Is it normal for someone to wear the same clothes for years?

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A woman I work with has worn the same four outfits EVERY DAY, no matter the season, for five years (and that's just how long I've been there!) The outfits all consist of a long flowered skirt and, by now, ratty color-coordinated t-shirts. We work for a respected law firm, and it's embarrassing, at least to me.

She is beginning to smell bad, too. She is 49 years old and should have some clue as to how weird this is. It's beginning to seem kind of pathological.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago | pl

    Some of us are just not as superficial as you. I think you are snotty and I don't care for you.

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    • sharona1970
      11 years ago

      Something tells me you have no taste either.

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        I just really don't give a fuck about the outside. I like people for who they are on the inside. Plus I am a man, I don't give a shit about clothes. If I could be naked all the time I would just do that.

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  • westoptic
    11 years ago

    As long as the clothes are washed, yes it's completely normal. I never grew up around the "new-outfit-everyday" hype because I lived on an Island where the closest clothes store was about 2 hours away, so I basically lived off of hand me downs. I have a lot of clothes now but I basically only wear like 5% of them. I have a t-shirt that I wear everyday that I got from my Safe Grad, I wear it two days in a row and then wash it, sometimes it's 1 day or 3 day variations on the washing, depending on if the shirt appears or smells dirty. I like routine, for me, wearing the same clothes is comforting.

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  • Failedcasanova
    11 years ago

    I buy multlipes my clothes in triplicate usually. 3 of the same shirt,pants,boxers etc. I also buy the same shirt in different colors. Keeps things simple and it's a wardrobe that I enjoy.

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    • forever_anon
      11 years ago

      Also, if one shirt or pair of pants gets worn out or damaged, at least then you have a back up.

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      • Failedcasanova
        11 years ago

        Exactly

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Aslong as they wash the clothes, there's no problem. There was this guy in college that litrally wore the same clothing for two to three years, and he is probably still wearing them.

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  • forever_anon
    11 years ago

    As long as the clothes are clean, there is nothing wrong with wearing the same outfits each week. Maybe she can't afford new clothes.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Maybe she thinks she can't afford to buy new ones. Sometimes, clothes are low on some people's priority list when it comes to divvying up their pay-cheque.

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  • Clambones
    11 years ago

    It's normal if she's a cartoon character.

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  • Gebruikersnaam
    11 years ago

    I wish I had the balls to do that.

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  • Dazzle
    11 years ago

    Smelly = bad.
    Wearing what she likes and being discriminated against for it = bad.

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  • Terence_the_viking
    11 years ago

    as long as she isn't smelly i don't really see the issue. People wear what they want and feel comfortable in

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  • Devilsno1angel
    11 years ago

    I have clothes frm a few years ago as long as ther clean who cares

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  • Imposturously_yours
    11 years ago

    ouch.. some people are not really creative, so they buy a few items looking exactly the same. That might give the illusion that she wears the same outfit every day.
    But if you're saying it's the SAME clothes... Doesn't she ever wash them? gross..

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    • plum6
      11 years ago

      Yeah probably she just has multiple pairs of the same pieces of clothing..Which is still weird but at least a lot less disgusting..

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      • Imposturously_yours
        11 years ago

        I had a buddy like that in highschool, but he was colorblind. So all of his stuff was either black or white. if he wouldn't have a diffirent band logos on his shirts, occasionally, you might think it's the same shirt.

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