Can you fit into clothes you bought 10 years ago?

[Alan H]

As of right now, by my accounting this is what we have:

A.) People who can wear clothes they bought 10+ years ago 18

B.) People who can't wear clothes they bought 5 or 10 years ago 8

C.) "in between" as in...weight fluctuates over various spans of time so that something might fit in 2008, not fit in 2009 and fit again in 2011....
or ---the jackets fit, but the pants don't or some variation on that theme...
or --- they aren't old enough to have ten year old clothing purchased when they were adults! 7

----which is interesting. I figured that there would be a LOT more people who were unable to wear stuff that they bought a decade ago. See? You learn something every day. I was wrong.

On the other hand, if you combine Groups B and C you see that there is a significant... almost half.... number of people who, if they purchase an article of clothing today may not be able to wear it for a significant span of time in the future. However, that may change depending on what's purchased, or where their weight and body type is at a particular time. Or it flat-out may just be unwearable.

IN OTHER WORDS (now we get to my interpretation, your mileage may vary!)

--for a greater percentage of people on the board than I thought, the axiom of "buy quality, irregardless of expense, because quality clothing will last your lifetime" actually makes good sense.

--However, for about 45% of the people polled, the axiom of "buy quality, irregardless of expense, because quality clothing will last your lifetime" may not make sense, and for 8/30 or about 27% of the people polled, because their body type changes so much, it makes no sense at all because they know full well that they won't be able to wear it for more than a couple of years.

Let's let more people respond with whether they can wear 10+ year old clothing in this thread. Discussion of the results of the poll, and my interpretation of it (if anyone cares to discuss that) I guess can also happen here, but I don't want to keep more people from answering the original question. I can "re-tot-it up-again, tomorrow.