Mrs. Centerfielder was cleaning out her closet this past weekend and selected some shirts -- I believe "tops" is the correct apparel nomenclature -- to give to the elder Centerfielder daughter, who starts high school next week. This is their first wearing-mom's-clothes experience, a unique form of hand-me-downs to us; until now the little Centerfielders only wore hand-me-downs from siblings and cousins.
This got me to looking in my closet, and while doing so wondered: what was the oldest article of clothing I own that I still regularly wear. The problem is that I've always had a small wardrobe, and wear clothes out pretty quickly. I stared in the closet a bit and then then realized I was wearing it: sweatpants I've had from when I ran track at the University of Michigan in 1972. They're dark blue, thick, and very well made, not like a lot of crap you buy today. The matching hooded sweatshirt is occasionally worn by Mrs. Centerfielder, since it seems to have somehow shrunk all by itself in the closet, and no longer fits me. (The sweatpants, on the other hand, were huge on me 35 years ago.)
So, what's the oldest article of clothing you wear regularly? I'm not talking about something bought in a thrift shop or "vintage boutique," but something you've owned from the beginning.