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How do you handle buying clothes?

cratermoon 6y ago
That's a tricky one, but it's solvable, if you're willing to give up the idea of having new and different styles regularly. Find a style & brand you like, figure out what size you wear and just buy that. You might have to send something back until you nail it. For people with odd size requirements like me (I'm short), shopping online usually means you can find a better fit, because stores tend not to carry much outsize the most common sizes. Shoes are a great example: A size 7.5 (US) is about the biggest I can wear, sometimes a size 8 if they run small. The "standard" mens size is 9, and you can find lots of styles in size 9 to 11, but rarely anything smaller than 8. Guess what? that shoe is made in 7, but stores don't carry it. Sometimes the maker will discontinue a line though, which means a switch. Shoemakers are notorious for this.
- disgruntledphd2 6y ago
  So yeah, re-buying clothes/brands is fine. But I spent a bunch of money on clothes online and ended up with stuff that is nice, but which feels weird (and with some too-small pockets). I don't really know how one can solve for these kinds of issues online, even if we could CV together what clothes would look like on people (which is at least theoretically solvable with current technology). And fwiw, clothes are like one of the things that everyone needs to buy, so online only is almost certainly not going to happen in this space.
lacker 6y ago
I just buy them online like anything else, in the same size I always wear. I had already stopped buying clothes in-person before the pandemic. I guess I am normally-shaped enough that I don't run into problems with things fitting this way, but certainly this is more problematic for some people.
- disgruntledphd2 6y ago
  Yeah, makes sense. My trouble is that I'm in between sizes, so I tend to either end up with too small pants, or many, many belts.
chadcmulligan 6y ago
My daughter buys clothes online all the time. They have free return now if they don't fit.

That's a tricky one, but it's solvable, if you're willing to give up the idea of having new and different styles regularly. Find a style & brand you like, figure out what size you wear and just buy that. You might have to send something back until you nail it. For people with odd size requirements like me (I'm short), shopping online usually means you can find a better fit, because stores tend not to carry much outsize the most common sizes. Shoes are a great example: A size 7.5 (US) is about the biggest I can wear, sometimes a size 8 if they run small. The "standard" mens size is 9, and you can find lots of styles in size 9 to 11, but rarely anything smaller than 8. Guess what? that shoe is made in 7, but stores don't carry it. Sometimes the maker will discontinue a line though, which means a switch. Shoemakers are notorious for this.

disgruntledphd2 6y ago
So yeah, re-buying clothes/brands is fine. But I spent a bunch of money on clothes online and ended up with stuff that is nice, but which feels weird (and with some too-small pockets). I don't really know how one can solve for these kinds of issues online, even if we could CV together what clothes would look like on people (which is at least theoretically solvable with current technology). And fwiw, clothes are like one of the things that everyone needs to buy, so online only is almost certainly not going to happen in this space.

lacker 6y ago

I just buy them online like anything else, in the same size I always wear. I had already stopped buying clothes in-person before the pandemic. I guess I am normally-shaped enough that I don't run into problems with things fitting this way, but certainly this is more problematic for some people.

disgruntledphd2 6y ago
Yeah, makes sense. My trouble is that I'm in between sizes, so I tend to either end up with too small pants, or many, many belts.

chadcmulligan 6y ago

My daughter buys clothes online all the time. They have free return now if they don't fit.