For many women, the answer to this question is a resounding yes. According to a study conducted in England, the average woman has 12 items of clothing in her closet that she’s holding onto in the hope that they may fit again one day.
The study indicates that the top 10 most commonly unworn items filling a woman’s closet are:
1. Jeans
2. Pants
3. Bras
4. Jumpers
5. Vest tops
6. Knickers (clearly these are all British women)
7. Shirts
8. Jackets
9. Skirts
10. Bathing suits
In many cases, these 12 items of clothes are worth more than $450.
Wow. I’m not sure that I have $450 worth of clothes in my closet at all, much less that much in clothes I can’t fit into. Talk about a waste of money.
Or is it? Say these women get rid of this clothing from a leaner, fitter time in their lives. Now, suppose these women actually take the weight off one day. They’ll have to fork over all that money once again to replace all of these items of clothing they’ve so callously discarded due to:
A. A lack in confidence that they can actually take off the weight
B. Maxing out their closet space
C. Simply being wasteful
D. All of the above (for some of these women)
It would seem that it is more cost effective to just hold onto those clothes, like so many women apparently do, in order to avoid having to splurge on a whole new wardrobe every time you drop a couple of pants sizes. I suppose this is the logic behind the hording of clothes that will never fit again.
Or perhaps these items of clothing serve as motivation for some of these women to hit the gym and shed a few pounds. Doubtful, but you never know.
Most likely, the vast majority of these women will be able to hang onto these items of clothes for decades without ever being able to fit back into them. I know this is cynical, but let’s face it – most people tend to gain weight, not lose it, as they get older.
And of course, there is one other question that must be raised. How long can you hold onto certain pieces of clothing before they are no longer fashionable to wear and would make you look utterly ridiculous? If you still have those neon pink tights in your closet from the late 80s hoping you’ll regain your college figure, it might be time to admit that even if you could fit into them, you would never in your right mind even consider wearing such a hideous outfit.
Right about now, you may be wondering what this has to do with plastic surgery. Believe it or not, I’m actually wondering the same thing. The truth is it has absolutely nothing to do with plastic surgery. I just thought this was an interesting piece of useless information that points out the absurdities we cling to each and every day.
But I suppose it is possible to relate the findings of this study to plastic surgery, albeit tangentially. So here goes…
If you are one of these poor women hopelessly holding onto a bygone era of your life when you were slim and fit, all hope is not lost. There is still a way you can fit into these clothes again, justifying the valuable real estate they occupy in your closet:
- Liposuction – to get rid of all that fat keeping your pants from closing properly and your shirts from fitting comfortably
- Tummy tuck – to help get rid of the love handles protruding out of those skin tight jeans and help you rock that old bikini again
- Breast augmentation – to take attention away from the fact that you really won’t ever properly fit into those shirts again, and maybe to help you rock that old bikini too
- Buttock augmentation – this probably won’t help those tight pants fit any better (in fact, it’ll probably level the crushing blow which gets you to admit that they will never fit again), but at least you can rock that old bikini with a little more style and a bit of a badonkadonk
I think I’m starting to see a pattern here. I suppose my underlying message is toss the clothes. It’s all about rocking that bikini once more. Hmm. Maybe this would have made a better blog for July than January.
Of course, it would probably cost you much more to get this plastic surgery performed than it would to just pony up and buy some clothes that actually fit you. Ah, the cruel irony of plastic surgery – it’s never a bargain, no matter which way you look at it.
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