clothes

Alright, Alright, Alright, ALLL RIGHT !~!
I do have a question...maybe 2...maybe more.
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Let's focus here.  I am a guy.  I am not some female who goes shop, shop, shopping.
Clothes have never meant much to me - as anyone who remembers me wearing the Mr. Roger's sweaters throughout my festive career.
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I do worry a bit about looking okay in a crowd.  I can still remember my first classy sportcoat.  My brother Marshall, as worldly as you could get, took me shopping to buy a sports coat.  My mom may have sent us out to buy a suit, but Marshall had none of that.  He put me in a brown sportcoat.  It had stripes - brown and black alternating.  For all I know, the jacket may not have had the black stripes.  It looked that way to me.  He had me get a pair of matching trousers.  I was a fashion plate.
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The coat and pants were worn in college, and, if I remember correctly, I was married in this outfit.  Things were different back then.  Not everyone had to be married in a pastel colored jacket with matching tie and cumberbund and handkerchief.  I did have a flower on the lapel though.  I betcha this coat is hanging in one of my closets - just as my wife's wedding dress is packed away in a box waiting - just waiting.  It was a very pretty dress.  I like it.
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Off subject:  my wife was always a bit irritated by people who said the wrong things about her age.  As we were nearing our wedding date, she and her mother went to a local Levelland store to find a travel dress.  In those days, when the young couple left the reception, they wore travel clothes.  I wore my suit and tie;  she wore a nice dress.  I want to say it was a blue dress.  She'll correct me if I'm wrong.
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The saleslady complemented the outfit saying, (I paraphrase sorta)  "This is a very pretty dress.  You will be able to wear it all through high school."  We were pushing 22 years old!!  She bought the dress anyway.  I don't think we even approached having a giggle over this.  Serious biz.
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So, I have this question:  What day -- "When"  is it okay to just chuck all your clothes and just start over?  I am 73 years old - pushing higher.  I am still wearing clothes from 10-15 ++ years ago.  Some don't fit as well.  My clothes just don't wear out unless I wear them to the local buffet -  I dribble when I eat (usually unwashable food stuff).  The shoes I have on right now  ( I use them to work in my yard ) were my shoes I wore for marching practice in 2003.  I have shirts that I remember wearing back in the 90s - again not many cause I have grown somewhat.
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Aside note-sidebar:  if my wife reads this, she'll pull out clothes she is still wearing from 20 - 30 years ago.  I will be shamed for complaining.
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I look in the closet and see the same green, blue, red shirts that I have seen forever. Once in a while I get something new but, then,  see above note about eating at the buffet.  One summer the granddaughters were visiting.  I put on a clean shirt every day.  It turns out I had selected a dark blue knit shirt for 3 days in a row - each different. One of the grandgirls asked me if I ever change shirts.  There ya go Herman.
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Hey, you're old. Throw everything out and start over.  President Bush moved into bright colored socks.  You could make a statement - pinks and purples - plaids and stripes - fireman hats - c'mon, the sky's the limit.
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We were walking in Walmart the other day when I spotted some female outfit that I thought would look nice on my wife.  She declined.  Her choice.  I told her how I could make her a fashion plate if she'd just let me dress her  [  one should completely ignore the fact that this conversation happened in a Walmart - the home of fashionable clothing.  ]  She responded that I could pick her clothes if she could pick out mine.  Whoa there Trigger!!  Nobody said anything about that!  
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I could just see my closet now.  Big flowering shirts - tight fitting spandex pastel pants. No way am I gonna set her free to go down this pathway.  The answer of course is to lose a lot of weight.  I get tiny again; I have to have all new clothes, which, I shall add here, I will select for myself.
But, enough of this.  I am going outside and hang up our flag.
I bought a new flag.  The old one got caught on a board and ripped.
The new flag looks nice.  USA   USA   USA    USA
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