Out with the push chair

In the Home we did have our own personal sets of clothes: Best, school and play. Over a time if we had not out grown them and they had started to become a little worn, best became school clothes and school clothes became our play clothes.

Anything outgrown was passed down to a younger child, and we might something get from an older child.

For outside the grounds we were generally smart, for play use within the grounds we could often be seen in odd items.

If you out grew an item there was often a larger size item ready for you, at other times you would have to wait for the Sister to go over to the clothing store or to take you into town.

A temporary item might just be a little big, the wellingtons were ready for an older boy, not really for a young girl who found the foot part too big and the sides too tall, turning them over gave the impression of the only girl in the Home ready to do road works. You might not get the correct item for a month, you just had to wait until Sister had time to sort several of you out at once.

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