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Unless you're a very rare size, there's no need to buy any new clothing except perhaps socks and underwear if you're a bit squeamish.
The old excuse about 'buying quality and using it for ages' simply doesn't stand up, because there is a massive surplus of high quality clothing available second hand. Plenty of it's unworn.
If I'm being judgmental, I'll say that there's not nearly enough in this thread about buying used, and that many of the posters here put their status before climate damage and the deaths of millions in the southern hemisphere because of crop failure and drought/dirty water.
Clothing manufacture uses huge quantities of water. Why buy a new £500 jacket when you could get something similar for £100 on ebay and save lives by funding the digging of wells in Africa?
We should all bear in mind that 3 bn people on our planet use less energy per annum than a typical American refrigerator. Every day we should do things to reduce our consumption and emissions. It's a bit jaw-dropping that a site which is ostensibly about one of the solutions to transport emissions is also hosting excessive consumerism.