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Shopping for clothes seems pointless to me now, unless it is replacing due to something wearing out. I wonder if it was always this way and I just didn't realise?

Covid/lockdown seems to have totally shifted my world view I think. Clothes? Meh. Career? Income. Family (I was not particularly family focused before)? Everything.

I wear tunics and leggings 95% of the time. I can dress them up for work or if I have a meeting to go to, but equally they’re comfortable on the allotment or when I’m baking or doing housework.

I’m trying to do less laundry (saving the planet) so if I’m not leaving the house I tend to wear outer clothes for longer than I did previously.

Two wardrobes of 'might wear' items - and a clothes rail of everyday, really comfy stuff. The more it's worn and washed, the comfier it gets!

I am the same and live in the same boring few items. I have a wardrobe jammed packed, but cannot get round to thinning it down. Like others a lot has never been worn and probably never will be.

I just feel we will get fusty and musty physically and mentally if we don't make an effort daily

I think along those lines too Bertha.

I go out every day, sometimes twice, and never wear the same clothes for more than a day at a time. I'm currently having a sort out and trying to 'capsule' my wardrobe - don't have a lot of things but like a lot of people I wear the same old favourites and some things are hardly worn.

Yes, I keep washing and wearing the same 3 sets of clothing. However, it was no different before Covid, I am not very sociable! Despite that I have two wardrobes and a large chest of drawers bursting with items that I might wear one day!

JackyB, as children, we got half a dozen new outfits, shoes and coats twice a year. The old ones were disposed of, usually going to a jumble sale.

There was another shopping trip before holidays. I don't know how they did it - but it seemed normal at the time. We would have assumed that everyone did the same, having no idea that our parents were wealthy.

I like to ring the changes and wear my clothes now obviously not 'going out for the evening' things but dresses, trousers, jeans, tops something different everyday. DH tends to dress the same .. jeans and shirt but I get him to change these regularly. I just feel we will get fusty and musty physically and mentally if we don't make an effort daily. We also make sure we dont spend more than one day at a time without going out to get some fresh air/have lunch/go shopping.

Same here. I’ve just started wearing new items I bought before lockdown. They used to make me sad seeing them in the wardrobe with the labels still on, purchased with holidays in mind!

My problem is all those tee shirts and tops that are still good enough to wear but which have stains down the front I can't get rid of. Grease stains from cooking bleach marks from too enthusiastic cleaning. I really should wear an apron.

I don't know whether to keep them or demote them to cleaning rags. You can't give them away.

A friend once told me she had had an aunt whose wardrobe was only 18" wide. She would buy a set of clothes at the beginning of each season and wear them exclusively, then chuck them out when the next season came round.

I'm the same. Comfy trousers and fleece tops/polo shirts for me. I have lots of nice clothes but somehow they're not relevant any more.

When I was working in the 1980s the fashion was all 'capsule wardrobes'. It's only since I've retired that I have actually achieved one. I have so few clothes all chosen to suit the way I spend my days. I have a few tops, a few of cardis and warm tops, a denim jacket, a few bottoms and a couple of dresses. A mac and a winter coat. Two swimming costumes and a dry robe. I add layers and accessories to make me warm/smarter/glittery and that does the job.

To me it feels freeing to have less.

I wouldn't get rid of clothes you haven't worn for two years, bearing in mind what the past two years were like. Saying that, I have noticed people are dressing down much more than we used to as we start to go out.

I'm the same wear the same things everyday, I've got new tops in the wardrobe bought before Covid that I'm saving for my holiday in Turkey if I ever get there lol.

Glad to see I’m not alone!

I wear the same clothes day in, day out. They don’t seem to wear out! The crops I have on are 7 summers old, and the fleece I have just donned to go walking in must be about 12 years old.

I loathe clothes shopping, wore a uniform for work, and since retirement just don’t need many. Having said that, wardrobe has lots in that I just never put on my back.

Will have a good sort out soon.