There are not a lot of photographs from the very early years of our marriage. A number of them have emerged among the digitized slides. But I seem to be wearing the same striped tee shirt in quite a few of them. I'm wondering if they were all taken on the same day? Or was that the only shirt I owned? Or was it just a fave I wore a lot?
I suspect it's a little of all three, but there was a time when I - and many others - owned a lot fewer clothes than people own now! I distinctly remember my mom having two maternity outfits - one for every day and one for Sunday - and doctor visits!!
I purge my closets and drawers on a regular basis, and I don't think of myself as a clothes horse, but the items seem to pile up. It truly has not always been this way - not sure what decade it was when "excess clothing" came into being.
But I remember after Bonny was born, not going to church until something fit me - we just didn't have the resources to go get new clothes - and I refused to wear maternity clothes when I wasn't pregnant!
And when I went home for Christmas with my one pair of shoes, my mom took pity on me and bought me a new pair of Sunday shoes!! And I was thrilled.
I also sewed for Bonny and used remnants my mom gave me. She didn't have lots of clothes, but I had fun constructing her little wardrobe! On the other hand, after Phoebe was born, I have distinct memories of shopping often for her and indulging all my little girl fashion fantasies!!
Someone has written a dissertation on this phenomenon, I am sure. And the book The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion addresses the issue very well.
I just think about it now and then. And I do believe that most women wear 20% of their clothes 80% of the time.
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