overwears
Uses clothes too much
Overwears is the third-person singular of overwear, meaning to wear something too often or too long.
Clothes that are overworn show excessive use: She overwears that jacket—it's falling apart.
The term can also mean to tire out through overuse: He overwears his welcome at every party.
Worn until transparent
- worn-outDepleted through overuse
- frayingComing apart threadwise
- tatteringRipping into rags
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
shabbiness · stretched · pilling · thinning · holes · patches · mending · darning
Careful use of resources
- economySystem of trade and production
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- resourcefulnessAbility to solve problems creatively
mending · reusing · hand-me-downs · secondhand · rewearing · extending · stretching · sustainability
threadbare
Worn until transparent
fading · shabbiness · stretched · pilling · thinning · holes · patches · mending · darning · repairs
thrift
Careful use of resources
- economySystem of trade and production
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
resourcefulness · mending · reusing · hand-me-downs · secondhand · rewearing · extending · stretching · sustainability · minimalism