To get fed up with baby snobbery?

[Odaat]

Marks and Spencers,Next, Gap - this is all certain kids i know wear. Anything else is beneath them. I am not a snob, never have been, but I do like to invest in quality stuff clothes wise for certain garments (ie jeans as I am long legged) but what i this craze with decking vomiting 3 day old babies out in £38 Next suits!?
Am I less than because I only occasionally dress dd in these over priced garments? I know quality over quantity and i do realise pjs and coats all last longer if made by good brands , but over all i find it a bit obscene how much you see wee kiddies in clothes mre expensive than mine just to boost their parents egos it would seem ... There seems to be a real snobbery with baby clothes and i just feel it a waste of energy and money to invest that much into what kids wear when they are ony in it 2 months at a push anyway!

Me and my friends from baby group all love an nct bargain

Mine wear Gap, Boden, Joules, Next, Little Shrimp. All from the local car boot sale, rarely paid more than £2 an item. :)

A family member of mine bought all brand new designer stuff for her babies.

She gave us 4 boxes of it for our second baby - some still even have the tags on, so hooray for people who spend too much!

The only trouble is my own clothes are falling apart so when I take the children out I look like I've abducted them from a rich family

I dont find next to be any good anymore, they used to be better. Now the stuff doesnt wash as well as it did and a lot of its very samey. I got a top in there a couple of weeks ago and it got a hole in the seam after one wear.

I get a lot from handm now, t shirts and dresses for 2.99 and ive always been able to pass them on once they are out grown. The sizes are odd and the home delivery is shit though.

My 22month DD wears a wide variety of "brands". One day she might be in Ted Baker outfit, the next, like today, a pair of dungarees and t shirt from Tesco. I just put her in stuff we are given/I like so buy full price or sale. All her vests are Asda as they just wash and wash, so whatever she's wearing outside there's always an Asda vest underneath!

3.5 week DS is in one of her old newborn Asda vests and a Next sleepsuit.

I think people just dress their children in stuff that they like rather than thinking it must be from X Y Z shop

Us too Anita, I'm a snob without the bank balance. I'm a sucker for monsoon baby clothes, they're just so beautiful. So it's boot fairs and eBay for us.
I have a loathing of George clothes as I've found the sleepsuits shrink really badly.
but I don't judge where other people buy their baby clothes. Who cares? People who aren't worth knowing that's who.

Slim pickings at charity shops and car boots here.

supermarket clothes are standard. I'd love to be ableto consider next and m and s cheap!!

My mil buys the dc very expensive clothes which I accept. It is her money to spend and it saves us buying them which I am grateful for.
I would be just as grateful if they were from a supermarket.

I buy Next and Gap clothes for the DDs. I also buy Tesco and Asda clothes too but I find Next better quality.

The clothes last and look lovely until they're too small whereas recently Tesco stuff looks very worn after a few wears. Plus I think that Next Children's clothes are so lovely.

I also think that it's worth spending more on DD1's clothes if DD2 can also get her wear out of it too.

Primark is mostly crap. Stuff goes badly out of shape after one wash. DD1 has some nice cotton sundresses from there that are ok but T shirts tend to lose their shape.

I get most of DS' clothes from Zulily and Achica. Some really nice brands I'd never heard of at bargain prices. I buy according to what I like and think he will look good in, not the brand. He also had Primark vests when little but I didn't like the quality; I always buy his vests from Mothercare. I pass on his old clothes to friends so I do hope they won't be judged for my choice of brands.

Who cares what other peoples children are dressed in!

Dd1 wears mostly Ralph Lauren. People always tend to comment on it, what they don't know is that a good friend of mine works as a buyer for RL and sends me invites for private sales which are usually 85% off sale price. So it ends up being significantly cheaper than buying gap/boden/M&S etc. Dd2 will wear all hand me downs from Dd1 then i'll flog it all on eBay.

I have to say the only reason my dcs wear m and s, next, gap is the quality! I much prefer primark prices but am sick at the bloody clothes falling apart after an afternoon's wear! It is a few quid more initially, but so much more wear out of them. Then I'm able to pass them into friends to use again too, when they've grown out of them.

It's got nothing to do with snobbery or parents' egos. There are some really lovely children's clothes available, and people who like them and can afford them, buy them.

Also I agree with others that certain of the more expensive brands (Boden, JoJoMamanBebe etc) can actually be a good investment because the clothes last and last.

If someone who dressed their baby in a suit, however much it cost and wherever they bought it, felt the need to judge me on how I dress my baby I wouldn't do much but laugh about it. Who puts a suit on a baby for god's sake? Anyone below employment age looks pretty daft in a suit. At a push, for a wedding is OK, but still not for a baby. That's just ridiculous.

Ds1's clothes were a mix, mainly of the Next, M&S, H&M, JJMB, Sainsbury's league. Some new, some second hand. They're still looking good on DS2, even though DS1 was a slow grower and prolific crawler who. wasn't bothered about walking. The last time I bought new Next, I balked a bit at the price, but reminded myself that it's worth it as it's clothing two children.
I recently bought some Primark pjs that were nice and soft, but I've had to stitch up the seams, and the cut is skimpy on a slim built 3 yr old who isn't unusual for wearing a nappy at night. It's not endeared me to the brand. For me, a bargain is a bargain if it lasts long enough to do the job.

Well my DNiece is now wearing a Gap dress that both my girls have worn, and before that my cousin's three girls wore it. It still looks good as new despite being on child 6. And that's an 18-24 month dress that gets a lot more hard wear than a newborn outfit. So if clothes are shared in a family it definitely pays to get better quality clothing. DNiece loves getting our Boden hand me downs, they look as good as new despite having been worn by at least my two daughters.

Surprised that people think of Next as good quality though, we've had some T-shirts from there get completely mishapen in no time at all. I think Sainsbury's is equivalent or better quality for babies and is much cheaper.

I think Sainsbury's is great value. I've not appreciated Next so much recently. Sometimes they have lines that really hit the spot, and some seasons they don't tempt at all.