When you were a kid, did you get excited when school started and you had new clothes and shoes?

Question

I remember getting Buster Brown shoes and the store would give you a free plastic pencil holder or ruler. Now days, I can't tell school clothes from play clothes because the kids today look the same all year round. LoL

My sister and I had to share the dresses my mom got us.

We had hand-me-downs from my cousin as well. My aunt could sew real well and was the Martha Stewart of the family

Ray C - I certainly do remember desert books and those white go-go boots that Nancy wore. lol

Answer 1

Buying new school clothes was always an exciting time, my sister and I also shared dresses.
The memory that is embedded in my mind though, is the smell of the new Big Chief tablet, crayons, pencils...even today..that smell brings back such happy memories.

Answer 2

Being raised in the country, I remember when the fall catalogues came and how exciting it was to look at the beautiful clothes in them. I was allowed to order one thing, maybe, it was so hard trying to decide what that would be.

I was determined to become rich and buy what I wanted to. LOL

Do you remember twin sets?

We werent allowed to wear pants to school no matter how cold it got, and it got cold. Tights were the best thing ever invented, and those nice cable ones were so warm.

Does anyone remember Poodle skirts? My sister had one in the 50's. I never liked that look, Audrey Hepburn was more to my taste.

I never wore hand me downs because my sister would never part with anything even after she out grew it. Why my mother let her get away with that is beyond me.

I remember how nice it was when cool days hit and snuggly sweaters were once more needed. To this day I still love fall and hauling out my sweaters.

I loved going back to school and getting my books and sitting down and reading all of them in the first week. I am addicted to reading, always have been, imagine I always will be. I cant live without books, I could give up just about everything else in my life but no books.

Answer 3

I went to school int he 50's and graduated in 1970. Back then school was looked on with more respect and kids looked forward to going back after the Labor Day holiday. I would work most of the summer and help my parents with my earnings. My parents would put aside the money that I'd make and then we'd go to the discount stores in the big city to shop. The shopping trips were exciting and we (my brothers and sisters) would buy all sorts of nice clothes. We'd come home with our brand new shirts, jeans, shoes and put them on. Just to take a look at what we looked like in new clothes. Starting a new school year was always fun and exciting, especially if you worked most of the summer. Going back to school was a blast. That went on for many years. I think when I finally reached my sophomore year in high school the excitement went down. And yes, I remember buster brown shoes, U.S. Keds, Nunn Bush, Stacy Adams (I couldn't afford those). Remember, the dessert boot in the late 60s? Or the Nancy Sinatra craze after her hit single, "these boots are made for walking" ? Anyways, that's my answer.

Answer 4

Yeah. Our grandmother met us downtown "under the clock" at L.S. Ayres. She always bought us two outfits and our new saddle oxfords.

She also took me to the State Fair on Labor Day. The next day was the first day of school.

In my teen years I had to wear my cousin's hand-me-downs. My dad died when I was 11 and my mother felt that she couldn't afford to buy both of us new clothes every year. So I got stuck in my cousin's skirts and sweaters. Our taste was nothing alike.

I, too, remember Buster Brown and his dog Tige. And the machine that measured your feet. It was supposed to be a health hazard we learned years later.

Today's kids dress like they are going some place all the time. I don't think any of them change into play clothes when they come home from school. You should see what the neighborhood teens have been wearing all summer. They look like they're in the wings waiting to walk down the ramp in the next fashion show. Of course, the clothing is ridiculous, but...

Answer 5

I remember Buster Brown shoes, also. Do you remember the machine that the store had to see if the shoes fit properly? You'd step up to this, (what seemed really tall at the time) machine and it would x-ray your feet to see where your toes were or if the heel was to tight. Does anyone remember that?
And school clothes were the best; couldn't wait til the first day of school. After that it was all downhill. Couldn't wait for summer! lol.....:-)

Answer 6

Always. Well, until about the 10th grade, that is. After that I hated it. I can recall x-ray machines in shoe stores where you could look at the bones in you're feet. Those were outlawed LONG ago, but it was fun at the time. And I remember Buster Brown shoes. And "Mary Janes" which were later called "Johnny Belinda's." They were girls shoes with a strap over the arch.

Answer 7

I was excited about school. But there wasn't always money for new clothes. We just patched what we had, and cleaned up the shoes. My son didn't believe me when I told him we didn't have dress shoes, but polished up the regular ones for church, until he saw a picture of me. As Ray C said, there was more respect then for school and the teachers, and staff.

Answer 8

I never had new cloths I had hand me downs --

My mother was poor,

My dad was Killed In WWII on Iwo Jime, Feb 22nd 1945, but we managed to survive without TV - computers - etc. etc .

I think MOST kids today have it too good.

Ah Yes Buster Brown He lives in a shoe and thats his dog "Tide" ?? He lives there too

I remember Corvairs - Euclid Beach Park - Winky Dink - and a TV show called "My Little Margie"

Answer 9

Aww... how cute. I was excited about school when I first came here from Egypt at age 10. Only because I wanted to learn English really bad.

Answer 10

I was excited for school to start, but Mom made our clothes, and we got shoes when we needed them, not because school began.

Of course in those days girls wore dresses to school. YIKES!