Isn't the point about the dresses that clothes were still on rationing until about 1953 and that the dresses were originally very grand? I don't suppose ponies were "on points", were they? And wouldn't Catkin have been handed down when she grew out of him?
Horses and dresses
I don't suppose ponies were "on points", were they? And wouldn't Catkin have been handed down when she grew out of him?