would you borrow or loan clothes to a friend?

I don't know. I still have a shirt I borrowed from my best friend and she still has a belt she borrowed from me. I think if two people are good friends, they can trade clothes to wear and feel comfortable asking each other for the clothes back. I do think it's rude when a new friend asks to borrow clothes and don't return it or worst, return it unwashed.

I think it is absolutely natural to share clothes among friends. I generally do that. But I ask for clothes the least.

I admit that I am not comfortable lending my clothes anymore. I had a couple of bad experiences with my ex room mate who used to go to my wardrobe and help herself to what ever she liked without asking me; she proceeded to lose a couple of my jackets and then deny it. As you can imagine those situations put me off lending things; I feel the same about my books and CDs. I am not mean spirited I just value my things and I am selective who I lend to.

I see no problem asking to borrow something like that from a friend. I have a few friends and we are always lending, or borrowing clothes between us.

I only find that it's rude if they borrow it and never give it back, or borrow it and return it in a condition other than the one which they took it in. You definitely should ask to borrow a shirt. What me and some of my friends do (the ones who wear my size) is we EXCHANGE clothes for a week. We either switch out our entire wardrobe or just exchange one or two pieces..That way we both get something out of it. So long as we don't ruin the blouses/clothes or forget to return them, I think it's totally fine!

It depends on how good the friendship is. You do mention you're not "close" friends. I've borrowed clothes from a friend but never from a "new" friend. Maybe you could edge into it and see how she responds. Maybe when you're out sometime you could mention how much you admire her good taste in clothes and depending on her response, maybe then ask her if she'd think you rude if you were to ask her to borrow a blouse for (whatever occasion was coming up). Again, depending on her response to your compliment, you may feel you need to wait until you two know each other longer/better before you ask. Either way, at least you'd know what your next step is! Good luck. I'm in your boat, too. It's hard to find plus sizes at reasonable prices. That is, IF you find something that doesn't look like a granny!

Different strokes for different folks. I personally am not interested in lenging clothes to anyone except my mother and sister (but sis lost a ton of weight and won't fit into anything of mine anymore, so she GAVE me all her bigger clothes YAY for the new stuff I got), but I'm not one to borrow and loan from others, because I really don't know anyone I feel close enough to, that's my size, that I'd want to borrow from.

At the moment I don't borrow clothes from friends, because we don't wear the same size, but I used to borrow clothes from my neighbour. We were friends and we shared almost everything from food to clothes. She had a lot of nice clothes, and when we went out I often borrowed some of her shirts or jeans. I don't think it is rude to ask a friend if you can borrow some of her clothes, I would never get offended if one of my friends asked me to borrow some of my clothes. I wouldn't be afraid to ask my friends, but I think it depends on the relationship between the friends, and I wouldn't ask if it was a friend that I had just met.

i think it is nothing serious.if i were her,i will be glad to borrow you my cloth.one of my friends often asks me for my hair decorations,and for this i consider her as my true friend coz she treats me honestly.so don't think about too much.

i do not think it rude to borrow from a friend. it is just so normal that we all face some trouble or somthing like that, we can not deal it all by ourselves all the time, that is the truth. when a man has a lot of friends he will be more easy or fast to get through