Do you wear clothes (Jeans specifically) that are tatty looking?

For the last two decades (and perhaps longer) I would never, ever wear Jeans with rips, holes or worn patches outside the house (I would also never, ever wear tacksuit pants outside the house). However, since DS2 came along, I find that at least once a week a wear a pair of jeans with a rip in the knee. I feel extremely uncomfortable about it. I think it is so tatty and uncouth. But they are just so bloody comfortable and bloody Jag (they are Espys) have discontinued that style (don’t worry, I have been constantly and bitterly complaining about it to my local retailer) so I can’t just go and buy another pair. I would fix them with a patch but then I’d have to get the sewing machine out (you know, to do a really good sturdy job of it) and well, I just CBFed.

Gah! If you see me, I really am lovely, I really don’t like wearing tatty clothes, it’s just where I’m at right now.

Anyone else do this / feel like this?

Yeah, you're in good company ;)

Except tracksuits pants. I wear them sometimes.

Kinda. Because of my epic tree trunk thighs, my jeans always wear at the inner leg seams first. So nobody really notices, or do I think.

My only exercise pants have just done the same. I have the fabric to make another pair, but also have a serious case of the CBFs.

I have some jeans with torn knees and I think they look funky :b:.

I have to agree. I even try to avoid jeans that have those rub marks on them or "creases" around the top of the thigh. I don't really get it. I did buy some maternity shorts that had little rips in them but only because it is ridiculously hard to buy decent maternity clothes. I also wore my trackies a lot when I was pg for the same reason. But they didn't look too trackie like. They fooled my FIL anyway :lol:.

Yep. That's me too. I can't wear anything in public that isn't ironed, unstained and without holes/rips.

My DH on the other hand has no problems wearing his tracky dacks with the rips in the bum and/or knees together with the polo shirt that is covered in chlorine out pretty much anywhere :rolleyes:. I know they say opposites attract, but there are some opposites I'd like to eliminate.

Gosh I guess it depends on what floats your boat really. I think the sporty look can be hot, plenty of people wear their gym gear down to the shops before or after a work out which may include trackies :dunno: As for the jeans, there's a time and place for everything and life is about being comfortable not impressing everyone around with what clothes you are wearing. Having said that life is also about self expression and if you don't like it then yeah, back to whatever floats your boat :)

I just threw out my favorite most worn out jeans ever! They were awesome but very well tatty by the end.

I still wore them out tho. Lol. They were awesome haha.


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No. I don't wear tatty clothing. DH has jeans that he bought with rips in them. I really don't understand why. I sometimes feel like sewing them up ;)
My favourite jeans are about to die so I feel your pain.

I only own one pair of tracky pants and I only wear them at home when I am not expecting anyone to see them.

No, I don't because I don't think I am one of those people that can pull off the 'sporty' look (in trackies) etc.... I always try to go out with nice jeans & a top or pants, skirts etc... even to the shops (plus you never know who you are going to bump into). I usually wear make-up too, but today I felt very unwell, so went without

I only wear trackies at home and I don't own any jeans with holes/rips in them. I think tattered jeans can look quite good but I don't think I could pull off that look lol!
Twice a week I do kinder drop off in my gym clothes though (leggings and tracksuit top) because I go straight to gym from dropping DD off and I CBFed getting changed once I'm at the gym (plus that will mean I'd be late to my class as I only just make it in time). DH on the other hand is another story lol :rolleyes:

Yep. I don't mind jeans with worn patches and frayed hems. But I don't wear ripped jeans because I like to be warm! I used to never, ever wear trackies out of the house but I have done it a handful of times in the past few years.

It never occurred to me before that someone else would call that "tatty" and make a negative judgement on me.

Well I used to work for a jeans manufacturer so I have a large number of jeans and quite a few have purposely designed rips or patches on them so yes I do but they are $300 jeans and meant to be that way :lol:

I also wear trackies out and about especially if I am going to/from the gym and running errands. I also work as a swimming teacher part time so I always wear trackies when riding to work there.

Generally other times I do try to make an effort to look ok - but dressing for work in an office 4 days a week does get tiresome so I like to hang out in casual gear on my days off.

Well I used to work for a jeans manufacturer so I have a large number of jeans and quite a few have purposely designed rips or patches on them so yes I do but they are $300 jeans and meant to be that way :lol:

I also wear trackies out and about especially if I am going to/from the gym and running errands. I also work as a swimming teacher part time so I always wear trackies when riding to work there.

Generally other times I do try to make an effort to look ok - but dressing for work in an office 4 days a week does get tiresome so I like to hang out in casual gear on my days off.

I never iron anything, but at 35 I can't pull off ripped jeans, but I love my Jag jeans and if they wear out I'll probably have trouble letting go.

I have worn a lot of tatty cheap clothes in recent years due to lack of money and I've felt quite depressed about it.

Not since I was about 21 when I used to wear my brother's ripped jeans. There was a time I wouldnt be seen dead in trakkies. I wouldnt even wear them at home but I got over it because they're comfy. Otherwise I try to avoid being seen in public in trakkies unless I'm exercising or dropping DH at the station (but then I'm in the car anyway).

I have recently moved to Boganville though, so noone would blink if I did go out in public looking like something scraped off the street. I try not to, even on my CBF'd days. It just gets me down.

I try not to wear tatty things unless they are designed that way or are a very comfortable pair of heavy denim jeans. I don't have the body at the moment for ripped jeans, I used to love wearing my male Levis jeans, that had rips on the knees and legs. I will not wear jeans ripped across the buttocks area.

I'm currently running & walking, so expect my ripped-jeans-worth body to be back this year, will go hunting for some 2nd hand Levis when I'm in the States.

Even my exercise wear will be delegated to sleepwear if they start to look tatty.

The shirt I'm wearing now was originally black but is all sunfaded :lol: If it's comfy gear then yeah I'll keep it long past it looking amazing but I don't wear it out.

Um... I feel like such a dag! I can't afford not too. As long as my bum isn't hanging out, I wear whatever. I wear trackies out of the house. I don't go out for lunch/dinner etc in trackies, but I do leave the house in them.
Pretty much all my clothes are from op shops to start with! :lol: I only buy good condition op shop clothes, but I'm not that picky.
I have no nice warm jackets, so if I have to go out in the cold, I'm stuck wearing a hoody. I have no boots, so its thongs or running shoes til I can get some. I'm hoping I can get some soon, but chances are not good.

:lol: I don't currently own an iron...

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Yep. I don't mind jeans with worn patches and frayed hems. But I don't wear ripped jeans because I like to be warm! I used to never, ever wear trackies out of the house but I have done it a handful of times in the past few years.

It never occurred to me before that someone else would call that "tatty" and make a negative judgement on me.

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I wouldn't/don't judge someone else wearing tracky dacks or ripped jeans etc - just that I can't wear them myself. Doesn't make sense I'm sure, but I don't look at anyone else negatively, but feel that if I were wearing something like that then everybody would be looking at me and judging me. My own insecurities I guess.

I tend not to notice what others wear unless its something particularly gorgeous if that makes sense - not that the person is stunning, but what they are wearing looks really good ITMS

ETA: I do judge my DH because I know that he's just lazy in how he dresses, has decent clothes he could wear if he chose to, and that what he's wearing isn't supposed to be ripped - its just old and dingy

Clover - another one here who can't afford to replace. My most favourite most comfy jeans, which cost me a whole $35, ended up with a tear in them after coming too close to some wire. I didn't wear them for ages, wearing older, more uncomfortable ones. In the end, I put a tear in the other leg and wear them with black leggings underneath. They look as though the leggings are part of the jeans. It's the first time I've worn jeans with holes in them, but I couldn't afford to replace them. Saying that though, the bottom of all my jeans at the back end up pretty frayed - I don't like to get them shortened when I buy them because then they end up too short if I'm wearing boots with a heel on them, so they do get frayed when I wear them around the house without shoes.

I wear trackies in the house, but not out of the house. I did once, and got busted by a girl I've known since I was 3, but hadn't seen her in a couple of years. I was mortified. We'd been working around the house and gone to Bunnings, so it wasn't really a big deal, but it didn't feel good all the same!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I should clarify that when I say “tatty”, I’m making a value judgment about myself wearing those sort of clothes only. I don’t necessarily look at other people (wearing those sort of clothes) and think they look tatty.

And I buy lots and lots of our family clothes at op shops too. Op shop clothes are most definitely not necessarily tatty. :D

I wear whatever including 'tatty', trackies - whatever is easiest,comfiest and quickest. I don't care what other people think. Sometimes I do like to dress up but in general I don't seem to have the spare brain capacity to think about it or care and I hate shopping so really have to be forced into it. Some people look great effortlessly I am not one of those people, in fact I often think I look my best when looking disheveled - e.g. at the end of a weeks camping trip with no showers, all muddy after a bike ride etc etc.