I dunno - the first "party" dress I ever owned that was mine and mine alone, I bought at university. Before that, it was always something one of my sisters had owned before me or a friend's child.
Admittedly, until I hit 14 or so, I had the huge advantage that I had effective twins three years ahead of me (11 months between them) which meant I got two "new" outfits instead of one, and another set of friends whose youngest was a year or so older than me and so I got her clothes, but trotting along to a party in a sister's castoff wasn't a huge thing for me.
By the time it could have been a huge thing, I was sharing a size with my mum and quite happily raiding her wardrobe (or sometimes she'd buy me an outfit for a wedding or something that wound up in her wardrobe!)
What hurt me much much more as a youngest was people ignoring me or expressing surprise at my very existence - something the Marlow twins don't seem to suffer from.
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Date: 2005-08-30 08:31 pm (UTC)Admittedly, until I hit 14 or so, I had the huge advantage that I had effective twins three years ahead of me (11 months between them) which meant I got two "new" outfits instead of one, and another set of friends whose youngest was a year or so older than me and so I got her clothes, but trotting along to a party in a sister's castoff wasn't a huge thing for me.
By the time it could have been a huge thing, I was sharing a size with my mum and quite happily raiding her wardrobe (or sometimes she'd buy me an outfit for a wedding or something that wound up in her wardrobe!)
What hurt me much much more as a youngest was people ignoring me or expressing surprise at my very existence - something the Marlow twins don't seem to suffer from.