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

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.

Nah, maybe how it once was and now I only wear Darn Tough socks. Lifetime warranty, basically a sock club. Most definitely buy once cry once and it doesn't matter whether you pay full price or get them on sale. They always warranty the value of the sock on what they sell for on their website. It's so awesome. I haven't needed to buy socks since 2017 when I filled my sock drawer.

DT is the way.

I avoid step two by just never wearing matching socks.

I'll just get like 6 same pairs, if the old are out because of holes, so no problems with missing pairs.

Socks missing a mate can also go here being pair up with another sock with a missing mate.

I do not match my socks, I'll wear two completely different socks at the same time. If one loses a mate, then that's fine

Reading this thread has taught me that when I have a girl over and she tells me that I am not a normal male, I really had no idea how much I didn’t do as a male that other men do all the time….

I wear all of my clothes until they show clear signs of being worn out and then determine whether that it should be donated or trashed. And i have one shirt then I’ll probably never throw away and it’s one that I’ve had since the 80s, my goonies shirt.

"Garage clothes" is a peculiar way to say "make loads of cool sock puppets"

Encourage, or just enable?

I've never heard of Shein telling anyone to do it. I just know their prices are so goddamn cheap you COULD do it if you wanted to. Some people probably do. But I suspect a lot of people just want cheap clothes and will wear them until they have holes in them (which even for Shein clothes has to be multiple wearings usually I'm pretty sure)

encourage their customers to wear their cheap synthetic clothing a single time and then throw it in the garbage

do you have a single fact to back that up?

Which only further encourages the existing tendency for single-use clothing that some groups of people exhibit.

They get married.

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

And there's the pajamas season as well.

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.

I have like a hundred shirts I got at shows in college in a vacuum sealed bag in my closet. Because one day - for sure. definitely. I am 100% going to do this. I have not been putting it off for over a decade - I'm going to turn them into throw pillows

I think PJs goes before garage clothes, not after

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.

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?

This is the cycle even for me and I'm independently wealthy. Wealthy as a horse, if you will.

(I have many leatherbound books.)

More like a manual labor thing tbh. Plenty of working class folks who are no less working class but don't need to cycle through clothes

Yaaaay, my mom never ever throw a shirt, clothes are so expensive, she couldn't afford a new one every time she does anything that could damage them.

(Tbh, I do the same for the same reasons)

Best quality linen is spun from flax fibers and has no plastic.

Source: Relations farm where they grow flax for linen and plums for Slivovitz

And ultimately goes to the landfill, since no recycling facility is going to attempt to extract the plastic from your flax shirt.

So it does return to the earth. The only difference from “littering” then is just the location.