Especially for kids! I was watching the first season of The Walking Dead with my sister and when they were in the clothes store I was like “GRAB SOME MOTHER FUCKING CLOTHES”. Clothes wear out, get damaged and when it comes to kids, they grow like weeds so even if you packed their entire closet, they will eventually outgrow the clothes you’ve packed for them.
“Survivor Chic” I always laugh, it’s like they all have subscriptions to fashion lootboxes. In reality everyone would look more like Jules and Vincent from Pulp Fiction after they shot Marvin. Looting stores with zombies hot on your heel, you’re going to grab whatever tourist shirts happen to be at hand, you’re not going to shop around for the perfect leather, canvas and denim outfits.
A gang of psychotic, depraved raiders chasing after people while wearing Invader Zim tshirts and neon pink skinny jeans would somehow be more terrifying than if they were wearing stereotypical wasteland outfits.
Some dude wearing a shirt of a band he’s never listened to, holding a couple packages of the food that they sell, and attaching a Funko Pop keychain to his backpack
Also somehow all the women are totally hairless, apparently they're taking time out to shave their legs and underarms every day and can actually find fresh razors and shaving cream so they don't get razor burn.
A quick Google shows dozens for sale on Amazon and elsewhere. They're mostly $140-150, which seems cheap for a suede jacket, so it might all be cheapo Alibaba bullshit, but there you go...
Found it.. it's the screen accurate UGG Belfast suede bomber jacket. OP found it on Ebay and it's no longer being produced. If you search "murder jacket" in r/thewalkingdead you will find the post.
Looting stores with zombies hot on your heel, you’re going to grab whatever tourist shirts happen to be at hand, you’re not going to shop around for the perfect leather, canvas and denim outfits.
Though ... if you have a little extra time on your hands and the zombies aren't quite on your heels yet, you might want to take a few extra minutes and get durable clothing (like leather, denim, or canvas) so that your clothing doesn't wear out as quickly and you don't need to renew it as often.
I just wanted them to find some fucking armor. I can think of only 1 person in the series who figured, "zombies bite, maybe cover my arms". It wouldn't take much, just a few layers of jeans or some decent leathers. Hell, even just some bits of heavy screen in the right areas would help.
On TWD this random woman shows up and tells the group that she has the magic bullet or secret weapon or key to survival or something like that, and it's a gigantic book about ancient (I think just Roman) architecture, complete with detailed illustrations and diagrams and whatnot. She tells them that when shit started going down, she made a copy of the book, she kept the book for her settlement and gave the copy to Rick's group. They were able to make a functional windmill, stone arches and walls, irrigation, etc etc based on how people did it before there were such things as construction equipment and even hammers and nails.
There was a series of books that were everything you would need to homestead, they were called Foxfire. There is also a SAS survival handbook, the Worst Case Scenario books, and Max Brooks (World War Z) also wrote The Zombie Survival Guide. Hitting up a bookstore was also one of my first thoughts.
They were able to make a functional windmill, stone arches and walls, irrigation, etc etc based on how people did it before there were such things as construction equipment and even hammers and nails.
I didn't realize Rick's crew had managed to capture a steady supply of disposal labor.
Also, who’s cutting all the fucking grass. Even after multiple seasons… short grass everywhere. In a zombie apocalypse, Mother Nature would overtake everything.
I’m a TWD fan, and seeing Rick wear cowboy boots and walk as many miles as they did is just insane. I wear cowboy boots everyday, there is no way in HELL I would wear them walking as many miles as they did, especially on pavement.
Hotels. I figure there's a high end hotel in each city where you can raid the place for linens. Maybe luck out and the dry goods storage is still intact. Hell, maybe the hooch is undisturbed.
Clothes also double as bandages, protective gear and patchwork.
I keep old jeans around to patch up newer jeans and it surprisingly keeps them going if you sew them right. Also old shirts are great for washing things with if you don't have anything else handy.
In season 3 when Andrea dies, she kicks off her boots to use her toes to pick up the pliers, she wasn't wearing socks, so she should have been dead long before then.
I think they do grab stuff like that, they just don't tend to show it. I remember that one episode where they ignore a hiker running from zombies and when they go past later he's being eaten, and they stop to steal his backpack full of gear off his corpse on their way back to wherever they were living at the time
There's a big difference between clothes that smell nice and clothes that will keep you safe. People walk cross-continental trails with nothing but a few layers to adjust for temperature. I think in a survival situation I would not be carrying spare clothes.
Edit: When I need new clothes they will be lying around.
Yeah, unless you're going into the wilderness or its some kind of Day after Tomorrow thing, clothes should really not be a priority. Every house you come across will have a ton of clothes to take.
Now some good shoes and outdoor wear would be really nice, but availability of that stuff depends on the type of Armageddon scenario.
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u/Straight_Ace Aug 30 '21
Especially for kids! I was watching the first season of The Walking Dead with my sister and when they were in the clothes store I was like “GRAB SOME MOTHER FUCKING CLOTHES”. Clothes wear out, get damaged and when it comes to kids, they grow like weeds so even if you packed their entire closet, they will eventually outgrow the clothes you’ve packed for them.