When I was a child, junior school age, every so often these wonderful clothes would turn up courtesy of a woman my grandmother knew from arranging the flowers together in their local church. Of course, like many I didn't have many clothes then, occasional new ones from M&S. I was delighted to receive these clothes, I believe they were quite expensive, I was sometimes asked by friends where I got them from. I just said "my grandmother". I only wished the girl whose clothes they were would grow quicker so I could have them more often. Eventually these offerings dwindled until I didn't get them anymore
but I think I was a teenager by then and had a Saturday job and more money to spend on fripperies,.