What's the oldest thing in your wardrobe that you still wear sometimes

I have a sweatshirt and a light weight jacket that are both ~25 years old, and a red sweater that my daughter gave to me as a Christmas present in 1980.

But I was talking to my oldest brother yesterday, and he wins the prize - his son is 52, and he has a pair of shoes that are older than his son. He thinks they are 54 years old. Nice pair of Florsheim wingtips. They never go out of style...
 

The difference between men and woman is just this. Men like the old jeans, shirts, shoes. They're comfortable, friends. Woman on the other hand feel the need to wear uncomfortable cloths because it is the fashion. Sorry, no thanks! knock yourselves out. Give me the 3 tear old jeans, washed x number of times. Slip them on and I am "home". :)
 
I wear mostly Levis and flannel shirts. I love comfortable, soft clothes that have been washed many many times. My oldest item is a pair of perfect fitting Levis that are about 20 years old. Tend to buy good clothes and get my money's worth of wear out of them rather than worry about fashion.
 
An ankle long mink coat with none of the usual stiff insides. A car coat made for me while I spent a couple of months with my folks while SO was on the road. Mumsy picked it up for me, paid for it and claimed it. She never wore it. It ended up with me years later and turned into what it was intended to be - A wearable blanket. One pocket heads to see a furrier.

Sunday morning. SO tells me to throw on a coat and get in the truck now. Satin PJs, mink coat and a movie matinee of Cars. He made one promise he always kept - I have never been bored.
 
I have two leather jackets that are about 25 plus years old. I wear them on occassion. My wedding dress was the last old thing that I still had but a few years ago, I donated it to an organization that makes special garments or gowns for babies that had died.
 
I have some colour dress shirts that are 20 to 24 years old that I sometimes wear. Look after things and don't over wear or wash them and they will last a long time. It's good that they still fit. My trousers, on the other hand, are relatively new in comparison. Mainly because I probably wouldn't be able to fit into my older ones these days.

I have an old body warmer jacket of my dad's that I sometimes wear. It has various badges sewn into it, that represent the driving tests he took, and other assessments of his driving taken by the police. Badges such as The Advanced School of Motorists, & for another driving test conducted by the RoSPA. (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents). My dad passed away due to lung cancer, and due to all the many cancers that come from it. The body warmer jacket will stay in my wardrobe for as long as I'm alive.
 
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I still have a sari that I bought in London in 1967, a sweater I bought in Yalova, Turkey in 1969 and a coat I bought in Detroit in December of 1972 because I couldn't believe how fricking cold it was.

I wear the sari every couple of years and I've worn the sweater and coat when I have had the misfortune to go north in the winter which, thank God, isn't often.
 
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