It must be a BIG brother if she can wear his old winter coat. Maybe she can check out second hand or goodwill or the like? Vintage store are possible but can be pricey.
I remember embroidering some of my brother’s hand-me-down shirts…they were lovely! I even sewed a pre-fab embroidered butterfly on one shirt, about where the logo of a fancy manufactured shirt would be… >^..^<
To this day, I’m not sure which side the buttons are supposed to go on, the right or the left, for which gender…I wore so many of each! It always seemed silly to me that there was even a difference!!!
LOL! Mine were from a cousin who was eight years older but bigger, so about 10 years out of date. Guess who had a poodle skirt in the early 60s? It was not till I was 14 that I had clothes that were in fashion, first because an aunt worked in a clothing store that wrote off and tossed the even slight faded window display pieces (which happened to be my size then and to my taste were highly useable, so I got them), and then later in that age year because our own store was doing well following its relocation and I was beginning high school so was allowed to have new clothing.
I mostly missed out on wearing my older brother’s clothing: He was stretch tall with giant feet and I’m more average. And he was hard on his clothes. I did get some button down shirts. My younger brothers, though, got a lot of my old clothing. Which they mostly seemed not to mind, much. My two sisters were far enough apart that the younger refused to wear the older’s stuff that was so totally out of style… and my Mom agreed w/ her.
GreasyOldTam over 5 years ago
Oh, like hand-me-down kids don’t grow just as fast?
Kind&Kinder over 5 years ago
Yeah…of course he’d wear it. Pink with sparkles, you say? Well, he might; it just depends which way he inclines. If it’s his style, of course he will.
asrialfeeple over 5 years ago
It must be a BIG brother if she can wear his old winter coat. Maybe she can check out second hand or goodwill or the like? Vintage store are possible but can be pricey.
sandpiper over 5 years ago
She just wishes her parents would plan the hand me down trail better
JudyAz over 5 years ago
I was the vertically-challenged one when I was a kid (late growth spurt). My younger sister was taller than I – I actually got hand-me-ups!
ArtisticArtemis over 5 years ago
I remember embroidering some of my brother’s hand-me-down shirts…they were lovely! I even sewed a pre-fab embroidered butterfly on one shirt, about where the logo of a fancy manufactured shirt would be… >^..^<
To this day, I’m not sure which side the buttons are supposed to go on, the right or the left, for which gender…I wore so many of each! It always seemed silly to me that there was even a difference!!!
SukieCrandall Premium Member over 5 years ago
LOL! Mine were from a cousin who was eight years older but bigger, so about 10 years out of date. Guess who had a poodle skirt in the early 60s? It was not till I was 14 that I had clothes that were in fashion, first because an aunt worked in a clothing store that wrote off and tossed the even slight faded window display pieces (which happened to be my size then and to my taste were highly useable, so I got them), and then later in that age year because our own store was doing well following its relocation and I was beginning high school so was allowed to have new clothing.
amaryllis2 Premium Member over 5 years ago
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Concretionist over 5 years ago
I mostly missed out on wearing my older brother’s clothing: He was stretch tall with giant feet and I’m more average. And he was hard on his clothes. I did get some button down shirts. My younger brothers, though, got a lot of my old clothing. Which they mostly seemed not to mind, much. My two sisters were far enough apart that the younger refused to wear the older’s stuff that was so totally out of style… and my Mom agreed w/ her.
childe_of_pan over 5 years ago
Don’t give me no hand me down shoes
Don’t give me no hand me down love
Don’t give me no hand me down world
I got one already
-The Guess Who