AIBU to think kids' clothes sizes are generous?

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Lots of discussion recently about kids' diets, healthy eating etc. (on here and in the news/with my own friends). AIBU to think that a lot (not all) kids' clothes seem to be cut fairly generously in sizing? Do you think this is deliberate as is common in womens' vanity sizing?! My DD is 8 (just) and is by no means skinny. She's a healthy weight according to the nhs BMI thing but she's in the last quarter of the healthy range if that makes sense.

Yet, when I buy her clothes, they are really quite big for her, especially in certain shops. H&M size 7-8 stuff is actually loose on her. Asda, ditto.

Not my experience. DS is just turned 11 and wears 12 or 13 (mainly next and Primark) which fit pretty well. He's a tall, averagely built, well proportioned lad but not the tallest in his class.

Using BMI is hilarious. A child on the 1st percentile for height and weight and a child on the 99th would have about the same BMI!

DD is one of those on the 99th. So she is in big clothes. But they hang off her waist while being too short. Very annoying.

Boys and girls' clothes are ridiculously different.

H&M kids clothes are HUGE!

My just turned 17 year old dd has been wearing aged 12-13 school blouses from M&S this year. Last September I got her blouses for age 16 - she would have fitted into them twice over. She is 5ft3 and a slim girl.
Last week she got a denim jacket in H&M (in the adult ladies section). She had to get a size 14.
Sizing is bonkers.

Petit Bateau is tiny

I think it varies a lot! Continental brands are much smaller I think. My 11 year old DD is tall and slim and wears age 12 in most things otherwise sleeves/ trousers are too short!

We struggle as 13 yr old Dd plays rugby, is a competitive swimmer and horse rider, trousers are too big on the waist but too tight on her thighs and tops are too tight on her shoulders and baggy at the chest and waist

I find them huge my ds's are slim but normal height and I have to buy adjustable waists or they just fall down. Clothes are outgrown in length far before they would in the waist.

I was ok with DD as school skirts still have the elastic adjustable waists and ontil she was 12 gap jeans(in sales)have adjustable waistbands and are long.
Now she is 14,5'6"and although I can still get school uniform skirt that adjust on the waist everything else has to be adult stuff and it varies between a 6-10.Shoes are even harder as adult sizes are too wide and boots are out as they look like wellies on her.I know that there is a lot of children who are obese but normalising large sizes helps no one.

YANBU.

My very average 8 year old has only just grown out of shorts aged 5-6. His twin, who is admittedly skinny, still fits in them. I bought them new ones last week and skinny twin had age 5-6 cinched in and bigger twin age 7-8 but also cinched. I tried a pair of girls jeans from Next on one of them and in their age they were huge - the boys ones were actually slimmer.

My five year old easily fits in toddler clothing and while he's little he's not that little!

School clothes are a nightmare, I agree that continental stuff seems smaller.

YANBU. I'd say for each of my kids that what fits them in length is too big on the waist or gapes at the shoulders etc. Asda seems to be the worst for it.

You want to try it in Oz! It's ridiculous and not just kid's either.

I went shopping the other day...I'm a UK 12 so SUPPOSED to be an Aussie 10...nope! A 10 looked more like a UK 14!

i worked in the industry - its vanity sizing. if your child outgrows several items of main highstreet brands in width before length, alarmbells should be ringing!

This is for uk brands, european, especially scandi brands, are waaaay narrower.

Depends.

Ds is tall and skinny so everything is bog on the waist and short in the leg. Dd is short and skinny so stuff firs her better. However if i buy clothes from mainland europe i have to size up.

Dd is now 13 and is a size 4 in most shops. But can buy kids clothes in some places (like river island) and can be upto a size 8 at H&M.

YANBU.

DS is almost three and he has always been tall. He is a healthy weight for his height, but we really struggle to find trousers and shorts that fit. Anything that fits around the waist is too short on the legs and anything that fits on the legs is too big on the waist, even with the adjustable waistbands on the smallest setting.

Primark chinos seem to be particularly big around the waist.

I dunno, i think it varies between brand. DD1 is 3.5 and 25th centile and she's in 3-4 clothes. However she has a skirt from Next in 2-3 that still hangs off her waist, and a pair of shorts from Sainsbury's that are the same. However she has some t-shirts from Zara that are snug in 3-4.
DD2 is much bigger (98th centile for height, 75th for weight) and she's been in 2-3 for a while (she's 23 months).

I've always thought the opposite but I have big children. 10 year old dd is the tallest in her class, literally head and shoulders bigger than some of the boys. She doesn't fit children's sizes any more.

When my dc were toddlers it was hard to find they anything that fitted with sleeves as they had such chunky arms.

Also they have always worn elasticated waists. Anything like jeans with a button would not fit their shape.

My dd1 is nearly 13 and wears 10-11. My ds is nearly 9 and wears 8-9, he needs it for the length but still wears old shorts 4-5 upwards as doesn't need the length. My dd2 is a also slim but rounder round the belly which I assume is at least partly due to her chronic constipation. She is 5 and wears 5-6 mostly, some 4-5. I find matalan a bit smaller than most, trousers there are often too short for dd2 if I buy her usual size.

Obesity crisis.!? Not on mumsnet obviously!

H and m are way off with width our dsd6 can still "fit" into 2-4 dresses (if you want her to show her knickers) but the top half looks the same tightness as he's 6-8 dresses

My daughter who turns three next month still wears some 12-18 months jeans. It's nuts. I find a Gap is the brand that she grows into and out of at about the right points.

I've wondered about this. My boy is around 25% for height but approaching 75% for weight, definitely on the stocky end of the spectrum but on vertbaudet still need to get him the slim waist. What do kids who are actually slim do? Clothes are always pulled in tight with the adjustable waists. H&m several pairs of trousers that are great but then some others that are massive.

DS is slim and on the shorter end of the height scale, and wears Asda trousers four years below his actual age. Even then the waists are massive.

Massive variety. Our daughter is 50th centile for weight and 75th for height. In some brands like Boden she wears about a year older, especially in trousers, skirts etc as she is tall.

High street and supermarket is tried to size I find. Boys stuff is massive, or maybe I just have a really skinny boy. 😂