John Quiggin"58% of people keep their tops for two years or less. Only 4% kept their T-shirts for 10 years."
Can this be true? More than 4% of population are middle-aged/old men like me. I wear T-shirts until they wear out. Am I unusual among my cohort?
Moz@johnquiggin stats, Prof Q, stats. You buy one top every year, while a fast fashion victim buys 20 or more. On average that's 21 new tops worn for a year, stored for a year, then thrown out.
I'm a grumpy old man outlier the other way, I have about 50 political t shirts and most are about 20 years old. Some of them are "technically wearable" but I like them so I keep them.
@moz I can certainly believe that 58 per cent of sirsts are thrown out. Happy to say that I no longer have to buy shirts. I get all I need as rewards for charity fundraisers.
Andrew Jennings@johnquiggin not at all. I wear them until they fall apart.
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Richard Ważny@johnquiggin I'm with you & will tend to wear the items indefinitely 😜👍
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@RcjWaz @johnquiggin I suspect whoever sends these surveys are fashion marketing companies who rarely target middle aged men for the responses. I'm in middle years in England, and I wear clothes until they are falling apart. Also more ratty looking items are kept for when I am detailing or working on cars, where I'm almost guaranteed to get oil/grease on them and I'm sure I'm not the only person who does this..
Heartfelt@johnquiggin My first thought was “That 58%, who keep their tops only 2 years or more”, are they still growing?
Robert Stainsby@johnquiggin another old bloke here, definitely wear shirts until they fall apart, often a little longer
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@johnquiggin I also wear clothes until they wear out. (Or, don't fit any more.) Are there people who behave differently?
Michæl La💤@johnquiggin
Most of my shirts were either worn or purchased during an overseas trip I took in 2008. It's the shorts that wear out every year or so and need replacing.
Most of my shirts were either worn or purchased during an overseas trip I took in 2008. It's the shorts that wear out every year or so and need replacing.
petrosYou're not the only one
I buy t-shirts at concerts
(Note to bands: Be brave!
There are more colours than black!)
Or get them from a bike ride
Or when I support community radio
And then I rotate them
So they all get their day in the sun
Or work as singlets
Under shirts when it is cooler
After all in Melbourne
The weather invites for layering
And one day they will fall apart
And we will depart
So:
You're not the only one!
ArtSrc@johnquiggin I am also a middle aged man and I know my shirts are old because I left the USA in 2007, and many are from there, and others are inherited from my father who died 9 years ago.
My son, not middle aged, and I essentially divided those shirts and he wears them too, and he wears them with larger holes in them than I do.
So not just middle aged men.
The stats don’t apply to my middle child either.
But the 14 year old definitely has not worn the same shirts for 10 years.