing by encouraging them to change their outfit super-often, hence the terms fast fashion. They even pay influencers to promote this wasteful trend as "Shein hauls"
Having gotten some Temu clothing as gifts, there are two main materials I've seen. One feels very much like a rough cotton, like the material harem pants are made of, and is mainly in the shorts/pants I've gotten. It's a cotton poly blend, and one is the material of the shirts. They're super stretchy and elastic, like a spandex almost. The pants and shorts end up with holes quickly as they rip near (but not on) the seams, and the shirts seem to actually last even if snagged because of how stretchy they are.
I wouldn't advise buying from them or anything, just saying that they're not exactly single use.
encourage their customers to wear their cheap synthetic clothing a single time and then throw it in the garbage
do you have a single fact to back that up?
I just wanted to make the Deus ex reference. But I would like to see evidence
The fast fashion part?
The encouraging a single use part? Also in that article, but it revolves around influencers driving constant change. But also the clothes being really cheap and falling apart.
And anecdotally, there's a pile of clothes in my wife's closet that still haven't gotten their first wear.
Yeah, I was a exaggerating a bit, but the waste of clothing and environmental damage is real. I saw it in a documentary. And Shein's website is (or used to be) full of greenwashing.
Here's a video essay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6R_WTDdx7I
Chew you havisfaction a singleicious satisfact to snack that up?
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.
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?
This is the cycle even for me and I'm independently wealthy. Wealthy as a horse, if you will.
(I have many leatherbound books.)
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
This is quite accurate.
The life cycle is pretty similar for pants too.
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.
They get married.
From bags to witches
And there's the pajamas season as well.
I think PJs goes before garage clothes, not after
They can also be turned into crop tops
I'm taking a different path where the holes make the clothes into fun pieces with fun patches on them (or they're turned into patches if I didn't really like the article of clothing to begin with).
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.
That's exactly how I manage my clothes.
Pretty much. Except the earth part, that's littering (even your sheep wool bamboo flax shirt has some sorts of plastic).
And ultimately goes to the landfill, since no recycling facility is going to attempt to extract the plastic from your flax shirt.
So it does return to the earth. The only difference from “littering” then is just the location.
Best quality linen is spun from flax fibers and has no plastic.
Source: Relations farm where they grow flax for linen and plums for Slivovitz
My dad still uses tshirts from the 80’s as rags
my best shirts and hoodies have the diablo 2 etherial tag on them
Is “you women” bothering anybody else or is it just me?
The context of a dad talking to his daughter in a private text message. Its likely used as a phrase of endearment referring to his wife and daughter. He's not speaking to about public women he doesn't know.
That context still bugs me. I have lesbian parents, I’d still never say to them ‘you women’.
Do you ever smile and call anyone you love and "asshole" or a "bitch" sarcastically when you are joking and happy with them when there is full respect and zero malice? Or perhaps more generally, if someone were to look into your private text messages with your parents could anything you say be taken out of context and be displayed as disrespectful?
No, I don’t even know how you could do that, and even if I did what the fuck does that have to do with pointlessly gendering people?
Since you edited yours I guess I’ll edit mine: first these text messages aren’t private that’s why we’re talking about them, second no I don’t disrespect people on purpose even privately, third what do my text messages have to do with pointlessly gendering people?
Sounds like they hurt you. Do you need help.
You think my parents hurt me because I won’t pointlessly refer to them by their gender? What the fuck?
It did at first, until I kept reading and figured out the context.
I read the whole thing too, it still bothered me.
I took it as "this is the thought process that you might not have thought of" as in neurons firing differently. It's not disrespectful to say one group thinks differently.
I have ADHD and my mind gets put on a track I can't control, so sometimes I'll hear someone say something and stop listening to the conversation and just find out where my brain chooses to let me off. Sometimes I laugh at the stop, while my friends kept up normal conversation. They're like "what?" And I have to just laugh and wave it off because it's not worth explaining my train of thought. Or why I'm laughing at their uncles golf cart crash that lead to him being hospitalized because of bees.
People think differently and sometimes you explain it, sometimes you don't. Honestly in this context, I think it puts it in a light mood like a joking mansplaining, when they're really explaining their neurodivergence. Like I often do with my son "listen here you little shit..." When he asks obvious insulting questions about when I was young and lived in caves, or what I remember about sailing with Columbus.
Clearly the intent isn't misogyny.
I still feel like there’s a way to explain to somebody a thought process they might not have thought of without needlessly making it a gender thing. But again maybe it’s just me.
What gets me with these posts is the unnecessary gendering of universal human behaviors THAT EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF GENDER DOES. Do we think moms are feeding babies in their nice work blouses? Women are doing crafts in beautiful sundresses? When I work on my car I promise I'm not doing it in my nice clothes. Life isn't Instagram. Some people are just determined to see half the human species as not fully fleshed out people who do the exact same things they do.
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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.
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