Friday Five: Clothing
1. Do you have a yearly, or monthly, clothing budget? Do you stick to it?
No, I'm fortunate to have enough slack that I don't need a strict limit. Or unfortunate, that as with many other things, perhaps I need a budget TO get me to spend ENOUGH. I'll always have clean, un-holed clothes. And have slowly developed a few I actually like, like smart but interesting socks, and fresh, well fitting T-shirts and jeans.
But I have very few clothes I especially like, and it would be nice for me to have SOME.
I have been trying to piece together how to buy better looking clothes, without just buying more expensive clothes that fit equally mediocrely. I think basically I need to have clothes that fit well. And maybe replace them when they're fraying a bit, before they're fraying a lot.
I guess my weight changing hasn't helped.
2. Do you buy trendy clothes, or classic pieces that can be worn for years?
I have no idea HOW to buy fashionable clothes. I could barely RECOGNISE fashionable clothes. But I'm not sure my clothes would be described as "fashionable". Or as "pieces". No, that's not quite fair. As someone else said, I do have a "recognisable aesthetic" as it were.
3. Is there a current fashion trend that you hate?
Whatever I personally notice is usually eclipsed when I see a friend trying to buy women's clothes and discover there's some new fundamental part of clothing which they've decided to spent a few years selling clothing without. "Hey, here's trousers, without the end of the legs." "Hey, want a jumper that doesn't keep you warm?" "We've changed our sizes again. Now sizes below this threshold are all labelled as '2' and sizes above this threshold are all labelled as 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXL'. Good luck."
I often am a little grumpy at something silly, but I can't remember any right now
4. Have you had clothing altered to fit you better?
Apparently this is easy and useful (and cheap by the standards of buying clothes), so that would be very good, but I haven't actually managed it before.
5. Is there a piece of clothing, or accessory, that you covet?
There's not a thing. But I do wish I could look, I don't know, well dressed. Like some people seem to manage, or man people manage in the photos photography friends post. You can also comment at https://jack.dreamwidth.org/1138553.html using OpenID.
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No, I'm fortunate to have enough slack that I don't need a strict limit. Or unfortunate, that as with many other things, perhaps I need a budget TO get me to spend ENOUGH. I'll always have clean, un-holed clothes. And have slowly developed a few I actually like, like smart but interesting socks, and fresh, well fitting T-shirts and jeans.
But I have very few clothes I especially like, and it would be nice for me to have SOME.
I have been trying to piece together how to buy better looking clothes, without just buying more expensive clothes that fit equally mediocrely. I think basically I need to have clothes that fit well. And maybe replace them when they're fraying a bit, before they're fraying a lot.
I guess my weight changing hasn't helped.
2. Do you buy trendy clothes, or classic pieces that can be worn for years?
I have no idea HOW to buy fashionable clothes. I could barely RECOGNISE fashionable clothes. But I'm not sure my clothes would be described as "fashionable". Or as "pieces". No, that's not quite fair. As someone else said, I do have a "recognisable aesthetic" as it were.
3. Is there a current fashion trend that you hate?
Whatever I personally notice is usually eclipsed when I see a friend trying to buy women's clothes and discover there's some new fundamental part of clothing which they've decided to spent a few years selling clothing without. "Hey, here's trousers, without the end of the legs." "Hey, want a jumper that doesn't keep you warm?" "We've changed our sizes again. Now sizes below this threshold are all labelled as '2' and sizes above this threshold are all labelled as 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXL'. Good luck."
I often am a little grumpy at something silly, but I can't remember any right now
4. Have you had clothing altered to fit you better?
Apparently this is easy and useful (and cheap by the standards of buying clothes), so that would be very good, but I haven't actually managed it before.
5. Is there a piece of clothing, or accessory, that you covet?
There's not a thing. But I do wish I could look, I don't know, well dressed. Like some people seem to manage, or man people manage in the photos photography friends post. You can also comment at https://jack.dreamwidth.org/1138553.html using OpenID.
comments so far.