I cared - but not much. I'd rather have had other stuff than the clothes, and didn't, for example, envy the friends who had much cooler clothes. The only girl I really envied clotheswise was the one whose mother allowed her to wear jeans to our (non-uniform) primary school - but that was an issue of standards. I certainly owned jeans (including a memorable pair of gloriously comfortable flared ones that originally belonged to a male cousin and my mother was *mortified* that I insisted on wearing them).

I was very much brought up with an idea that clothes didn't matter that much as a child, and it definitely had an impact on me.