I avoid it by only buying the same type of sock so all socks are matching socks. One develops a hole, it gets thrown out but goes back into the magical pool of socks

I really don’t appreciate you making assumptions about my personal relationships

You've communicated you're not able to conceive of loving relationships which can use words or phrases lovingly that, in other public contexts, would be hurtful, disrespectful, or insulting.

and frankly I think it says a lot more about you than me.

It possibly might. I learned this lesson long ago in my 20s. I assumed most people did too. If you haven't yet and you've made it well out of your 20s and haven't learned it yet then perhaps I matured faster, but I don't think that's the case. I think most folks learn this around that time in life by observing healthy and loving relationships of others.

For the record I’ve been with the same person for over 15 years.

Then certainly by this time you have to understand that not all loving and healthy relationships operate internally the same, yet they can all be loving and healthy. Why do you assume that the way your relationship, that follows the rules in your relationship, is the only one that could be loving and healthy? You're looking at the private conversation between a father and daughter and casting judgment that the father is disrespecting his daughter. I think that says more about you than it does about them.

Encourage, or just enable?

I've never heard of Shein telling anyone to do it. I just know their prices are so goddamn cheap you COULD do it if you wanted to. Some people probably do. But I suspect a lot of people just want cheap clothes and will wear them until they have holes in them (which even for Shein clothes has to be multiple wearings usually I'm pretty sure)

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in the form of men's clothing.

I know it’s irrational, but I feel “off balance” if I wear mismatched socks 😭

You could try purchasing a Morton's extension to add to your shoe to see if that changes anything.

It's a thin piece of carbon fiber that you add under the insert/liner of your shoe. It helps prevent the hyper mobile joint from exceeding its healthy range of motion, and helps load the ground force reaction across the medial column of the forefoot a little more evenly. You can usually find them on Amazon for like 10-20 bucks.

By stealing my perfectly fine and wearable rough work clothes, claiming they are 'unfit to wear'.

You forgot the stage after garage clothes, that would be PJs. Then it gets turned into a rag.

Pretty much. Except the earth part, that's littering (even your sheep wool bamboo flax shirt has some sorts of plastic).

We just threw out a whole pack of adidas socks. After just a few house of wear, made both me and my wife’s feet smell like 3 day old road kill. We decided it was some shitty blend of plastics doing it.

I had to walk down an embankment to a river to wash my feet before bed on a camping trip because I didn’t want them in the tent with us.

This isn't a gender thing, it's a working-class thing. Let's not get divided unnecessarily divided.

I'll just get like 6 same pairs, if the old are out because of holes, so no problems with missing pairs.

I think PJs goes before garage clothes, not after

For me they are interchangeable. Garage clothes and PJs are often the same stage.

Some people have to realize that men usually don't waste clothes. If it's ruined in one way, we recycle it in another way.

OK, I'll put that under "exaggeration for emphasis".

"Are those oily stains on your crotch, are you an octopus and happy to see me?"

I’ve communicated no such thing. I stand by the only thing that I have said in this entire thread: using “Women” as a pejorative term is not required for a good natured ribbing. And I didn’t assume anything I asked if it bothered anybody else as much as it bothers me all you had to say is no it doesn’t bother me as much as it bothers you but you didn’t say that you’ve continued to try to equate it to using other pejorative terms. And I’m still not sure what that has to do with pointlessly gendering people or why you are now accusing me of exactly the kind of assuming you have been doing this whole thread.

"Garage clothes" is a peculiar way to say "make loads of cool sock puppets"

I still feel like there’s a way to explain to somebody a thought process they might not have thought of without needlessly making it a gender thing. But again maybe it’s just me.

Having gotten some Temu clothing as gifts, there are two main materials I've seen. One feels very much like a rough cotton, like the material harem pants are made of, and is mainly in the shorts/pants I've gotten. It's a cotton poly blend, and one is the material of the shirts. They're super stretchy and elastic, like a spandex almost. The pants and shorts end up with holes quickly as they rip near (but not on) the seams, and the shirts seem to actually last even if snagged because of how stretchy they are.

I wouldn't advise buying from them or anything, just saying that they're not exactly single use.

I get what you are saying. But in this context this is kind of like a “dad joke.” Do we think being pedantic about the terminology is really reinforcing some kind of negative gender stereotype here? Or minimizing the working class?

“No, these oily stains are from the Italian sub I’ve been eating in bed, not the car I was working on earlier.”

And ultimately goes to the landfill, since no recycling facility is going to attempt to extract the plastic from your flax shirt.

So it does return to the earth. The only difference from “littering” then is just the location.

"KISS ME YOU FOOL"

Lemmy cannot stand jokes while we currently live in a world.

From rags to bitches

From bags to witches

Man what the fuck, you live a wild life

i still have tshirts i bought in my 20s. the collars of a couple of them are starting to detach but theyre still wearable

Huh? Which part is strictly a working class thing?

There's a large spectrum between "I'll wear it until it falls apart," and, "I've never worn this but I need space for new clothes so it's going to goodwill," and working class people fall all over it.

Women generally tend to be the ones who will more frequently refresh their wardrobe. All you have to do is go to a thrift store to see the difference between genders. The women's clothing section will be massive, and the men's section significantly smaller.

Chew you havisfaction a singleicious satisfact to snack that up?

I stand by the only thing that I have said in this entire thread: using “Women” as a pejorative term is not required for a good natured ribbing.

We all understand you still believe that. You're welcome to continue to hold that belief. I believe you're too limited in your thinking, but you're welcome to that too.

And I’m still not sure what that has to do with pointlessly gendering people

Multiple people including me have attempted to explain, and you're not getting it. I don't know what else we can do to help you understand. I think we have come to the end of any productive conversation on the topic. I genuinely, with no sarcasm, hope you have a good rest of your day.

More like a manual labor thing tbh. Plenty of working class folks who are no less working class but don't need to cycle through clothes

Yeah, I was a exaggerating a bit, but the waste of clothing and environmental damage is real. I saw it in a documentary. And Shein's website is (or used to be) full of greenwashing.

This is the cycle even for me and I'm independently wealthy. Wealthy as a horse, if you will.

(I have many leatherbound books.)

I have that problem too with polyester socks. I may have those same adidias socks, and I primarily use them for gym/workouts. My daily driver socks are cotton in the summer and merino wool in the winter. Both of these are Costco branded and are lasting years and wearing well.

In the German documentary I've watched a few years ago it definitely looked like their business model was selling their customers insane amounts of cheaply produced clothing by encouraging them to change their outfit super-often, hence the term "fast fashion". They even pay influencers to promote this wasteful trend as "Shein hauls". And they steal designa from artists

They can also be turned into crop tops

I will never cease to be amazed about what people on Lemmy can get offended at. Today it's a lame joke about old clothes.

Best quality linen is spun from flax fibers and has no plastic.

Source: Relations farm where they grow flax for linen and plums for Slivovitz

My son loves the goodwill women's section. I swear that kids gonna be a fashion designer or a runway model.. if I can keep his ass outta jail lol 😓

My favorite shirt is sitting on the top shelf of my closet because I can’t bring myself to downgrade it to a rag. It has a hole on the armpit that I could fit through😂

Jesus Christ

I've started retiring sentimental shirts early so they don't wear down like that. They aren't really shirts anymore, but shirt-like objects tied to memories.

Here's a video essay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6R_WTDdx7I

my best shirts and hoodies have the diablo 2 etherial tag on them

That's exactly how I manage my clothes.