Can you remember the clothes that you wore when you were young?

so many memories I can identify with-
I definitely had a little white angora bolero which I assume must have been knitted for me - worn over a pink party dress with a 'sticky-out' skirt, that, unusually must have come from a shop although possibly via another child, as I don't remember buying it.
I was too young for liberty bodices but we did have winter vests (creamy coloured wool with little cap sleeves) and summer vests (white cotton). In fact the change over from winter to summer clothes was quite the ritual, as all last years clothes were got out and assessed as to whether they still fitted or needed letting down/out.
Most of my clothes were sewn by my mum or knitted by an older neighbour, or my grandma. I remember my grandma making me a pale green crochet dress which had a matching green nylon slip to wear underneath. I must have been about 9 maybe. I remember some debate about the length of the dress, as it was crocheted you could lengthen it by adding more rows. I was allowed to have it quite short, and I remember my grandma commenting approvingly that it had 'sex appeal'......I am aghast looking back, at the time I had no idea what this was supposed to mean and I actually wonder if my grandma did either.
One thing that always happened when the change to summer clothing happened was that last years sandals had to be tried on. Inevitably they were too small, but there was never enough money to just go out and buy new ones straight away (I think possibly we had to wait for the next lot of Child Allowance, which I seem to remember was a book of tokens you took to the Post Office each month- is that right?)- anyway, the solution was to cut the toes off the end of the sandals, and we would wear them like that for a few weeks.
Did that happen to anyone else?

During WW2, a gentleman used to come round with a big suitcase full of remnants of good quality materials. My mum loved to make smocked dresses for me and my sisters. For VE day she made white Viyella dresses with Union flag motifs for us and our summer dresses were always made on her trusty Singer machine. When she taught me to use it, I made cotton dresses and skirts for myself. School uniforms were bought locally either from a draper's shop or the Co-op. When I was a student she made me two lovely ball gowns, one of which I later shortened to make a party dress.

My mother made clothes and my grandmother knitted us jumpers and cardigans. My friend and I both had twist dresses made by other mothers when we were about 11/12. Also gathered skirts and later straight skirts with slit at the back ( just like our mother’s). In the early 70s I made most of my party dresses myself.
My DD carries on the traditional and recently made a skirt for my GD for a dress up day at school. I knit jumpers for the children when they’re young.

I remember very well much of my homemade clothes. One frock was beautifully smocked but I said it looked like a nightie and I had a homemade coat and hat I disliked but my mother was very skilled.
When I went to grammar school she made all my uniform from the sketchy drawings supplied and of course nothing was exactly like the bought items.
I made frocks, nighties and dressing gowns for all my daughters, sometimes matching items for all 4 of them and everything was passed down.
Two of my granddaughters are now making their own clothes and I’m making a patchwork jacket for my firstborn, now 51.

At Grammar School we had to make our Gym dresses in 1st year needlework classes. The design was based on a greek short tunic. 2 oblongs with a slit up the side.

Oh, goodness, did you go to the same school as me, Milest0ne? They were horrible, with matching baggy knickers. We didn't have to make them, they could be bought and my mother made a second set.

When I was little we moved into a 1920s house and our neighbours were 2 elderly sisters Nellie and Clara. The house they lived in was bought new by there rich watchmaker father when he realised his daughters were not going to marry. The house was furnished typically Victorian. They used to earn a small income by dressmaking on an old Singer treadle sewing machine. They used to make me strangely old fashioned clothes in modern 60s fabric. My favourite out was a skirt and waistcoat made from an old red velvet evening dress of my Mums, she bought me a frilly white blouse to wear with it. They were lovely gentle ladies who died just after we moved in the early 1970s.