School clothes

(1990s memoirs)
One day my mother told me to close my eyes and keep them closed.  Then she put me in a coat.  When I opened my eyes, I was in a long gray rain coat she had sent for.  Beautiful.  Once my Aunt Lois gave me a scarf she made.  It was about 2 feet wide and 5 feet long.  I looked odd in it and was stared at.  I don't think I wore it very much, and my mother understood and didn't make me.  I wore long underwear and over it long black or tan stockings.  Sometimes high laced shoes.  I saw my mother decorate a straw hat with old roses.