Official “liberry checker-outer” ZiaSun is reading through The Magnificent Ambersons and notes that she’s discovered a new vocabularial understanding:

The expression “hand-me-down” has a bad connotation because it refers to clothing handed down from a shelf… that is, “ready made” and not made by a tailor. In the time when that story takes place, creased pants were considered quite unacceptable for the same reason, since it showed that they had been stored on the shelf and not made to fit.