LESSON XI
HOW TO MAKE BOYS’ CLOTHES
WHETHER he is a two- or a four- or a six- or an eight- or a ten-year-old, dress him like a real boy.
He will like the clothes that mother or auntie makes just as much as he does their cookies and jam and chocolate pudding—provided the clothes are as good a product as the cooking. Remember that he wants to look like other little boys. And after all, it’s just as easy to make the right kind of clothes for him as it is to make the wrong kind.
I heard a young mother say the other day that she didn’t like to make Johnny’s clothes because "They always looked homemade and his little playmates made fun of him." Now I saw the clothes and the homemade look wasn’t half so much the fault of the making as it was the style. She tried to rush a little boy into big boy’s clothes. He looked just as guyable as an overgrown boy in a six-year-old suit.
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