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Women and Clothes

probe1957

Posted : 3/30/2007 10:59:41 AM

My wife never has a thing to wear, yet she has a closet full of clothes. My wife never has a thing to wear, yet when we go on a week long trip, I seriously contemplate renting a U-haul truck. I am not making this stuff up and I am not exaggerating when I say, people who see us loading up the car for the trip, stop to ask if we are moving.

When we go on a week long trip, it takes her a minimum of two days to pack and, for some strange reason, we never have enough suitcases. We always have to buy one more. I can pack for the same trip in 10 minutes and fit everything in a Wal-Mart bag, with room to spare.

My wife, the one who never has a thing to wear, has this walk-in closet. It is absolutely full of clothes, yet she never has a thing to wear. I had her closet surveyed the other day. I got the report from the surveyor back this morning. The area taken up by her closet is 2.77 acres and it is 3 stories tall, yet she never has a thing to wear.

I have 6 pairs of jeans, 10 shirts, 10 pairs of socks and 10 pairs of underwear. My entire wardrobe can fit in any one of our suitcases. My wife couldn't fit all of her underwear in a suitcase.

Speaking of underwear, my wife will spend $10, TEN AMERICAN DOLLARS, on a single pair. Cumulative, I haven't spent $10 on underwear in my life. I have some underwear that has to be 20 years old and is still quite serviceable. What kind of marketing genius decided women should pay $10, TEN AMERICAN DOLLARS for a pair drawers and is actually able to get them to do it? This dude must be as rich as Bill freakin' Gates.

Let's talk about shoes. Why would anyone need more than 3 pairs of shoes? Hell, I only own 2 pairs and I don't feel shoe deprived. My wife can buy 3 pairs of shoes on a single shopping spree. Of course, she never has the right pair of shoes to go with the outfit that she never has.

Honey, you spend an hour and a half, minimum, every morning, doing the hair and makeup thing, and THIS is as good as it gets? Why bother? You don't have anything to wear anyway.

snownose

Posted : 3/30/2007 11:04:59 AM

Billy, haven't you been around long enough to understand how women operate?[8D]

cyclefiend2000

Posted : 3/30/2007 11:06:36 AM

Let's talk about shoes. Why would anyone need more than 3 pairs of shoes? Hell, I only own 2 pairs and I don't feel shoe deprived. My wife can buy 3 pairs of shoes on a single shopping spree. Of course, she never has the right pair of shoes to go with the outfit that she never has.

i have to say that i have more than 3 pairs of shoes. actually i have 3 pairs of sneakers. why? because life wouldnt be complete without my checkerboard vans! [

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rwbeagles

Posted : 3/30/2007 11:09:21 AM

Lol...Dh's side of the closet is more packed than mine...which is pretty sparse. I buy clothes for the kiddos more than myself...I buy maybe one new thing a season? Sweaters for winter, etc. I have one style of jeans I like and I stick with those...I have 2 pairs of jeans currently...and a few pairs of yoga pants and cords as well. One pair of slacks? maybe 2?

T shirts...I am a t shirt FIEND! I like to buy and wear them...the kookier the better. Mr T and Curious George in particular...

Shoes? I have 2 pair I need to survive...3 in summer (sandals). Always one pair of boots, one pair of Converse, and the sandals in summer.

Not a clotheshorse...never have been. It's too much fun buying for and dressing up one's kids. I manage to look nice when we go out...which is rarely. Casual is the way to go....Hanes don't cost $10 a pair. LMAO.

Bullymom

Posted : 3/30/2007 11:20:48 AM

My husband has more clothes than me! We have a huge walk-in closet and I have one tiny little corner. The rest is his! I have a lot of shoes! 4 pairs of sneakers, 2 pairs of boots(one dress and one camo), and one pair of sandals! Husband is JUST AS BAD about shoes. He has like 4 pairs of bootsand who knows how many pairs of sneakers. As far as bloomers go, my hubby would KILL me if I spent $10 on one pair! Fruit of the loom for me!! I've got my daughter started out right! She has a full closet and dresser and like 8 pairs of shoes! Yeah, ladies are bad when it comes to certain things!!

marty_ga

Posted : 3/30/2007 11:22:39 AM

Yeah, but it makes You look good!

fuzzy_dogs_mom

Posted : 3/30/2007 11:23:24 AM

ORIGINAL: rwbeagles

....Hanes don't cost $10 a pair. LMAO.

Right! A lot of the time I can find the Hanes, Jockey or Fruit of the Loom for women at Wally-World for around $5 a six-pack. [] No clothes horse here, either - I think that's the result of 12 years of Catholic school uniforms.

Joyce

Firestorm

Posted : 3/30/2007 11:48:40 AM

ORIGINAL: probe1957

Honey, you spend an hour and a half, minimum, every morning, doing the hair and makeup thing, and THIS is as good as it gets? Why bother? You don't have anything to wear anyway.

Lady Godiva? LOL...Woman au natural?

jjsmom06

Posted : 3/30/2007 11:53:15 AM

I admit to having a closet full of clothes…but I always have SOMETHING to wear and actually I rotate through a very tiny section of my closet. Not sure why I just don#%92t dump all the crap I don#%92t wear, but every few months I do load up a bag of stuff I don#%92t wear often and take to a local charity. I should probably simplify my life a lot by getting rid of stuff and I plan to live in Hawaii some day to be closer to my family. If I lived there I wouldn#%92t need a closet because life is just so much more “simple” and laid back and I actually long for this “simpleness”. If I lived there I could fit all my clothes into a single “drawer as all I would bring would be:
2 swimsuits
1 skirt
2 pairs of capris
2 pair of shorts
4 tank tops
2 shirts
2 pairs of flip flops
A lightweight rain jacket
And of course the appropriate number of “unmentionables”

While I don#%92t buy the “value packs” of undergarments, I also don#%92t buy $10 ones either but mainly because I am constantly loosing underwear when I wash clothes (the same monster that eats 1 of a pair of socks when you wash them, also eats the underwear in my house). My underwear ends up costing about $6 each.

Now Billy ..to reiterate the point I made earlier to you regarding your “not so kind” last line of your post:

I am sure that after 1 1/2 hours of hair and makeup time she must be stunning...perhaps ESPECIALLY because she has NOTHING TO WEAR! [

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Also do your wife a favor Billy and buy some new freaking underwear…women don#%92t like to see men in the same ugly worn out crap they have worn for years even if it is “serviceable”. And admit it…you secretly LOVE her $10 a pair underwear! [

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Michelle

Posted : 3/30/2007 12:03:15 PM

Well, I have a medium amount of clothes, but very little to wear . . .that's because I can't fit into anything! I refuse to get rid of some of my favorite "skinny" outfits because I am (probably mistakenly or delusionally) under the impression that I will wear them again someday. And I refuse to buy too many "Hefty Hideaway" clothes, for the same reason!

cakana

Posted : 3/30/2007 12:08:01 PM

I admit to having a closet full of clothes…but I always have SOMETHING to wear

Same here. My problem is trying to decide what to wear, and if it's a really special occasion, I usually want something new and exciting [

]. My DH has his side of the walk-in closet pretty jam packed too and he doesn't even have to worry about work clothes since he wears a uniform. I have to have clothes for work, play, gardening, gym, pool, lounging, washing the car, shopping, etc. It's not easy, but I manage to find something for whatever I'm doing [

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labcrab

Posted : 3/30/2007 12:18:10 PM

I love clothes and I have TONS of them. I basically have 3 wardrobes - 1. Work - pretty specific type of clothing (Wall Street) that does not translate into my personal life at all. 2. Play - all of my casual, hanging out, weekend clothing. 3. Going out - all of the "fun" clothes! I have shoes for all 3 as well AND it's seasonal, so I really have 6 distinct wardrobes - 1,2 and 3 in a Spring/Summer variety and in a Fall/Winter variety. Even though this is my life now, I can see myself moving to an island and living in a bathing suit (sorta like Shel). I don't need any of this stuff but it's fun.

houndlove

Posted : 3/30/2007 12:23:04 PM

I'd be quite happy if we had a universal human uniform like on Star Trek (and I wore a uniform to high school and man, it was bliss!). My husband has way more clothes than I do, and on gift giving occaisions I have to tell people to please NOT get me clothes because a) no one can ever decide what size I actually am and b) people keep wanting to dress me up in various ways that I don't like. Jeans, t-shirts, the end. I shop at Goodwill, pretty much exclusively. One reason I like my job right now even though it's often boring and definatley a dead-end is that I don't have a dress code at all. I wear jeans (or cords or khakis) every day.

So not all women are all about clothes like that. I really could care less about them, they're just something to keep me warm in winter and to keep me from being naked in the summer (believe me, no one wants to see that!). After about June 1 shoes also become somewhat optional for me. I'd rather be barefoot.

My mom has, at various points of despair, lectured me up one wall and down the other about how my lack of concern for my appearance (don't get me wrong, I'm clean and groomed and take care of myself, I just don't really care what I wear, and I never wear make up) somehow means that I actually don't care about myself and have low self-esteem or some such. But that couldn't be further from the truth. I have a high enough confidence in myself that honestly if someone's going to judge me just on what I'm wearing and not what I'm saying, then fine. I don't need that, next please. I'll dress nice if it's in my own best interests to do so or it would really please someone I care about (if I'm going somewhere with my mom I'll dress nicer becuase it's important to her and I love her very much), but on a day to day basis? Nope. I'm like Marlowe: my own comfort is pretty much at the top of any list I make.

cyclefiend2000

Posted : 3/30/2007 12:31:16 PM

I'd be quite happy if we had a universal human uniform like on Star Trek

only if it were khakis and polo shirts. no way could i wear a kirk jersey and coulottes.

of course the women's outfit was ok with me... go-go boots and miniskirt!

houndlove

Posted : 3/30/2007 12:34:02 PM

Well yeah the actual Star Trek unitard thing is really hideous, but if you notice even when they meet civilians and aliens, they're all still wearing unitards! It's like the entire galaxy has a uniform, and I kind of dig that. But the droopy butt unitard thing? No.