Can you fit into clothes you bought 10 years ago?

**cck** · 2nd February 12, 12:19 PM

Yes, I can still fit into clothes from 10, 20, 30 years ago.

I hate to admit it but I may still have some from then and I am too embarassed to go back any further.

**ForresterModern** · 2nd February 12, 12:25 PM

In a word, no.

Due to several surgeries and some medical therapy, I put on roughly 70 pounds during the first 7 of those ten years, going from 220lb to one-quarter-pounder-with-cheese shy of 290, before settling back to 270 as my basic relatively consistent wieght the last three years. One medication alone caused me to gain 50 pounds during the roughly 6 months I was taking it, and that is the weight that I cannot now seem to get back off, although I am down now closer to 260 just the last month or so.
Other than a few bulky sweatshirts, some socks, long underwear, and hats, nothing from back then fits anymore, and thus some of you Goodwill hunters may have benefitted from my situation.

**Lime** · 2nd February 12, 12:29 PM

Yes I have clothes that fit from 10 years ago but I'm quite lucky in that I haven't really changed size much despite my frivolous and decadent lifestyle!

As an aside; had I changed size my "well tailored" items could be easily adjusted (well to an alterations tailor)for relatively little cost.

**sydnie7** · 2nd February 12, 12:53 PM

Originally Posted by Alan H

See? I am OLD. You are NOT.

Now wait just a minute there, Alan. If you are OLD, and I have a birthday coming up, that makes me. . . NO!

I admit to "plenty-nine" and that's it!

**Alan H** · 2nd February 12, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by sydnie7

Now wait just a minute there, Alan. If you are OLD, and I have a birthday coming up, that makes me. . . NO!

I admit to "plenty-nine" and that's it!

Yeah, but like I commented at Ventura, you looked ruddy great. Seriously.... huge kudos to you for slimming down. The blue sweater, white blouse and X Mts tartan skirt you had on at Ventura.... Humph....Bob's a lucky dude.

I, on the other hand, will always be big, loud, messy, and probably somewhat rotund.

**Jack Daw** · 2nd February 12, 01:02 PM

I've gained an inch a decade, but I can still fit into all the same Highland clothes I bought 10 years ago.

**SFCRick** · 2nd February 12, 01:30 PM

25+ years- yes, ( I still have some wonderful bespoke suits from the 80's that still fit great) thanks to daily exercise.

**rondo** · 2nd February 12, 01:49 PM

Some yes some no. Leather jackets [motorcycle] seem to have grown [stretch?] with me. Other clothes not so much. And for some reason my feet have increased one half size in that time. Curious.
Rondo
Edit: Just read Tobus' post about foot size increasing with age...explains a lot.

**GreenDragon** · 2nd February 12, 02:23 PM

I've got jeans and t-shirts i wore in high school that still fit.

I've been about the same amount of out of shape since then. lol

**zirrow** · 2nd February 12, 02:51 PM

I'm still in the same size 501's I wore in high school (I don't have the same jeans from then, they wore out a LONG time ago), though they fit a bit differently than they did back then. I also still have plenty of T-shirts from that time that still fit, and I just celebrated my 33rd birthday, so 15 down and we'll see what happens next.