I was talking to my cousin the other day while we at the Eid mela and she was complaining that she has to get new clothes for three up coming weddings. So I asked her why can’t you re-wear some of your past outfits (last year from our cousin’s wedding).. So her reply was “I can’t re-wear clothes because the pics are on facebook and people will think we’re poor and have no money”. I was seriously SHOCKED. Pakistani clothes, especially ones for a wedding aren’t cheap and and I’ve re-worn most of the outfits I got made for my cousin’s wedding. I can’t fathom spending hundreds of dollars on clothes and only wearing them once.
So how many times do you guys re-wear outfits? Does it bother you when people notice that you’re wearing something “old”? Do you think people are judging you? I never even thought about this and it’s never bugged me to re-wear something.
I re-wear them a lot. I don't live in Pak so don't get to buy new clothes all the time. I can't justify buying a 10,000pkr ka suit and only wearing it once.
When I have things lined up back to back I usually pull out my older numbers from past events. This year I needed to restock but unless its a major close family or friends event is when I'll consider buying something. I didn't like re wearing items before either, but now its just crazy to spend that much money on outfits for a random community wedding. If the weddings are next year no one will remember what she was wearing from two years ago. She sounds like an unmarried girl. :) Unfortunately married ones usually get brought back to reality lol. I usually plan it out accordingly to repeat outfits for events that a certain crowd may not be at. Its funny last year my fb albums werent posted by event, but by outfit at the end of the summer haha. What can you do, but Im not that picky about it ANYMORE. :) Different crowds, same outfits.
Oh yeah she’s unmarried and 22 … I’m also unmarried and 27 but I don’t think this way. Her whole thing is that the pics are on fb so people will see it and judge her because she re-wore clothes :halo:. My aunt whose married and in her 40s said the same thing.. that people will judge her and as a doctor’s wife she needs a new outfit every single time.
well it depend upon every1 as my cuzn also thinks that an she think only colths are imp for life nothng else and branded things but i dont think this to much becoz in the end the imp thing what ever u wear looks good on u this is imp and for repeated colths i do re wear what if pics r post on fbk
As many times as I can. I haven't gotten anything made ever since i got married because my MIL makes all my outfits and since she loves getting them for me, I have so many that have never been worn but are already a year old!
I don't get this thinking of not repeating outfits! If I really like an outfit, I'll repeat it several times!
I have a friend who (along with her mother and other women in her family) always repeats their outfits. MashALlah the family is far from poor, they just have different priorities and that's fine.
Even though I don't really repeat outfits too much (mostly because I have so many that I want to wear them all!), people who think repeated outfits = poor are....idiots....
But I do take care not to repeat them too much if I'm i'm the same circle....facebook or not. (thankfuly not all of my relatives and inlaws are on Facebook....even though no one I personally know even cares :D)
My logic, if I rocked the outfit once, I for sure can rock it again. It's all about attitude.
I actually "amortize" my expensive clothes and figure out how much each wear cost me and the lower the cost, the bigger the bang for my buck. I'm lucky in that I've got a bunch of different groups where I can wear it. So even a repeated outfit doesn't feel repeated.
And quite frankly to the cousin who's concerned about a pic showing an outfit was repeated, the easy answer to not having a facebook duped outfit, don't post your pics on FB.
This sounds bad but I refuse to wear an outfit at a wedding infront of the same people. Maybe coz I buy too many? If I wsn't so greedy I probably would wear them again. However there's always new stuff coming out and I want to keep up to date
If I love my outfit I wear them all the time! I've currently worn 2/3 outfits repeatedly to different people's houses as a newly wed. And even though I do have a load of clothes I don't wanna wear a brand new outfit to just go for chai at someone's house! The clothes my mum got made were expensive and I wanna get the most out of them! I re-wear all the time. If people wanna comment on how many times I've worn a so and so outfit well I couldn't care less!
Ahhhh it's good to be a dude. Get some quality savile row pieces, mix and match with shirt, tie combo. Get quality classic shoes and properly taken care of they last for years.
Stays in style, significantly better quality, and none of the issues of having been seen with it. :-)
If I love an outfit I WANT to wear it again!! esp if the circle isn't going to be exactly the same - its more sad to worry about what other people will think!!
style and confidence come from not caring. weather you're wearing something again or something random - its how you wear it that matters.
If its a close family/friends wedding then I like the excitement of wearing something new but if not then i am happy to rock something worn once before, particularly if the circle will be different!
My sentiments exactly. I get how some people may want to wear different outfits, but I hate the whole ‘wear an outfit once and then buy a new one’ mentality. There’s poor women in Pakistan who can barely afford any new outfits in several years.
I have outfits that are several years old (I even have my lengha from my sister’s wedding 12 years ago, I still fit into it! ) and which I pull out at various weddings/parties and which look fine.
Anyone who sits there looking on FB saying ‘oh didn’t she wear that to a wedding last year?’, well that’s just dumb.
It's my** super fancy clothes** that I don't wear enough. Outfits that I have spend oodles on for a wedding that I just don't wear again that are too fancy to wear on parties.
But the good thing is if you hold on to them, they actually come back into fashion 10-12 years later!
The rest of them probably a good 20-25 times - even more for some outfits.
) and which I pull out at various weddings/parties and which look fine.