To think current children's (especially girls) fashions are horrible.

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I know that children's clothes always mimic adult clothing, but we've literally come a full circle back to the Victorian era in that it is basically an exact replica of adult clothing. It's as if now a girl hits the age of 7 and she moves from babyish clothing to adult.

My 10 year old and her friends often dress 'older' than my 19 year old! I wasn't a fan of the gaudy prints when DD1 was 10, but I'd take it over the current fashion for influencer/instagram clothing any day.

But then, if I had it my way everyone (and I mean everyone) would wear frilly dresses

Just seen this which reminded me of this thread www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/new-look-defends-padded-bikini-5480963 padded bikini tops for 9 year olds 🤦‍♀️ someone recommended new look on this thread, I think I will definitely be giving them a miss!

@ColaOlaLa
Surely that's padded bikini tops for children and teens who wear that size, it could easily be 11 or 12 year olds wearing an age 9, childrens clothes are often cut too wide for children with slight builds. A thin layer of padding can hide nipples if a girl is self conscious.

It starts from age 9 meaning it’s aimed at girls from as young as 9 not older girls who are smaller

However, number of high street retailers, including Primark, vowed to stop selling padded bikini tops to children in 2010, following a Mumsnet campaign called Let Girls Be Girls.

Even if it was aimed at 11-12 year olds why do they need padding, I have a 10 year old and I wouldn’t dream of buying her a padded bikini

@ColaOlaLa

It starts from age 9 meaning it’s aimed at girls from as young as 9 not older girls who are smaller

You don't buy clothes by age, unless your child is bang on average, you buy the size that fits.

I think all these have already been covered but for my 10yo dd we mostly go to Zara, H and M, John Lewis, GAP and M and S. Have found the supermarkets to be tacky clothing in poor quality but loved them when she was younger. Absolutely detest River Island girls clothing but for some reason dd and her friends are obsessed

If you didn’t buy clothes by age they wouldn’t label them by age 🤦‍♀️ Of course their are children bigger and smaller but yes mostly clothes are designed by AGE

Many girls are self conscious, padding hides nipples.

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For those of you who like bright and colourful stuff, I like Footprints on Forever, a Yorkshire based business that does some great things. It isn't as cheap as supermarket stuff but mostly organic cotton and some original prints too. Their shorts are nice and long too!

All t-shirts seem to be Marvel, games like minecraft, dinosaurs or vehicles. Or they're plain and boring.

That's basically all of DS1s interests He's not allowed to play Minecraft/hasn't seen any Marvel films but picks it up from school.

I think I must be lucky with my local Asda as I find lots of nice bright clothes for both DC there. Primark I'm not a fan of, everything is too bright and the sizes seem completely random.

I haven’t found this problem at all for my 1 year old. There’s a huge choice out there, just buy what you like and don’t buy anything you don’t.

I def just buy by style rather than boy/ girl section

His default outfit is baby vest, leggings and cardigan. I just change thickness of leggings and cardigan and vest length according to temperature. He has cardigans in burgundy red, green, tan, cream, navy, yellow. Soft knitted leggings in the winter, and now thinner cotton ones in nice colours or with patterns.

H and m, Zara, lindex, arket, m and s, John Lewis.

@ColaOlaLa

If you didn’t buy clothes by age they wouldn’t label them by age 🤦‍♀️ Of course their are children bigger and smaller but yes mostly clothes are designed by AGE

They also have height on labels, in many other countries children's clothing is labelled by height which makes much more sense in my opinion. Even then, for summer clothing a slight child may be in a smaller size for their height. My average height 15 year old DS is wearing age 13 to 14 shorts and they are still too big on the waist.

The age think, I’m elsewhere in Europe. Children’s clothes are all sold by height, far easier actually

@ColaOlaLa

If you didn’t buy clothes by age they wouldn’t label them by age 🤦‍♀️ Of course their are children bigger and smaller but yes mostly clothes are designed by AGE

My almost 7 year old is very small, if I put her in age 6-7 or 7-8 her trousers would fall down and the tshirts would be like long dresses.

I buy in her size, age 3-4 and 4-5. Many of her friends at school are "average" yet in smaller age clothes. It should be done on height not age.

My cousin would have been in an age 9 at 11 or 12 and as the youngest in her year, she was small and slight. Why shouldn't she have been able to wear what 13 year old friends were wearing?

Ok padded bikinis are fine for kids, you do realise I’m not the one that complained right? Was only sharing the article but I do agree with it but ok they are fine, yet other high street shops have agreed to stop selling them for kids but padded bikinis for kids are fine 🤷‍♀️

My 5 yr old loves active wear (like me) and it looks lovely on her. Really comfy, practical, she can move freely. Some lovely sets out there for kids.

Also I have the opposite problem and my girl is bigger so she’s 10 but in older girls clothes and it is annoying when that means it’s mainly hot pants, crop tops, padded bikinis, body con dresses. The new look range is aimed at ages 9-15.

No, I think fashions are pretty nice just now. Reminds me very much of the 90s stuff that was around when I was a teenager, so perhaps I'm biased. Baggy tops, flowery skirts and sensible clumpy shoes! I love it.

Yes yes yes! I'm SO sick of salmon pink and grey and black and leopard prints and unicorns in silly fabrics for little girls. Let's have some delicious blues and greens and purples, bright yellows and oranges and reds. And get rid of tight jeggings for two-year-olds and Daddy's little darling logos, and bikinis. Bikinis for babies!

Check out hnm. They're a godsend in my eyes!

Was just going to start a thread about either insipid colours for girls, fucking unicorns or bobbles and lace.

I think DD is going to have a lot of Biden boys t shirts for the summer. Nice primary colours with no bloody frills.

I think as long as age ranges overlap, then parents can choose clothes to suit. You do need clothes an 11 year old secondary school child would want to wear available in sizes down to an age 9 as children are different sizes at the same age. I think a bigger overlap would make things easier for parents but maybe not worth it for the business.