Today's saying or thought 23/6

[Rodgera]

A child's greatest period of growth is the month
after you've purchased new school clothes.

[lovetoride]

Especially the feet of boys!

[rrich]

This was back in the mid 1950s. My father told me that since I had a paper route I should buy my own Easter suit. We were living in Brooklyn, New York at the time. To buy a suit it would be necessary to get on a street car (Trolley) and go down town to one of the department stores. Or another option was to go to the tailor at the end of the block. I chose the latter.

After a couple of weeks and a few fittings, my suit was ready to pick up the Saturday before Palm Sunday. I did so and brought it home. My father wanted to see the suit and I tried it on. The conversation went like this:

F: "Wow that is a really nice suit. It fits you like a glove."
F: "Who is your tailor?"
M: "The guy at the end of the block."
F: "No. Where did you buy the suit?"
M: "From the tailor at the end of the block."
F: "YOU HAD A SUIT MADE BY A TAILOR?"
F: "HOW MUCH DID IT COST?"
M: "$75"

The conversation ended there and my father didn't speak to me until school was back in session several months later. In those several months I grew probably about 100MM. I think that I wore the suit, perhaps a dozen Sundays before we went to Grandmothers beach house for the summer.

A big LOL!

[KBs PensNmore]

Did you have younger brothers to pass the suit on to??

[rrich]

Did you have younger brothers to pass the suit on to??

IIRC, It wouldn't fit my younger brother as he was quite a bit chunkier than I at the time. He is about 4 years younger. (Knowing my parents, I've often wondered about the almost 4 years. LOL )

[doug3030]

IIRC, It wouldn't fit my younger brother as he was quite a bit chunkier than I at the time. He is about 4 years younger. (Knowing my parents, I've often wondered about the almost 4 years. LOL )

They had to think long and hard before having another one after you?

[rrich]

They had to think long and hard before having another one after you?

OK, I'll go along with that scenario. I had another one in mind but this is not the old orange room.