You 're supposed to hand stuff down to your younger siblings , not the other way around . That 's how it worked for us for a while , until I turned into the preteen chunk that I was and anything I would have discarded would have been too large for her . But then all of a sudden it started going in the opposite direction . I lost weight and she lost weight , and suddenly that meant that she was passing stuff off to me until she got way too skinny for me to catch up .

Question: Why did my sibling pass clothing items to me ?
Answer: We both lost weight so her clothing fit me better .She was too skinny and I could n't catch up .My clothes were too big for her .I was a chunky preteen .