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To share with you this supermarket find? ***title edited by MNHQ***

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forwhatyouare · 25/10/2018 15:36

Adult sized baby vests?!

Okay, not adult... But age 13 is there!

Is this a new fashion I don't know about? Like when grown women wear onesies? 

To share with you this supermarket find? ***title edited by MNHQ***
To share with you this supermarket find? ***title edited by MNHQ***
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SilverHairedCat · 25/10/2018 15:37

I'd imagine it's for people with disabilities....

Haberpop · 25/10/2018 15:38

I work with a lot of children with additional needs who wear these, I am glad to see they are becoming more widely available.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 25/10/2018 15:40

They're not that dissimilar to body suits that were around in the 90s

AnotherCareerThread · 25/10/2018 15:42

I've seen these for adults when tucked in tshirts were fashionable a few years ago. Basically stops the t-shirt riding up

HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 25/10/2018 15:44

They are probably for children/teens with additional needs. Hmm

raffle · 25/10/2018 15:45

I knew an adult with learning disabilities who was peg fed. He was forever pulling at the peg and dislodging it and getting it infected.

His mum had handmade something very similar to what’s pictured to prevent him pulling on the peg.

She would have loved these

TroysMammy · 25/10/2018 15:46

I saw bodysuits the other day, Newlook I think. A battle when you were dying for a pee in the '80's. 30 odd years later I think I would have to just go with the flow Grin.

HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 25/10/2018 15:52

Fortunately for parents of children with additional needs these type of items are slowly becoming much more common, allowing them to be brought from high street stores rather than specialist companies.

M&S have a large range of easy dressing options including bodysuits up to age 16:
www.marksandspencer.com/l/kids/easy-dressing/specialist-bodysuits-and-sleepwear

Heuschrecke · 25/10/2018 15:54

So they've come back into fashion?! I was only thinking this morning what to do with my few remaining 1990s 'bodies' (which I haven't worn for years, I might add)!!!

Mulberry72 · 25/10/2018 15:55

My DN has additional needs and disabilities and his DM puts him in these, nothing bizarre about them! Hmm

FekkoThePenguin · 25/10/2018 15:58

They've been around for years - but those ones have far more sensible fastenings.

ImSoExhausted · 25/10/2018 16:01

How ignorant. Also, to the posters thinking it's fashion, it's clearly not. It's a under vest for children with additional needs. Both my sons have these. (As do most kids up until age 2 when most stores stop making them for some reason)
M&S and Dunnes have excellent ranges of disability clothes. Thank god it's becoming more visible, clearly it's needed if people like you think it's a 'fashion statement' 🙄

SheCameFromGreeceSheHadaThirst · 25/10/2018 16:01

Oh dear, OP Blush

Gemini69 · 25/10/2018 16:03

Nope.. never seen those before ..Hmm

MotherWol · 25/10/2018 16:04

I don't see how this is a bad thing?

MarthaArthur · 25/10/2018 16:06

To be fair to the op i opened this and immediately thought "how peculiar" until i read about them being for disabilities then it made total sense. Sometimes you see something and you dont immediately apply logic to it i dont think the op was insulting disabled people.

Pringlemunchers · 25/10/2018 16:08

Are they more comfortable for adults with special needs ? In what way do they help ?

MarthaArthur · 25/10/2018 16:08

Saying that its awesome shops like m&s have started specific clothes lines for disabilities for peg tubes and soft fabrics.

SantaIsATwat · 25/10/2018 16:08

Never seen these before, can I ask how they make life easier for people with additional needs?

I would have thought something that pulls up/down and is stretchy would be more straightforward for someone older - as opposed to something with finicky poppers in an awkward place. What am I missing?

AllTakenSoRubbishUsername · 25/10/2018 16:08

They are just designed to be tucked in without coming out. They were a fashion in the 90s too.

MarthaArthur · 25/10/2018 16:09

Isnt it easier to change them out of the clothes as the top part rolls down unlike a tight tshirt that requires manouvering your arms and head out of? That could hirt a persons arma or back or neck.

AnonaMouse1 · 25/10/2018 16:09

I don't think op meant any harm here, she obviously didn't know they were aimed at special needs children and teens!

I didn't know either but do now.

PumpkinPie2016 · 25/10/2018 16:10

They are for people who have additional needs/disabilities which mean that a bodysuit vest is needed/makes things easier.

E.g. might help keep a peg tube in place or other dressings which the person may try to pull off. Or they may help to keep continence pads in place.

Nothing bizarre about it. It's good that they are becoming more readily available.

SheGotBetteDavisEyes · 25/10/2018 16:10

Sometimes you see something and you dont immediately apply logic to it i dont think the op was insulting disabled people

Agree. The OP knows now, and undoubtedly many on this thread will be wiser for it as well.

ImSoExhausted · 25/10/2018 16:10

@SantaIsATwat because my son is 4, yet he's the size of a 7 year old. He still wears nappies and these go over the nappies and keep him warm and secure, just like a younger child.
He won't tuck in ordinary vests and so these are the best options. If you look at the post, they're not for adults they're for age 13, the OP was just trying to be smart or whatever.