Husband's eclectic wardrobe

The only thing I remember my long-gone ex buying was a corduroy suit. He only needed leather elbow patches to be the perfect caricature of a polytechnic lecturer... which he was. Apart from that, I always thought he was colour blind though he swore he wasn't.

After years of suits and lovely shirt and ties (which our daughter mourns),

My DH has morphed into his retirement uniform...

Beard
Wrangler Jeans ( no others will do)
Black t shirts
Zip up thick waffle jackets
Several pocket khaki waistcoat.
Tilly Hat
Walking boots
A camera around neck.
Walking pole that is also a mono pod for said camera.

Going out attire
Black collar shirt.
Black leather jacket
Black trousers or Jean's if he can get away with it!
Chelsea boots.

If watching rugby then changes into rugby shirt.

The only item of 'wearables' I ever bought for my late DH were designer ties. He chose to buy his own shirts, suits etc and underwear. I frequently travelled with my work and came upon many ' designer' retail outlets so would buy H a tie.

My Ex-husbands wardrobe (figuratively and literally) was 3 times the size of mine. Always dressed to kill.....killed our marriage anyway.

My husband has never bought clothes from a charity shop, mostly because he would struggle to find one that fit him or are his style. He is very traditional. He always wears a long sleeved cotton shirt and does not possess a T shirt. At home he wears a smart but plain jumper and cords. He has quite a few, of various colours, but not as bright as Michael Portillo. He also has several tweed jackets and a blazer as well as a few suits. He will wear a jacket to go anywhere for an appointment, optician, dentist, whatever. He is often too hot in summer and cold in winter but refuses to wear a fleece or layers of any sort.
Socks have to be plain as well.

My husband enjoys shopping in charity shops for anything from cheese graters to hats, shoes and anything in between!... He has a huge collection of fine hats, has had at least 2 pairs of wonderful Doc Marten's and rejoices in choosing from a large range of flamboyant scarves. I get trousers for him and also bought an Donegal tweed suit for weddings - we live in the far North of Scotland. I love going out with him as he still turns heads in his colourful outfits. ( I quite like staying in with him too....) Sadly, although our island remains in tier 3 which means most shops remain open; the charity shops have mostly been closed for months.

When I first met my ex he was still wearing what his mother bought for him. He was a student at the time. We knew each other for quite a while before he asked me out by which time he'd graduated and on our first date he wore a checked tweed sports jacket which smelt musty!
Fortunately I don't think I ever saw it again. Once he started buying his own clothes things improved considerably. Since we split up he's taken to wearing ill-fitting jeans as far as I can see from the odd pictures on facebook. He doesn't look too bad in a suit and I only ever see him now on smart family occasions so I don't care how he dresses the rest of the time.

I must admit to buying DH clothes. Usually M and S and using Christmas or birthday as an excuse. He lives in Cotton Trader chinos with fleecy lining for winter, any old shirt and an M and S jumper on top. When I met him over 50 years ago his clothes were nearly all bought by his mother and he looked like a replica of his father. Not a good look for an 18 year old.?

My husband loves clothes, especially shirts. Before he retired I counted at least fifty shirts in his wardrobe. He has more wardrobe space than me! He also had an amazing collection of ties. Since retiring, he has been wearing up all the shirts and hasn’t added too many new ones. (Thank goodness).
I do admire his taste and take his advice on what suits me too.
He likes shopping, which is an added bonus!

The only clothes my husband usually buys for himself are his suits for work and shoes. And things I nag him about!! I buy more or less everything else, some he wears, some is hanging unworn years later while he continues to wear scruffy stuff that predates our marriage (25 years ago).

For the last 2 winters he has been wearing my cagoule which he "stole" having keft his on a train. I got him to mail order a warm coat more than a year ago - he hasnt even opened the bag!!
Shoes are lace ups for work but a few years ago on holiday his casual shoes lost their sole so he bought some canvas beach shoes from a national chain. And ever since he bas just been buying more of them (amazon sell them!) and even wearing them in the snow!

I don’t think my DH has ever bought any of his own clothes, shoes, socks, underwear, or even suits! When I first met him 43 years ago, his clothes were all bought by his Mum, or RAF issue! I took over the role of his clothing buyer from that point as he really needed trousers and jeans that reached his shoes and sleeves that reached his wrists! (Very tall, needing 38” inside leg). I generally buy his clothing from outfitters specialising in the extra tall sizes, but occasionally manage to get him things elsewhere, although size 15 socks are quite hard to find. Same problem with shoes and trainers. As I am also tall, needless to say I have had similar problems sourcing clothes for all four of our children, all of whom are well over 6ft tall, and still growing! (Youngest, at 23, is already taller than his father). I’m quite expert at it now though.

My DH retired 4 years ago and wears walking shorts and his old fire service t-shirts every day and nearly every season. Winter means adding Wellington boots, beanie hat and jacket to his ensemble for walking our dog. He does wear his smarter t-shirts in summer. We are opposites when it comes our wardrobes though he does have some lovely items and does scrub up well when the occasion demands. I work and make an effort for the office though, after months of working from home last year, I can understand his wearing these items for comfort as I did exactly that with loungewear.

My OH wears almost a uniform on a day to day basis. White tee-shirt (he's got about 30), cashmere jumpers and jeans, or shorts (long ones) in summer. He's got some floppy linen shirts for holidays.

Also, he buys his own. I'm amazed at the women on here who choose and buy their husband's clothes for them They aren't infants, surely?!

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My late husband was a rep so had to be smartly dressed. When ordering a new suit i used to go with him to choose the material. One day he came home and said he had ordered a new suit by himself. When it arrived I discovered it creased very easily which meant that as he spent a lot of time driving it was absolutely useless.
When he retired he got rid of all his suits and ties and wore casual comfortable clothes for the rest of his life.

When he worked Marks and Spencer man ,now Rohan man. I have a system of filtering old clothes to the back of the airing cupboard told to me by a friend many years ago. When he has forgotten about them they go to the recycling.

BlueSapphire

Forgot to say DH was very fussy about shoes, and would only ever wear one brand (Barkers) in one particular size, as he said they fitted him like a glove. They cost an arm and a leg, well into the hundreds a pair, but were good value as they lasted for years. We also lived not far from the factory which had its own shop, where the shoes were considerably reduced, and also did repairs and makeovers. We had frequent visits there taking in shoes which looked worn and tired; they used to come back looking like new for considerably less than he had paid for them.

Like BlueSapphire my otherwise scruffy DH does like to buy good shoes. He no longer wears the smart black lace-ups that he wore to work but still finds more casual shoes with leather soles that can be repaired. We go to outlet shops in out of town shopping areas and have picked up some real bargains.

Missfoodlove

Since suits are rarely worn for business now, he wears smart casual if he’s working.
Favoured brands are Gant and Barbour.
For casual and about the house he loves his Rohan jeans and walking trousers.
He tends to invest in quality and doesn’t buy often.
In the days when we could travel abroad, he loved to shop in France, Czech and Holland.

"Smart casual" is something I've never mastered for myself, let alone DH. He's colourblind and taste-free so I've always gone with him when he's buying anything other than jeans (though he can cope with choosing his own underwear, socks and T-shirts).
Now he's retired he wears jeans, T-shirts and fleeces, though he does have slightly smarter stuff for occasional wear. Sadly he often wears the smarter stuff when he's decorating so its not smart for long. He usually manages to destroy knitwear with battery acid, paint or whatever so I try to keep a smarter jumper tucked away in case he needs something.
When he was working he did normally wear a suit, often M&S so he could have a second pair of trousers.
Still I'm happy to sacrifice his smarter clothes when I think of how much he saves us when doing DIY!

No influence at all. My husband rarely buys new clothes. I have to get the kids to buy him new tshirts etc for christmas/birthdays/fathers day. He says he doesnt need new clothes. He will only buy trainers when the pair he has are falling off his feet. He does but a lot of coats though which is rather odd.

When we first met DH was always very smartly dressed and seemed to be able to wear any style. Fast forward now he seems to live in polo shirts and faded trousers. When shopping for trousers I know it will be a fraught time. He only looks at the front so when he asks my opinion and I comment he has half of them pulled into his 'behind' the tension starts. Seems only the expensive trousers fit him nowadays. Does anyone else hate when a man with a scraggy neck refuses to do up the top button?

I admire your husband for never buying anything new.

There are so many good clothes in charity shops and the clothing industry is using and abusing far to much of the world's resources.

Both DH and I do the same as your husband, although we do very occasionally allow ourselves to buy something brand new.

Mine is a snappy dresser. Usually chinos, shirt and sleeveless jumper for work and Chelsea boots. Smart linen/wool jackets. I do buy from eBay for him especially jackets I know will fit. Nothing better than pre-loved.

My husband buys his clothes in supermarkets when we're grocery shopping. He has a wardrobe full of suits, ties, fancy shirts from when he was a detective. Im going to persuade him to donate them when the charity shops open.

Forgot to say DH was very fussy about shoes, and would only ever wear one brand (Barkers) in one particular size, as he said they fitted him like a glove. They cost an arm and a leg, well into the hundreds a pair, but were good value as they lasted for years. We also lived not far from the factory which had its own shop, where the shoes were considerably reduced, and also did repairs and makeovers. We had frequent visits there taking in shoes which looked worn and tired; they used to come back looking like new for considerably less than he had paid for them.

My late DH was the same as Jaxjacky's husband - short sleeved shirts, jeans or cargo pants, and a jumper in winter. If we weren't going out anywhere he would wear a polo shirt and shorts around the house (even in winter!).
He was also fond of the Michael Portillo look, and had a few jackets in different colours. He was very fussy about his clothes and liked to look good.
The one thing he would not budge on was jeans - he insisted on wearing very pale blue ones which looked dated; I tried to get him into darker ones, even got him to buy some, but they were hardly ever taken out of the wardrobe, while his light ones were worn until they wore thin.