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Show PGBlab MARCELLA WALKER , "Sure God created man before J woman, but then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece!" We ran across that fine statement in a store recently and it is reprinted here for all those women, who after a summer full of children and hauling , them to swim lessons, 4-H, other m classes, are ready to call it quits. We see where the sidewalk sales ) are all coming up in the next couple of : weeks if they have not been held i already. That means that school can I not be far behind. , ! Every year since we have lived in ' ' Pleasant Grove, we begin to make the rounds of the sidewalk sales j Jwping to find something to fit the I kids that will suffice for school clothes. When they were little it was much easier. For one thing, clothes are somewhat cheaper when they are young. If you make their clothes, small children are easier to please and not so much fabric is required. I Big kids don't go in so much for I home made clothes but a few dresses , J blouses or skirts are tolerable. Classes are offered all the time for learning to make designer jeans. That is the class I really need and never have the time to take, i The price of designer j eans is out of ) sight. Back in the olden days when we wore dresses and skirts and blouses to school, I believe it was a trifle cheaper to outfit a child for school. No dress or skirt cost as much as those designer jeans, did they? i My daughter said she must have at least one pair of Jordache jeans because "they feel loose going on but look tight when they are on." So do my stretch knits and they do not cost , all that money. Another fun thing is having children who are taller than clothes fe made or skinnier than clothes are tnade. Boys jeans have leg lengths which go up in proportion to increase in waist sizes. This does not help a skinny six-feet-four lad to find a pair of trousers. Nor does it help a little lass who needs a size one in juniors and hardly any store carries them. It doesn't pay to be average size either. Did you every try to get a pair of sales shoes if you wear an average size? There is never a pair left that you would even be seen dead in. Right? My kids cannot make up their minds either. They always think the next store will have something they like better so we plod on and on and finally they say, "Well, I think I like that outfit back at the first store we went to better." . Sidewalk sales take place on the hottest day of the year. They always feature tables full of stuff which you surmise they have not been able to see since Lincoln was assassinated, but which they still put out every year. Where do they store that stuff from year to year? Have you ever noticed the colors of some of the socks, slacks or tops they -have out in huge quantities? Who dreams up those colors? A "drunk dyer or a concoctionist of the sort who dreamed up sweetbreads? People show few manners at these sales. My youngest daughter has yet to recover from a woman grabbing a dress out of her hands as she was bring it over for me to see at Christensen's sidewalk sale a few years ago. In spite of all these things, we keep going back to all the sales. It is kind of fun. You can make a guessing game out of it to entertain the kids by giving prizes to those who can predict best the stores which will have the same old junk out another year. Best of shopping to all of you and may the bargain you get not be the same one I wanted. |