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Chris -- 2018-04-11

#1 2009-11-30 19:02:46

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

'hang me downs' for 'hand me downs'

I suppose that clothing inherited from an older sibling or friend might be too large, and so hang loosely off its new owner. Uncommon:

Do you think it’s weird to wear someone’s old clothing….
I don’t think its weird exactly, as i used to wear clothes from my big sis – ‘hang me downs’, but maybe its ‘cos she’s family and i know where they came …
www.answerbag.com/q_view/839913

Makeba wore the usual tattered hang-me-downs from her older sisters.
blackgirlonmars.blogspot.com/2007/10/little-lost-leeza.html

She is also my supplier of children’s hang me downs as her kids are a few years older than mine.
pushingthebuggy.blogspot.com/2008/02/cast-of-characters-my-peeps.html

i always give her all my daughters hang me downs. my daughter has tons of nice clothes (gymboree, gap, childrens place, old navy).
www.frugalvillage.com/forums/archive/in … 73400.html

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