A little background: I’m a slob. And I tend not to care what clothes look like as long as they are clean, however that’s actually an improvement over the way I used to be. In college my mother would be appalled because I’d wear dirty jeans, dirty blouses, etc even when out in public.
Back on 2/1/2010 I had to leave the house to go apply for energy assistance. I’d failed to do laundry for a while and the only clean non-ratty pants I had were sweat pants. And these weren’t the fitted sweat pants either so they were high-water pants.
So I’m wearing a CLEAN black blouse, CLEAN purple sweat pants, CLEAN white socks, and my Disney crocs with the PINK strap. I took the socks off once because they looked so dorky, then I put them back on again because it was cold outside and my feet look horrendous (very dry skin).
Then I saw how totally and completely dorky I looked wearing the high water purple sweat pants and the white socks (not to mention the Disney crocs with pink strap) and I just could not force myself to leave the house looking that dorky.
Its one thing to look like a complete and total dork when you are going through a drive through window at a fast food place, all they can see is your top half, but I was going to be in a room with other people for at least an hour.
So I scrounged up the clean but ratty jeans since they were only ratty around the waist. Nobody was going to see my waist.
My mother would be so PROUD. ROFLMAO!!
Definitions
dork [dɔːk]n Slang
ratty – showing signs of wear and tear