What do you do with clothes that don't fit you anymore?

Well, previously, in losing weight I have hung on to all my clothes! I grew back into them. So, this time I am donating everything to a women's shelter. I would love to have them altered, but as I get smaller the clothes themselves just remind me of what i used to have to wear to "cover everything up". I just gave away my last size of clothes. I am in the last size I own and when I lose more weight, I'm going to have to shop! I will probably shop thrift stores to save some money on all the transition clothes. I'm saving up for the real shopping trip when I am at goal.

This probably didn't answer your question. Altering them is a wonderful way to save money. Especially if you have work clothes. They are usually expensive! Good luck!

You're probably better off buying some new bras. I would think that if they are super loose, they may have lost their ability to support you anyway so you'd want something that works better. I know I've bought stretchy exercise bras that work under my work clothing at Target. Basically, I'm going to buy new ones as I shrink.

For regular clothing (jeans and stuff), that can be easy to fix. You can look in the phone book for a seamstress or tailor. You can also contact some higher end stores and ask them if they know of anyone they send people to for modifications. If not, the phone book will most likely have some. They can take them in for you. I'm going to probably do that as I drop weight. Jeans aren't too hard to take in at the waist (hard for you and I thought).

i alter anything i can - bra backs - i cut off the catch and and carefully re sew int onto the band - the metal catches will shatter a sewing machine needle - learn from my mistake. tou can also shorten the straps

pants i alter a little at he side seam or a lot at the back crotch seam

(careful here of side and back pockets) and take the waistband of first then alter it to fit the new size pants

skirts: i normally just take of the waist band - sew in a dart and then replace waist band ( slightly shorter) or if it is a pencil skirt i follow the original shape and just reduce a bit on both sides. ( taking off zippers is a pain so sometimes i dart and then adjust the seem lower down)

Edit - i even turned and old massive t-shirt into a pair of hot pants for pole dancing in!

Cut them up and use them as rags for the car and house

I've been giving most of my old clothes away to whomever wants them or to Goodwill and getting what I can for cheap at the thrift store. I'll go for real clothes shopping once I get to my goal weight.

I keep a couple of small piece to see how far I've come but I mostly either donate my old clothes or wait for a clothing swap and swap out for clothes that fit me.

I got rid of my old bras and invested in the Genie bra. I have quite a few pairs and I love them!

I keep a few items that i was wearing in my before pictures ready for my after pictures so i can do the typical "look how massive my clothes were" pictures

I still wear some of my biggest shirts for exercising in, i use them daily as a constant reminder how much i have changed to my size now

The rest i donate or recycle

I donate it as soon as it gets too big. I don't want to grow back into them.

I donate them.

For ages I didn't have enough money to buy clothes as I got smaller and was in the in between stage, even from second hand stores so I put darts in EVERYTHING, I mostly went down the original seam and just made it smaller. Some t-shirts I added darts to make them look a little more flattering at the waist and shirts I followed the original dart and just made it bigger (to make the shirt smaller)

It wasn't fancy and it wasn't the best sowing job but it worked and I felt good about it. After a while somethings were not fixable, but have fun with it, shorten some sleeves to make an old blouse, new

Trousers I'll get altered (usually by Mum as she's a dab hand with the sewing machine :bigsmile: ). Tops I'll keep wearing until they look huge and if they've not worn out, will go to charity. Underwear gets chucked and I buy new :bigsmile:

Saying that, given I've not reached the end of my weight loss journey, I'm buying most of my 'new' clothes from charity shops. I was highly amused recently to see a top I'd donated actually on the rail of a local charity shop and a woman exclaiming over what a good find she'd just made :laugh:

Give them away, donate or sell on ebay, depending on the brand & condition. I had a lot of brand name jeans that I bought a few months ago that are too big, so I sold them on ebay to get money to buy new ones!

Kept my two largest items. kept only One tub of the nicest things for after I have my 3 baby (we want to try next year) and the rest gave to Goodwill. I don't plan on every being my largest size again, but I know I'll need some for after baby, just not alot. That way I don't have any choice but to get smaller. Hopefully I won't gain much and that tub can just go right to goodwill along with everything else! BUt I've taken 6 bags of clothes so far this year and donated! :-)

Since I had too much nice clothes to give away I've called few charities to come and pick them up (those who offer this service of course), but none of them bothered so I threw everything away. I am buying new clothes very slowly since I am still losing weight, especially bottoms are a pain in the *kitten*, even if my weight didn't change much since I started exercising I lost a lot inches in waist.

I've done a variety of things over the years (lost 100 lbs):

*given to a friend for her mom.

*donated to a charity shop.

*gave to a women-returning-to-work organisation.

*gave to women's shelter.

*rags, made quilts.

*recycled to other wear (work tops become gym tops, sleep tops).

*I now buy pants that fit properly but have drawstrings (all my pjs do), skirts.... all more forgiving clothing for weight loss.

With this next batch I am consigning them. I'm on a budget right now and trying to lose my last 40 lbs. Consignment stores will often give you higher credit than cash. So I am going to do that to keep myself clothed.