Am I mad to keep clothes for my daughter?

[Margotshypotheticaldog]

Just doing a big clear out of the wardrobe. I have gorgeous shoes that my old lady feet can't cope with anymore, I cannot bear to get rid. Ditto some beautiful strapless cocktail dresses and a couple of really funky coats that don't (currently) fit me. Am I kidding myself that my now 10 year old dd is ever going to want this stuff??

I'm so jealous of some of the clothes my friend got from her mum.

They will never go out of fashion.

I've been looking for similar stuff for years but never came across them.

I’ve done this, kept some 90’s and noughties stuff for DD. Mostly silk, or pieces with lots of embroidery and work. They are tailored for a small frame which DD has, but she is still young, so who knows what her style will be.
At 13 she is already exploring my day to day wardrobe though. If nothing else she will find the saved pieces pretty

My 17 year old has been raising my wardrobe for my "vintage" clothes since she was 13, gutted as she looks better in them than I ever did in them. Glad I kept them and who knows if I ever have grandchildren they might raid them too...

I was a personal shopper in a high end designer shop in my 20s one of the perks was being able to chose a certain amount of free clothes every season for work and also heavily discount evening stuff and shoes. I have a loft room full of clothes and shoes worth a a ridiculous amount for when the dds want it (if they do).

Maybe for dressing up :-) She and her GF's could have a lovely day trying on your clothes, shoes,make up etc.

in a few years when she's a teenager, your dresses and shoes could be the coolest party gear.

My young adult DD kept some of her Grandmother's clothes when we were clearing her house. . Tweed jackets, cocktail dresses, silk scarves, --50's

That's a lovely thought OP. I'm sure she'd love them in years to come. I have a lovely emerald green Batwing top that was my Nana's from the early 80s. She passed away in the late 80s when I was 8 so all her clothes went to my mum and I found it in her wardrobe. Absolutely loved the colour and asked if I could wear it and mum agreed as she had never worn it as it wasn't her colour. I absolutely love it and feel really close to my nana when I wear it. So yes definitely keep them for her

Yes keep them!
I remember 37 year ago wearing a turquoise shift dress and matching 3/4 sleeve coat that my mum had kept, it was gorgeous and so unusual, everyone commented on it, i felt like Audrey Hepburn!

Agree with others - keep the "good" stuff. Both my sister and I wore the only designer dress my mum ever owned when we were in our teens (mum was TINY and wore size 8 petite clothes pretty much her whole life so it was teens for us or nothing!).

I have very little of that sort in my wardrobe but do have a few pairs of designer shoes and a couple of nice jackets etc that I'm keeping should DD want them later.

@Margotshypotheticaldog

Ah great, an almost unanimous keep them. I thought I was being silly and sentimental 😊 And lol at 90s being vintage!! Some of the dresses are good quality classic styles, but Even if she never wears I would be happy for her to play dress up and guffaw at her old Ma's fashion sense.

I think it's currently classed as "retro" however much I try to refuse to believe it 😂

I tried some of my mums old levis that I would have loved but unfortunately I was always bigger hipped than my mum in my teens.
I wore one of my grans dresses for a 50s themed party once. I would definitely keep a few classic or very quirky bits if I had space.

@Sunbird24

Maybe, but in my late teens I loved being able to try on my mum’s ‘vintage’ posh frocks. I even wore one she’d made herself in the 60s for a themed NYE party when I was 18.

My mum’s 1970s purple leather miniskirt and angora wool mini dress are 2 of my most treasured possessions. My daughter is 10 abs loves trying them on too. Keep them.

I grew too tall for most of my mother's stuff by 13 or so (and was 10 the only time I could borrow her shoes - for a school play). My sister wore some of her dresses as a younger teenager.

My daughter, now 18, is proving the perfect size to get longer term use out of quite a few of her granny's dresses and skirts. We've also got a couple of dresses that belonged to my mother's aunt, didn't fit my mother very well so have been little used for decades upon decades - but with a very little adjustment are going to be perfect for DD!

That's a lovely idea. My mum gave me a few of her things when I was younger. My absolute favourite was a short off the shoulder white top from the early 90s when I was very young. I loved it with my long skirts that were all the fashion in the late 00s/early 10s.

ask her?

My sister got married in my mother's 1950s wedding dress.

My mum saving her clothes for me would have been awful because I would have found it hard to say god no! She saved some baby clothes from when DSis and I were babies and I don’t even want to put my DDs in them because they’re not my style at all.

I have kept every dress since graduation. So all my going out dresses, naice summer dresses etc.

DD has had a root through a few times now and is interested in different ones each time she looks. She is an 8 and I'm a 10 but I think there may be times when she wears them.

She wore one of my jackets for non uniform day last week and it looked amazing on her!

Can I ask, would people have wanted to read their mother's diary from when she was young....? I wrote prolifically for 10 or 15 years, through melodramatic pre puberty and beyond. I haven't looked in years, I'm almost afraid to. Should I just burn and move on?? (now that I've decided to keep the clothes 😊)

Again no!! I love Mama Mia but the diary scene makes me cringe so much. I do not need to know the ins and outs of my DMum’s inner thoughts from her childhood.

I'm inclined to agree. I could have given Donna a run for her money, the locations were far less exotic though 😂

DD18 asked me yesterday if I had any vintage clothes from the 80's or 90's that she could try! Sadly the answer was no in my case but I wish I had some nice bits to offer.

A lot of the stuff my 14 year old DD, and my 22 year old Niece wear is very similar style to what I wore as a teen in the 1990s. They're always looking for vintage stuff that was exactly the type of thing I had but of course I would never have saved it as a teen.
When I was a teen though, the idea of having any of my mums stuff was insane. I thought she was incredibly frumpy and old fashioned and couldnt imagine her wearing anything remotely fashionable (she was also at least 3 dress sizes bigger)

My mum saved her wedding dress for me, (and told me as a child) but I really didnt like it. I didnt wear it, and I dont remember her being (outwardly) upset about it. She gave it to charity in the end.

I honestly won't mind if she wants the stuff or not, or what she does with it if she does take it. I'd say she will be taller and slimmer than I ever was.
I'm impressed at people keeping jeans from the 90s,that's something I never held on to. I used to borrow my dad's old sheep skin coat in the 90s which he found hilarious. I must have looked like a tiny little used car sales man.

I wore stuff that was my granny’s in my late teens/early twenties. She was incredibly stylish and they were some of the nicest clothes I’ve ever owned.

If you've got the space, definitely keep them. It's so much fun to go through things with your older kids and the time will fly past!