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To think no-one in real life has ever walked around in a boyfriend's shirt the morning after?

122 replies

CroccyWoccy · 12/02/2024 14:33

Standard movie trope of morning after a romp. Woman wandering around in the man's work shirt making coffee and looking sexy.

Has anyone actually done this in real life? I've had my fair share of romps and this has definitely never come up. Maybe I never dated enough men who wore shirts?

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OnOtherPlanets · 12/02/2024 16:18

Oh, I did! Only it wasn’t a crisp work shirt, it was a green lumberjack sort of one, and it suited me! I did also once see off a one-night stand from a NY hotel room wrapped in a crisp white sheet, also. Whereupon I went back to bed till checkout time…

galliverstravels · 12/02/2024 16:21

I have done that loads when I was young. Made me feel very sexy so I got into the habit of it. Only one guy didn't like it, he was highly unimpressed that I'd put on his most expensive shirt. In my defence I wouldn't have known which ones were expensive and he had told me to help myself to a top that morning WinkSmile

Londontown12 · 12/02/2024 16:28

Yep I have when I was 19 thou !! First dating hubbi 48 now so nope not anymore !
No Spare clothes so used it to have breakfast ! Then got dressed scarpered home hahahahah ! X

SootysCaravan · 12/02/2024 16:31

In my young, tanned, slimmer days. As a slightly larger 30 something I’d look like I’d pinched Aladdin’s waistcoat

Pasithean · 12/02/2024 16:32

Err yeah.

vidflex · 12/02/2024 16:36

When I first started seeing my dh I put his football shirt that he'd been wearing the night before on to go get us a coffee downstairs. When I came up and he saw me in it he went mad! Id ruined it! It could never be worn again!. I'd cursed it lol!. He was honestly devastated the prat.

ohyesido · 12/02/2024 16:37

I didn’t think anyone actually used the word “romp” in real life other than Deidre Sanders’ ghost writers 😆

CroccyWoccy · 12/02/2024 16:52

Queenmaker · 12/02/2024 15:44

Who calls it a "romp" in 2024 except the Daily Mail?

I don’t think I have ever used the word romp before, and probably never will again. It just seemed to fit the scenario!

Closest I’ve got to the Daily Mail is getting old copies from the neighbour to line the litter tray, and frankly being pissed on by a cat is a fate better than it deserves.

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Dorriethelittlewitch · 12/02/2024 16:52

As a student I was contracted to work Saturdays from 8am. I had form for turning up somewhat hungover wearing high heels and the current bloke's rugby shirts (work clothes kept in my locker for such eventualities). No clue why they pushed so hard for me to join their graduate training program.

I used to go out sober in my dad's old RAF shirts teamed with just doc Martins and fishnets though. What men (and some women) find attractive never failed to surprise me.

ErnestCelendine · 12/02/2024 16:54

I did as a somewhat affected 19 year old, only as I thought that's what sophisticated grown ups did (too influenced by 90s romcoms).

ErnestCelendine · 12/02/2024 16:54

I did as a somewhat affected 19 year old, only as I thought that's what sophisticated grown ups did (too influenced by 90s romcoms).

mapleriver · 12/02/2024 16:56

When I was younger I would steal one of his shirts for the walk of shame home if I couldn't remember where I threw mine. I remember picking up a hitch hiker once and wearing my boyfriend's trousers as a wrap dress for decency 😨

LakeTiticaca · 12/02/2024 17:05

Not me but in a house share many years ago one of the sharers girlfriend used to do it and it always irrationally annoyed me 🤣

SpikyCoconut · 12/02/2024 17:05

I've done it several times, I'm gay though! I've dated a lot of masculine-presneting women and they've always seemed to like me wearing their stuff. Just the other day I threw DPs T shirt on with nothing else because I'd slept naked and needed to go and let the dog out and her T shirts are huge on me, was like wearing a dress.

I also once was asked if I'd put an ex's football shirt on, the 'morning after' to go and make coffee. Didn't think much of it but turned out that her housemate and her had an 'in joke' where, if they'd had sex they'd send their gf downstairs in a football shirt. No football shirt meant, no nookie.

I found it quite funny though to be honest-fortunately!

CaramelMac · 12/02/2024 17:18

No, mainly because I’m quite tall so I’ve never gone out with anyone tall enough to have T-shirts that would look like a dress on me 🤣

TooMuchRedMaybe · 12/02/2024 17:42

BucketofTeaMassiveCake · 12/02/2024 16:16

Never, the thought of wearing someone else's clothes makes me feel a bit icky. Apparently, men find it sexy, not for me though.

I am definitely not always logical so I’m not shaming you but you are OK having sex with the guy, but not wear his shirt afterwards?

dancinginthewind · 12/02/2024 17:58

I'm reading this, eyeing up DH's work shirts that I've just finished ironing and wondering if I can be bothered to try and see what it would look like. As I know it wouldn't be Julia Roberts like but don't need to know exactly how far away it is from Julia Roberts, I'm going to resist.
There is hope that DH's shirts might actually do up. Previous boyfriends were all drainpipe like in their thinness and I am pear shaped so it would have looked ridiculous. Writing this, and I am getting horrible flashbacks to when I tried on a jumper belonging to 6'4" drainpipe like ex's jumper.

phoenixrosehere · 12/02/2024 18:04

DH outgrows a shirt it becomes mine if I want it. Been borrowing his clothes since we got together so over a decade now. Just got a new shirt that was not to his liking last week.

2024theplot · 12/02/2024 18:29

I've done this plenty and so have my friends. The man's shirt is usually much easier to throw on for breakfast than my clothes from the night before

LoobyDop · 12/02/2024 18:30

It doesn’t work in practice. The only day of the week you’d both wear a work shirt the day before and have time to ponce around in it the next morning is Friday night/Saturday morning. And who would wear a work shirt on a Friday night? Nobody I’d go to bed with.

jen337 · 12/02/2024 18:30

No to the shirts, but I would also have said no one outside of tabloid journos ever used the term “romps”.

IggOrEgg · 12/02/2024 18:31

A shirt, no. His hoodies, yes. So cosy 🥰

2024theplot · 12/02/2024 18:31

Also at uni, when staying at friends houses or after a hook up, I'd quite often meet other women in the kitchen in the morning in the shirts/tshirts of the guy they'd slept with the night before. I'd forgotten about that 😂

2024theplot · 12/02/2024 18:33

LoobyDop · 12/02/2024 18:30

It doesn’t work in practice. The only day of the week you’d both wear a work shirt the day before and have time to ponce around in it the next morning is Friday night/Saturday morning. And who would wear a work shirt on a Friday night? Nobody I’d go to bed with.

Have you never been on a date somewhere classy enough to have a dress code/expectation that men wear suits?