All this makes no sense, I realized that now the protagonist's family is a poor family.
But couldn't he really wear anything else to work in the fields?
Is that long dress not in the way?
Even Bakarina had a dress to work in the fields. o_o
I like the give and take of the power/ability she honed. Girl needs glasses now but probably can't afford for now (since the cover shows that she owns one).
Exactly, what everyone else already wrote. That dress was still too long and unpractical for field works. Even if it was just to remove weed from one's herbal garden.