Is it just me? Does your OH have no fashion sense?

Alton_Towers

I have had the same conversation with my husband and he doesnt seem phased by it - however in his teens he wore some right old clobber courtesy of Camden Market, eg a silver metallic suit (bacofoil if you get my drift) and guy liner!! Now at 43 he prefers cheap and cheerful from Primark or Tesco, T-shirt and jeans (they were very groovy when I first met him but fortunately he has seen the error of his ways thanks to me buying him new ones). I think its more a question of comfort these days.

hethmar

Yes, dont flash out on armani but as I said previously, M and S, House of Fraser have some really nice clothes in their own labels. Wean him off asda and on to those a bit at a time and I still feel that spending some time staying in an area of fashionable well groomed gents would be a good thing. (Who of us - well the OH's excepted - havent returned from a foreign holiday having taken on even just a few ideas of what/how to wear clothes ? Its a sub conscious thing).

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

The Bloke used to dress like Jeremy Clarkson's offerings for the rag and bone man. Had a lackadaisical attitude towards haircuts and shaving as well.

Then he saw photos of the various respectably dressed people I attend courses with (and obviously chat and have a laugh with).

He is now MUCH smarter.

sofababe

My OH had no clothes without holes when I first met him! I shudder to think how old some of his stuff is :eek: He refuses to pay proper money for clothes, preferring hand me downs from his work supervisor who feels sorry for him :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: When the supervisor knew I was coming for a visit he gave my OH a pair of what appeared to be practically new jeans as he said OH couldn't possibly pick me up in what he usually wears. I don't care. Its one of the things I adore about him. He's juat a laid back sort of bloke:heartsmil. He's very very clean and so are his clothes, they're just a bit...well...old. He decided a couple of weeks ago that he wanted to buy a new tshirt, off to the mall we go, every shop we went in to I hear "HOW MUCH???!!!" Finally we go into a TK Maxx type place where he parted with £6 for actually a very nice, fairly smart black tshirt with a kind of shadow stripe :j We've never been to a "posh do" together yet but I sometimes wonder what he'd find to wear. Something from his supervisor's wardrobe I suspect :rotfl:

Tigsteroonie

ManOnTheMoon wrote: »

Fashion is an individual thing. I think I dress well and as far as I am aware, so do others, but in reality as long as I am comfortable, that's all that matters.

I often see people wearing things I would never wear but it's no business of anyone but the person wearing an item of clothing as to what they wear. I wouldn't dream of telling my OH what to wear, even if I have my preferences as to what she does. It would set alarm bells ringing that she doesn't like me the way I am, if she asked me to change my wardrobe.

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Stop trying to change him, OP. He's happy the way he is. If you're not happy with that, then go out without him. Personally, I think the individual matters far more than the clothes they wear.

floss2

ailuro2 wrote: »

.....Over the last year, now he's 40, he's started to want to dress a wee bit smarter....

My OH started to smarten his casual wardrobe when he became a forty-something & changed jobs to one where he would have to work away from home & socialise with consultants a couple of evenings a week.... he used to check out the mens fashion pages in the weekend supplements with the Times & Sunday Times. Now he wears what he calls the "wardrobe for men of a certain age" - classic dark Levis, tan leather Loakes boots, Ted Baker or Ralph Lauren shirt (he has just one of each) & a greyish green cashmere v-neck sweater.... and you'd be surprised how common that wardrobe is with blokes of his age group!

Would your OH start gently, i.e. looking at the magazines and getting an idea of what is trendy yet classic & smart from TV (Richard Hammond, James Martin, Jamie Oliver, the 2 guys of "Something For The Weekend") to give him hints as to how he can smarten up a bit more to your liking?

I have to admit I am with the others on shopping for him - my OH has 3 items of clothing that I have bought him - 2 plain cashmere sweaters and a Liverpool T-shirt! It's more than my life is worth to dictate what I think he should wear - he is an intelligent man and has the sense (usually) to ask my opinion, but always makes the decisions himself. At the end of the day, he is my partner, an equal - not my son, therefore I do not shop for his clothes.

Fuzzy_Duck

I'd hate it far more if my OH had brilliant fashion sense- I don't find a man following fashions and spending lots of money on his wardrobe appealing. He'd make me look like a scruff by comparison too

I do have to pretty much force my boyfriend to buy new clothes when his are falling apart, or he'd never do it. Even then I still do most of the browsing myself online so he doesn't have to go (gasp!) shopping. I know full well that he will refuse to wear anything he doesn't 100% like however, so no matter how nice I think he'd look in something I don't even go there.

The way I see it OP you presumably saw what he liked to wear where you met him- surely if it was that off putting you wouldn't have been attracted to him in the first place?

I know I'd never complain about what my boyfriend wears, but then if I listened to his comments on what I should wear I'd look like a prostitute...

Mrs_Ryan

When I first met OH his fashion sense was a little er - doubtful to say the least

He'd got rid of a load of stuff his ex had bought him so he didnt really have a lot left, and (most of, not all) the stuff he had left was pretty shocking. He had this one shirt that only had one button on it and he wondered why I was embarrassed to be seen out with him in it :rotfl:

However, his dress sense now isnt bad, he mainly wears smart casual polo shirts at weekends, (he has some nice ones - mind you its mainly me who chooses them :rotfl:) and a shirt for special occasions, or his Tigers shirt if we're going to the rugby

However my bugbear with him is that he wears his jeans WAYYY too tight. In his mind's eye he's still the slim-waisted love god he was 20 years ago, (or so he claims :rotfl:not the balding 39-year-old with a pot belly he is now! He also has some well dodgy grandad jumpers that his mum buys him every Christmas :rotfl: but he wears them all the while!! and his collection of Tigers shirts is quite spectacular- he refuses to give up the faded, threadbare 10 year old one with no buttons left on it! Why he needs it still I dont know - I can understand the more recent ones, and he has some well nice Tigers polo shirts from a few seasons ago that will wear well for years yet, but these older shirts are just clogging up the wardrobe and look sooooooo wrong when he tries to wear them!!!

ariba10

My OH's O H has no fashion sense either.

(And I have no desire to have any either.)

flippin36

My OH wears clothes until they are holey or incredibly tatty - to a point that he is getting complaints at work.... His mother blames me??