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I had one suit for over a year, only made different by a couple of ties and three different button up shirts, two of which were a different shade of white.
When my wife worked at Macy's, she wore the exact same red (iirc) shirt and black pants every day, it was the required color, she saw zero reason to invest any money into anything different for such a low end job.
What some people are missing is that my mom had literally 2 pieces of clothing. It’s not about dresses. I rarely wear a dress. It was 1934 and people were in such tough spots. I think it affected her entire life as she always loved clothes and had a closet full.
In 9th grade, we had a nun who taught Algebra. She wore the same plain blue dress every day. It got brought up at the reunions. Nuns do take a vow of poverty but the ones we had were allowed to have a wardrobe. I wonder why she chose to
do that. Pretty sad.
More importantly, have you used any of that algebra since then?
My mom was in 8th grade and so ashamed that she quit school when my grandma was in the hospital. My grandma didn’t find out until she came home from the hospital. It’s hard for me to even conceive of that level of hardship.
Makes me wish she'd written kind of a memoir-article about that experience.
A lot of well off people are into minimalism. Using accessories and select pieces to make more out of a wardrobe than there is at first glance. People like Ms. Steiner probably helped pave the way for the movement without ever intending to.
What some people are missing is that my mom had literally 2 pieces of clothing. It’s not about dresses. I rarely wear a dress. It was 1934 and people were in such tough spots. I think it affected her entire life as she always loved clothes and had a closet full.
I think my grandmother was extremely poor, she was born in the early 1900's. She had 7 siblings, and it was probably hard for the parents to provide clothing and shoes for 8 kids. Later in my grandmother's life, she had a lot of nice clothing, but her shoe collection was amazing, she had at least 75 pair, and she kept them in their original boxes. They were under the beds, in closets...etc. As a child, I loved looking at all of her shoes.
Only have the one dress reason being I hardly ever go anywhere to dress up.. its five years old and still looks new Ill probably never wear it again but keep it just in case.. as it was nice one.. I had an accident back then and a very badly bruised leg which never healed properly and has a like a fat deposit just under my knee which I hate..others probably wouldnt notice but I do ... so it would have to be a longer dress with boots or whatever to look nice.. so Ill stick with my denims. trousers and jeggins for now..
I don't understand why anyone would find this shocking. My mother briefly worked in a department store before WWII. She had to borrow or remake a black dress for her job. She wore that same black dress every single day. So what? A lot of people back then had one dress for everyday and one good dress for church or a holiday.
If anyone saw the movie or read the book, Ladies in Black, it depicts department store workers in an upscale Australian department store during the 1950s. The store gave the clerks a black dress and they had to wear that same black dress everyday to work, including the women who worked in the couture department. These women were not poor. Today's uniform might consist of a red polo shirt for a store job with the store logo. How many do you think you are going to own?
If anyone lives in older housing, you'll notice that closets were smaller. People had a lot less stuff. Yes, men also had one suit for everyday and one good suit for funerals, church, holidays. Suits were expensive relative to the average paycheck.
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