Okay, I know a lot of you have gone through sizes as you shrunk yourself down It's time to chip in with advice and suggestions on how to best do that.
My wallet is counting on you for good advice.
I've been lucky, up to date, that I had clothes in multiple sizes to wear as my weight dropped. The smaller sizes I've been able to resurrect from the closet. However I'm now ready to move into "time to buy" territory. My shirt size has dropped from tight 3XL to L. My pant size from 46 to something below 40. I'm not sure what the new size is but I can tell you if my belt isn't cinched tight enough my pants will drop to my feet at the most inopportune moments. (You don't want to know how I know this.)
The 3XL tee shirts I've recycled into night shirts. That works well. The larger jeans and most of the business pants are off to charity shops, good for the soul, so that's fine. The sweat pants I guess I'll toss as the elastic waist no longer helps.
So, now I need to go shopping, or at least I do fairly soon. For jeans I was thinking I may try for a size a bit under what's comfortable to wear, skip from the very loose 40 to 36 instead of going for a 38. Is that sensible or will I regret it? For business/dress pants I can use suspenders for a bit yet but my blazers and suit jackets are hanging off me. As I have no urgent need to go into the office I think I'll stretch out the suspender use for a bit yet and hold off on new suits.
Any other ideas, suggestions, things to avoid, ...?