where do they get clothes?

from Mr Corn.

It's hard to believe nowadays, but clothing was once made to last and be passed down a few times. I was wearing hand-me-downs from the late '60s well into the early '80s. (Yes, it was as embarrassing as it sounds.)

Mending and altering clothes isn't all that difficult. Up through the '70s, making your own clothes wasn't uncommon (look up Simplicity patterns, for instance) and it doesn't require as much material as you'd think--you could easily make a boy's shirt or two out of a good-sized table cloth, if necessary. (Depending, of course, on the size of the boy and the size of the table.) Even urban/suburban kids were still learning how to at least stitch a straight line in home economics classes up through the '80s, because sewing, knitting, etc., were considered basic and necessary skills for girls for a time.

So the kids in the '60s could've made some of their own clothes if necessary from the materials left behind in the town after ridding themselves of adults, but in all likelihood they were wearing clothing passed down from adults and kids from the previous decade, mended and altered as needed.

And now I feel old.