If your Dh owned this coat, would you make it mysteriously ‘Disappear’

[Cantbearsedwiththosepeskyelves]

I hate it!

He has lots of lovely clothes, new coat this winter, but always pulls this horror out. A hillbilly, scruffy, donkey jacket.
I realise it’s up to him what he wants to wear and he’s a grown man and it would be wrong for it to mysteriously‘Disappear’

But…would you make this coat mysteriously disappear?

I hide my dh's vile red t shirts under a pile of other clean ones.

But to the poster who mentioned her husbands beret 😂😂 I’m sorry, that’s way worse, that would be getting thrown on the fire

Would I want it to disappear, oh hell yes.
Would I facilitate its mysterious fate, nope. But only because DP could say the same about quite a lot of my wardrobe. And fairs fair, if I lob his stuff, he gets to lob my stuff.

I wouldn't feel guilty about carefully laying it under a whole heap of other coats/clothes in general hoping when it resurfaced in 2039 it was no longer wanted.

That recent? It has a 70s vibe for me, worn with shoulder length hair and flares, kind of Bay City Rollers era but without the tartan.

Could you just hide it until spring?

I don't have a husband, and I don't care that much about clothes combined with having zero fashion sense or sense of style generally. But I do remember comments that relatives and close friends have made to me about things - both complimentary and not. Like the time as a fairly young child I came downstairs in red trousers and a pink jumper and my mum sent me upstairs to change because I clashed so much! And when family members gently took the mick of my wearing overly short trousers, because I just genuinely didn't realise it looked silly. But when a friend has said that colour really suits me about a top, I take note and would make an effort to pick out things like that again in the future. Maybe it doesn't work for everyone but I could be quite easily be steered into things with a few compliments about how that shade of green matches my eyes and that sort of shape of jacket suits me!

Love the idea of calling him Delboy every time he wears it.

DH had an antiquated suitcase he insisted on using.

He got rid of it very quickly after I nicknamed it Jacob Rees Mogg.

It's got a very 1970's/early 1980's vibe, does he go full on into that look or is it just the coat?

Just show him this and say, "I think that dog has exactly the same jacket as you."

Then he may stop wearing it...

No! My mum made my favourite jumper "disappear" when I was like 18 and I still haven't forgiven her, I wore it all the time I loved it, and she was sick of seeing me in it, it's his he likes it, live and let live

@PlacidPenelope No wears it with normal clothes of now 🤷🏻‍♀️

😁
They were perversely fashionable for a while in the late 70s and early 80s, like those lumberjack shirts, which always had to be 3 sizes too big!

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles 😂

Just what I was thinking

Perhaps slowly stitch it tighter around the seams (shoulders and waist!) until he thinks it doesn't fit anymore?

@TTPDTS definitely has the best plan. 😂

L would have to walk on the other side of the street if he wore it!

That is horrendous.

Buy him a new coat for Christmas. One that's a nod to his old beloved coat but is a bit more presentable?

Cheap -

https://www.joebrowns.co.uk/weekend-ready-coat-ja733?store=GBP&glCountry=UK&glCurrency=GBP&utmcampaign=&utmadgroup=&utmkwd=&utmsource=google&utmmedium=cpc&utmcontent=&utmcidCjwKCAiArva5BhBiEiwA-oTnXbUngqEZbXdSTCSze5WPcNXd9b2mnQq3xDUYcaRpB0CDJ5rCLX9LxoC-xEQAvDBwE&gadsource=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD5kyI1-wtDYm0GEsh0Du05sa27W7&gclid=CjwKCAiArva5BhBiEiwA-oTnXbUngqEZbXdSTCSze5WPcNXd9b2mnQq3xDUYcaRpB0CDJ5rCLX9LxoC-xEQAvDDBwE

More discerning -

https://www.lakelandleather.co.uk/product/hawker-sheepskin-flying-jacket-in-chocolate-brown-653?variant=89&gadsource=1&gbraid=0AAAAADjKmIIhkclHv2CIUk6w9HDelUtGb&gclid=CjwKCAiArva5BhBiEiwA-oTnXcCWhfDqvoEaJviDmuLy5zOVir7giYHu2uWEpYp4rlllKlGKgK7phoCtK4QAvD_BwE

DH had a red jacket (bomber type) that he wore, and wore and wore. It had gone threadbare around the collar, had rips in the arms and was ready for the bin years before I persuaded him to dump it in there. Drove me mad.

So he went out unsupervised and bought a "smart wool coat" in his words. Now he looks like a fecking undertaker. I'm longing to misplace this thing.

It's horrible but it is his coat and he can wear what he wants. I had a partner who used to generally dress very well but had a few outfits that I thought were naff but I never said anything other than to comment on the clothes that i thought looked good. I am sure most of us have a few things that we wear for comfort and warmth that don't cut it in the taste and fashion stakes.

Me too! 😆 as long as it doesn't smell musty.

Looks like a nice warm coat, the type that should be kept in the boot of the car for emergencies.
Make up a just in case bag for the car, torch, cereal bars, socks, hats, gloves anduggest he adds it in as an extra coat for warmth.

YABU to call it a donkey jacket, cos it’s not! My DH had one like that, and it was nice and cuddly at first but I remember how scruffters it got in its later years…
He now wears a lot of Harringtons, which don’t suit him, but my hints fall on deaf ears 🤣

As a point of information from someone old enough to know-that's not a donkey jacket.

And a pair of clumpy platform shoes

I think the "serious people" daily read threads on MN where the OP is subjected to behaviour that is nothing short of heinous. And where some of that behaviour occasionally includes their partner controlling what they wear.
So I think if your thread is really supposed to be light hearted I don't think you have " read the room".

My husband had a few awful t-shirts that had to go...