I want a pair of pumps suitable for evenings when there are guests to dinner.

I want a couple of attractive school dresses.

This old serge is getting too hot and too worn for common decency.

And I also want a couple of dresses something like you are wearing, for afternoons and evenings." Eileen stared aghast at Linda.
"Where," she inquired politely, "is the money for all this to come from ?" "Eileen," said Linda in a low tense voice, "I have reached the place where even the BOYS of the high school are twitting me about how I am dressed, and that is the limit.

I have stood it for three years from the girls.