O Faithless Garment

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The opposite of Tom's thread about clothes you do not tire of. Clothes you bought in a moment of madness and have only worn once / never worn but refuse to chuck out just in case. I am very guilty of this thanks to sample sales with glam evening dresses a tenth of their proper price, I tend to forget my mundane existence and imagine I have a glittering array of cocktail parties ahead. Hence red satin halter dress, J-Lo stylee very very tight blue and green tropical print dress, etc. etc.........

― Emma, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

White t-shirts which seem such a good idea - so cool, so clean, so plain - and which I always feel huge in. A fabulous brown satin chinoiserie skirt which is and always has been too big to wear decently, can't get rid of. I worry tht I'm keeping it in case I get even fatter - what kind of idiot psychology is that?

― Ellie, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A tight green long-sleeved polyester shirt I bought in Oxfam four years ago. For some unknown reason, I decided to wear it one night to a club to which I knew a girl I liked would be going.

Three years and five months later, she's still my better half. Aaw.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And I've never worn the shirt again, despite its evident properties.

I'm also a lot chunkier, mind.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

See I used to think that about the 70% discount dresses. But now I wear them anyway and sod it if I look over dressed. It's coats I make mistakes with. I think 'ooo, that looks warm' and neglect to notice that wearing it look like a potato (but a potato with a sparkly evening gown underneath.)

― Anna, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anna, my friends would not thank you for suggesting I turn up to the pub in an evening frock. They would refuse to sit with me or buy me drinks. However one day I will be taken up by a glamorous and rich set who will throw parties I can tart myself up for.

― Emma, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably any wool sweater I have. Scratchy = ugh.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I got a 70% off top this summer which I put on and immediately thought "hello, male pregnancy" and in the drawer it went. But! come winter I can now put it on and blimey it's comfortable, and now I can put a jumper over the top so it doesn't look so bad.

Other than that I don't really understand this thread...

― Tom, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

True Emma - I suppose my sparkly evening frock collection is more Camden market than Ms Lopez. Maybe I have tolerant friends?

― Anna, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OHMIGOD where to begin? I bought a pastiche racing driver jacket - what was I thinking? a V-neck sweater that was just the wrong colour (bottle green) for any of my shirts and trousers - and a big frilly post-Romo Byronic white shirt which I thought would ROOL during my eyeliner phase. But the collar was too open exposing my overlong neck and I looked like a bug-eyed ostrich. NEVER again. How many grandad shirts androundneck sweaters have I worn once and discarded because I forgot about my skinny neck? LODEZ. Now I either have a clipped collar which goes tight around the neck. Now its mid-50s Left Bank-ish stuff for me! I know where I am, and the roll-necks hide my bendy long neck - I sometimes wonder if I was mistakenly granted an extra vertebra.

― Will, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What Ned said.

― turner, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I gatta thank about noiney roiught! I m very capable of squeir. Will we please look up me dress? Its got a fancy fancy way!

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My big black coat that looks like a round burnt marshmallow...I'll stick with the red one I've worn for the last 4 or 5 years, thanks. Other than that I only buy clothes I wear, although I have ones from several years ago that I don't wear because they're boring.

― Maria, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A lovely black skirt from Hennes that was just a smidgeon too small when I bought it but is now waaaaaaaay too small. But it was from Hennes, so no great expense was involved.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most of my Roy Rogers shirts , i curated a collection w/o thinking about how i looked as a cowboy .

― anthony, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Haiwaian shirt that doesn't fit.

― james, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have tons of cocktail parties and other suitable places for evening - wear but I am scared to take my Pucci dress out and wear it to one of these events, lest I do my normal slobbo thing and spill non- drycleanable shit all over it.

― suzy, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Um, just about every single thing I've ever purchased besides about 6 outfits falls under this category. I used to really dress up for work when I worked at Ticketmaster just to prove I could find a place to wear some of these things. I bought a fur coat that I never wear, I feel like a moron but it's good to own. And this newsboy cap will never make it to my head again - Ramon will wear it, most likely, though I keep yelling "You'll stretch my hat!" as if I'm going to wear it. And all the brown clothes i buy sit in the closet cos I hate brown. I once spent $50 on a Madonna t-shirt that I won't wear because it's pink and I look bad in pink. I have a '40s style suit I still haven't worn cos I want to wear it to the Christmas party that my company probably won't even have this year cos of the problems with our BPC hotel after 9/11. I'm listening to Tiffany right now.

― Ally, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally :
This is the best post you have ever made ! Classic my dear and really you should wear the 40s suit.

― anthonyeaston, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was out looking for a suit once and got sidetracked by a v.nice camel YSL jacket reduced to £100 which I have only worn about once cause I don't have the clothes to go with it. Then there's a SPACE AGE silver velcro-fastened shirt with integral hood from French Connection that I'm sure didn't look ridiculous in the changing room. Then there's the t-shirts I can barely get my head over and which are impossibly tight even on my absurd frame. I think I was thinking I could get away with it in some kind of disco way but my creeping suspicion is that I cannot.

― Nick, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Perhaps the problem is more that you do not know how to get dressed, Nick, rather than the clothes themselves - you are supposed to put the tshirt over your head, not your head over the tshirt.

― Emma, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought this was a thread about Ronan's band merchandise?

― chris, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was going to be O Perfidious Garment but I wasn't sure about the spelling. Or the exact meaning. What a bimbo.

― Emma, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I like Faithless". Apparently this now=I am a goth and more recently I am in Faithless. But of course when I said I had moderately long blonde spikey hair I neglected to mention I also am secretly a woman and that I have a penchant for cheesy crap house music. I am sister bliss.

Going back to this thread, I buy shoes all the time that I don't need. My brother bullies me about it. Recently I bought white converse runners and I never wear them cos I don't like the way my feet look in them. I checked in the mirror. er...I shouldn't be telling you all this I guess.

― Ronan, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmmm, shoes are particular culprits here e.g. strappy black stilettos in which I can walk, ooh, from the canapes to the ladies' room (in my fantasy cocktail life) and purple ankle boots in which I can walk a little further. If I get made redundant like everyone else I am going to learn how to walk in heels and thus become a Real Woman.

― Emma, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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