Clothes

Does anyone over sixty, remember their Mothers sitting up at night patching overalls, jeans and various other children’s clothes, so that their children wouldn’t have to go to school with holes in their clothes? My Mother put double patches on my marble playing brothers britches. You were looked down on if you allowed your children to go to school with holes in their clothes. If they could have saved all those clothes and realized what styles would be now, they could have been rich….

I look at the cost of these jeans with holes all over them and think to myself that amount of money would feed a poor family for a month. Evidently they don’t make suspenders anymore, as all the kids wear their jeans hanging on the posterior part of their anatomy, with their naked body showing when they bend over. Boys and girls……

Half of the clothes that are being worn have never seen an ironing board. Remember back in the fifties, when young men wore their jeans starched and ironed with a crease, with belts and long sleeved white shirts, with the shirttail tucked inside the jeans or pants. They always looked nice, neat and clean. Most of the clothes worn by children these days look like they came from a rummage sale. I know times have changed, but not for the better.

The opinion of a grandmother.


Shotgun Granny