The piece of clothing you have owned for years and simply refuse to get rid of, functional or not

[Dark Hawk]

Everyone has one, an item of clothing well past its sensible lifespan, faded, stretched, possibly holed, that you have flatly refused to throw away despite every reasonable argument for doing so. Tell us about yours and mount whatever defence you have, logical or entirely emotional

The reasons these survive are rarely about the clothing itself, it is almost always attached to something, a period of life, a person, an achievement, a feeling of comfort so specific that no newer replacement item has ever managed to replicate it despite objectively superior condition

There is a real comedy in how these items get treated by the rest of the household, banished to gardening duty, hidden from visitors, quietly rescued from donation piles more than once, the clothing equivalent of an ageing pet that everyone agrees should probably not still be around and nobody can bring themselves to actually remove

So confess your item, how long you have had it, the state it is genuinely in, and the actual reason underneath the jokes, because these things usually reveal more about what a piece of clothing means to us than any fashion choice ever could