to cause some kind of 'freak' catastrophe. . **very lighthearted**

[paddleduck]

In DH'S wardrobe?

I jest, ofc. But I simply don't know how else he's ever going to give up dressing like teenager.

He is 33 next week and his wardrobe includes items such as: Burberry (the original check design) long sleeve shirts in various colours. White jeans (he doesn't understand that you can't wear black undies with them either!) and 'Yankee' hats and a few camouflage print items.. oh and a tracksuit that makes him look like a life sized smurf. He loves his clothes- his wardrobe is kept immaculate. I would never ever say anything to him about how he looks cos that would be mean.. but I can't help but secretly wish he'd dress better to my taste .. wibu to accidentally trip with an open tin of paint/start collecting moths and release them in there/ put bleach in the washing machine instead of detergent?

Please share your husbands treasured clothes that you hate and make me feel a bit better!

I'm tending towards tikimon and thehorse.

My taste veered towards the Pretty Woman when I met DH.

If he'd criticised it I'd had dumped him like a fucking shot. In fact, it attracted him, shallow bastard that he is.

I don't dress like that any more because I understand that what looks good at 23 doesn't look good 15 years later or more.

But I'd be careful about criticising people's looks just in case I hurt the feelings of a really good one.

I prefer to think of it as saving them from themselves.

"Thehorse- perhaps you missed the bit where I said I never ever say anything."

Then I think you're doing the right thing.

My DH could definitely do better . When we got together he possessed only one jumper as "jumpers are pathetic and I'm hard". When I could stand no more of him turning blue in his t-shirt and denim jacket in the middle of winter I bought him a new jumper. And was amazed that he felt warmer! Even now, he won't wear scarves ("they're for wusses. God my neck feels cold..."), or anything like a fleece/t-shirt under his shirt at work ("It soooo cold in my office; like, 17 degrees!!!").

I would like to edit his collection of checked shirts. And striped shirts. At least for work he manages to look okay and has a good collection of ties, a far cry from what he started out with: one for weddings; a black one for funerals.

My ex had issues with money (one of the reasons he is now an ex). He hated paying for anything new at all, and was a nightmare to shop for, he once told me he didn't like and wouldn't wear his new black t-shirts because they felt itchy... His old ones didn't feel itchy, they were so aged they felt damp even when they were dry, you could rip a hole in them with your finger! He also had a pair of shoes, a single solitary pair. He wore them until they were in absolute tatters with plastic hanging off and still refused to spend money on more (I'd like to add here we could afford new things). In the end I got him 2 new pairs and he still insisted that he could wear the old ones "if we aren't going anywhere". I got up early on bin day and tiptoed outside to ensure they were not retrieved!

in an attempt to win the thread

Yesterday dp went to the shop in a pikachu costume as he couldn't find any clean clothes. Not just any pikachu costume, but a shorts onsie type thingy with a tail that was made for a man a lot bit skinnier smaller than he. I have now hid said onsie in the bin in an attempt to save the poor man from himself. The knowing looks I got from the staff at the shop this afternoon may haunt me to my dotage...

Jamaican

Jamaican ..

You most definitely win.

The white jeans have got to go...

Bless him, he was very blasé about it, came downstairs and announced he was off to buy milk and did I want anything? I said (and I quote) "I want you to go back upstairs and put on some actual clothes" to which he replied "I can't find anything clean" well bloody look in the wardrobe then you fool and "I don't care what people think, there's nothing wrong with what I'm wearing" and just went! I love him dearly, but it does make you question your sanity when you are watching your beloved walk out of the house dressed as a giant pokemon

That's brilliant Jamaican

Like gifts. Once something belongs to someone, it is their property. that means that no one else has the right to remove it, sell it, spoil it, post it, bin it or give it away.

Please don't hurt your DH by disposing of something he might value sentimentally.

Well I was going to mention DH's hideous orange and brown dogtooth check trousers, that I was nice about but I loathed them while all his friends ripped him to shreds.

But pikachu wins

We're getting married in a few weeks, I picked the clothing for that

My dh has never bought clothes in 30 plus years

• he prides himself on only wearing hand me downs or stuff folk have bought for him

When I met him he turned up to our second date wearing black trousers 6 inches too short

With white sports socks

A t shirt that was midriff

And paedophiles shoes (an actual paedophiles btw, his stepdad who his mum had thrown his shoes out when he left and dh retrieved them from the bin - 2 sizes too small)

Within 2 minutes of him being in my house I threw a massive hissy fit (I was actually a bit unhinged at the time, he really ought to have left then and there) and dragged him to Tesco to buy clothes

15 years later and he can wear what he likes but if he would like my company he wears normal human clothes

His frugalness only extends to his clothes, stuff he buys, stuff he eats - it doesn't extend to anyone else and he loves buying me and dd things. So he's actually fab.

I threw away a pair of DH's work trousers. The hems had started to come down, so he cut them off and was setting off to work looking like Robinson Crusoe every morning. I still don't know what possessed him.

Oh and new DP needed new pants, he had ordered some as all his were falling to bits but they hadn't arrived on time... So his plan for meeting my family properly for the first time was to fold over then superglue the waistband on the least offensive pair so they were tight again as the elastic had gone...

....and after just now mentioning his pant idea to DP, he has just told me "well it works" and showed me a pair of jeans he has glued the crotch back together on...