Four rhymes of new clothes for the New Year.

When I was a child, all sweaters were knitted by my mother?

Northern nursery rhymes sing: New Year is coming, wear new clothes and hats, girls love flowers, boys love guns. ...

Whether in the north or the south, it is a folk custom to wear new clothes in the New Year. In the past, people had many children, so life was not easy. Clothes, shoes and socks are too big to wear. They are all worn by the children below, one by one. The so-called "Ada wears the new, Al wears the old, and Ah San wears the tendons".

To tell the truth, the children down here are really unlucky.

But in any case, it is always necessary to make a new dress for every child during the Spring Festival. In some families with many children, the only time for children to wear new clothes all year round is New Year. Children look forward to and cherish. After the New Year, they take off their new clothes and put them away until there is an important occasion. This is the so-called "guest clothes".

I was born in the 1970s, and I was a rare only child in that era. I don't have old clothes for my brothers and sisters, but I'm wearing new clothes. Families with fewer children are naturally richer than families with more children. Growing up, I was the most neatly dressed child among my relatives. This has also formed my lifelong love of beauty and wearing beautiful clothes. This is beside the point. You can open another article, which is not displayed.

Until I graduated from primary school, my new clothes for the New Year every year were a set of woolen underwear knitted by my mother. Dialect is called "top rope shirt". It's the white-haired girl who "pulls two feet of red rope and ties it up for my daughter".

It used to be common to tie hair with red wool as a headrope. Last month in Suzhou, I saw an elderly woman in rural Suzhou wearing a traditional bun and a red rope, so I couldn't help taking pictures with her. Such traditional costumes are becoming less and less common now, and will gradually disappear in the future.

Everyone who came from that era knows that the wool of that year was a very high-grade product. Young people are engaged, and the standard in the dowry is two pounds of wool, either red or green. These two catties of wool will accompany the girl all her life. A sweater was torn and knitted. With children, you can knit clothes, play pants and dig up endless flower heads.

If women in those days couldn't knit sweaters, it would be a fatal flaw, which would definitely affect finding a partner. Because a family wants to ask others to help them finish their sweaters and trousers, this is an unimaginable huge project.

Mother's hands are very dexterous and she can knit sweaters with various patterns. Weaving patterns and colors from top to bottom and from bottom to top, coats, skirts and trousers are all exquisite.

My mother's new clothes for the Spring Festival are often wrapped in a thick wool cardigan on a cotton-padded jacket, and wool trousers with the same color lace are woven into bell bottoms according to the trend.

I knitted a sweater for my daughter when she was a child.

When I was in primary school, teachers often took a fancy to my sweater and dragged me back and forth to look at it carefully. This is something I was very proud of when I was a child.

When I was in the fifth and sixth grade, I thought it was naive to wear a pair of wool bell-bottoms with a circle of color matching lace at the hem, and I resolutely protested. My mother had to give up the plan to make me woolen pants as Chinese New Year clothes.

(Ski shirt, pants or mom's wool flared pants)

Ski shirts were very popular in the 1980s, and all fashionable girls had one. In fact, this ski shirt is not warm, and the wet fabric inside and outside is only covered with a thin layer of acrylic cotton, which is far less warm than cotton-padded jacket. But it is superior to lightness and fashion, and the beautiful little girl and sister-in-law would rather wear it than that old cotton-padded jacket.

This shirt also produced a famous saying: having a son is a ski shirt and having a daughter is a cotton sweater. This means that the son is as glamorous as a "ski shirt" and the daughter is as warm as a cotton sweater. This is indeed a very vivid metaphor.

(polyester coated cotton coat)

Later, a "polyester-cotton" suit became popular, which is a kind of cloth that feels softer than cotton and thicker than sportswear. The top is a zipper cardigan and a stand-up collar, and the pants below are like padded sweatpants, but there is no seam below. Actually, the fabric is not good. Pants will bulge on the knees after being worn for a long time, and later it was improved to step on a seam on the trousers line. No matter men or women, the style of clothes is exactly the same, but there are three colors: dark blue, brown red and light gray.

It's really useless to buy this dress for children. There's no choice. Boys are dark blue, girls are reddish brown, and adult men and women are light gray. Because the material of clothes is not too thick, it can be worn in all seasons except summer, which is very practical. At one time, all the streets were dressed like this, just like uniforms.

Many years later, when I saw the school uniforms of junior and senior high school students, I couldn't help thinking: Isn't this the popular "polyester cotton cover" at that time?

As usual, boys are dark blue and girls are brown and red. No wonder students don't like to wear them. If you put on this kind of clothes without figure and gender, there will be no charm of a little boy!