Best childhood clothes

[Oma]

Nana we were dirt poor too but as children we didn't know that as where I lived everyone was poor

[Nana]

Me too Oma. I do recall tho' that a wealthy Church goer took a liking to me & she took me out for afternoon tea & bought me a pill box (pillar box?) hat. Boy was that day special.

[Gemini]

We weren't poor, as we owned our own home and I was sent to private school. That probably took most of the money my dad earned. I would much rather have gone to normal school and had nicer clothes though !!

[Daisy]

Gem! Education v. Clothes? No contest, eh!

I must have had coats, but i can't remember any of them, but I can remember a red blazer, because of something a teacher said. I was walking to school, aged about 8 or 9, and caught up with my class teacher, Miss Morris. She admired my red jacket and said she had had one as a child but hated it because she thought it clashed with her red hair. The only coat I really remember was what I thought of as my first grown-up coat. It was a wool camel colour and in a fashionable style, and Ialso had my first pair of slip on shoes to go with it. I wore it to travel to see my friend in Manchester and felt so grown-up - travelling to Manchester on my own in my new coat. I was about 12 or 13.