Does anyone else do this? I have a couple of T-Shirts and a hoodie that originally belonged to friends or acquaintances, and the experience of wearing them feels really charged, like you've absorbed some of their essence or something?
This is probably just me :(
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 20 August 2010 14:56 (fifteen years ago)
i wouldn't say i have an out-of-body experience when i wear them, but there's still something nice (nostalgia? plain old memories coming back?) about wearing something you've inherited from someone else. (i'm assuming the memories would be nice, because wearing clothes previously owned by someone you hated would seem to be a weird kind of masochism but hey different strokes.)
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 20 August 2010 15:03 (fifteen years ago)
i'd probably rather do that, had i gained their clothing through defeating them on the field of battle.or in a poker game.
― oreo speed wiggum (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 20 August 2010 15:21 (fifteen years ago)
It's not just you.
― peacocks, Friday, 20 August 2010 15:26 (fifteen years ago)
although after a while if you wear the items a lot don't they start to become more you? I have a couple shirts from ex boyfriends and I wear them so often I kind of forget they aren't just mine and that they used to mean something.
― peacocks, Friday, 20 August 2010 15:28 (fifteen years ago)
this kinda fades when virtually all of one's favorite clothes are someone else's clothes that they, at some point, got rid of.
still, i remember certain pieces and where i got them. some more than others. i have a lot of dresses that my grandma made for my mom when she was a 20-something in the 60s.
― ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Friday, 20 August 2010 15:33 (fifteen years ago)
it's so cool that you still have those dresses!
― peacocks, Friday, 20 August 2010 18:13 (fifteen years ago)
i have my great-uncle's fez he bought in north africa in the 1950s, which definitely has some totemic / ancestral mojo for me
― lene lovage (elmo argonaut), Friday, 20 August 2010 18:20 (fifteen years ago)
that's pretty awesome!
― oreo speed wiggum (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 20 August 2010 18:31 (fifteen years ago)
i wore one of the dresses to an ilx wedding, in fact!
― ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Friday, 20 August 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)
cute
― peacocks, Friday, 20 August 2010 19:16 (fifteen years ago)
i totally get this, btw
― johnsons in my pubescence, other than my own (the table is the table), Friday, 20 August 2010 19:59 (fifteen years ago)
a big part of the twee-y love of vintage, no? Imagining the lives that were lived in these clothes back when things were nicer.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 20 August 2010 20:01 (fifteen years ago)
i don't get that, really. but when people give me clothes that were formally worn by them, i totally get some sort of weird pleasure from it, like inhabiting part of them by wearing a piece of their clothing.
― johnsons in my pubescence, other than my own (the table is the table), Friday, 20 August 2010 20:04 (fifteen years ago)
i kinda get this from wearing shirts for my friends' bands
― sarahel, Friday, 20 August 2010 20:08 (fifteen years ago)
I have a dress that my mother made in high school for HER mother, and I'm the first person to wear it since my deceased grandmother. It doesn't always look that good on me, but I always feel like a queen wearing it.
― Jesus doesn't want me for a thundercloud (Laurel), Friday, 20 August 2010 20:13 (fifteen years ago)
aww that is really sweet. I have the hospital shirt my dad wore when I was born and I sleep in it a lot.
― peacocks, Friday, 20 August 2010 20:15 (fifteen years ago)
i get this wearing shirts for bands my friends were in in high school
also i have a jacket a friend gave me years ago cause he'd gotten too tubby for it and putting it on puts me in this whole other mindset
― first time ~fruity swag~ poster (zorn_bond.mp3), Friday, 20 August 2010 20:42 (fifteen years ago)