To think most shops over-size children's clothes?

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A snow suit I ordered for very average sized Dd1 from H&M has just arrived, it could have fit me.

If that's a size 4-5yrs then my name's Gulliver!

Have had the same problem with snow suits, but my fairly average 7 year old is easily into 9-10 year old clothes except for the length - ok she's a higher end of the centiles for weight and mid range for height, but not way different from peers.

YANBU I find they do.

There's no standard sizing, I know this because I'm a designer and it took me four months to get a definitive answer!!!

Obviously depends on your DCs - 6yo DD1 wears 8yo sizing, and 4-yo DD2 wears 6yo

YANBU.

DS is on the 50th centile for height and weight, and yet at aged 2.5 he is still in 18-24 month trousers in the vast majority of shops.

I don't find this the case at all. Both my children have always taken at least a size up. They are both tall-ish, but slim. I find the sizing on boy's trousers particularly stingy.

I find M & S clothes to be ridiculously small especially winter coats.

M&S and continental stuff - sizes small.

DD is 3 and wears 5/6 for most things.

DS is almost 2 and wears 2/3 trousers but 3/4 tops....(small ones won't go over his giant bonce)

Tescos size a leetle larger,but not that much.

I find M&S big! I realised yesterday that my son's still in 9-12 trousers at 18 mo old, and when I went to try on his 1-1.5 ones they were all huge, M&S or otherwise!!

I find lots of shops are really small & I have to buy at least a size up for DD who is 3 and tallish but otherwise 'average' size - in particular Gap, Primark, M&S, George, the french stuff - all need to buy up at least one size. Next & H&M tend to be OK. Never brought a snow suit though.

YABU I don't find this.

MY 7yr old needs size 9-10 clothes. But he is tall. If shops oversized clothes he would fit into his age range.

I think they are all tiny - both my DCs need clothes at least 2/3 years ahead of their ages to stand any chance of fitting - but then they have both been over the 95th centile since birth.

There is no such thing as a standard 5 year old - just look at any reception class, there will be height differences of nearly 30 cm, and a huge variety of body shapes. You just need to shop around and find which shops come big/small, and what size is likely to fit. Mail order is a nuisance for this, though.

Oh, and sometimes they mislabel things as well, which doesn't help - DD, who is age 8 and usually wears age 11/12 clothes, can still wear one Gap shirt we have which is labelled age 5/6.

H&M do come up big. Just took some of their trousers out of DDs stuff as she had finally outgrown, they were 18-24 months - she is 3y9m!!! She now fits their 2-3 year range with room to spare.

I think it varies massively from shop to shop - a lot of variation ime.

DD is 8y and wears at least a size up, if not 2, otherwise clothes just look too short on her. Been like it for a few years and she is now much above average height really.

Some of the more American type clothes seem quite wide though - such as Gap.

I find M&S big too , my 3 year old ds, who admittedly is a bit of a short arse, is still in their 12-18 month trousers. I can't buy Dd1 or Ds trousers without adjustable waists from anywhere else they just don't stay up! They really aren't that skinny.

I find Zara and Gap to be true to size and everywhere else I shop too big, eg. Tesco, Matalan, M&S, George, Primark

I think snowsuit-makers think that children will be wearing 16 layers inside it and therefore make them massive. I have a 9-12 one here from Next, my 10 mo DD's legs barely reach the leg holes.

I do widthways, but not lengthways. DD is tall and skinny and I really struggle to find trousers that are long enough and stay up or that aren't too baggy on the bottom.

yanbu my boys are both huge and yet trousers still fall off my ds1 even some the size below, and my ds2 is in the correct size for his age, but he is massive so no way an "average" sized child would be in those clothes @ that age as he is almost twice the height of most of them!
supermarkets are particularly big though especially asda and i do shop in there, some other places are more realistic.

2.2 yo DD is also 5oth centile (last time I checked) and can still fit into some of her 12-18 month clothes. I find the shapes weird though, especially Tesco sleepsuits- where are all these skinny babies with 6 ft long legs?

depends where you shop IMO

Some shops come up huge, some small.

Gap trousers are very true to size actually, DS is in his correct size for those.

Tops he is in his correct size from most shops, sometimes even a size up because he has a long back and things come up short.
Gap tops are wide, but short and have very small neck openings IME!

I would say M&S stuff in particular comes up very wide. My (8 y/o) dd isn't particularly skinny, but I generally have to take in the waist by an inch at least on trousers.

On the other hand tops in the right age have a tendency to stop an inch short of the waist band, so you can't win . . . .

Yes, having said M&S sizing is huge, I found their school uniform tiny.

This H&M snowsuit really would have fit me though if I didn't have such a fat arse wasn't so shapely.