Did your family ever do this?

[classical_hero]

I am wondering how many people came from families that gave clothes to other family members, especially clothes on children that no longer fitted them?

I was just reading about this and I wonder if families still do that today, since i know that so often that clothes would get recycled in my family and given to those who needed clothes that we know longer wore.

 

[warpus]

My family did it in Poland, Germany, and in our first couple years here in Canada, because of our financial situation.

Don't really do it anymore, although my mom tries to push some of my dad's stuff onto me from time to time.

 

[Darth Caesar]

Me and my family have done it mostly when we were younger. Every time my great aunt visited she usually came with a couple of trash bags of old clothes.

 

[bhsup]

Hand-me-downs? Yeah, I wore a lot of my older brothers' stuff when I was younger.

 

[Dachs]

My first suit was a hand-me-down, and large amounts of my clothes are as well. For instance, I recently wore a "We Be Jammin'" Mardi Gras T-shirt that is older than I am.

After early high school, though, I stopped getting so many hand-me-downs due to the fact that nothing except T-shirts fit me. Most of them migrated to my little brother and little sister.

 

[Supr49er]

Of course we had hand-me down clothes.

 

[Luckymoose]

I never had hand-me downs unless I specifically requested them.

 

[timtofly]

My daughter gets her cousins clothes all the time. Some still have the price tags on them. Does that count?

 

[Maimonides]

Seems to be a common thing to me. My son got lots of hand-me-down clothing from his older cousins & we've passed them along to friends & family with younger kids as he's outgrown them. It rarely makes sense to buy clothing that won't fit in six months.

The problem now is that my son is really big-same size as cousins two years older-so the hand-me-downs have dried up.

 

[Dirichlet]

Yes, with babies and small kids (perhaps up to about age 7?). Sometimes among the adults if a person bought something that was good but did not fit the person's style or figure as expected.

 

[Winner]

I am wondering how many people came from families that gave clothes to other family members, especially clothes on children that no longer fitted them?

I was just reading about this and I wonder if families still do that today, since i know that so often that clothes would get recycled in my family and given to those who needed clothes that we know longer wore.

It was the norm here under communism, but it's still relatively common. We're not yet fully used to the Western wastefulness, although it's changing fast due to peer pressure and marketing.

 

[RedRalph]

We mostly got stuff from other families, but as we got a bit less dirt-poor of course we passed clothes down within our family.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

It was the norm here under communism, but it's still relatively common. We're not yet fully used to the Western wastefulness, although it's changing fast due to peer pressure and marketing.

same thing here, Communism, does miracles.

 

[Flying Pig]

It was almost unheard of not to do it when I was growing up. In fact, most of my clothes were my dad's, often after they'd been mended, or sometimes my brother's old ones. We'd also get clothes from other families with children closer to my age: there was quite a gap between myself and my brother

 

[Winner]

same thing here, Communism, does miracles.

It was mostly due to the fact that decent clothes were hard to come by. My mother was actually quite good at making all kinds of clothes, for us kids and for herself. The women had these fashion magazines and copied the stuff they saw there.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

slightly offtopic, but I must say that people in Communist regimes or any regimes or nations experiencing shortages of consumer goods tend to get really creative.

 

[Winner]

slightly offtopic, but I must say that people in Communist regimes or any regimes or nations experiencing shortages of consumer goods tend to get really creative.

Yes. It's amazing all the stuff people came up with. Capitalism is now killing all this wonderful creative energy

 

[_random_]

I think my parents did it for my sisters, and I occasionally get my dad's stuff by accident.

 

[Kennigit]

yeah; maybe until around age 11 or 12 I had some things that my older brother would "outgrow". Then occasionally I would get stuff from my dad as I was older; not really getting permanently though. More just borrowing his clothes for something (like a dress shirt, etc).

I don't do that anymore.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Yes. It's amazing all the stuff people came up with. Capitalism is now killing all this wonderful creative energy

Derailing a bit, but I recommend you read this, what people (mostly in third world countries, Russia or hippies) can make out of junk.