You are not going out in that!

[stripeybumpsmum]

Following on from the 'how do you dress your kids' thread, how do you dress your DH/DP?

Yeah, I know in this age of equality we wouldn't dream of being told what to wear by the blokes. But since my DH seems to be genetically hard wired to loathe shopping and be inclined to be tight with the cash (very proud of being a yorkshireman), he'd be wandering around in the same 'but I've only just bought it' ten year old jumper. Frankly, I'd much rather buy the stuff for him and surreptitiously dress him (bless him, if it is on the top of the pile he wears it unquestioningly).

From conversations with sils and friends, seems I am not alone in having to dress a grown man.

So what happens in your house? Is your man a style god? Takes a healthy interest in the Boden catalogue? Spends his leisure time reading Vogue? Or more Compo than chic, has a healthy interest in Autotrader and spends his leisure time bemoaning the death of Gary Gygax ? (if you don't know, don't ask)

I buy dh's clothes. Also go through his wardrobe and discard items that are falling apart or don't fit anymore, as he seems oblivious to these things.

MIL has a habit of buying my DH hideous clothes that a pensioner would be embaressed to be seen in, I have to hide at back of wardrobe and take to charity shop.

SIL buys my DH trendy fashiopnable clothes that he just looks plain ridiculous in, another trip to charity shop.

Don't think I have ever seen DH look in a mirror to check what he's wearing.

DH in uniform most of the time - means he doesn't have to think about what to wear! Scrubs up nicely in a suit, and normally is in jeans and poloshirts or moleskins and a decent shirt when home. Gliding kit in the summer though - I never seem to stop washing it!

Forgot....I buy most of the casual stuff, he picks his jeans up in the US, and the moleskins etc are from the UK when I get back there. He hates clothes shopping, so I go and scout it all out, and then he comes and tries the stuff on if necessary. He tells me this a far more efficient use of his time - less time away from his beloved glider he means! He can however spend hours on line looking at buying things for the glider and the car, and then spending a fortune on them. I have developed a footwear habit in self defence.

DH goes to River Island and M&S about twice a year and replenishes his wardroble with identical copies of the shirts/round necked jumpers/chinos he's worn for the last 20 years.

I wouldn't dream of buying his clothes.

Oooh, I forgot he goes to the States a lot and often comes back with 3 or 4 identical shirts. He buys v. expensive shoes, though.
basically he looks like a tramp but I love him.