To think no one should be buying new clothes for young kids?

I wouldn't wear anything second hand and I wouldn't make my kids do it either. Great if you want to but it's not for everyone.

My son lives in t shirts and joggers and those generally are in poor condition when second hand from tumble drying ( which I don't do ) etc.

I went through a phase of buying on Vinted but most of it is worn and faded and , as pps have said, not much cheaper. I mostly buy from Next for my eldest now and they are handed down to the younger dc unless badly stained. Next clothes wash much better imo. Also the styles are much nicer imo. Lots of nice colours instead of drab , boring ones. I'd also like to point out that family members would give branded trainers which looked good until I checked underneath , they were worn away with no grip. So now I only buy new trainers for dc , it's important to look after their growing feet and gait imo.

It can be a false economy though. We bought excellent quality baby/children’s clothes and shoes with our first and they were handed down to all siblings. Exception was undies as when toilet training started they each got to pick their own ‘special undies’. The youngest was 11yo when they got their first brand new singlet vests and socks, even they had been handed down kid after kid.

If someone told me I had to buy second hand I would have given them extremely short shrift.

So all these clothes travelling around on transport because people buy and pay for postage would not be better for the environment would they?

When my kids were little (a long time ago😀) I did a mix of new and car boot/charity shops for them. Mil worked for a well off family whose daughter was a little older than my dd so she was given some lovely items to pass on to me.
I always bought new shoes for them.
I wouldn’t buy second hand knickers for myself (does anyone?) so always new for my kids.

Tended to buy new for my DC, with some outgrown clothes from older cousins. Passed on the clothes to friends who had younger children, but only if they were hardly worn and still in good condition.

I literally can't give away my child's clothes away, I've asked so many people who were having babies, they were all practically brand new. Nothing fancy, but all good clothes. Many people don't want second hand clothes. It probably doesn't help that things are so cheap to buy new, but also things are such poor quality that they'd probably only go through two different cycles of children. Personally I'd after not waste money on clothes when it can be spent on something more important.

For every £1 you do not spend I'll gladly spend £10 on new clothes ;)

YABU. I had few new items of clothing as a child. It's not what I wanted for my children. It hasn't ruined them or made them snobby about second hand clothing, they will happily buy from vinted.

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I'm leaning towards YABU.

Nearly everything my 5yo owns is second hand and I spend a lot of time (and money) on Vinted, and pass on or sell her old clothes, unless they are in poor condition, in which case they are recycled at the nearest clothes bank.

However, sometimes I see something nice new and buy it for her because she likes it. I'm also not going to pay an extra £3 postage for something that's worth £1-2 if I bought it new in a shop. I bought her school blouses on Vinted but they were new with tags, but if I hadn't found the ones I wanted new on Vinted I'd have bought new because she deserves to go to school, at least in September, in pristine uniform like everyone else. Her summer dresses were new because I couldn't find ones I liked in the colour she needed (pink) on Vinted.

I think you're being a bit judgey and also forgetting that shipping small packages around the UK isn't great for the environment either.

I dont have kids but all my clothes are new i dont like vintage and charity shops well in my town buying new is cheaper.
All my old clothes go to the charity bin anyway.

If i had kids sorry to say it but it would be all new because i got fed up with hand me downs as a kid.

Unlikely that the factories will still be in existence though, if everyone stops buying from them.

When ours were small and MNet was all fields, there was no vinted, etc. Friends and family used to pass stuff down. We had super hand me downs and gave super hand me downs too. It was nice to know the provenance of stuff.

I didn't have to buy dd uniform until she was about 8 and the friend who gave me the girl stuff took my boy stuff

I have to be honest, I wouldn't buy from vinted or charity shops. I don't want a frock or top that's been around somebody else's armpits. Trousers would be worse.

I buy the vast majority of our clothes second hand. The exceptions being underwear, socks, and when school send reminders about the “wear this random thing tomorrow” and then it’s a quick dash to Asda to try and find something. My kids seem to have sharp knees as they always get holes in them. But I’ve never struggled to find them stuff on Vinted in good as new condition

I assume the OP is a vegetarian who doesn’t use single use plastic and walks everywhere, otherwise it’s a bit hypocritical talking about the destruction of the planet.

Just another post to shame parents. Because life isn’t hard enough, we must be shamed for buying sleepsuits from Asda!

I have bought second hand ever since I saw Stacey Dooleys Fast Fashion documentary. It had a big impact on me. My children love a charity shop. I buy most of my clothes on Vinted.

@Roxietrees I used to buy some second hand clothes when my son was a baby up to the age of 2 because you could find plenty of stuff in great condition. Now he's older the majority of clothes I buy are new because it's more convenient - i do 1 shop online per season, then I sell alot of his old clothes second hand. I find now he's 4, most of his clothes end up with holes, stains as he's very active and always on the go. I buy ski clothes and waterproofs secondhand because so many people buy ski outfits for a 1 week holiday and they never get worn again. I do buy the majority of toys and all books second hand. I think for alot of parents unless you can find a second hand bundle of clothes it's not very practical to trawl through vinted and eBay trying to find multiple items. And personally I like to feel the fabrics and check the quality these days not to mention of some stores are completely inconsistent with sizing like Zara or Jojo maman bebe so I'd be put off buying something I couldn't return.

If no one buys new clothes, where do the pre owned come from?
I had 3 sons and always handed down what I could, but my eldest often trashed his before he grew out of them
its a ridiculous idea to Ban anything let alone new clothes for kids
i buy almost exclusively pre owned clothes and footwear for myself but I stopped growing as a teen.

Probably enough in circulation for now though. People can just buy new when it’s needed I.e when they start struggling to find second hand…

I buy loads for my youngest on Vinted, but usually brands I know retain their quality well - Frugi, Little Green Radicals, Maxomorra, etc. The trick is to search a brand you like, find a decent priced item and look at what else the seller is selling and buy a bundle. I rarely order for anything fewer than 4-5 items at a time to save on postage and fees. It’s unusual for me to pay more than £10-£15 all in for 5 items (often cheaper than a single T-shirt from one of the brands above new).

But I do also think there’s a place for new too and a balance can be struck.

DS gets a mix of new stuff and second hand stuff from charity shops and Vinted.

Generally the stuff he wears is cheap, by the time he's done with some of it it's not really worth having. The rest ends up passed to family members or, particularly with football boots, goes up on Vinted.

He has a lot of school uniform, he'd get a new batch at the start of the year and typically it's replaced as he grows. 4/5x shirts, jumpers, trousers so they're only worn once or twice a week. It's usually the trousers that come off worse if they last the year. DS was packed off to school with big bags of jumpers and shirts not long ago. Anything not worth having had already gone in the bin. The school said they're used for spares and for parents who might need help with them. We're just glad they get used.

The quality of the clothing at our school second hand sale is utterly shit. Stained. Ripped. Really not fit for wearing again.

Nope. Not a chance. No judgement from me about where you get your bits from, but I’ve got massive issues over second hand stuff. I don’t want it in my house. I’d rather go without.

Don’t self righteous, completely certain posts like this make you want to buy everything in Primark for a few seasons? Honestly, why does OP get off being so ignorant and controlling?