The Moon and her Mother

The Moon was very frustrated with her wardrobe. None of her clothes felt comfortable. She went to her mother to ask for new clothes.
"Please call for the tailor, Mother!" said the Moon. "The tailor can take measurements and make me some new clothes that will fit me better."
"I'm afraid that won't work, Daughter," she replied. "Even the most skilled tailor cannot make clothes to fit someone whose body is changing shape every single day. What you are today, you will not be tomorrow, and there is nothing a tailor can do about that."

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Inspired by: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists by Roger L'Estrange, 425.
Notes: This is Perry 468.

Here is an illustration by Arthur Rackham: