How do you feel about wearing clothing with food stains on it?

Um no…unless it was an invisible stain. lol
Stained clothing screams sloppy and lazy.

If I put a shirt on that had a food stain on it, and I noticed it right then, I would not wear it.

I knew a woman who had all sorts of stains and other blemishes on her clothes but nobody noticed them because they weren’t very large, but she also lived larger than life, and she always looked great.

I didn’t learn about the stains, etc. until I started cleaning her home, and did her laundry.

Ever since I’ve not been so worried about the clothes. It cracks me up because someone told me once that I looked like I “stepped out of a band box,” yet my pants had many stains on them. The saving grace was that my pants were naturally “wrinkly” and they hid stains really well, which is why I still wear them.

It would bother me some days if I want to look nice out shipping but I work with toddlers so if my day starts free of food stains, it seldom ends that way. I try not to leave work with oatmeal showing.

I would be uncomfortably aware of it to the point of obsession. My main worry would be how to find a way to change.

I wouldn’t knowingly wear food stained clothing to a wedding or business meeting. But I seem to be one of those people who inevitably winds up “wearing” my meals, to the endless amusement of my wife. In fact, she claims that she can determine the quality of the food at a restaurant, by a glance at my shirt after the meal. We seldom return to “clean shirt” places.

Stains only for not-to-be-seen-in-public clothes. Or quick errands.
If out and a stain occurs- just carry on. If asked, you are saving it as a snack for later.
Or ask someone to share it with you- later.
Perfection is someone with a case neatness overkill OCD – sometimes so severe, that they can only spell it; CDO.
:}

I wouldn’t intentionally go out wearing stained clothing. And if I noticed it after leaving the house, I’d be conscious of it when interacting with people.

At home, if there’s just me and my family, no problem. I’ve got lots of tops with a stain right in the middle of my chest. I’m fine with wearing them around the house.

Never. Unless it’s something I’ll only wear in the house, I’ll discard it if I can’t get the stain out. To me, it screams “slob.”

I admit to being somewhat OCD about this myself.

I was wearing a 20+ yo sweatshirt with a food stain on it when I wrote the question, so I’m better about it around the house, at least.

Since ‘trashed jeans’ have become the fashion, I worry about pants a lot less. Still, a stain on a top nags as me if I leave the house in it.

The other reason for the question was that I stopped at Goodwill on Halloween and shopping was a short, fat man wearing a bright pink bunny outfit with a white belly that had disgusting food stains all down the front. If he was going as “Creepy Uncle Willy Scares the Kids Playing the Easter Bunny”, he was spot on.

@ibstubro – OMG! It’s Ralphie’s pink bunny suit from his aunt!!! (A Christmas Story)
It’s, it’s, it’s…Mr.Bumpus from next door! Did he have any dogs with him? He now wears it every Halloween? Without dry cleaning it?
(I always lose the channel changer and watch this movie 1 million and sixty four times every Christmas…I need a minion to change the channel over to the King Family Christmas Show or maybe Christmas With The Williams Family -or maybe Bowling For Dollars….)

Like this @msh.
Give it a large (largely white) stomach and photoshop Danny Devito over the Drew Carey lookalike and that’s him.

My mind’s eye wants to give him a cigar and my mind’s nose insists on BO commingled with cigar smoke and ‘deep fat fried’ smell. Like he’s closed a few bars in the bunny suit.

Much to your envy, I have never seen “A Christmas Story”, BTW.

I work in a hospital with a doctors group. We had a part time doctor that wore undershirts under his white coat. One week on a Monday he got a huge mustard stain on his under shirt that he wore the entire week. It would not instill confidence in my doctor if he came in my room to treat me.

@ibstubro !!!!
Never ?
Why, it’s an American institution!
No, wait.
Hold on It’s inside an Ameri… no.
That’s not it . Oh- I’m in an American institution and you should watch it one of these years.
Lose your remote- works every year… here at the
institution.
I think. :)

That is disgusting. @chyna

I can’t stand that little boy. @msh
Never watched ‘Home Alone’, either, although I’ve seen more bits of it. Same reason.

I won’t do it. I’m too classy.

Wearing clean tidy clothes shows respect for yourself and others.
It shows that you value yourself in that you would not wear dirty clothes unless you had no alternative.
If doing dirty garden work one would expect to wear stained clothing in order to get value out of outwron clothes before they get unseable.
Otherwise I would not wear stained or dirty clothing in public.

If I noticed the stain before or while putting the clothing item on, then I wouldn’t end up wearing it. But if said clothing item had a super small stain that I could hide with a cardigan or something, then I would probably wear it then.
I feel gross and dirty if I wear something stained because it’s all I can focus on! For me, I find that if I’m wearing an outfit I can be proud of, just that can help me have a better day.

Oh, yeah, I’ll wear stained clothes if they’re clean and I can hide the stain, @OriginalCunningFox. I’m fond of sweatshirt over T-shirt in the winter to a stain on a T-shirt is no big deal. (Unless it’s on the collar.)