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

[~clover~]

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! 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.

I don't currently own an iron...

[LuluHB]

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.

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

[Miss.September]

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!

[Epacris]

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.

[wysiwyg]

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.