Something she probably got from the sears catalog. I don't wear it (too small) but I have it in my cedar chest. I also have 2 of my dad's favorite sweaters and one of his favorite shirts - probably from the late 70s.

Oldest that i bought for myself? I still have the purple shirt I wore for my high school class photo. I got it from the Limited and it's a gorgeous shirt (mom paid alot for it but she also thought it looked great on me). I don't fit in it now but if I could i'd still wear it - it's that nice of a blouse. About 3 years later a friend gave me a wool skirt that looked amazing with it (purple and green houndstooth). I still have that too.

I also have a pair of 15 year old Dr Martens that I still wear today. I need to find a shine kit for it.

All you need to shine them is some good old shoe polish. Mine still look good as new. Steel-toe, ten hole beauties

And I also have a set of gorgeous 16" cowboy boots in an 8A (which is an impossible size to find) that feel like slippers that are also nearly as old.

I PRIZE shoes and boots that fit well.

EDIT: Here's a pic:

I wear them still. I was -9 in 1974. One of them was made by Levi's, that has to be rare.

I never use them. I'm afraid I'd destroy them.

They're oxfords, very nice & "dressy". His feet and my feet were very similar. They didn't fit any of the other men in our family so he gave them to me. I used to wear them to work. Now days they're my weddings & funeral shoes.

I also have a great grandfather's diamond stick pin. Its not exactly a garment but he wore it in his cravat. It was made sometime in the 1870's. It's in a safe deposit box. I've worn it once.

Both date back to the late 70's. I don't think I'd fit anything prior to that.

from 1990, if I hadn't worn the butt out of them.

I don't fit into my high school jeans anymore (29" waist), but I fit into my 30" jeans again now.

My wife wears the 27" and 28" jeans (big on her) and she's made some nice shorts out of them. She also wears tank tops. I like having a fox for a wife.

One was stone washed, the other was dark blue. I literally wore the butt out of both of them to the point of obscenity. I stood up and ... well, it all hung out. LOL. Thankfully I was wearing underwear.

I like sitting out in the garden while she works. Yum.

Such as a hat and muff that someone dear to me gave me some years ago. I like vintage clothing and have gotten some nice pieces in Manhattan (a mecca for anyone interested in vintage items).

it and hope to fit into it one day.

http://www.kaliyana.com/eng/home.html

three items they are selling right now.

Fisherman's sandals that I still wear. They are built like a tank.

But basically, I can't give them up because I've waded in them, climbed in them, gotten groceries in them, and have worn them damn near everywhere for 12 summers, and I'm not inclined to give up on them. They still look great, despite the rugged treatment and the miles they have seen.

I am still trying to clean them up for sale. Though they have never been worn and are still in their original boxes, water got to them at some point and made them smell kinda mildewy. Most are rubber so they can and will be cleaned.

It looks great, and I've had it for about 10 years.

Unfortunately it doesn't fit any more, but I can't bear to get rid of it.

Ww2 clothes and some british army ww2 overboots. Crap loads of real old stuff thats held up good. Still got a pair of combat boots issued to me in the eighties and most of my uniform odds and sods.

Shame on Kinney's.

It's a little tight.

I also have my prom gown from 1965.

Those shoes are really cool, a work of art! If you had the box, they would probably be worth a bundle on eBay!

Majorette boots! The kind that had the big pom poms on the front?

The prom gowns were kind of poufy in '65, weren't they? I remember the neighbor girls' gowns.

I have my prom gown from the 70's. It kind of looks like a tablecloth!

I designed and made my prom gown. It was a shiny gold lame fabric, not poufy. V-neck, long and straight. I had brief delusions of becoming a fashion designer.

from the mid 50's, and also my dad's rain coat from about 1960, and his cuff links, and a number of vintage thin ties. When I get dressed up I convincingly look the part of a Mad Men character.

79 - 80ish


First time I ever got drunk - the manager brought in some champagne for a christmas party...


I have some concert t-shirts from the late 80's but none of them fit me. The oldest thing I can think of that I still wear is Morbid ANgel shirt from their 1995 Domination tour.

They might be worth something.

maybe you could make some cash.

I don't know about you, but I get emotionally attached to stuff and have a hard time parting with it!

for me when I was a baby. It's pink with pink satin lining. I'm now 66. I brought my daughter home from the hospital in it and she brought her daughter home from the hospital in it. It's pack away waiting for the next generation.

I also have a prom dress I wore sometime in the early 60's. My granddaughter wanted to wear it to her 8th grade dance so we got it out, took it to the cleaners and she wore it -- looked lovely on her and it tickled the hell out of me that she wanted to wear it!

All contents that were in her purse when she died in 44, including her lipstick, are still in her purse.

It's probably 30 years old or so.

I tee-shirt from a pledge drive. The public TV station was less than a year old and they were introducing a new british comedy series...the Monty Python show. It is thin and worn, blue with brown writing and says 'Monty Python is a twit' in a word balloon. The man saying that is the classic Georgian dressed English gentleman. Classic 1978-79. I say had because I gave it to my daughter who appreciates vintage tees and begged me for it. Never thought to sell it on e-bay. Also have some vintage WWII women's clothing. The dress tailoring is exquisite sailor style dress. I save and gift the really nice pieces to folks that can use and appreciate it.

my first husband bought me when we started dating in the fall of 1970.

Good lord - this is the first time I've realized exactly how long ago that actually was.

beat that!

my great great grandfather, who fought in the Civil War.

Do you wear it?

We have other items of his too - his dog tag - made from a gold coin - I was told that tinkers would follow the troops and make these tags, his wife's hair ring (that's kind of odd) it's a gold ring, and on the inside is her hair and you can see the hair through the design in the ring. He lost his leg in the war, and my Great Grandmother and her sister would play with his "spare" legs.



and this is my GGG Grandfather - we also have his discharge papers, and all sorts of memorabilia

Regarding the hair ring, in Victorian times it was common to incorporate the hair of loved ones in jewelry and even embroidered samplers (the type that you hang like a picture). The Victorians had a morbid relationship with death, probably due to the high mortality of children.

Here's a site that's about hair jewelry. There's even a ring there.

http://www.hairworksociety.org/

I was wearing it last spring, and a man offered me $100 for it.

Is a cardigan sweater that I got for Christmas in 1962. I still have it because I took it to work in 1968 to keep in my desk. It remained my "It's cold in the office sweater" until I retired in 2003, when it came home in a box with my other personal items.

It is in good condition because I never wore it much, and there were no moths at work!

No pic, but it's soft and meant for the SF Winter. Made in Ireland.

VERY warm

1930's.

It's 12 years old.

If you don't know what it is, here's a pic:

I have a uniform shirt I wore when I was an Explorer Scout in 1974 and my cap & gown from high school graduation in 1975.

Does that count? If not, I have my (and still wearing) a gold/diamond toe ring my oldest sis gave me in '85. I lost it once in a hotel pool in '99 when traveling for my oldest son's baseball team. I reported to the desk I'd lost it in the pool and about a month later, the hotel sent it to me when they cleaned the pool filter.

at the end of the year. 1986.

Worn by my dad in the second world war.

Looks just like this:

I bought them in 1979 at the MGM auction.
They don't fit anymore and are pretty ratty but I still have them.