Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 16, 2020

Men don’t need much, and most of it suffers from disuse… we have our favorites you know!

I have two jackets hanging by the front door, one for winter, one for spring and autumn. But I do admit to shuttling short-sleeve and long-sleeve shirts between two closets.

L.A. Winter: T-shirt, shorts and a down jacket. I’m good.

Sorry Arlo, the summer clothes are packed away. But cheer up. You still have your bathroom sommelier duties.

That reminds me……..first freeze last night so away go the tanks and tees and in come the turtles. Being retired the rest is jeans and assorted weights of sweaters and jackets.

I mean seriously, where else would they be…

Women have seasonal fashions. Men have clothes.

My winter clothes are on a shelf in the closet. They are known as “sweaters” and are just an add-on to my summer attire.

I think Jimmy did this exact same comic last fall.

Daily laundry is like a three load deal in large families. My wife said the kids always checked each morning to make sure the hamper was full. Changing seasons is a two week bigger deal. The sheer volume! I built three fifteen foot shelves in the basement to handle the sixty boxes for the various sizes for both genders. Naturally everything being used had to be washed before being put away, and everything else had to to be washed before putting back in use.

Besides cold weather the virus kind of impedes going outside.

Mine too! Well, actually, on the hooks hanging over my closet door.

One Christmas Costco had lamb’s wool sweaters at a marvelous price, so I bought one for each of the men in my life – Hubby, my carpool mate, my brothers-in-law, my dad – and embroidered their initials on the breast, using the Navy flags. When it came time to pack away our winter things I asked Hubby to give me his sweater so I could put it in the cedar chest.

The following winter he pulled it out to discover the moths had eaten a nice circle all around the embroidery. The look on his face told I didn’t have to say a word.

Winter clothes? Summer clothes? If it’s gets really hot I’ll put some shorts on, but my shorts are in the same drawer as my jeans so…..

What winter clothes? Its going to be 95 in parts of San Diego today.

75 percent of my clothing is some sort of sweats. easy to fit and clean.

timbob- what a great legacy. ABS. I remember the great car ferries docking, clanging and the banging, the excitement of watching the trains and cars unloading on a cool summer eveining

no coats, it’s either a short pants day or a long pants day, lite sweater

Same place every other guy keeps them. She should know this by now….

Not the hall tree….we have hooks in the basement stairway.

I have to confess, with the exception of outerwear, my wardrobe is the same regardless of the season. White shirt and blue jeans.

I have a summer closet and a winter closet, but the winter closet doesn’t get much use. Like bruce1253 said, the weather is still in the 80s in socal. Although we are due for cold wave later in the week when it dips into the 70s.

OK, point made with this comic, but they’ve been married for years, and she doesn’t know this!

Ah, the South, where 40 degrees is a cold snap! Up here near the 49th parallel we have winter clothes and summer clothes. This week I put the teeshirts and polo shirts away and brought out the heavy sweaters and flannel shirts. The light windbreaker and denim jacket went in the closet and the heavy Carhartt and the Pendleton woolen coat came out. The straw hat got put away and the sheepskin hat came out.

Thanks to furnaces and air conditioners, my wardrobe remains pretty much the same year ’ round.

I’ve worn pants twice since March 5. Twice.

I never put my summer clothes away. In FL I’ve had the A/C on every month except January. Earlier this year the air was on in February and the heat was on in March.

My late husband collected band T-shirts from the bar where he worked. After he died, I donated 200 of them to a thrift shop. I’m still kicking myself for giving away the John Legend shirt he got 15 years ago.

Where I live, we have 4 seasons of clothes change. Luckily, we also have basements, which is a great place to store out of season clothes. But with covid, mostly I wear what I call “dog clothes.” My dog sheds. So do I. I haven’t worn “real” clothes more than a few times a month since March. So, over a 3-season period. It can get very, very cold and icy, but our summers are beautiful.

I keep in short sleeves until it drops quite a bit below 32 F.

Right where I left them last spring.

I keep everything in my closet. My wife keeps all seasonal clothes in a large storage tub. Use to be in the attic, but now I keep her stuff in the garage so I don’t have to climb the ladder. She hasn’t asked for her winter wardrobe yet, but it’s coming . . . 50 degrees overnight, 77-86 during the day.

All women don’t need much. I live in South Texas so It’s flip-flops most of the year and even in winter lots of days. A few long-sleeved tops and maybe boots or sneakers and I’m good.

I wear the same clothes for summer and winter (I hate long sleeves). Jeans for everything. The only change I make is whether I am going to work or not. I have nice shirts for work, everything else is tee-shirts. Maybe not appropriate for an almost 64 y/o woman, but I DON’T CARE. :o) I am comfortable. My clothes are clean and in good shape. That is all that matters to me. (I do have nice clothes for funerals, I have to admit)

Those are all the winter clothes she has?

(Female) keep all my clothes – modern & 18th c – in my closet & 5 of my 9 drawers for modern & 2 for period – husband has use of his 5 larger drawers &my other 2 & his own closet. (Have small closet about 2 feet deep, 3 feet wide, ceiling line of eaves comes down through his closet; top of staircase rises up through bottom of mine, so each is about 7 ft tall at high end and 4.5 ft tall on other side, no flat floor in mine.)

Do not store any clothes seasonally as wear same clothes no matter the season – other than work days, reenacting days or the once in a decade fancy party – I wear a tee shirt and jeans (3 pair jeans plus 3 pairs ripped jeans as sleep in old jeans and tee shirts), boys skateboard sneakers in summer and part of spring and fall and boys black tie shoes or boys hiking boots the rest of the year (small feet). In cold weather I put a sweatshirt over the tee shirt to attempt to stay warm. I have a black skirt and a navy skirt and same in pants – same as jeans, but nicer fabric for when I have to dress up and 2 winter and 2 summer blouses for work or dress up. A pair of black flat shoes for same also. (Pair of shoes for reenacting also of course.) My closet is not full and has plenty of extra space.

Husband uses the closet in the spare bedroom for his out of season clothing it is the same size and his regular closet. It is also full. I don’t get the idea of switching his shirts out twice a year – and since he started doing it himself instead of asking me to do so, it is a mess for days.

I do keep spare shoes in their boxes in the top of my closet – when I find a pair I liked I buy a spare pair. I also have boxes in top of my closet that are husband’s things. He kept his black acrylic socks when dr said he had to wear white cotton – guess where they are kept?

So not all women are clothes horses and need to change clothes seasonally – sometimes it is the man who is and has to be catered to.

I did this yesterday for my wife . . . summer wear down to the guest bedroom closet, winter wear up to her closet (I felt like a Sherpa climbing Everest).

Why, after so many years of marriage, doesn’t Janis know that Arlo has a very limited seasonal wardrobe?