Can you fit into clothes you bought 10 years ago?

**ForresterModern** · 2nd February 12, 03:11 PM

4 particular body parts noticeably continue to grow with age regardless of whether or not your weight goes up----nose, ears, feet and hands. Has to do with the body's continuing stimulation of cartilage growth in effort to ward off degenerative joint disease (old age arthritis) in your most stressed joints (hips, knees and ankles). Also why older folks start looking kinda like Yoda, why your shoes get tight as you get older, and why some folks notice that they need larger gloves or that their knuckles are more prominent.
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**gary meakin** · 2nd February 12, 03:29 PM

Got married 28 years ago and I can still wear the very same tie I wore at my wedding.

**McClef** · 2nd February 12, 03:41 PM

Yes I can apart from things that have genuinely (as opposed to what some accuse kilts of doing) shrunk!

**mayberry** · 2nd February 12, 03:54 PM

I've worn the same size jeans and shirts for, oh, almost 40 years, though my weight (guessing, because I hardly ever step on a scale) has probably varied by about 10 pounds. I have had to give up two suits I bought in the late 70s-early-80s because they no longer fit, but then they were tight when new (as was the fashion).
Following common advice, I've bought kilts with room to grow, but they all fit me loosely on the tightest belt hole, and I'm realising now I probably should move the straps in a touch.
I take some credit (walking, cycling, no car, lots of dancing), but a lot of the credit certainly goes to my genes (no sweet tooth, mostly thin ancestors).

When my doctor told me a few years ago that I was 5 pounds heavier than I'd been at the last check-up a year before, he pointed out what this would mean if it happened every year for the next twenty years. That alone was enough to make me take another look at my habits.
Cheers,
John

**Alan H** · 2nd February 12, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by gpmeakin

Got married 28 years ago and I can still wear the very same tie I wore at my wedding.

That's CHEATING!

**hkjrb623** · 2nd February 12, 05:16 PM

From 10 yes. From the last 4, no. I've lost weight in the last year. Actually kilts I bought 6 months ago I can't wear. I lost about 4 inches since then. It made me mad to lose 3 kilts, but happy to lose the inches.

**Alan H** · 2nd February 12, 05:43 PM

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.

**Nick the DSM** · 2nd February 12, 05:49 PM

Considering I was 9 years old ten years ago...I don't think so.

**Alan H** · 2nd February 12, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by Nick the DSM

Considering I was 9 years old ten years ago...I don't think so.

Category C for you!

**mull** · 2nd February 12, 05:52 PM

I cannot wear clothes from 10 years ago. Last year I dropped 40 pounds and went back to the clothes I had 20 years ago. Unfortunately my kilts were all from the last two years and no longer fit!

The only kilt I can wear is my band kilt, because I traded in the old one for a smaller size.

Joe