| While the others were given new clothes and shoes, she was dressed in ill-fitting hand-me-downs and old shoes. |
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| Their father sometimes buys clothes and shoes as well, the rest is hand-me-downs. |
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| We seldom got new clothes, but we wore hand-me-downs, unless my mother would buy materials and make our clothes. |
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| We don't even have that many hand-me-downs, as we gave most of them away because we didn't expect another baby. |
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| With no money coming in, the girls wore hand-me-downs from their Milford Haven cousins and Philip grew up learning the value of economizing. |
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| Barbara tended to wear her elder sister's hand-me-downs, the skirts turned inside out to get the best use out of them. |
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| The day of the hand-me-downs among family and friends is truly gone with parents opting to buy new baby equipment. |
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| I already have all his hand-me-downs like his shirts and TV tray, so I might as well use his battle gear. |
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| Even if they still had a mother they used to be given hand-me-downs. |
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| There's always somebody around to lend you a couple of dollars until you get your cheque... Because we're on the lower end of the scale, we got clothes, hand-me-downs. |
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| Buying second-hand goods and accepting hand-me-downs work for me, too! |
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| Stay tuned, but expect no more hand-me-downs. |
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| They furnished the place with parent-provided hand-me-downs. |
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| Their uniforms were hand-me-downs from male pilots. |
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| They often wear one another's hand-me-downs. |
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| What is missing in these albums is the working man in his working clothes, the woman in her housedress or the child in the hand-me-downs of an older brother or sister. |
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| I didn't know at the time that my used textbooks were castoffs and that our science and athletic equipment represented the hand-me-downs from white schools in the district. |
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| On this limited budget we opted for hand-me-downs and cloth diapers. |
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| It has become increasingly evident that fishermen and scientists working in a specific fishery will more readily adhere to rules and regulations that they themselves have conceived, rather than Brussels hand-me-downs. |
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| I think that our clothes, which used to be hand-me-downs from older brothers and sisters, have now become tailor-made and pretty well-fitting, too. |
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| She also admits that most of Marnie's clothes are Florence's hand-me-downs and not the designer clobber seen on lots of mini-mes nowadays. |
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| Abel is a red-headed giant, so Eli wears a lot of his hand-me-downs. |
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| We wore hand-me-downs, hand-me-down again and spruced it up to look good. Didn't look secondhanded or nothing when we finished adding the touch to it. |
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| Hand-me-downs such as cribs, bassinets, strollers, high chairs, and clothes can help save time and money. |
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