"Tiger Lily" > wrote in message
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> On 12/20/2011 10:30 PM, Storrmmee wrote:
>> i was so freaked out i can tell you the total bill for me to start school
>> was $212.80... and that was fourty years ago, Lee
>
> whoa........... was that store bought clothes or home made??
>
> i forget how old i was when buying the materials actually cost more than
> buying the finished item in a shop
>
> i do sew when i'm being uber fussy, but often i can take a store bought
> and finish the seams better, etc, and still save money over making it from
> scratch!
>
> high end 2nd hand clothes stores also give you this advantage...........
> do i care that it's 2 years old? not really LOL

I can remember my parents trying to pressure me into wearing Levi's. They
sold in those days for $5 a pair. Nobody in this area wore them but they
were worn in KS where my cousins lived. I remember it well. Super flares.
That's what my cousin wore.

Here we had to have Swabby's with the buttons down the crotch. They were
about $15 a pair. Now I would be happy if I could find jeans of any kind
for that price!