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!

[NoStannisNo]

God, all 3 of those women just sound like the dullest of the dull.

[InQuiteAPickle]

Why can't the children choose their own clothes? I let my two choose as I want them to be confident in their own style when they get older. My mum always chose what I wore and ridiculed anything I chose, because of this I have no style confidence and always play it safe.

I don't want that for my children. Maybe it's easy for me to say because I'm not keen on character clothing but neither are they really - they don't tend to choose stuff with characters on. Dd2 has a couple of Frozen things that she chose ages ago but she's gone off Frozen now. If they did like character stuff then I would let them wear it. If they find it fun and it makes them happy what's the harm.

I can't believe that none of those women won't put their children in bright colours! I love children in bright colours. Those twins in the first picture look like little old women.

[HeyDuggee]

I refuse to have my kids be walking billboards for a brand. Characters are for dress up, pjs, underwear and toys. They grew up thinking this is norm and still don't wear disney crap, by choice. It's a bit ridicilous to suggest kids who don't get to choose what clothes their parents buy are somehow to be pitied.

Oh and Vertbaudet always has sales on - their clothes are cheaper than Next (even on sale), if you don't pay the full price.

[Turquoisetamborine]

All I could think was poor woman having to get Converse on and off all the time. Bloody nightmare.

[Hobbes8]

Eh? They're just wearing jeans and jumpers and check shirts? They look like every boy ever. Someone should tell these women these women those clothes aren't hard to "source". You can pop them in your asda trolley next to your findus crispy pancakes.

[drinkscabinet]

Well I'm another that doesn't allow branded clothing, IME it's cheaply made, hideous and heavily gendered. So the DC get clothes I like (so nothing labelled and nothing that looks like fairy sparkle vomit or death and destruction) but the older kids(6&7) do get a say in what I buy and what they wear.

[pictish]

Hobbes -

I agree. What a thing to get all up in your own arse about. Kids' clothes. Who actually gives a toot about it? What a non article about some silly women with more money and time than sense.

[LooseSeal]

I can't bear character covered children's clothes, and fortunately neither can DD. I think she'd honestly rather go out in her vest and pants than a Frozen t shirt and leggings combo, but that's her choice, not mine. I've never pushed my views on clothes on her, when she was 3 and going through the Peppa stage and people bought her Peppa clothes I dressed her in them, because she liked them.

Within the bounds of reason children should be allowed to wear what they want to wear, even if their choices make the parent cringe inwardly.

And the ES magazine is the most awful piece of pretentious tosh imaginable. It thinks it's Harpers Bazarre, but it's a free mag given out with the evening newspaper. Almost no one who picks it up lives the kind of lifestyle it thinks it's readers live, and it normally ends up littering the floors of trains and buses.

[SansaryaAgain]

ES magazine also loves to rave about some new "discovery" from the work of modelling, acting or restaurants but about two paragraphs in you realise they're the child of some celeb. This week's issue ends with an interview with that ordinary, down to earth mum Tamara Ecclestone...

[hazeyjane]

drinks - we have character tshirts that have been through 3 children (2 Spiderman loving girls and a boy) and still get worn, a lot of different stores make them, they can't all be badly made!

[EnthusiasmDisturbed]

ES magazine is full of the biggest load of aspirational, pretentious, self promoting, superficial urbanite tossers.

^^ yes yes

I am not keen on any labels or slogans for children ds is not a walking advert. Ds has a few superman/batman/Lego tshirts his clothes are mainly from h&m practical nice bright colours without being too fashionable

It is so obvious when an adult has styled their child/children then they usually claim they did it as they are so stylish and love the rock star/chick look it looks ridiculous at least these parents are not claiming that

That hat wouldn't bother me ds only wore Spider-Man/Batman outfits for sometime now he has grown out of that stage I miss it

[EponasWildDaughter]

''ES magazine also loves to rave about some new "discovery" from the work of modelling, acting or restaurants but about two paragraphs in you realise they're the child of some celeb.''4

Yes, it always amazes me how very very talented so many celebs children are. Because of course, none of us in the real world would dream of thinking they might just be cashing in on their name at all. Not.at.all

[SansaryaAgain]

Despite banging on about how tasteful and stylish she wants her kids to be, Nathalie has named one of them Louie. And we all know how the good matrons of Mumsnet feel about "unusual" spellings...

Eponas a recent example was an article on Jude Law's eldest son, who looked an arrogant little toe rag, just oozing with self-importance!

[G1veMeStrength]

Wow they are all so unique and individual with their own one off style aren't they?

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

[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

[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.

[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...

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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?

[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 ;)

[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.

[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)