Can you fit into clothes you bought 10 years ago?

**Tobus** · 2nd February 12, 09:48 AM

Shoes, on the other hand (foot) have been a problem as I've gone up just over 1/2 size in the last few years.

Maybe all the fat is running out of my head and into my feet

Well, I know Alan specifically excluded shoes from the discussion, but since you brought it up, I've heard that it's normal for adults to need to step up in shoe size as they age. It has to do with the bones of the foot spreading out over adulthood, from years of standing on them. The feet actually get a tad longer and wider with age.

**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.

**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.

**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!

**Alan H** · 2nd February 12, 11:10 AM

I have to qualify my answer by saying that I can still fit into my High School Lettermans jacket, which is the only thing I still have from High school...well, besides my boy scout merit badge sash.

However, that thing was VOLUMINOUS in HS. I lettered in wrestling, my Jr. year, wrestled at 198 in 1974 and 1975.

I actually still have a completely polyester "leisure suit" from college, folded away in a trunk. Think "disco"...as in Saturday Night Fever, which was *BIG* when I was in college at UC Santa Barbara. Unfortunately the gaudy shirt that went with it, melted down in a radioactive fit of self-immolation about 20 years ago. The leisure suit still survives. The notion of fitting into it now is just laughable.

BTW, when we get to about 40 respondants, I'm going to manually tot this up...

A. those who can wear clothes for 10 years or more
B. those whose body changes/changed drastically enough that they can't wear clothes for anywhere near that long
C. in between...like "jackets fit, pants don't"....or .... "I can wear clothes I bought three years ago , but not ten years ago" and so on.

It will be interesting to see how many folks fit int

**Red Stag** · 2nd February 12, 11:12 AM

I've lost 40lbs in the last three months so I probably could fit into clothes from 10 years ago although I don't think that I have many left to test that out on. My first Utilikilt isn't quite so tight anymore. I got that in 2001.

**sydnie7** · 2nd February 12, 09:52 AM

I've just re-arrived at the shape where I could fit into pre-2000 clothing, had I kept any of it. But when I left the corporate work world my wardrobe changed as well, and all those "power suits" finally went to Goodwill during my last big move from Los Angeles to San Diego. I do regret relinquishing a few of those things, such as some classic wool blazers, but overall women's styles change more quickly and drastically than do men's and much of that clothing would shout "1990!" were I to wear it today. You kilted guys have all the luck. . .