To think that girls aged under 5 need a slimmer fit!

[quirkycutekitch]

Was in GAP today & overheard a conversation with another customer & an assistant.

The guy was looking at the jackets with 'GAP' across the front in the under 5 section & the assistant said - that's a girls top - they are a slightly slimmer fit!

WTF!!!

Boys and girls are different weights / sizes right from birth - that is why they have different growth charts!

Tho I didn't realise quite how different til I had a boy a month after a friend had her girl. DS1 followed 50th centile, the baby girl followed 75th, and was older. DS was heaver for a while.

It's just a fashion thing, isn't it? Women's sweatshirts and fleeces also tend to be designed to be relatively form fitting - they are shaped )( and men's are shaped ||

Much prefer || myself...

My Mum accidentally bought my DDs boys school polo shirts from Asda last week.

"No matter!" says I....they're the same anyway apart from the buttons on the other side.

Little did I know!

They are HUGE.

AS though 6 year old lads are broad in the shoulder when compared to 6 year old girls

What a crock! I feel like writing in!

I do buy DD who is 10 boys t shirts from Primark at times as they are thicker, better quality and larger than girls...she's not large herself but prefers them as they're comfier.

Skylark the operative word here is WOMEN'S.

We're talking about children here...not women. And there's no fashion in it!

well I have 2dds who need a different fit. poor dd2 is always being squashed into clothes I bought for her very slight sister.

I think one size will never fit all!

I have to say although gap clothes are tiny (my 2yo is in 3/4yo in gap) I do wish adjustable waist bands were in all trousers!

My dd is a healthy weight (90th centile) she is also very tall and skinny. All her trousers are on almost the tightest adjustable waist which is fine, we all come in different shapes and sizes, but all the non adjustable ones just fall down. Even the waist bands on leggings are generally big, it's only her bum (nappy) that's keeps them up at all!

Gap is the only brand that fits my daughter well primarily because they cut slightly slimmer in the girls clothes. Also I have a ds and a dd and ds is considerably chunkier shape than dd.

It is such a stereotype that 5 yr old girls need slim fit and the boys need baggier clothes.

My nearly 5 yr old DS has always been on the skinny side and fits much better into the girls tops from places like Gap and H&M because they are slim fit. The boys clothes for his age swamp him. Most of his female friends are chunkier than him and are in size 6+ clothes because they don't fit into the girl's age 5 clothes because they are too slim fit. How does that possibly make sense?!

Young girls and boys don't have different figures - it's just a fashion thing.

Boys' clothes are always more baggy.

I've shopped in the boy's section for DD's t-shirts since she was a baby - not because she's particularly chunky, but because the fabric tends to be thicker, the cut better, and I don't particularly want a small child's waist emphasised the way that these 'female' cut t-shirts seem to.

My dd had slimmer frame than ds at that age - he was slim but broader across shoulders.

My NHS Red Books have growth charts which shows different measurements for the sexes, all through childhood.

So it's not surprising clothes sizes reflect those biological differences.

Nor is it surprising that a sales assistant is so versed in the current euphemisms to describe sizes that she uses them for all clothes on the shop floor, not just those for adults.

It would have been more accurate (in terms of both the clothes and the normal body size difference) if, instead if 'slimmer fit' she'd just said 'smaller'.