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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 62 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

One slightly different path here is socks. If a sock lives long enough for its elastic to wear out it can go to "garage clothes" category. Socks missing a mate can also go here being pair up with another sock with a missing mate. Another path for socks to "garage clothes" is if fashion trends finally evolving so far that wearing those socks will get admonishment from the gf/wife if worn out in public. However, as soon as a sock has a hole in it, it skips the "garage clothes" step and heads straight to the "rags" category.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 26 points 5 days ago (13 children)

I don't know what it is but no matter how nice of socks I get or how well I take care of them, they will get a hole in the big toe area within a year at the very latest. I've never had socks last long enough to have the elastic wear out

Also yes my nails are kept short so it's not that

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 8 points 5 days ago

You're probably walking wrong (like, in a requiring orthotics way)

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

And for underwear the path is "maybe I'll get laid" then "still no holes so I can be seen in them" and finally "I'm not going out today so I don't care that one of my balls fell out through the hole". And then rags.

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[–] LemmyPlaceDN@europe.pub 49 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Meanwhile companies like Shein encourage their customers to wear their cheap synthetic clothing a single time and then throw it in the garbage as a sacrifice to the gods of super-fast-fashion

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[–] carmo55@lemmy.zip 37 points 5 days ago (5 children)

This isn't a gender thing, it's a working-class thing. Let's not get divided unnecessarily divided.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Huh? Which part is strictly a working class thing?

There's a large spectrum between "I'll wear it until it falls apart," and, "I've never worn this but I need space for new clothes so it's going to goodwill," and working class people fall all over it.

Women generally tend to be the ones who will more frequently refresh their wardrobe. All you have to do is go to a thrift store to see the difference between genders. The women's clothing section will be massive, and the men's section significantly smaller.

[–] Bipauler@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

My son loves the goodwill women's section. I swear that kids gonna be a fashion designer or a runway model.. if I can keep his ass outta jail lol 😓

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I get what you are saying. But in this context this is kind of like a “dad joke.” Do we think being pedantic about the terminology is really reinforcing some kind of negative gender stereotype here? Or minimizing the working class?

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy cannot stand jokes while we currently live in a world.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I will never cease to be amazed about what people on Lemmy can get offended at. Today it's a lame joke about old clothes.

[–] majster@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

I'm offended by your amazment of...

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago

This is quite accurate.

The life cycle is pretty similar for pants too.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 23 points 5 days ago

I’m a very middle aged dad, I still have t-shirts from high school that I wear on occasion. Granted, they are in the survivor pile now, but it’s a point of pride that I still have them, and still fit into them. Fun to dust off my old concert t’s every now and again.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Do women not do that? Where do they get rags from?

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm single, maybe some of You ladies need a good source of rags?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 days ago

By stealing my perfectly fine and wearable rough work clothes, claiming they are 'unfit to wear'.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 points 5 days ago

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in the form of men's clothing.

The only reason I ever gave clothing away was when my fat ass got even fatter and didn't fit anymore.

Oh and when I finally left the consultant lifestyle behind me and gave away all my suits.

[–] Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago

My dad still uses tshirts from the 80’s as rags

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Before that it’s a going-out shirt.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 14 points 5 days ago

And there's the pajamas season as well.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My favorite shirt is sitting on the top shelf of my closet because I can’t bring myself to downgrade it to a rag. It has a hole on the armpit that I could fit through😂

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I've started retiring sentimental shirts early so they don't wear down like that. They aren't really shirts anymore, but shirt-like objects tied to memories.

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[–] BeerStainedBunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They can also be turned into crop tops

[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You forgot the stage after garage clothes, that would be PJs. Then it gets turned into a rag.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think PJs goes before garage clothes, not after

[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

For me they are interchangeable. Garage clothes and PJs are often the same stage.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Are those oily stains on your crotch, are you an octopus and happy to see me?"

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

“No, these oily stains are from the Italian sub I’ve been eating in bed, not the car I was working on earlier.”

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 7 points 5 days ago

"KISS ME YOU FOOL"

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That's exactly how I manage my clothes.

[–] iMood3gs@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

That's make sense🤔

[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

I'm taking a different path where the holes make the clothes into fun pieces with fun patches on them (or they're turned into patches if I didn't really like the article of clothing to begin with).

[–] Ertain@feddit.online 7 points 5 days ago

Some people have to realize that men usually don't waste clothes. If it's ruined in one way, we recycle it in another way.

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