Highwaters

[Josquius]

The confusion is over what the fuck a budgie is...

:BLINK:
You don't have them in the US?
I thought they were one of the world's most common pets...

[DisturbedPervert]

Looks like a parakeet.  I've never heard the word budgie in my life.

[Josquius]

It is a kind of parakeet I think.
Its properly called a budgerigar. I guess budgie is the kind of shortening more typical with British-Australian than American.

[Grey Fox]

I had never heard Budgie before either.

[Eddie Teach]

I've heard of them but always in a British context, don't think many people keep that breed here.

[merithyn]

I'm 5'2". To me, highwaters were crop pants that were too long. 

That being said, a number of the kids at my daughter's school wear them as they wear uniforms, and parents will keep a kid in the uniform pants well beyond when the kid should have passed them on to another.

Growing up, we had enough kids in the neighborhood that no one had to wear highwaters. The parents all just passed clothes around as needed to make sure everyone had something that fit. The sole exception was Phil Ramos, who was 6' in 6th grade. As the tallest in the neighborhood, he always wore them. 

[Malthus]

We called them "floods". And you are right, I don't really see them these days.

[DontSayBanana]

Floods aren't possible for me; the reason I'm so short is because my legs are- when you wear a 33x29, pants are always too long, if anything.

[KRonn]

I never heard the term high waters. I don't remember if I wore them as a kid; my parents  certainly had to work hard to make ends meet, so I'm sure I had to make do and maybe just didn't usually realize it. I did wear some of my older brother's stuff, and my parents swapped clothes with my cousins.

[Malthus]

I have no real idea, but I get the impression the average family with kids simply was poorer 30 odd years ago. Maybe this is a function of people having kids when younger - it was much more common then for people to have kids while starting their careers, rather than the other way about (and to have more kids). My dad for example had the first of the three of us when he was a graduate student ... having to wear secondhand clothes wasn't that unusual.

[Viking]

What with 5 dollar pants from china it is has been cheaper to get new pants than to fix pants.

[Josquius]

Yeah I think the cheaper clothes angle is most likely it.
These days I've known for people to go on holiday to Turkey and the like with cheap £3 t-shirts and that sort of thing for the kids and just leave them there for the cleaner to give to her kids when they come home.

[DisturbedPervert]

I have no real idea, but I get the impression the average family with kids simply was poorer 30 odd years ago. Maybe this is a function of people having kids when younger - it was much more common then for people to have kids while starting their careers, rather than the other way about (and to have more kids). My dad for example had the first of the three of us when he was a graduate student ... having to wear secondhand clothes wasn't that unusual.

They're also having fewer kids. 

[Malthus]

I have no real idea, but I get the impression the average family with kids simply was poorer 30 odd years ago. Maybe this is a function of people having kids when younger - it was much more common then for people to have kids while starting their careers, rather than the other way about (and to have more kids). My dad for example had the first of the three of us when he was a graduate student ... having to wear secondhand clothes wasn't that unusual.

They're also having fewer kids.

Yup. 

[DGuller]

Isn't clothing much cheaper these days?