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"All of our guitars are hand-me-downs and I like shirts that are hand-me-downs too," he said.
Black women seem to have entered this history through hand-me-downs.
To meet my needs for maternity clothes, I sought out hand-me-downs.
I got my jacket and hat as hand-me-downs from my dad.
"Since I'm the younger sister, I get all the hand me downs," she said.
My mom would dress me in my sisters' hand-me-downs, which was embarrassing.
Shirts like these would surely make great hand-me-downs for new siblings too.
No hand-me-downs, so it's a good excuse to buy all new clothes.
That's how we ensure hand-me-downs are worth handing down decades from now.
She came by the studio often, sometimes to bring hand-me-downs to Annette.
Hand-me-downs arrive periodically from her cousin Ami and her older friend Bea.
The reader without Hebrew fumbles among cleaned remnants; makes do with hand-me-downs.
I was short, too, but rounder, and usually dressed in too-small hand-me-downs.
I was brought up in hand-me-downs so it feels natural to wear them.
Many phones are used for longer than three years, often refurbished or as hand-me-downs.
I've never purchased a bed, couch, or any other furniture, instead subsisting on hand-me-downs.
And rather than buy new clothes, Melissa, 35, makes do with her sister's hand-me-downs.
In terms of furniture, costs were spared by relying on recycled furniture and hand-me-downs.
They were hand-me-downs, but they were so cute, the little purses, the A-line skirts.
The whole rest of the day was filled with talk of tea parties and frilly hand-me-downs.
The whole rest of the day was filled with talk of tea parties and frilly hand-me-downs.
In high school, she experimented with a quirky fashion style cultivated from thrift shops and hand-me-downs.
Or is THQ Nordic a flea market, full of cheap knockoffs and hand-me-downs in questionable condition?
Their coach was a high school gym teacher; their uniforms hand-me-downs from a local state school.
The goal is to make the donated toys seem like new, as opposed to grimy hand-me-downs.
"We'll be having kids soon so I'll hit you up for hand-me-downs," Drew wrote on Gaines's photo.
I ended up getting a lot of hand-me-downs and figuring out ways to make it my own.
"We'll be having kids soon so I'll hit you up for hand me downs," Scott wrote on Gaines's photo.
Try browsing reputable thrift shops in your neighborhood or, of course, asking friends and family for hand-me-downs.
I was the fifth of seven kids and was accustomed to hand-me-downs and striving to be heard.
Twice, I had an American co-worker give me hand-me-downs because I couldn't afford to buy clothes.
I grew up in a house where we all wore hand-me-downs and those bins of clothes still exist.
John Legend and Chrissy Teigen are two powerhouse names in the entertainment industry, but they're not above hand-me-downs.
The New Year signals the kickoff of the great gadget migration, when our once-beloved devices become hand-me-downs.
Look for gently used maternity clothes at reputable thrift shops, and again, ask friends and family for hand-me-downs.
Growing up, my family would shop at Big Lots for groceries, and I wore hand-me-downs from a cousin.
Even among the military, there are complaints that the United States often provides outdated hardware, second-rate hand-me-downs.
They bought her a new set so I got the hand-me-downs—two bodies and a full set of lenses.
Birthday boy Prince George just proved that he can pull off casual chic just as well as vintage hand-me-downs.
The hand-me-downs were sequined leftovers with funny, misspelled messages, which I didn't notice until I learned how to read.
As for rings, consider family hand-me downs or save those for your first wedding anniversary to make it extra sweet.
As a former tomboy, who wore "hand-me-downs my whole life," McEntire says she loves glamour of the awards night.
They wore every color under the sun, many of them hand-me-downs with logos of American and European sports teams.
I'd always been jealous of girls who wore their sister's hand-me-downs, like the uniform of a well-loved team.
Through it all, the fights, the coupon cutting, the hand-me-downs, the breakdowns – with love, humor and perseverance, the family prevails.
As well as being right-hand drive, Japanese cars are favoured for being in better condition than other rusty hand-me-downs.
Until Sunday morning, you can nab the reality TV star-turned-make-up guru's hand-me-downs at...almost the same price.
Their apartment is comfortable and spacious, furnished primarily with hand-me-downs from Mr. Hutchinson's mother, as well as items from Ikea.
She has previously spoken about how she had to rely on hand-me-downs from friends when she was running for office.
His suits look like—and no offense to Drew Carey—Drew Carey's hand-me-downs from when he lost, like, 30 pounds.
It usually goes something like this: if they're stylish, they're uncomfortable and if they're comfortable, they look like hand-me-downs from grandma.
Almost all of the baby's clothes are hand-me-downs from friends and family, which has saved us a whole heap of money.
My dad would order from L.L. Bean and that was basically all he wore, and I grew up wearing those hand-me-downs.
The hand-me-downs saved money and let us squeeze a little more enjoyment out of those tiny jackets and sweet sailor shirts.
Not for a chick who still wears hand-me-downs, stress-picks her nail polish and often forgets to wear deodorant to work.
Find a friend who is interested in your hand-me-downs or connect with a Buy Nothing Group or donate to a thrift store.
I culled the children's closets, pulling most from my younger children's (the older children's clothing tends to become hand-me-downs for younger siblings).
Most younger siblings get old hand-me-downs, but French Montana just gave his little brother Zack a brand spanking new BMW 7 series.
While pregnant with her first child in 2010, Ariane Goldman's maternity wardrobe consisted of vintage caftans and muumuus and her mother's hand-me-downs.
Eureka O'Hara, in her sixth cousin Scarlett's hand-me-downs, detached her skirt mid-runway, and then weirdly just kind of left it there.
She always sent me home with a bag of her vintage hand-me-downs: pastel Tocca tank tops, a pink floral Agnès B. blouse.
Should Middleton have her baby soon, she can definitely give Meghan and Prince Harry some baby tips — and, perhaps, a few hand-me-downs, too.
When he finds his sweater on his little sister, Trudy, whom it fits, there's a bonus lesson in graciously forking over the hand-me-downs.
"We had a hard time balancing some of our preferences — and the years of hand-me-downs and Ikea furniture didn't help," Ms. Chandra said.
They made do at first, the younger ones wearing the older girls' hand-me-downs, but it was difficult for them to wear Makayla's old clothes.
"I have been buying her lots of sweet classic girl things, but secretly I'm really enjoying seeing her in Sailor's boyish hand-me-downs," Tyler confesses.
Growing up, I had no interest in makeup; my cosmetics bag consisted of hand-me-downs and samples saved only for special occasions like ballet recitals.
When I was their age I didn't really get new clothes because I had so many cousins so I would just get their hand-me-downs.
Dear Miss Manners: My husband and I are expecting our first child, and we have been gifted tons of hand-me-downs from friends and family.
"Hillary Clinton still tellin' lies on the channel ... so Democrats never did ride for me .... we don't want no more Bill Clinton hand-me-downs," he raps.
It may sound like bribery, but these can be small things, hand-me-downs or thrift store finds; the newness is the novelty, not the amount spent.
It was not the sort of list Everton managers had grown accustomed to hearing: young hopefuls, grizzled veterans, the castoffs and hand-me-downs of Europe's giants.
In emerging countries a growing new middle class wants its own set of civic clothes, not a collection of ill-fitting ideological hand-me-downs from the West.
Now, a handful of countries here in East Africa no longer want the foreign hand-me-downs dumped on them because they're trying to manufacture their own clothes.
On one particularly powerful page, Shannon compares her life to Jenny's, noting that they both have popular best friends, wear hand-me-downs, and come from big families.
Is Marianne a stylized studio-era feminine ideal, or a film noir femme fatale — or something else entirely, a modern woman decked out in Hollywood hand-me-downs?
Your cool aunt (she made you call her that) coached the soccer team and your older sibling gave you all the best hand-me-downs that looked effortlessly cool.
And of course, this is hardly the first time Kate has chosen heritage clothes for her kids: George has twice worn hand-me-downs from his dad, Prince William!
While his peers could cruise for clothes at the mall, Mr. Miko wore hand-me-downs from his 6-5 father, whose wardrobe came from big-and-tall catalogs.
His frugality partly stems from his upbringing: Pattison was born during the Great Depression and grew up poor, wearing hand-me-downs and living in "Vancouver's gritty east side."
The young royal was wearing a white and blue outfit — and there's a reason the ensemble looks so familiar: the clothes are hand-me-downs from his uncle Prince Harry!
I have often given him my hand-me-downs, including a 1974 Jensen-Healey and a 1985 Mercedes-Benz 230E that actually had a stick shift (it was from Spain).
"We decided not to give them hand-me-downs, which they've had all their lives," said David Brown, a founder of the project and its umbrella organization, the Gathering Tree.
His partner, Bjorn Amelan, explained to me that Kelly was especially "marked" by the fact that all of his textbooks as a boy were hand-me-downs from white schools.
I've had a clothes-buying ban for myself for the past 2 1/2 years (with a few hand-me-downs from friends), so line-drying helps my clothes last longer.
In "All I Want for Christmas," Carey had created a song that could compete with the established classics been passed down like hand-me-downs from one generation to the next.
Students used mostly hand-me-downs to train, oversized shorts, faded boxing gloves, and beaten down old punching bags that seemed to wear the brunt of hundreds of thousands of strikes.
While some of the concepts, like soldered integrated circuits and processor sockets, mostly work the same generation after generation, the technology simply moves too fast to allow for hand-me-downs.
When the nation's largest city cleans out its municipal warehouses and storage closets, there is no end of leftovers, hand-me-downs and just plain junk that all has to go.
Chantal Ngoyi, a trader at the big Victoire market, sells clothes (none of them made in Congo) out of big bundles of Western hand-me-downs she buys for $19653 from importers.
I have an amazing support network (and let's be real, an amazing dentist) that supplied me with all the hand-me-downs I truly needed, and none of the junk I didn't.
The oldest of three children, she endured the harshness of Catholic nuns along with snickers from first-grade classmates when she showed up wearing baggy hand-me-downs from her older cousin.
But last year, she started searching for comfy shoes that she could easily wear before and after swimming practices, and found a pair of green hand-me-downs in Crocs' classic clog style.
This store thankfully avoids one of the pitfalls of buying other people's hand-me-downs in its affordability: Monkies falls more in the Macklemore price range, but without subjecting you to Goodwill volume.
You don't have to keep using hand-me-downs from your mom's first apartment, either: Walmart has a Calphalon Nonstick 8-Piece Cookware set on sale for $151.70 off, making it just $168.99.
The accuser, who goes by "kurents" on IG, went on a rant ... claiming he didn't get a dime for his work as an extra, and that Yeezy dressed everybody in hand-me-downs.
But members of Ukrainian nationalist groups say that, instead, the Roma pick pockets, steal scrap metal and foul the city with their presence, often dressed in rags or hand-me-downs while begging.
The designer, who is known for taking inspiration from her hometown of Bayside, Queens, as well as her grandmother and childhood hand-me-downs, represents a magnetism and playfulness — one that Vans embodies.
These days, the founders are on a nationwide and European tour that has them reaching out to restaurants and other venues for kitchen hand-me-downs in whichever city they happen to be.
The Nantucket Hospital Thrift Shop, right in town, raises hundreds of thousands of dollars every year off top-drawer hand-me-downs, and the Seconds Shop, mid-island, supports the Fairwinds counseling center.
This should be a no-brainer, but if you have more than one child, it's important to really take advantage of those hand-me-downs instead of throwing kids' clothes away once they're worn.
And, though I'm fine passing hand-me-downs to our kids, it's sometimes ridiculously hard to find used boy's pants, as 7-year-olds who play are not particularly good at conserving their jeans.
Bonaparte and Kingery's "Hand Me Downs" line, which consists of unsold merchandise redyed indigo and then distressed and patched, plays on the idea of an older brother passing on his clothes to a younger sibling.
They maintained a high savings rate even after they started having kids in 2005 by taking advantage of the benefits offered by their companies, having family help out with child care and using hand-me-downs.
In large measure, Cary Leeds was conceived for them — as a spot that should feel the opposite of second-rate or make-do for children who often are expected to be satisfied with hand-me-downs.
Wilson had taken up Nabokov's cause in 1940, when Nabokov, already established as a man of letters in Berlin, found himself beached in North America, wearing Sergei Rachmaninoff's hand-me-downs and casting no public shadow.
When her now-five-year-old daughter Beatrice Jean came onto the scene, Howard had a very straightforward approach for her wardrobe: "She was going to wear primarily hand-me-downs from her brother," she told People.
In PEOPLE's All Seven Seasons of Scandal special edition, Scott Foley reveals that he gave onscreen love interest Kerry Washington hand-me-downs after she welcomed her second child, son Caleb, with husband Nnamdi Asomugha in 2016.
Op-Ed Contributor EAST WINDSOR, N.J. — The gas masks given to me and other Soviet first graders in 1987 were hand-me-downs from World War II, made of stiff rubber and too big for our faces.
"My [original] approach was that she was gonna wear primarily hand-me-downs from her brother," Howard, who stars alongside Matthew McConaughey in the crime adventure film Gold, tells PEOPLE Now of her little girl Beatrice Jean, 5.
Rwanda, in particular, is seeking to curb the import of secondhand clothes, not only on the grounds of protecting a nascent local industry, but also because it says wearing hand-me-downs compromises the dignity of its people.
In fact, she learned a lot about fashion from Carolyn, who, during their friendship, worked at Calvin Klein and often lent "Lamb" (or "Lambie," depending on the day), the nickname she gave to Radziwill, her luxury hand-me-downs.
The British royal family has been estimated to be worth around $95 billion, but they are still known to pinch pennies when they can, such as buying IKEA, eating leftovers and Prince George wearing his father's hand-me-downs.
They sleep on couches, in makeshift shelters and in their cars; wear borrowed clothes and hand-me-downs from donation piles; and, separated from their kitchens, rely on others' cooking, each plate a reminder of their restless, unanchored state.
For months, my home office was in transition to becoming a nursery, a chaotic mishmash of paperwork and drafts of my latest novel, mixed in with a crib, a mattress still in its box, bags of hand-me-downs.
"I have always been drawing from a young age and would customize hand-me-downs from my siblings," Ta tells T.  Now, to find inspiration, he goes back to his mother's house to unearth things that brings back memories.
A good 50 to 65 percent of my clothes are ones I've ended up with as the result of hand-me-downs, ex-relationships or those after-parties where you get home in a jumper that wasn't yours to start with.
Raised by a real estate agent and a bank cashier in a midsize municipality in Brazil's southernmost state, Ms. Bündchen is a fraternal twin born to a family of six girls who grew up wearing their sisters' hand-me-downs.
You can still see her pink and white bicycle piled in the ivy out back, waiting for the other grade-schoolers from E. B. Ellington Elementary to come tumbling over the park's busted asphalt on their rusty hand-me-downs.
Despite the fact that she can't recall when or why it started, Parker channeled the magic of the good luck mantra and worked with the retailer to develop a children's line that calls to the nostalgia of hand-me-downs and tradition.
With the help of a translator, they started learning the trends: While the area's fashions are steeped in pragmatism — hand-me-downs, handmade pockets added to jackets, and multiple hats to protect from the city's chill — there's a sense of whimsy and boldness.
He also said he would be diversifying sources of hardware for his military, bemoaning its use of American "hand-me-downs" and efforts by a U.S. senator to block the sale of 26,000 new M-4 assault rifles to the Philippines police.
Ms. Lamott has her first new couch (all the others have been hand-me-downs) where she and Mr. Allen spend their evenings watching the news on television, dissecting the news, eating dinner and bingeing on dark Scandinavian movies, which they both love.
My mother worked hard to provide me with toys and books that helped shape my identity as a black girl in America, but, frankly, there was very little diversity in my play things — many of which were hand-me-downs of her play things.
Ane Crabtree, the Emmy-nominated costume designer of The Handmaid's Tale, was tasked with sketching out that world through costumes – and every detail, from the washed-out blue of the Colony workers' uniforms to the hand-me-downs Canadian refugees wear, is a deliberate decision.
"They don't really do hand-me-downs, so each baby is like their first," the insider explains to PEOPLE of the couple — who are already parents to Chicago, 1 this month, Saint, 3, and North, 5½ — adding that they donate the used clothes to charity.
About 10% of F.'s wardrobe has been hand-me-downs from a good friend of mine who has two daughters, and thanks to that and to aunties and grandmas who compulsively buy and send outfits, I've hardly spent any money on clothing for her.
" Wearing the same thing and getting the most out of his clothes feels natural, said Gronkowski, who grew up using hand-me-downs: "Whatever my brothers had — hockey equipment, baseball equipment, even clothes — [my parents] used to just hand it down to us kids.
Read more: Jeffrey Epstein reportedly lived the life of a billionaire thanks to hand-me-downs from Victoria's Secret head Les WexnerAfter Epstein was arrested in July, a representative for Wexner said the retail executive had severed ties with Epstein more than 12 years ago.
A number of sweaters on the runways this season looked like they could have been found at a vintage store; whether in throwback patterns, retro colors or nubby weaves, these were charming knits that seemed more like favorite hand-me-downs than anything new.
He had self-control, and he worked hard in school, and he always dressed well, in khakis and Brooks Brothers oxford shirts and V-neck sweaters from Neiman Marcus that were hand-me-downs from a white family his great-aunt Big worked for.
"They don't really do hand-me-downs, so each baby is like their first," the insider explained to PEOPLE of the couple — who are already parents to North plus daughter Chicago, 1 on Tuesday, and Saint, 3 — adding that they donate the used clothes to charity.
Overall, the initial outlay associated with the new roommate who lives with us rent-free was much less appalling than I'd thought it might be, especially because our generous friends and relatives gave us a lot of the big-ticket items as gifts and hand-me-downs.
If anyone recalls Josh Earnest, Mike McCurry or Scott McClellan — White House press secretaries who served Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — it is assuredly not because they wore unfortunate neckties or suits that looked like a big brother's ill-fitting hand-me-downs.
The issue is borne out on today's teamsheets: Sunderland's players are largely Brits, hand-me-downs and has-beens from bigger clubs; Boro have Alvaro Negredo and Victor Valdes as beacons of pedigree in a squad of mid-range journeymen; Hull began the season with 13 fit senior players.
She dresses Charlotte in ditsy-print smocked dresses and Mary Janes that telegraph English heritage with a capital H. Her sons, George and Louis, occasionally wear hand-me-downs from William and Harry, a tack Maclaran says has as much to do with continuity as it does parsimony.
" Wearing the same thing and getting the most out of his clothes is a natural habit, said Gronkowski, who grew up using hand-me-downs from his brothers: "Whatever my brothers had — hockey equipment, baseball equipment, even clothes — [my parents] used to just hand it down to us kids.
But a few years ago, drawing inspiration from the hand-me-downs of her youth, she tried to make her own version of a garment she had hated having foisted on her as a child: the nubby winter layer well-known to anyone who has stopped by a Patagonia shop.
By now, your closet is likely a solid mix of pieces from fast-fashion powerhouses you picked up in a last-minute panic, trusty designer investments you made years ago, and still don't regret, thrifted finds you bought just because they were cheap, and maybe even some hand-me-downs from your BFF.
"A lot of the original features of the house [including] fireplaces and doors, reflect the Art Deco trends of the time, and then a lot of my furniture is family hand-me-downs: my grandmother's brutalist dresser, my mom's Amish writing desk, my grandfather's oil lamp and my dad's 1970s traveling trunk," Velour continues.
In the movie (in theaters now) Ben, the patriarch (Viggo Mortensen), and his rambunctiously inventive brood, dress in a giddy pastiche of homespun togs and hand-me-downs: country plaids, fringed ponchos, thrift-shop sweaters and patchwork vests — a visual hybrid, in short, of Kesey's Merry Pranksters (minus the drugs) and the recent Gucci runway.
I rely on hand-me-downs: Little diamond studs that belonged to my mother, minus the weird gold teardrops that are supposed to hang from them; my father's old watch, which works every now and then; his favorite ring; a locket my mother got when she was born that's prettier than the one I got when I was.
Read more:Jeffrey Epstein reportedly lived the life of a billionaire thanks to hand-me-downs from Victoria's Secret head Les WexnerJeffrey Epstein reportedly visited the White House several times while Bill Clinton was presidentAn inside look at Jeffrey Epstein's 2 private islands in the Caribbean, which locals call 'Orgy Island' and where airport workers say they saw him traveling with underage girls
There was one Big Reason why by the 1950s the Chinese village of Zhangghuangcun had come to boast a perfectly egalitarian distribution of farmland; one Big Reason why the high and mighty of Lower Egypt 3,000 years ago had to bury their dead with hand-me-downs or in shoddily manufactured coffins, why the remnants of the Roman aristocracy lined up for handouts from the pope and the successors of Maya chiefs subsisted on the same diet as hoi polloi; and one Big Reason why humble farmhands in Byzantine and early Islamic Egypt and carpenters in late medieval England and hired workers in early modern Mexico earned more and ate better than their peers before or after.

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