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Can't relate. No Ren-Fair costumes? No gardening boots, gloves or shirts? What about hiking clothes?

I own about 4 mundane shirts, 3 pairs of pants. That's it. Not much to track for me.

Sometimes I wonder if people notice that I wear the same 4-5 shirts over and over every week. All of my long sleeve shirts were bought I think from Sears back before their fall, so my cost-per-wear has to be astronomically low by now.

I was wondering about my costs too, but since I didn't obsessively track how many times I wear a single item a more simple analysis is annual cost divided by the year. $150 spent annually on shoes. $150/365 = $0.41 daily.

Guesstimating your costs: 5 shirts $20 to $40 each (guessing Sears costs) $100 to $200 annual cost or $0.27 to $0.55 daily costs for shirts.

Anyone who is bothered by that is not someone you should care about

'noticing something' is neutral. 'bothered' is indeed not the way.

If someone notices it in a neutral way then why does it matter? I’ve noticed colleagues wearing the same t Shirt repeatedly and not put any more thought to it

it doesn't. that's the point. the comment I was replying to was down-voted and I suspected people misread exactly that.

Unless clothes are dirty or you smell bad, people really don't care about your clothes, you're not the center of the world.

Agree when we are talking about random people on the streets and fleeting encounters. But, for example, I would not go to an interview in sweatpants and flip-flops. There are also social situations where I expect my counterparts to be dressed with more care. It is not necessarily the right way to treat people but I've witnessed several times someone being judged in professional situations for very wrinkled, old threadbare t-shirts, as an example.

Mine is a European perspective.

This is absolutely true. Even then, if you only need it for those occasions then that takes up a very small part of the wardrobe. A single outfit of formal wear and a small selection of normal wear is what my closet looks like, would imagine most people in the world have wardrobes like that due to the expense of clothing. I do like wearing it when I have the chance, though.

I was dating this one person who works in fashion. All my clothes are neutral basics, so I can just wear whatever on any given day and look similar but vaguely different. Said person picked up on my entire wardrobe once noticing I started recycling items, probably on date 6 or 7, and let me know hahah.

I guess some people have a knack for detail about such things.

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