Scruff is walking along, carrying a dirty blanket, the Maid and General are cleaning up, and the Princess is searching through her chest of drawers. The narrator asks if she's having a "clean-out", but she responds that she isn't because she needs all her stuff, and is in fact searching for her "comfy top", which she had "since [she] was little", which probably means for a year or two.
The narrator suggests that the top is in the wash, and at the same time, the Maid swipes Scruff's blanket and puts it in the washing machine. The Princess asks if it's her top, and the Maid explains that it's Scruff's blanket. The Princess then looks into the kitchen, where the Chef is cleaning a pot and asks if the cloth is her top. He says no.
She and Scruff then sulk about wanting their top and blanket respectively while the blanket hangs out to dry, then Scruff steals a yellow cardigan from a bag in the hallway, throws it into the pet basket, and leaps onto it. Puss goes to take the cardigan out of the basket, but the Princess sees him with it, recognises it as her top, and assumes Puss stole it. The Princess then retrieves the top, while Scruff steals more clothes from the bag.
The Princess goes to put her top back, only to find her drawers empty. She then sees a shirt, dress, and pair of underwear in the pet basket and Puss looking over them and assumes he stole them again. To rub salt in the wound, Scruff walks up to the Princess with a sock in his mouth and she assumes he's giving it back. She follows Scruff to the bag, which she discovers is full of her clothes.
She then carries the bag to the living room, where the King and Queen are dusting a painting, and angrily tells them about the bag of clothes. They reveal that they took the clothes as part of their spring cleaning and are planning to give them away to the Princess's younger cousins. The Princess tells them off for taking her clothes, but the King points out that those clothes are too tight. The Princess points out that the King kept a too-tight sweater the Queen knitted him, which peeves the Queen, until the King reveals that he kept it because it was "special". The Princess asserts that her clothes are also special.
In the Princess's room, the Maid asks the Princess why she wants to keep the clothes as they apparently don't fit. The Princess, however, believes they still do. The Maid says, "If you say so", and leaves. The Princess tries to put her clothes on, however a sock actually doesn't fit, a pair of shorts won't go all the way up, and the top's buttons barely button. In spite of this, the clothes don't feel bad to the Princess, so she goes out to play, all the while bragging to the King, Queen, and Maid that they still fit.
However, the Princess finds the shorts too restrictive to kick a ball and the top too restrictive to pick it up. The Prime Minister invites her to a trike race, but she declines on account of the restrictive shorts. The General, who is sitting up a tree, invites her to see some eggs which he believes to be hatching, but when the Princess tries to climb the tree, her sleeve rips, and she decides to give up climbing the tree lest her clothes rip further. However, this disappoints her and she then falls over due to her shorts not being pulled up properly.
At lunch, the Princess isn't very hungry initially, but soon gains an appetite. After lunch, however, the buttons pop off her top, so the Queen goes to put it in the bag. The Princess protests, and they, plus the King, argue for a bit until they eventually decide that the Princess can keep the clothes if she can use them.
Later, the Princess reveals the uses she's made for her clothes— as outfits for dolls, sails for toy boats, blankets for the newly-hatched chicks, egg warmers, and a pair of undies as a tea cosy.
However, the Queen gives the Princess some new clothes, hand-me-downed from her older cousins, and points out that there's no room in the drawers. So the Princess changes her mind and decides to allow her parents to donate the too-tight clothes anyway. However, she keeps the yellow top... for Scruff to wear.
This episode provides examples of
- Batman Gambit: The Queen sort of halfway-tricks the Princess into getting rid of her too-small clothes by playing up how good the new clothes are and what a shame sending them back would be.
- Big "NO!": The Princess whines, "No-o!" when the Queen puts her top in the sack.
- Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head: The Princess calls her parents "very naughty" for taking her clothes.
- Dramatic Irony: When the Princess accuses Puss of stealing her clothes, we know it was Scruff who took them.
- Mistaken for Thief: Puss is accused of taking the Princess's clothes when it was actually Scruff, because he was near or touching the clothes when she walked up.
- Panty Thief: Played in a completely different way than usual— Scruff does steal the Princess's underwear, but only in addition to some other clothes and because he wanted something to sleep on in lieu of his blanket.
- Pet Dress-Up: The Princess puts her old top on Scruff.
- Possession Presumes Guilt:
- Scruff steals the Princess's top and throws it into the basket. Puss, annoyed, lifts it up to take it out, and then the Princess sees him holding it and assumes he stole it.
- Scruff then steals the Princess's shirt, dress, and underwear and puts them in the basket. Puss, unfortunately, then looks over them, leading the Princess to assume he stole them as well.
- Same Clothes, Different Year: Downplayed. The Princess puts on a white dress identical to her current one that fits, but barely, meaning she probably owned it when she was two or three. However, she also has many different outfits from when she was that age and before.
- Speak in Unison: The King and Queen say, "Oh, dear" in unison when the Princess calls her clothes special.
- Wearing It All Wrong: The Princess uses socks and underwear as hats for her dolls.
