All the clothes we wear!

Yes, it is.

OP, I don't care at all what you wear. Really.

[quote]Wouldn't it be so much easier to stick a sack over our heads?

Then people would be ugly. Fashion can make people look better, which makes the world a nicer place to be.

That's why I never wear underpants.

Do you have a vest, suspenders, and a pocket-square to complete the look OP?

I live on a South Carolina barrier island (Sullivan's Island) and all I wear is board shorts, a tee and flip flops. And usually not the tee and flip flops. I'd die if I had to wear a suit every day.

I liked suits in my 20's, they felt like armour plus I looked smashing!

Sweetie, if its such a chore to put on many clothes, just wear caftans.

R6, what about undies?

I have always thought it was strange that when a woman dresses up often her shoulders are bare, sometimes a low cut back, bare legs and a short dress, since women often seem to run on the cold side body temperature wise, while when men dress up, they put a tie around their neck trapping in the heat and then wear a jacket, while most men tend to be warmer than women.

R6 here...no undies! Underwear with board shorts? No.

What do you do for work R6? I'm guessing you can't stroll in just boardshorts.

R6 here - I have four houses here that I rent out. So board shorts are appropriate.

Why an undershirt?

Without an undershirt, you get sweat stains on your button up shirt.

Board shorts, tee, flip flops and a girdle is all I require.

You always wear an undershirt under a dress shirt, philistine. And you always wear a dress shirt with a suit. You do know what a dress shirt is, don't you? Hint: they don't come in S, M or L.

When all is said and done, clothing does have considerable practical value. It exists for a reason. Even if it's not too cold/hot/rainy/ windy for nudity to be comfortable, the sun will take it's toll on your skin.

On the bright side, OP, it could be worse.

One incident from the PBS series "Manor House" has always stuck with me. The "upstairs" couple were going out for the evening and the wife said to her husband, "Is this too over the top? If you think it's too much, I could change. It won't take more than an hour or two."

That seemed to be the heart of the upper-crust existence. With three or four wardrobe changes every day (and many, many layers), they seemed to spend half their lives changing clothes. By comparison, we have it pretty easy.

I love how R6 provided a teaser to brag, roped them in with undies talk and then delivered the braggart details. Well played, R6...well played.

[quote] Without an undershirt, you get sweat stains on your button up shirt

No I don't. And if I did, I'd use these things called a washing machine and detergent. Or I'd give it to the dry cleaner.

You sweat fat.

People, you're slipping.

CAFTANS!

If you stop wearing shoes, eventually the soles of your feet get so tough you don't need them.

I love putting on underpants.

[quote]You always wear an undershirt under a dress shirt, philistine.

No, Phyllis Stein, I do not. And I have never. That's the layer that [italic]creates[/italic] the sweat. Poor you, having to "always wear an undershirt."

I have a (straight) male neighbour that only ever wears one pair of sweat pants and the same t-shirt. He's had them for at least two or three years now. He's not mentally ill. He's just cheap, single and a divorced guy.

What is the world coming to? Nothing like a handsome guy in a nice suit--makes him even hotter.

I am willing to believe, R26, that there are people who subscribe to that belief. I, however, am not one of them. I wonder how many guys agree with you that a suit makes a guy hotter (other than temperature-wise).

R24 I disagree. For me I used to sweat like a pig until I quit drinking, whether I wore an undershirt or not. Wearing an undershirt just kept it from getting embarrassing.

I don’t sweat now that I quit drinking.

[quote] And you always wear a dress shirt with a suit.

I don’t think it’s so strict R16. People wear suits in so many ways now, if you want to do the Tim Gunn thing then good for you but it doesn’t mean that people can’t wear them differently.