To ask what you dress your toddlers in?

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My DD is 3 and she lives in trainers, joggers, t-shirts, hoodies & jumpers. Mainly because its easy to wash but also because i just cba dressing her in 'fancier' more 'girlie' stuff.

Whenever i see a toddler girl wearing a dress, skirt, tights etc, i just think it would be a pain to wash, a pain to get her dressed in it & that its a bit impractical for her age.

For context she spends half her time at nursery and the rest is spent with family, going to parks and being dragged round the shops...

I think it's up to the person I think comfy warm clean clothes are more important then dresses etc .

On Mondays and Tuesdays my 3 year old is dressed in leggings and long sleeve tops/ jumpers for preschool. The rest of the week she's in pinafore dresses/ skirts with tights and black patent boots.

Mine often wears what yours days. Others she wears a vest, dress and leggings. It really isn't a faff or impractical at all.

My little girl lives in dresses/tights/cardigans.

I guess the ironing is extra effort, but that’s probably only 15 minutes extra work a week. Practically, it’s fine - she can run about and play and get messy just as easily as in joggers

I so enjoy dressing her prettily and know that I won’t get to choose her clothes forever!

*what yours does

Mixture of leggings/long sleeved tops or dresses and tights. I really dislike jogging bottoms so dd never wears them (just my preference)

I can't see any difference in the laundry situation or the getting her dressed part?

I think the majority of parents just dress their kids for appropriate places/situations/weather.

The two year old I look after wears a whole variety of clothes. Most of the time it's leggings, long sleeve top and hoody or cardigan, but she quite often wears pinafores and other dresses with tights. As long as she's wearing clothes that are appropriate for the weather and the activities she's doing, I'm not too bothered what she wears. Tights and a simple dress aren't any more of a hassle to wash and dress her in than leggings and top.

The only tricky bit with skirts or dresses is if they have to wear puddle suits at nursery, otherwise leggings or wooly tights seem just as comfy.

I only have a boy but wooly tights or thermal leggings are my favourite winter option to wear. Comfy and keep your tummy/back warmer.

Washing a dress is no harder than washing anything else. Putting it on is no harder than putting on a jumper. She can run, play and climb in it. My 3 year old has strong preferences and chooses her own clothes subject to weather appropriateness. Sometimes it's a dress she can do twirls in and sometimes it's a hoodie and baseball cap. I suspect this thread is about feeling superior to parents who dress their children to look pretty without regard to practicalities.

I love those leggings like blade and rose and a long shirt over and waterproof padded all in one. That way they can still play in park if it’s wet and muddy etc.

When DD1 was that age she wore exactly what yours does. She didn’t care what she wore.
From around 2.5 DD2 refused to wear trousers. She’s now 4 and has barely worn them since.
Can’t think that the washing or dressing was any more difficult (she dressed herself at 3 anyway), and tights with tunic dresses were no less practical for playing than leggings to be honest.

OP are we the same person.

Despite all the calls for gender neutral, all the little girls I see at the park, in the nursery are wearing impractical frilly dresses. My husband would now like to know why our 2 year old is always in joggers and leggings!

Leggings/jeans and tops in the week as it's more practical for nursery and quicker to dress her in. Dresses and tights tend to come out at the weekend.

DD wears leggings and tops to nursery but at home with me she is usually in pretty dresses. Mainly because I have been given loads and if they were kept for 'best' they would rarely get warm.

It doesn't stop her climbing, sliding, jumping in puddles though!

I don't mind the ironing, only takes a few extra minutes and far more enjoyable than shirts!

My dd is older now but I preferred her in leggings, soft joggers rather than dresses. I don't wear a dress every day so why would I dress her in one every day? And tights are a total faff.

I preferred my children to be dressed for comfort...babygros until they're walking and once they are, I prefer clothing in soft material, no annoying buttons, fastenings and can move around easily.

By the way...what actually is a pinafore and what makes it different to a normal dress?

Leggings, tops and jumper. My bonkers DM however buys her clothes from the Cos children's range. We always get a few raised eyebrows at nursery when she turns up in them . My only rule really is that clothes shouldn't restrict movement/stop her doing something she wants to do.

DD2 far prefers tights to leggings and socks. She hates wearing socks for some reason.
I would have said exactly the same as you with my first OP. Couldn’t see the point in dresses etc. Then had my second who point blank refused to wear anything but dresses.

Mine is 6 now but her standard when smaller was always leggings in blue or dark pink and then lots of swishy long sleeve T-shirt material tops that went with the leggings. Couple of denim dresses and skirts and a pair of jeggings. Cardigans with patterns on them. It could all be washed together.

The only time dresses are an issue is when parents are overly precious about them, so tell their daughters not to do X, Y or Z in the dress but they've taken them to the park or school out of uniform in it, so now thry can't join in iyswim. I'm yet to see thst fro parents of the Boys but it's possible.
Otherwise tights and dress is basically leggings and long top isn't it?

Washing a dress is no harder than washing anything else. Putting it on is no harder than putting on a jumper.

I agree wholeheartedly.

I will never understand the Mumsnet party line of how little girls wearing dresses is "impractical". DD4 wears dresses almost every single day. Cord pinafores and knitted dresses, at this time of year. It doesn't hinder her playing in the slightest. What exactly can a child do in jogging bottoms that she can't do in a dress?

I'm not talking about pre-walkers by the way. I rarely put baby DD in dresses as it's difficult for her to crawl, but for older children I don't understand this argument at all.

I’m also no more likely to iron a dress than I am to iron a top/jumper either.

The only time now she wears a 'frilly' dress is for a party if that's what she wants to wear, but weekend wear is still usually legging/jeggings and a nice girly top (as she's a girly girl, not my choice). The colour top is usually similar but not matching to my boys top or trousers to make the washing easier.

My 3 year old wears really OTT fancy dresses and tracksuit bottoms with trainers and hoodies and everything in between. I don't allow her to wear dresses or skirts at playschool because she struggles to bunch the dress up when going to the loo. I don't iron anything so that's not an issue. I know she looks ridiculous sometimes but shes very strong willed and likes to choose her own clothes. Plus I don't care about sort so don't limit anything she does because of her clothes.

2 yo boy - long sleeved t shirts, soft trousers/joggers.

Rarely anything else. He can play, nap, climb in them and keeps comfy and warm.

Zero fancy stuff here.