When do you buy new clothes

I try to set limits with myself because I love to shop!

I can wear a pair of jeans a touch longer with a belt, but I just purchased two new pair of dress pants because I feel it important to feel pulled together and professional in my field. I want to make a good impression!

I purchased a workout outfit from Fabletics when I started in MFP. I told myself I was not allowed to buy myself anything new workout related until I hit my next group of 10s - I am 2.8 lbs away

However, I do want my weight loss progress to show because I feel better and more confident that way vs wearing clothes that still may hide that fact or make me feel frumpy. So I will purchase a new top or two, but not a whole wardrobe as I continue on this journey. I like to shop at 2nd hand stores (Clothes Mentor in my area) that have gently used clothing for a more affordable price. I bring my outgrown clothes there to sell, and often use the money I make as spending money

When my friends started an "intervention" for me. They basically thought I looked like a hobo too! Then I went to Goodwill and got some stuff. Was too expensive to get a whole new wardrobe every few months. And when I went down another size, I'd take the clothes that were too big to Goodwill. Worked for me!

Wearing clothes that fit your new body boosts your self-image. Going around in baggy clothes does you no favors. I realized this when my son took a photo of me in a favorite church outfit and I saw just how baggy the pants were...which in turn made my butt look baggy.

I have a friend who lost 70 pounds a couple of years ago. We were diet buddies (I lost about 20). He bought his transition clothes at the Wildflower, a nearby women's crisis center thrift store. He had a basket next to the closet. When he'd pull on a pair of slacks and they would just fall off, they went in the basket, along with shirts his mother and I condemned. When the basket was full, the clothes got donated back, and he came home with a new set. I maintained he didn't so much buy his clothes as rent them from the Wildflower.

I have a couple favorite thrift shops and church rummage sales I frequent. It's a cheap thrill to put on a pair of jeans or a new jacket that really fit, in a size smaller, and just as big a thrill to have to donate them back because I've un-grown them.

I'm poor so I rarely (if ever) buy new clothes. Thankfully, I have friends who are slightly smaller than I am who always need to give away clothes, so I get theirs!

There's an idea! Find some friends a size smaller, and a size larger, and start an exchange!

I would have to find petite friends, though...

I avoid it until the situation is desparate.

This reminds me that I need to find some jeans. I can pull my current ones on and take them off without unzipping or unbuttoning them. I bought them about 17 lbs ago, and I lost a lot of my weight from my hips first.

Fortunately, I haven't had to buy a lot of stuff until recently. I had so many different sizes in my closet that I have just been able to pull out some of the older stuff to wear. After 6 months and 66 pounds lost, though, I have finally run out of smaller sizes in my closet and had to go buy things recently. Second hand stores are currently my friend, although I will splurge and buy a few new items. It's a nice way to reward myself for my hard work.

My clothes are starting to get pretty loose on me. I'll probably buy new clothes when it starts to look really awkward and feels weird to wear. I don't really want to dish out a bunch of money for that though, so I'll be waiting for sales haha

When my current clothes were falling off, and I would buy the next size down, so it was tight. And I skipped off season stuff (basically went from size 16 to size 8 jeans in September, and now the 8s are starting to be annoyingly loose). I didn't even buy tops (except a couple $3 t shirts) until I only had 10 lbs to lose. Basically all I've bought that doesn't fit anymore are three pairs of shorts and a swimsuit from last Summer, and a couple bras, those size 8 jeans will probably not fall off anytime soon so I'll probably keep wearing them as they are not too loose at the leg.

I get away with wearing loose tops for a while longer than pants (probably because they don't just fall off!). I buy new pants when my workmates tell me that my current ones look terrible. They're good and honest like that ;-)

Like lots of the others here, I'm buying my "interim" sizes from second-hand stores, and donating the ones that are too big for me now.

The day my boyfriend told me I looked like a hobo. Seriously. :laugh:

haha, same here! (except it was my colleague)