What is the oldest item of clothing you possess? Why do you keep it? Does it fit?

[notyummy]

Just interested!

I'll start....I have a pair of black jeans bought in 1993. I haven't worn them in YEARS but I try them one once a month just to make sure they still fit, and then feeling smug, consign them to the back of a drawer.Or feeling plump, I stop eating as many pies until I fit into them again

DH thinks I am barking....

Oh...and interestingly. They are a size 12, and the size 12 jeans I have tried on over the past 6/7 years are considerably larger than the old ones. Sizes are definitely changing.....

I have an old white t shirt thread bare saying new york a bit rock and roll and from my youth! Dp won't let me get rid of it he loves it. It still fits. I also have a missoni multi coloured poncho very light and pretty I wear it every year had it since the late 80s

I've got a Miss Selfridge white cotton blouse with pearl buttons and a huge lacy shawl collar. I think it's from about 1976. It comes back into fashion every 6 or 7 years I find. I have had to mend the lace panels occasionally though.

Fifteen year old miniskirt from Italy I think. And yes it fits again

I have an iridescent green skirt from my post-punk modernist days. No, I can't fit into it . My excuse is that I'm saving it for dd. Should she wish to spearhead the post-punk modernist revival.

I've a few "vintage" things, mainly from the 50s and 60s but they fit, so don't have quite the same pathos.

I have some 1960s ray ban wayfarers which I got from a car boot sale for 50p.

As for my own clothes. Well, at the millennium my mum bought me some novelty knickers from M&S which say something like '2000, the morning after the night before'. Let's just say the morning is now usually after a night up with a vomiting toddler or breastfeeding baby...

Apart from a T-shirt from when I was a student in 1984 (dunno why I still have it), maybe a pair of boots from 95 that I still wear - had them re-heeled once, but still going strong. Shellys

The poster who said her "memory dress" was too precious for the dressing-up box has reminded me that my mother used to let me dress up in her wedding dress (pink chiffon mini) and play fairies in the garden in it. And she had a white fur coat that my sister and I used to use for games of "polar bear" (don't ask).

A t shirt I bought from uni when I graduated in 1992 still use it for running. I consider anything less than 5 years old as new.

Bloody hell - an old one of mine resurrected! I still have them! Tried them on last week actually

I have quite a few evening dresses that are now 12/13 years old that I will probably keep for DD. She may hate them all, but she loves at the moment....but she is 4!

Ooh. Is it a mistake or is it the return of the thread-resurrectors?

MrsOnslow, chatting about bastyan seems to have been the resurrecter.

Is it time to keep our eyes peeled for secret messages again?

animula, your mum sounds dead cool

I never had the storage space to keep old clothing so used to just get rid.

Regret it now because even though I have no intention of wearing a plastic silver skirt so short that it had in-built hot pants ever again it still would be nice to pull out and reminisce and think wtf were thinking

Also was really upset when I realised i'd got rid of my Kappa jacket (I had it when it was cool so no laughing! ) It would make a great fancy dress outfit.

So yes back to question... I think the oldest must be my wedding dress. It wouldnt fit me now because it was altered to fit my ribhump and extremely short torso.

bigTillyMint - We have some great pictures of her presenting trophies and things in mini-skirts and calf boots. It's odd really because she was incredibly unmaterialstic as a mother and deplored forms of vanity by the time I knew her. Hence the laid-backness with the clothes, I suppose.

I have a short grey cardi i used to wear to the pub at 18 (1991), still wear it now at 38 (but only for work) love it and it's not out of shape at all.

Just reading this thread out of interest, when huh?? did a double take at SummerRains 2nd post... didn't anyone else notice?

SummerRain Doesn't wearing it make you feel a bit anxious or anything? Obviously i don't know the details, but just wanted to acknowledge what you said, and i hope no long term damage was caused

My christening dress, kept it thinking DD would be put in it but ended up buying her one, the dress was actually made from my mums wedding dress too!

sUMMERRAIN

OMG - I missed that. Good grief, SummerRain, I'm hoping you're OK now, too.

Yes - so did I! Wow, sounds awful.

Size 10 Miss Selfridge velour dress from 1989 still fits .
DH has a Julian Cope tour T shirt from 1985 which I wear for gardening occassionally