Marguerite
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We shop for what we can from op-shops. difficult child 3 would go through shirts andtrousers so easily. HE chewed his shirts, any hole in any of his clothes would get 'worried' at and would enlarge alarmingly through the day. I patched his clothes a lot (and difficult child 1 before him). I darn wool jumpers too, as much as I can. And when I was losing so much weight, I tried to buy stuff at op-shops because I knew I wouldn't stay that intermediate shape, but I needed SOMETHING to wear!
I remember waiting in the queue at an op-shop about six months ago, I wnrt in to buy a pair of black trousers that fit (all I could fins were sparkly things with sequins on the waistband) and while waiting there I saw a white blouse with a ruffle that looked nice, I liked the light cotton it was made from. It felt soft. I bought it, I didn't even have time to try it on so I had to hope it fitted - and it did! I was wearing it today, it's a shirt I wear for best because it looks so good and it's the only white button-up shirt I have that fits me these days. other shirts are like tents on me now.
easy child 2/difficult child 2 has a lot of clothes she's outgrown, we were passing them on to a young friend of ours - only this girl, aged 10, is a larger size than easy child 2/difficult child 2 (who is 22). Not that our young friend is fat in any way - she's not. She's just getting tall as well as broad across the shoulders and already is a larger bust size than easy child 2/difficult child 2. All in the last few months. We gave her some old clothes of easy child 2/difficult child 2's only a few months ago and they fitted her well.
Last weekend our young friend had her photo taken with easy child 2/difficult child 2 wearing her wedding dress, and our young friend wanted to dress up for the photos as well, so we had her try on some of easy child 2/difficult child 2's nicer clothes - and a lot of them were too small for her!
difficult child 3 wears clothes out fast. Jeans are always too short because he's so thin yet so long in th leg. The elastic that you can pull in is good, but sometimes even that just isn't enough.
The other problem I have is getting his old clothes away from him. He can have a shirt tat is falling apart and he refuses to partwith it. he will beg me to patch clothes that are more patch tan anything else. His last pair of good jeans with the elastic wasitband we could pull in - they cost me $60 and he wore them on a bushwalk which ripped out the knees. Not impressed with him!
Marg
I remember waiting in the queue at an op-shop about six months ago, I wnrt in to buy a pair of black trousers that fit (all I could fins were sparkly things with sequins on the waistband) and while waiting there I saw a white blouse with a ruffle that looked nice, I liked the light cotton it was made from. It felt soft. I bought it, I didn't even have time to try it on so I had to hope it fitted - and it did! I was wearing it today, it's a shirt I wear for best because it looks so good and it's the only white button-up shirt I have that fits me these days. other shirts are like tents on me now.
easy child 2/difficult child 2 has a lot of clothes she's outgrown, we were passing them on to a young friend of ours - only this girl, aged 10, is a larger size than easy child 2/difficult child 2 (who is 22). Not that our young friend is fat in any way - she's not. She's just getting tall as well as broad across the shoulders and already is a larger bust size than easy child 2/difficult child 2. All in the last few months. We gave her some old clothes of easy child 2/difficult child 2's only a few months ago and they fitted her well.
Last weekend our young friend had her photo taken with easy child 2/difficult child 2 wearing her wedding dress, and our young friend wanted to dress up for the photos as well, so we had her try on some of easy child 2/difficult child 2's nicer clothes - and a lot of them were too small for her!
difficult child 3 wears clothes out fast. Jeans are always too short because he's so thin yet so long in th leg. The elastic that you can pull in is good, but sometimes even that just isn't enough.
The other problem I have is getting his old clothes away from him. He can have a shirt tat is falling apart and he refuses to partwith it. he will beg me to patch clothes that are more patch tan anything else. His last pair of good jeans with the elastic wasitband we could pull in - they cost me $60 and he wore them on a bushwalk which ripped out the knees. Not impressed with him!
Marg
