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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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
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