What did you wear when you were a child?

[OneUmberJoker]

T shirts hoodies

Clothkits.

If you know, you know.

Jeans, joggers trainers, t shirts. I was a "tomboy".

Whatever turned up in the hand-me-down bags, and I don’t say this to be woe is me, I honestly think it’s a great sustainable way to clothe kids who grow so quickly, my mum and her friends/sisters passed stuff round for years that was perfectly fine just grown out of.

Dirndls, ladybird t-shirts with buttons on the shoulders, Clark’s ‘sandals’. or smocked dresses & warm tights in winter (1960s) Really stupid bow tied in my short hair.

Graduated to catsuits , and ski pant things in the 1970s

I was a fashion icon…

weird frilly dresses, until I was about 8/9 and could put my foot down about what I wanted to wear! Then it was basically large sweaters, shorts, chunky trainers occasionally short dungarees, was a massive Tom boy and pretty much still dress the same in my 30s

Skirts and long white socks even in the snow! I got my 1st pair of jeans when I was 10 from bhs ! It was a huge relief as a huge Tom boy

Whatever the girl over the road had grown out of. Mostly dresses, some shorts. Until I was in 5th year and could buy my own via strawberry picking!!😊

Hand me downs from an older cousin and then a few nicer things that my grandmother bought me when we spent the summer with her. I think I was fairly well turned out but it was the 70s so I had bad hair. Didn’t we all?

I had a couple of pinafore shift dresses, one in corduroy and one in white pleather, that I'd wear with matching polo neck jumpers and tights, very trendy in the 60s when I was a child. Or dresses with long white socks or coloured tights, bare-legged in summer. I don't remember wearing trousers till I was well into my teens. I also had some snazzy quilted anoraks with swirly patterns.
My clothes were either from Selfridges, an indie shop in Hampstead or made by my Mum, with very occasional supplements from M&S or Ladybird.

I bloody LOVED my clothkits clothes. They were so soft and comfy. I'm amazed my mum managed to make them, she was very much not a crafter/seamstress.

I spent most of primary school in a variety of Disney-themed leggings (Princess Jasmine was the favourite), t-shirts and randomly a pink Flipper baseball cap.

Brightly coloured leggings. The highlighter green and daisy pattern ones . Stand out for all the wrong reasons

an equally horrid corduroy pair of culottes

lots of kilts and those party dresses with the ruching at the front (forgotten the name )

in my mum’s defence it was the early 90s but even then I hated most of what she put me in

Smocking!!

Hand me downs! At least for the first five years. Then just look at Stranger Things. And I recall a crochet vest and purple jeans I was very fond of.

I wore a lot of corduroy. Pinafore dresses. Trouser suits. Twin sets so a knitted waistcoat and matching knitted cardigan. Lots of bright colours such as yellow, orange, red and plenty of brown too.
If I was going to a birthday party mum would dress me in a long dress. I had one with Holly Hobbie ( or similar) on the front. It was brown with a deep frill around the bottom.

Hand me downs from a cousin, plus pinafores and dresses made by DM, or shorts/jeans and T-shirts/sweaters. Clarks shoes or flipflops in summer. We lived by the sea, in the 1960s so nothing fancy.

Hand me downs, jumble sale stuff and homemade/knitted clothes. I did have a proper coat for church and a rather lovely pair of burgundy corduroy dungarees with fake leather buttons. We always had a new pair of Start-rite shoes every new school year which were always slightly too big so we had room to grow into them. Gotta love a 70s childhood.

1970s

Lots of hand crotchet dresses and jumpers made by my great aunt. Ladybird clothes (i think from C & A, Bhs, or local market. Flared cords or jeans, kilts with a big pin (very fashionable for girls in the mid 70s

Hooded duffel coats or snorkel parkas

Buckle up leather tbar shoes, or pumps

1960s. Dresses for school, hand me down shorts and t shirts from my brother for out of school. Ladybird or St Michael brands. A relative sent me a hoody from Canada when I was about 7 and no-one had ever seen one where we lived

Red trousers, white t-shirts, jumpers knitted by my granny, tasteful dresses in the Summer (I particularly remember a turquoise linen knee-length sleeveless shift which had a girl in a bonnet watering flowers appliquéd on the skirt on one side), school uniform with thick navy knickers with a double gusset, Startrite or Clarks shoes.

Whatever hand-me-downs were a vague fit.

But from 18, I escaped to uni and wore jeans, sneakers, t-shirts, and rainbow coloured hand knit sweaters 😀

And cotton dresses and sneakers in summer

Clothes my mother sewed basically pretty dresses and nice sandals or shoes always from Clarks. I wanted jeans. I used to go hiking with my Dad and had trousers or shorts and boots for that which I loved.

Yes!! Several smocked party dresses

Whatever my cousin handed me down. I wasn’t really interested in clothes. I just wore what was there!

School uniform on weekdays, a dress (I only had one dress at any time and going shopping for a new dress was an annual ritual) for Sunday school and parties, Brownie uniform on Wednesday evenings, a nightie and knickers and sometimes a head full of curlers to bed, and handknits and hand-me-downs the rest of the time.