oldest piece of clothing you still use.

I am on the look out for a coat for my daughter at the moment and while I do think designer clothes can be a a bit of a marketing con at times... that doesn't mean they are not often very good quality and last well. If you are going to spend money spent it on coats and shoes/boots that you will get years out of.

My husband has a coat that he got in 1979 and still wears it occasionally, I also know people who have things like timberland boot and have got years of wear out of them.

BigGombeen

I can't keep clothes more than a few months because I am a guy and am incapable of washing them properly. Any piece of clothing that's gone through the wash more than 4 or 5 times turns to ****.

AlanS181824

Too early for your shîte OP!

nc19

My underwear. 22yrs and still going

orchidsrpretty

Had a pair of jeans I wore for about 10 years until I got the bottom caught in an escalator and they ripped up the side.

My dad still wears his wedding suit after 36 years!

pickarooney

I have three t-shirts I bought in Bangkok in 1999 that cost a dollar each, have been worn and washed several hundred times and still look exactly like they did when I bought them.

theteal

I suspect my newest item of clothing will be considerably older than some people's oldest items.

My oldest stuff I have that's still in regular use would probably be some shorts and t-shirts bought in some expensive shopping centre in Ohio about 10 years ago. I couldn't tell you the brand but they've stood the test of time well - the missus hates them though (probably makes me wear them more!)

P_1

My best belt is from 1999, my favourite jacket is from 2005 and I still have some gig tshirts from the early 2000's

preston johnny

nc19 wrote: »

My underwear. 22yrs and still going

It must be the stubborn understains that are holding them together

Das Kitty

I have a night shirt from 1992. It's made from good cotton.

It was over-sized when I was 12, it is not any longer. :pac:

lazeedaisy

Sitting here in my 2003 special Olympics sweatshirt which is still like new.

I hate to get rid of clothing I have years, but I bought a jacket in arnotts I never fit in in 2004, I think as old goes that's it,

I do have shoes more than 15 years old, forget when I bought them, but defo in the 90's,

I do major clear outs every 5 years, but tend to wear cloths to the death, if I like something it gets worn every day.

Hubby however has concert t shirts and shirts from trips abroad 20 years ago that he will never get rid of, these are sacred and not worn though,

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I still wear a pair of Wrangler Jeans I got in 1976.

ZiabR

I still have jeans and some t-shirts that are years old, some may be as old as 7 years. Nothing wrong with them for general wear.

Hoop66

Leather Jacket from 1988.

Redskins is the brand, I think they're Canadian. From the weight of it, you'd say there's about two cows in it.

P. Breathnach

pickarooney wrote: »

I have three t-shirts I bought in Bangkok in 1999 that cost a dollar each, have been worn and washed several hundred times and still look exactly like they did when I bought them.

So they looked very tatty when you bought them?

I have a number of short-sleeve cotton shirts of similar vintage that I regard as summer wear, and they are still in pretty good nick. I put it down to the brevity of the Irish summer.

Dravokivich

Just recently went 30, wearing a t-shirt I was given when I was around 14/15. No stretching it out of shape or anything either.

Ush1

Had a ski jacket I got when I was 16 and had it for over 10 years before herself made me throw it out. It actually had been through 2 zippers in it's lifetime, still miss it.

Banjo String

'use' not wear?

OK. I have a sock under my bed that gets used regularly. Wouldn't dream of wearing it though.

CantonasCollar

Mt first ever Man Utd shirt from the early 90's. It doesn't' fit anymore but it hangs on my wall.

It was about the time that printing names on the back first came out and I got Cantona on the back of mine. Managed to get it signed by the legend himself many years later, that's why it hangs pride of place in my bedroom.

The wife ain't too keen on it but she knows it would be divorce proceedings if she ever done anything to it.

gugleguy

A brown corderoy jacket bought in 2006.

Wibbs

I've 501's going back to the early 90's. Ditto for a few shirts of a similar vintage. Also a couple of Barbour jackets I got in the mid 80's.

Ciaran_B

I have a cardigan that was once owned by Patrick McGoohan (star of The Prisoner, fact fans) that must be 40 years old. The thing weighs a ton and is scratchy as hell but I love it.

And a Dublin GAA jersey from either 1990 or 1991 that still fits me.

El Guapo!

I've a t-shirt that's about ten years old. It looks like the shroud of Turin at this stage but it's comfy and I can't bear to let it go.

Packrat

I'm wearing a belt that I bought when I was about 15 or 16, (currently 40) and wore on building sites for about 20 years. Still use it whenever I'm not in a suit. Buckle is now grey - was formerly brass coloured, but the holes never ripped.

I intend to pass it on to my son if I have one next month.... but only when I'm 60.

That belt's been through some experiences. ;-)

beano345

At the moment a porn hub T-shirt I got about 7 years ago,it still gets a laugh when I'm out and about.

Cee-Jay-Cee

I have a pair of Wrangler jeans that I got back in 2000, they've been wore several times every week since then but they are pretty thread bare in the ass and knees and won't survive much longer. I'd imagine they've been washed thousands of times at this stage, they were a really deep navy blue/indigo when new but are a very pale blue now. I can safely say I got my money's worth out of them.

Nailz

I have an old t-shirt of the wrestler Diesel (Kevin Nash) from the early 90's, faded down to almost total greyness, use it when going for a run. Used to belong to my brother, can't but an exact year on it but I think it's almost 20 years old at his stage.

FTA69

I have the same wallet I had when I was 12. It's a gammy purple yoke with a "No Fear" logo on it that looks f*cking stupid. My nan bought it for me to put my money in from my first job in a glass factory. However, I've lost it on buses and planes. It's been lost in Istanbul, left in a taxi in the West Bank and also fell out of a rollercoaster in Las Vegas. For some miraculous reason it's found its way back to my possession every time. God bless it I say.

Cee-Jay-Cee

FTA69 wrote: »

I have the same wallet I had when I was 12. It's a gammy purple yoke with a "No Fear" logo on it that looks f*cking stupid. My nan bought it for me to put my money in from my first job in a glass factory. However, I've lost it on buses and planes. It's been lost in Istanbul, left in a taxi in the West Bank and also fell out of a rollercoaster in Las Vegas. For some miraculous reason it's found its way back to my possession every time. God bless it I say.

Your oldest piece of clothing is a wallet??
So what your saying is that you don't actually have any clothes.

I suppose when you walk around naked all day long and obviously have no pockets, it's only inevitable that you'll lose your wallet.

FTA69

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Your oldest piece of clothing is a wallet??
So what your saying is that you don't actually have any clothes.

I suppose when you walk around naked all day long and obviously have no pockets, it's only inevitable that you'll lose your wallet.

The Velcro piece sticks to your pubes pure handy.

Sonderkommando

Wibbs wrote: »

I've 501's going back to the early 90's. Ditto for a few shirts of a similar vintage. Also a couple of Barbour jackets I got in the mid 80's.

Levi 501's are far the best jeans I've had quality wise, years they last.

earlytobed

Have a leather belt I bought in 1981

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

I've a dress that used to belong to my aunt in the 70s. It's a been mended a few times but it's still holding up

I also a few bits of clothing dating back to around the mid 2000s when I first started doing my own shopping, unless they literally fall apart (a pair of Levi's I bought in 2005 in a charity shop did finally got a rip across the arse that I couldn't mend recently) I'll probably still have them in another ten years.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

79? That's like a decade before I was even a twinkle in my fathers eye.

I don't know what my oldest item of clothing is, I don't tend to wear things anymore than a couple of times. Maybe it's a pair of shoes but I wouldn't know what ones and I probably wouldn't still wear them.

At the minute I'm wearing a dress I bought in may, and today could be its last outing so maybe it's this one, who knows?

Big Davey

I have a jock strap my great, great grandfather used to use and I can't figure out why people won't wrestle me in training .......................

The Purveyor of Truth

I have a Metallica 'And Justice For All' T-Shirt that I bought in 1988 at a gig in Dun Laoghaire. It still fits me (that's right, I'm the Boards.ie's answer to Kevin Bacon, only I'm losing my hair, the bastard) and it's in good shape too (only wear it to gigs though).

You get loads of vintage t-shirts on EBay in great shape.

I doubt the crap they sell at gigs these days would last too long though.

castletownman

My Wexford jersey from 1996. Wore it during the hurling this year.

Says much about my upper-body muscle tone that it still fitted me. Painted on, and a nightmare to take off but fitted nonetheless

lufties

A vintage adidas t shirt from the late 1970s..its falling apart though nowadays.

fleet_admiral

I have a pair of o neills shorts from the early/mid 90's

rainbow kirby

Pair of tracksuit bottoms that I got when I was in Transition Year in school that still gets worn to races over my running gear and around the house at times. They are now 15 years old...

Oops69

1984 L.A Olympics souvenir t shirt , sent over by my American penpal Jamie from Idaho , back then really exciting to get a package in the post form the US

fillefatale

Doc Martens from when I was 16 (9 years ago), I've never polished them and the leather is well scratched but the soles and all are still perfect.