When to buy new clothes when you are losing weight?

JenAndSome

If you have the extra money buy new. Then when you need to buy the next size down you can donate fairly new clothes for someone else to get at a bargain. I usually go with thrift stores or hand-me-downs from friends.

mestacy010

Bump bump bump... Single mom on a budget

Pearsquared

I actually love the clothes I got from Goodwill - I've never thrift shopped before, but it was a lot of fun. The only thing I've bought new so far are bras, underwear, and socks, understandably. I need new socks because I wear through mine from all the walking.

shadow2soul

Good Will, Plato's Closet, Thrift Shops!! don't buy new till your to your goal weight!!!

^This. (with the exception of underwear, bras and socks)

I usually wait to buy new clothes until I'm struggling to keep the ones I have up.

edit: I should add that I do occasionally buy clearance clothing. Like the other day I decided to buy a pair of shorts (for the first time in years) to run in and spotted a clearance rack at walmart.

Danskin Shorts : $2.50
and a few clearance shirts nearby for : $3.00

drojen

Yes. Go pop some tags at the thrift shop. :glasses:

Great, now that song is in my head, LOL. I do thrift stores too. I may, on occasion, pick up the odd thing new, but it'll have to be on sale. My pants are getting to the falling down stage (so I bought a belt - problem solved, LOL). I find it's very hit and miss in thrift stores for larger sizes. I'm not going to settle for just any old thing because that's all there is. I'd rather keep wearing my too big clothes. I don't want to spend the $$ on a whole new wardrobe until I'm where I want to be. That is still a long way off. At some point, when even the belt isn't enough, I may have to splurge on some new pants, but we'll see. I know I won't fill my closet with new stuff until I'm at goal. Maybe I can actually learn to live with less clothing in my closet. That really wouldn't be such a bad thing.

bluelena

Old Navy has been a Godsend, for both casual stuff and workout stuff. I shop their sales quite often. I stopped buying their jeans, though, because they're full of spandex and give me droopy-butt after about 10 minutes. I'm working on finding denim brands that don't have as much "give". Instead of jeans this summer, I'm opting for ankle/cigarette pants. They're cute, comfortable, and can go from work to casual - they can work with just about anything. Sandals, high heels, etc.

I usually wait to buy pants until they're falling off, but lately, I've started buying a little sooner. When they're too big, they just look sloppy and actually make you look bigger than you are.

JC Penney and Kohl's have some pretty awesome deals and clearance racks. I just don't go overboard. A pair of pants here, a couple of shirts there.

I have a rule in my closet regarding tops: If there are no more available hangers, there is no room for new tops. It's forced me to get rid of stuff I love but looks bad because it's too big. It's liberating to "free up" space for new stuff. I've saved a few long-sleeved things in case they'll still look good going into fall/winter, but other than that... if it's too big, it's got to go.

I don't buy smaller things that don't fit me "right now", either. My body has changed so much, that it's hard to tell whether something will look good on me or not when I size down again.

Resale shops are awesome, too - as well as Ross/Marshall's/TJ Maxx - but I don't always have the patience to dig through everything to find just a few inexpensive things.

ETA - If you can find a good tailor, you can still keep some of the more well-made things in your closet. Especially pants. I'm lucky enough to have a seamstress mom, so the pants I'm wearing right now will be altered once theyr'e too big because they were kind of expensive and I love the way they look.

thesupremeforce

I've mostly picked up just enough cheap clothing to skate by. It's fortunate, because I'm dropping at a much faster rate than I'd have guessed. Good problem to have, but it makes me glad I didn't splurge on anything.

AurraSing23

I've lost 15 pounds (before joining mfp). So obviously things aren't falling off me yet--but it has been very nice to pull a few things from the rear of the closet and wear them again. I agree with what people are saying hear--buying pants (especially nice ones for work) can be hard. I think I will stick with simple easy fitting dresses & skirts for a while.

I recently read a tip that suggested getting rid of your big things when they no longer fit, to help keep from back sliding. What does anyone here think of this? (So far the scale has moved up over the years and I never dropped more than 10 pounds.)

NeverGiveUpzxc

Wow! Thanks guys, for all the advices and suggestions. I'll try online shopping though, there isn't a lot of thrift shops in Singapore here, even if there were, it would be temporary, make shift kinda-ish and before I can shop there, it will be gone:( I hope I can find some awesome clothes this weekend! Wish me luck! Hahahaha:)

JoRocka

I wasn't planning on dropping weight- it kind of happened on accident- but about 2 -3 sizes and almost none of my clothes fit- and I work in a big office that requires dress clothes- I just started a year ago- so 1500$ or so worth of BRAND new wardrobe barely fits.

I've updated jeans- and purchased a few staple easy dresses at Burlington/TJMAxx- just easier- but I plan on going and having my favorite slacks and skirts altered- and my structured dresses.

WIN- tailors are the bomb.... also going to start sewing again- I refuse to tailor- but I don't have an issue making new clothes.

harphy

I swap clothes at official swap parties or with friends and relatives. As it's expected I shall loose some weight someday (lol!) I will go and look after smaller ones. My goal is one size down.

gmmendenhall

My tubs of clothes that are sizes too small. I have shirts and jeans from sizes 4 to 8 (I packed on a lot of pounds over the last 2 years). Some stuff I am sure is out of style and need to be replaced, but it will do until I am satisfied with my weight loss and size. Luckily my job is a jeans and t-shirt type job that all that matters is that I am comfortable and able to move with my students.

Camera_BagintheUK

I think you should buy clothes that fit now! Whether you go to charity shops or Primark or splash out on pricey designer gear - depends on your budget. I also got given some clothes by a friend.

I felt like a tramp wearing baggy loose jeans, flapping about my legs! I bought a couple of new pairs of jeans in a department store, a dress size smaller, and some cheap teeshirts in a bargain shop, and feel wonderful.

It's taken me 7 months to lose 2 stone, it'll take me a couple more months to lose the next one, so I'll get decent wear out of those jeans and teeshirts in the meantime. But more importantly, I feel fantastic!

Why bother doing all this work if you can't enjoy the benefits as soon as they come! It's part of the celebration, wearing clothes you didn't think you'd wear. You worked for it, you earned it!

BrendaRey74

78lbs down, 78lbs to go! I've purchased the grand total of 1 pair of jeans, 1 pair of yoga pants, and undergarments (and 4 pairs of sneakers!).

My bras still need major engineering and that isn't cheap but I haven't found any way around that. I just buy 4 in the new size and rotate 'til it's time to get a new set.

With clothes, I was the belting queen but finally got to the baggy sad sack stage which is so not a good look! I can sew a straight line (and not much more) so I've started to take in my pants. I just take in the waist of my skirts but they are all full not fitted anyway. Tops are next on my sewing experiment list (crosses fingers).

Honestly it is a good problem to have. I remember too well having to go out and get another bigger size again! Well and that's the other thing, since I've never thrown out anything, I've been working my way back through the smaller clothes that I outgrew on the way up. Now that I'm altering them on the way down, there really is no going back.

dazwan

AurraSing23 wrote: »

but it has been very nice to pull a few things from the rear of the closet and wear them again.

As well as having my weight YoYo for the last few years due to thyroid, I'm also a hoarder, so I'm finding all my old clothes I used to fit into and wearing them again as I'm losing the lbs.

I still look at my suit I wore for my graduation and wonder if I'll get to fit into it again. I guess there's a goal for me to aim for! (that was 15 years and ~56lbs ago!)

kmsnyg

I finally caved and bought a bunch of new clothes, even though I'm only halfway to my goal. I've gone down 3 pant sizes though, so my clothes were literally hanging off of me. I feel skinnier today wearing stuff that actually fits, so it was totally worth it. I got a lot of stuff on sale, too, so it wasn't super expensive.

Shopping is so much more fun when you are in smaller sizes!

SkinnyGirlCarrie

I buy new ones when my husband and kids tell me I look like I'm wearing my grandmother's pants LOL...I usually look for good deals at Kohls, etc and buy a few pieces. It's inspiring to buy a smaller size and keeps me on track and positive.

yoovie

I buy clothing 5 pounds in advance.

galprincess

I buy things at every size but I only had 4 dress sizes to lose and I got a lot of donations from friends I just got 4 key outfits in each size the rest was given to me

galprincess

here we have clothes banks I would bag up clothes and sell or sell on ebay or something then use that money to buy some new ones