Can you fit into clothes you bought 10 years ago?

**Brett** · 2nd February 12, 09:54 AM

I have 3 sets of clothes:

205lb. clothes

225lb. clothes

250lb. clothes.

for years I went back and forth between powerlifting and bodybuilding (although never competed in bb) and had different clothes for different times of the year.

presently I'm just under 250lbs and in the 250 clothes.

should be in the 225 set soon and hopefully get back to the 205 set, but that might be optimistic.

Maybe I can settle in at 215 and wear the 225 set loosely

**Alan H** · 2nd February 12, 09:54 AM

Well, so much for the "poll"....sheesh, thanks a lot Vbulletin. Oh well. I'll wait a week and tally up the results by hand.

My answer.... I am giving away one of my favorite kilts that I bought 4 years ago, not because my kiltwearing tastes have changed, but because I've already let it out once, and while I can still get the buckles and straps fastened, it just plain don't look good no mo'. The houndstooth jacket that I modded four years ago is now WAY too small in the shoulders. Dress slacks that I bought in 2009 are way, way too small now.

So in other words, clothes don't fit me for even five years, and it's been that way for as long as I remember. When I graduated from college I weighed 205. I'm 295 now. Before I started throwing I was about 255. When I stop throwing really seriously (I'll probably keep at it casually for a long time) and only go to the gym for fitness, I expect I will drop 20+ pounds, and the clothes I buy now, won't fit again.

Perhaps that will provide some insight into why, from where I stand, for MY life (but maybe not for someone elses' life...spending wads of dough for "quality" doesn't make a lot of sense.

**tundramanq** · 2nd February 12, 09:56 AM

Going to kilting 7/365 ended my 20-30 pound yoyo-ing through out the year.
Wide belts and big bucks tied up in kilts are enough incentive to put down the fork and start walking here.

**tulloch** · 2nd February 12, 09:56 AM

Yes. I am still wearing dress pants bought at LLBean in 1991. I could not, I am afraid, wear a belt or two from when I was in high school. I graduated in 1973. I have retained a couple garments from then just in case.

**GoodGirlGonePlaid** · 2nd February 12, 10:03 AM

Jeans, pants, skirts, coats, yes.
Shirts- knits yes, button down- no.
I had a kid, parts change.

But I still wear some coats from high school/ college (early 90's).
My jr. high cheerleading skirt still fits!

OK, I wasn't the thinest of kids.

**Peter Crowe** · 2nd February 12, 10:05 AM

Yes, is the short answer, I have some clothes (a black leather bomber jacket) that I bought at age 22 (in 1988), I don't often wear it now (as a visibly middle aged man I don't want to look like I am trying too hard) except very occasionally for rock concerts etc. but it is in my wardrobe and still fits well. Additionally my lovat green Argyle jacket I bought (off the peg, which is a 40" long) when I was 25 (in the spring of 1992) I still wear most often when kilted.

Other clothes I have resold or donated to charity not because they didn't fit but because I found I never wore them. e.g. My dinner suit (tuxedo) I never wore subsequent to buying my PC and an evening dress sporran. My best and most conservative lounge suit is now about 12 years old, and was bought made to measure for my graduation for my MA Hons. (undergraduate) degree in 2000.

**piperdbh** · 2nd February 12, 10:11 AM

Shirts and shoes, yes. Britches, no. I've pretty well kept up with inflation.

**AKScott** · 2nd February 12, 10:55 AM

Shoes, jackets and most shirts yes, pants no.

I was on a roll from high school graduation (age 18) up until around my 40th birthday.

My shoulder muscle has been migrating south to my belly button area ever since. My inseam is the same but my waist has gone up four inches.

**BCAC** · 2nd February 12, 11:02 AM

My short answer is yes, but back then I couldn't buy really good quality clothes so a lot of them just wore out. I only buy clothes to replace something that has worn out, as I don't follow fashion.

I still wear regularly a green leather bomber jacket that I bought in 1987.

You get to to know your own attitude to clothes easily when you are only allowed to wear a military uniform (of one sort or another) for five years!

**Mael Coluim** · 2nd February 12, 11:06 AM

Well this morning, I wore the trench coat I bought when graduating from college, 38 years, ago. The hip hugging p@nts with cuffed bell bottoms from the same era – NOT!

I do have a selection of different sized kilts to don as my weight fluctuates throughout the year.