Where old t-shirts go to die
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...and hopefully get recycled...
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I just cycled five colored t-shirts into my everyday shirts. 5/ $19. It took what seemed like forever to wash the chemical smell out. I had to hand wash them three times and bake them in the sun. I just finished this project today.
Anything I can't wear gets turned into rags.
The rags get put in the garbage when they can no longer be used as rags.
I don't know where the garbage ends up. I don't have a choice so I don't think about it.
I have one vintage t-shirt from the '70's. It's white with blue stipes on the sleeves. It says "L O V E" across the front. The "V" is heart shaped. The colors used are blue and red. It's not going anywhere.
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I bought a collar shirt, good New England quality (now made overseas, ofcourse). A basic polo shirt.
I chose white and M.
It was huge! I didn't know this company's clothing ran large.
I'll try a different company later.
I bought 3 t-shirts and 2 pair of shorts that were $$. I baby them. They'll do the job.
I'll probably have time to buy another shirt with a collar, a better fitting pair of pants (I bought pants from a different company, and I could wear them, but not to a business meeting.; Again, they're too big and don't approximate a tailored look).
I suppose I should get some colored socks.
I'd love to own a pair of shoes. I found a company in Bolivia that handcrafts them all at about the 200-250 $ price point. I have a narrow foot and narrow isn't an option (edit to use the word- expectable). But considering the price of shoes, so what.
I'd like to buy a couple button down linen shirts with collars but they're $$$.
I got tired of having 3 pairs of shorts to wear (other than now my 2 good ones that sit in my closet) so I bought 3 pairs of dark brown chino looking color, but 100% cotton, relaxed, not tailored fit, shorts for $25.
I love them! I've decided to wear them every day. I'm soaking them for a 4th time. I wanted to be done but the chemicals are toxic. That's what you get with 3 for $25.
I never used to be interested in clothes, but I am now, and I'm trying my best to sensibly coordinate my wardrobe.
It's become a hobby, although in truth it's challenging to me, choosing what to buy, and what to wear with what. My main problem seems to be getting them to fit.
I don't have one of those 6' clothes hanger bodies. It hasn't hindered me, and it's not a choice, but it would make clothes shopping a whole lot easier.
I can still remember my mother taking me to shop for clothes on Main St. In Pawling, NY. There was a tailor, a cobbler, a watchmaker, and a small department store.
I could use a tailor but couldn't afford one in today's world.
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You don't own a pair of shoes?
At a small funeral last week (she was a month short of 103), everyone was showing respect in dark clothing; and all men wore ties. Yet noticed I was the only one wearing leather shoes (Hugo Boss).
Guessing cheaper synthetic uppers with rubber soles must account for over 90% of the shoe market.
And trainers now 90% of footwear. This modern way is not only due to prices from asian production, it's much about fashion and style.
My son in law has Nike trainers costing £700, the price of a pair of shoes handmade by elves in Nottingham. -
It's sad!
My mother used to take me to this shoe store I mentioned every year when we were shopping for school clothes.
They'd measure the length and width of my feet, and I would have the right size after choosing a pair.
They would add insoles to help correct the fact that my feet needed to lean more inward instead of the reverse.
That level of customer service for the working and middle class is a thing of the past.
I always had shoes, sneakers, and snow boots.
Living in Hawaii and Florida for so many years in total, you get used to being able to wear casual clothes.
For one thing it's hot in the tropics and sub-tropics, and for another (especially in the tropics but here too), any object that doesn't have air circulating around it will mold.
This is only mitigated by direct sunlight.
Fortunately, we have an abundance of that here because the Florida peninsula, by the time you get to Tampa, to Key West is a vast plane, barely above sea level.
In other words, there are no mountains to block the sun.
I can't describe in words how bright it is here. I'm a native and never noticed it until I returned 25 years after leaving.
It's oppressive to my eyes now but.. always a hat, a stick umbrella at some point, and prescription glasses that turn into sunglasses automatically as soon as I stop procrastinating getting them.
I have the best quality sandals (a Hawaiian brand) and a pair of NB tennis shoes that I keep spotless.
I guess they're technically shoes but you know what I mean.
I really want an actual pair of shoes.
Welcome to the World of Beckett Simonon https://share.google/ROqQ2ikKQmRpyYZ4R
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I want to buy from this company and I want my shoes to be black.
My short list:
Anders Split Toe Derbies - Men's https://share.google/XYHBOy4Xucd18XGxC
Camden Derby - Men´s https://share.google/LG2OE1JTlTWQIcaxs
(The soles are kind of ungainly though)
Dunham Derbies - Men's https://share.google/HAmLmDH5uL4F3ENPL
(Not bad.)
Leonard Monkstraps - Men's https://share.google/IjfWPC3xScXC9jDrS
Love one strap Monk shoes. Maybe too formal for what I need.)
Sutton Derbies - Men's https://share.google/c08TAUtIBE0i3eFGk
(Could be.)
I plan to choose one.
Then you need socks. You need pants. You need a belt. All of it has to coordinate with your top(s). And it all has to fit.
It never ends.
I'm having fun.
I used to have a uniform in high school. Sneakers, white socks, jeans, a 2 button polo shit (with a collar).
Then my James Dean uniform in college. That was fortunately intuitive. I didn't even know it was classic American style until a good friend of mine explained it to my best friend in school who had claimed I had, "no style."
I will say in all modesty, a 21 year body isn't hard to dress. All I was doing was taking the path of least resistance.
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And the winner is...
Dunham Derbies - Men's https://share.google/Vad6RXEm3qLYav7v3
These are a Derby style and that's great. It makes them more practical than more formal styles. I like them. I can't buy something especially something expensive if I don't like it.
Now comfortable, whimsical socks. Lol!
I'm starting from the bottom. 🤪
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