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A review by panda_incognito
I Like Old Clothes by Patrice Barton, Mary Ann Hoberman
4.0
This book is a beautiful, joyous celebration of hand-me-down clothing. Although many people perceive hand-me-downs as unfashionable, ill-fitting, and embarrassing, the little girl in this story loves her clothes and likes to imagine their previous and future lives. Hand-me-downs were always a big thing in my family, so this resonates with me. When my older sister and I were children, our friends from Texas mailed us boxes of their old clothes each year, and after we had used them, we passed them on to some local friends. They later returned the clothes for my much-younger sister, and whenever she grows out of a size, we give the clothes back for the friends' younger daughters to wear.
Some sizes are now too small for any of us. When I attended one of the older girls' graduations this summer, her mother pointed out that a toddler the girls babysit was wearing the same watermelon romper that the rest of us had once worn. Even though ten children had previously worn this outfit, it was still clean, neat, and adorable. Hand-me-downs are a wonderful way to make the most out of items and share special memories, and it was fun to find a book that celebrates this.
Some sizes are now too small for any of us. When I attended one of the older girls' graduations this summer, her mother pointed out that a toddler the girls babysit was wearing the same watermelon romper that the rest of us had once worn. Even though ten children had previously worn this outfit, it was still clean, neat, and adorable. Hand-me-downs are a wonderful way to make the most out of items and share special memories, and it was fun to find a book that celebrates this.