This type of look really appeals to me. I grew up on a farm and was reared by parents who lived through the Depression. "Wear it out, use it up, make it do" was the mantra in our family. Clothes passed through siblings and cousins. Lucky was the child who truly fit the clothes of another child who didn't stain or tear her clothes. We had the "shoe box" where outgrown shoes were put until someone else could wear them; sometimes I helped my mother cut out cardboard to fit inside the uppers if the soles were too "hole-y." Shoe polish was a NECESSITY! Towels, linens, furniture, dishware...everything was used until it was gone. And while I pined for new dresses and shoes, for "modern" and "new", I learned the the material is less important than the immaterial, that new isn't necessarily better, and about what truly lasts.
