Where did your parents buy your clothes growing up?

[Spinneret]

Matalan

 

[TippyThomas]

About 98% of what I wore growing up was either made by my mother or another member of the community.

 

[tvguy]

JCPENNEY. I grew up in plain pocket jeans and Towncraft shirts.

 

[NannyBeBe]

Most of my clothes were handmade. In high school, I had five dresses that I wore over and over each week.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Mommy made most of our clothing when we were children. Sewing and other needlework were her super power.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

K-Mart / Sears /JC Penny / Grandpas ( like a Walmart) those were the main stores after I got my mom to stop sewing them that lasted a couple years then I had to purchase my own with my babysitting money

 

[RangerPooh]

Mervyns. My mom made a lot of our clothes when we were younger.

 

[snowwite]

Most of my clothes were handmade. In high school, I had five dresses that I wore over and over each week.

Same. My mom made a lot of my stuff.
We also got an Easter outfit usually from Sears.
Some stuff from the base and some stuff from yard sales

 

[georgina]

My mom sewed a lot of my clothes also, and with 5 older sisters I wore a LOT of hand me downs.

 

[Chili327]

Mervyns and the local surf/skate shop.

 

[NAB]

Sears, Eatons, Simpsons mostly catalogues.

 

[Rogue1677x]

My grandmother was a seamstress so she sewed a lot of our clothes, though with me being 18 months younger than my older sister, for a long time all I got were hand me downs.

Once my grandmother retired, we were still school age, she took us shopping at Kmart, Sears, Bradlees and places like those in MA.

 

[BrianL]

I honestly don't really know. I think most of my play clothes probably came from Sears or maybe this store called Zayre, whcih was kind of like a K-Mart. School uniforms came from some special store that only sold them. I had a few nice clothes that probably came from Goldsiths, which is one of those regional department stores that Macy's bought out many years ago.

 

[tvguy]

The number of people whose mother's made their clothing surprises me. Of course I have no idea how old you are and if your mom's worked outside the home. I'm 67, my mom worked full time outside the house. She was born in 1923, grew up on a farm, and she and her three sisters all worked while full time outside the house, and none knew how to sew.

 

[Meriweather]

I assume Penneys, Sears, Mervyns, Montgomery Ward.
My mother worked full time and never sewed anything

 

[georgina]

The number of people whose mother's made their clothing surprises me. Of course I have no idea how old you are and if your mom's worked outside the home. I'm 67, my mom worked full time outside the house. She was born in 1923, grew up on a farm, and she and her three sisters all worked while full time outside the house, and none knew how to sew.

My mom was born on a farm in Ireland in 1920. Her schooling stopped at 14. After coming to the US at 16, she worked until she was fired in 1949 for being pregnant. She had 6 kids, and eventually went back to work when the youngest was about 10, so she was over 50 then. I am surprised growing up on a farm your mom didn't learn to sew.

 

[tvguy]

My mom was born on a farm in Ireland in 1920. Her schooling stopped at 14. After coming to the US at 16, she worked until she was fired in 1949 for being pregnant. She had 6 kids, and eventually went back to work when the youngest was about 10, so she was over 50 then. I am surprised growing up on a farm your mom didn't learn to sew.

5 kids, 2 parents and they boarded the school teacher, no room to sew! The one room school houses on the corner of my Grandfather's farm.

 

[MrsPete]

I was the first child, and my mother made me the cutest little dresses when I was a small child -- then came the other four, and she didn't have as much time. She continued to make nightshirts, which were passed down through all the kids and other simple things like that -- but not more complicated things like boys' pants or button-up shirts.

I always assumed I'd make my own kids' clothes, but -- by the time I was a mother -- people were having smaller families, clothes weren't being worn out, and I bought the majority of my kids' things second-hand.

But, to the question, when my mom bought clothes they almost always came from Kmart or Sky City. Occasionally Sears.

 

[disneyseniors]

The number of people whose mother's made their clothing surprises me. Of course I have no idea how old you are and if your mom's worked outside the home. I'm 67, my mom worked full time outside the house. She was born in 1923, grew up on a farm, and she and her three sisters all worked while full time outside the house, and none knew how to sew.

I'm surprised at the number of people whose Mother's made their clothes too.
Like your Mom, my Mother worked outside the home. This was in the l950's. It was frowned upon for women to work outside the home at that time, but that didn't bother my mother
I don't know where my clothes came from, but probably the name brand department stores. In HS I had 5 or 6 different outfits which I wore all school year. That was it and it worked out fine because most of my friends were the same. No one had closets full of the latest fashions in our home town.

 

[tvguy]

I'm surprised at the number of people whose Mother's made their clothes too.
Like your Mom, my Mother worked outside the home. This was in the l950's. It was frowned upon for women to work outside the home at that time, but that didn't bother my mother
I don't know where my clothes came from, but probably the name brand department stores. In HS I had 5 or 6 different outfits which I wore all school year. That was it and it worked out fine because most of my friends were the same. No one had closets full of the latest fashions in our home town.

I was born in 1957, and grew up in the 1960s. Things like pizza from a pizza parlor were foreign to me. I was in College before I had a pizza parlor pizza. It was Chef Boyardee pizza kits or frozen store pizzas in my house. Money was too tight to spend on pizza parlor pizza.