To think this woman should just let her kids wear whatever the hell they want?

[SansaryaAgain]

Spotted in today's ES Magazine, which likes to think it's the epitome of good taste but in reality is just something people read to pass the time on their commute if they're out of other reading material. Today's issue was all about how to have the most fashionable kids in London. This woman's son wanted a Spider-Man hat but that wasn't stylish enough so she got him a plain black one from Cos! I think she needs to let go a little or she'll face major rebellion by the time they're teens!

[travellinglighter]

The mothers in the article don’t have enough to worry about. My kids wear what they like and some of their friends are worse. I vividly remember staying at a friends house and offering to sit with the kids while they watched a film. One of our friends DS came and sat on my knee wearing a sparkly cinderella dress and pink trainers. Not a an eyelid was batted.

[ipswichwitch]

As DS1 is going through the taking all his clothes off at random while shouting "look at my willy!" phase, I will buy him any clothes he'll actually keep on. Even if it's head to toe Spider-Man.

I can't get het up over their clothes being designery and "sourced" from somewhere pretentious. It all gets covered in mud and snot and ground in play doh. I'll bet her kids are never allowed within 50 yards of a puddle.

[SeaRabbit]

One of our old neighbours owns a women's clothes shop locally so she's always very chic (she's also extremely pretty). Her girls were always beautifully dressed, but I heard one of them talking very critically about another child's clothes, and then also the child, - when she was about 8. A pity to be so superficial so young.

We always dressed DS in bright colours when he was young, as he liked them especially red, and he still likes bright clothes even though he's now 16. It is getting more difficult to 'source' them now he's bigger, though. One friend with 5 kids commented that a child in bright clothes is easier to spot in a playground. You have to let a child have some say in what they wear, if they want it, and should let them have more say as they get older. I would have loved seeing the girl in the woolly tights and wellies!

[WhereYouLeftIt]

"I make a huge effort to ensure my children do not look styled, but still look cool. Their casual dishevelled look is not as easy to achieve as it might appear; I admit I go to extraordinary lengths to source the right denim/cashmere/Breton top."
Oh my giddy aunt . Those poor boys.

[Caboodle]

DC2 used to wear a lot of football kit...but top from one team, shorts from another and then odd socks from 2 different teams. Made me and I miss it now he matches up.

[Oldraver]

I've never been one for fashion and when DS was toddler did go for colourful clothes for him.

He is now 9 and I let him wear what he wants and the last year he has gone for more muted clothes.. Last year he chose navy blue shoes over all the others (for summer) and a couple of days ago was looking at a coat and he preferred the navy blue over red. It is such a short time you can get away with character or bright stuff, forcing them into mini me seems odd (to me)

And as for....I avoid logos at all cost — the only exception is Converse All Stars, which they live in

....They are shit shoes for the feet. I understand they are de-rigueur, but I cant understand putting fashion over proper support

[pictish]

Yup Bonpoint - roughly £80-£100 for a sleepsuit. Are they woven from the mane of a newborn unicorn foal or something?

I'll probably get shredded for saying this, but when you think about the children of those Syrian refugees are enduring at the moment just to hang on to their lives with nothing, £100 for a babygro seems pretty fucking disgusting.

[DurhamDurham]

Thank you TheRadiant

She is 22 now and hardly ever wears wellies or woolly tights !

[SansaryaAgain]

I just looked at Bonpoint and £100 for a plain white sleepsuit?? Blimey!

[G1veMeStrength]

My DC are great at saucing their clothes. < closest I could find to a ketchup smiley.

[ToastyFingers]

DD wears some character stuff,
She's almost 2 and her little face lights up for anything with elsa or adventure time on.

Most of our clothes are from the charity shop though, and are far better quality than I could afford to buy new.

[pictish]

'Sourcing' kids' clothes - I ask you!

[TheRadiantAerynSun]

Durham - I wouldn't have judged; I would have thought she was adorable.

[DurhamDurham]

I'm not a fan of character clothing, except for pj's, but those women just sound dull. My oldest daughter went through a very eccentric phase when between the ages of 3 and 4. She wore thick woolly tights with EVERYTHING.....even sandals However she was comfortable and happy and it didn't bother me.

(well ok, it did bother me once. My husband arrived at work with her one day to meet me for lunch. My daughter had on a purple 'party' dress, blue sparkly cardi, thick red woolly tights and wellies. I could feel work colleagues judging me)

[palmitate]

The boys look fine, but not out of commonplace. They could be dressed from H and M from looks alone, as could most of the photos, though the quality is probably better.

Caramel, bonpoint and other shops sounds fairly normal, though it's mixed with a lot of the Scandinavian, and other fashionable brands, here.

I like some vintage too, but 'source'! Why are they always 'sourcing' things. How pretentious.

[velourvoyageur]

If I have kids I'll let them wear what they want, even if I think it looks bad (partic thinking of pink glittery ruffly stuff, shudder).....they're their own people, not dolls, from the minute they're born (not just when they reach 12 y.o. or so) and if they like something and it's harmless it just seems very possessive to try to change that using your power as the grownup.
That said when they're babies I'd look forward to dressing them up definitely, keeping my eye out for mini Daft Punk helmets ;)

[TheRadiantAerynSun]

If he had his way DS would dress top to toe in minions and banana yellow every day. Today when I left he was putting on his minions pants, minions sock, minions T-Shirt, yellow trainers.

I draw the at yellow trousers, I don't allow T-Shirts with slogans about how horrible little boys are and sports wear is for when doing sport.

Other than that, if you can't look tastelss when you're a kid, when can you?

[ThatsNotEvenAWord]

I bet their parent don't let them mix play dough colours up either

I didn't think I had a 'style' for my DS but thinking about it I hate anything Disney. I sent a hand me down tshirt into nursery as his spare, it has a film logo on and they questioned whether it belonged to him as it wasn't his usual type of thing to wear.

He's only 14mo though, when he's old enough to choose he can have a bloody Spider-Man hat if he wants!

[Snozberry]

I wonder how much they're actually allowed to play in those super generic stylish clothes. Maybe they grow out of it but my 2yo is almost always covered in paint or mud or food or mysterious slimy substances. Cheap brightly coloured clothes are totally fine when they only get worn a few months anyway.

DD walks around like she is queen of the universe when she has her peppa pig top on so I don't really care about marketing or whatever, she is happy.

[JimmyGreavesMoustache]

surely even the most laissez faire parents have some vetoes when it comes to their DC's clothes.

I'm fine with a bit of character clothing, but have drawn a line at some of the more inappropraite slogans. My eldest daughter is nearly 9, and a lot of the stuff in the shops is too grown-up for her IMO. we have an understanding that I won't buy anything they dislike, but I have the veto over anything really ropey.

other than the age inappropriate stuff, my other bete noir is parents putting their two years olds in Sonic Youth Tshirts. As if.

[SansaryaAgain]

All this fashion talk reminds me I need to go and source buy DS some new winter clothes next week as he's grown out of last year's...

[libertydoddle]

I was at this article too. I don't buy branded or logoed clothes either but DD has a few things others bought her and she can wear them. I thought the article was really depressing, treating your children as 'mini me' or accessories. Of course as a parent you get to pick their clothing especially when they are young but all that effort???? As a pp said it's really not that hard to find jeans, stripy tops etc.

I was also thinking that as people who work in fashion they should recognise the important of creativity and innovation yet they all seemed determined to have their children look as bland as possible and keen to suppress any attempt by the children to define their own style.

[Lollypop27]

I have a friend like this. We live in a village which is quite rural. The children are 11 and go out playing over the holidays. I'm quite easy with my kids as in they can wear what they want and they have a say in what I buy them. The boys are in the woods most days building dens and playing. My boys are wearing tracksuit bottoms, trainers and a t shirt. Her child is dressed like Prince George with long socks!!!

She always makes a comment about how tracksuit bottoms are common! It boils my piss that she feels she can comment on what my kids wear when she knows I would never tell her she dresses her child like a twat