Worst kids clothing

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Sort of inspired by the Snoopy pyjamas thread.

Which clothes to you dislike for kids?
For me it’s slogans 🙈hate them, not keen on tv characters/cartoon characters and hate things like leather jackets

Really brash colours as well. That cheap bright pink colour. You can get classy brightly coloured clothing but I'm talking the luminous pink that you get in Primark type cheap clothing.

Ds2 went to a residential special school in the mid 200s. His house mother rang me up one night and said I shouldn't dress him in cord trousers...
I asked why and she replied they made him look like a baby... I then asked if that was the case why did Next Gap and Primark sell them for boys his age? Stupid woman didn't have an answer to that!
I packed an extra couple of pairs of cords the next time.he went back to school!!

• Headbands for babies.
• Anything overly gendered/ encouraging gender stereotypes- pretty, fluffy slogans for girls.
• Cartoon characters/ movie franchise characters on children too young to understand them.
• Cropped hoodies/ tops.

Character clothing! Although DD gets her fix of it through pyjamas, no one else sees them and I don’t have to see them for too long!

My son wears age 5-6 at the moment, and I hate seeing clothing in his size about gaming.

Yes, I also hate the gaming ones. And why are h and m sizes so varied. They do ages 4-6 and then 6-8 in their clothes.

Little boys party clothes like smart chinos, shirts with bow ties, I think they look ridiculous and they’re so restrictive.

Novelty hats like those with spikes and things stitched on them to make them look like dinosaurs.

Clothes with your child’s name on.

Football strips on babies. Massive headbands / bows on baby girls. Designer clothes on kids. Flat caps 🤮

School uniforms. If someone with no cultural expectation of uniforms was asked to design school uniforms they would look nothing like they do! Really uncomfortable and totally impractical for children. Even for teens, the uniforms are ridiculous - the only justification for ties, blazers etc is that it’s ‘preparing them for the world of work’…… my husband and I are professionals who have never worn a suit to work. I get irrationally angry about it

Oh my goodness, yes to all of this! And in addition, the fact that uniform is not as inclusive as people seem to think and you can tell the difference between trousers or a pinafore from M&S vs one from Aldi. Pupils with additional needs often find uniform difficult, DS hates button collars and ties, dislikes wearing a jumper over a shirt because he gets too hot, and struggles to do up small buttons like those on a shirt, he can't do laces either so "lace up black shoes" are rubbish for him. Then there are the schools who take conformity to the uniform rules far too seriously and send kids to isolation for stuff like wearing navy socks instead of black ones or having a tie that measures 45cm instead of 42cm or having a haircut that's the wrong length. It's ridiculous.

School uniform should be unbranded jogging bottoms or leggings (whichever the child prefers), a t-shirt, and a hoodie or sweatshirt. These can be in school colours or with school logos (and all logo's items from school supply shops should be optional), and rather should be it. Comfortable, practical, easy to move in.

A normal looking coat or cardigan with pointless fucking ears on the hood. Why does everything seem to have ears?

My 4yo loves her coat with ears and will fight you on this one

Gaming clothes, character generally (although mine do have some character socks, exclusively arrive via stockings). Tracksuits, crop tops.
Although to be honest this all applies to adults too....

Headbands/bows on babies
Spanish clothing - just looks tacky
Tracksuits on babies

I quite like character clothing!

Dark clothes for boys! End up buying brands like Kite and Frugi

Slogans and the tacky horrid clothes some supermarkets provide for boys. Morrisons doesn’t believe in jeans for older boys either - they think all boys live in tracksuit bottoms with tacky slogans going up them.

@Hospedia yes, totally agree, I’ve just taken mine into school in joggers because they have a fun run thing today, and I was thinking how much warmer and more practical the joggers are than the awful nylon school trousers. I put them in jersey shorts in summer as I hate the nylon school shorts. I can’t understand what the justification for them is whatsoever, it’s not like grown adults where suit trousers sawn of at their mid thigh in summer is it, not where I work anyway?!

Boys' clothes ranges over the age of 7 or so that are all about gaming. Yes m&s I'm looking at you.

Not specifically a type of clothes, but both my sons love cats and rabbits, but it seems to have been deemed that these are "girl" animals so only feature with pink and bows etc (only exception is Asda that had some lovely cat pyjamas in green etc)
"Boy" animals are woodland ones like foxes, or jungle ones.

I really hate the ingrained sexism!

Feel bad for saying this but River Islands kids clothing section is shocking, there are a few nice bits but majority just really tacky and gucci rip offs.

I also cringe when I see kids/babies dressed in the big branded designer clothing, it's far too grown up in my opinion.

Although must admit sometimes it is done tastefully like Will and Kate's children but then again I've not seen pictures of their children covered head to toe in big brand logos

@Marmite27

Clothes with your child’s name on.

Agree with this one, backpacks with names on I am not keen on because I don't want people in public knowing my DDs name

Kids in rock band or tv show t-shirts.

Any sort of writing or slogan. Number 1 bugbear on either children’s or adult’s clothing.

** Mackmama

Little boys party clothes like smart chinos, shirts with bow ties, I think they look ridiculous and they’re so restrictive.**

^Riiiiiiiiight

@guardiansofthegalaxychocs

School uniforms. If someone with no cultural expectation of uniforms was asked to design school uniforms they would look nothing like they do! Really uncomfortable and totally impractical for children. Even for teens, the uniforms are ridiculous - the only justification for ties, blazers etc is that it’s ‘preparing them for the world of work’…… my husband and I are professionals who have never worn a suit to work. I get irrationally angry about it

YES! The tie and blazer thing drives me nuts. DS used to have to wear a tie for year 6 of Primary. I'd drop my 11 year old at school in a shirt and tie and then go into my professional workplace (one of the Big Four) wearing jeans, trainers and t-shirts. And who the actual fuck decided that white polo shirts are a good choice for primary age children? They get covered in food, paint, mud, pens etc etc immediately and then you have the choice of either using loads of chemicals and effort to restore them to whiteness or just letting them be permanently grubbing looking.

I dislike all the character stuff like Spiderman etc.

But what really pisses me off is the boys section is all brown, navy and black and the girls section is all bright, multicoloured stuff.

Sainsburys and M&S is the worst for this. I have specifically been saving up and buying bits from Boden & Joules just for the colour!

(Although M&S do go through phases of colourful boys clothes!)

Well, I like Duns clothes and my 3 year old DS wears leggings most days so I clearly dress them hideously . Always get lots of compliments for their outfits in public though.

I don’t like tracksuits or jeans on any child under about 3. Also not keen on most slogans and I’ll only buy character pyjamas so nobody else sees them.

My toddlers do have a Zara jumper with their names embroidered on the front but they’re covered by their coats so I don’t think creepy men will be kidnapping them as a result.

@elfonthestairs

Feel bad for saying this but River Islands kids clothing section is shocking, there are a few nice bits but majority just really tacky and gucci rip offs.

I also cringe when I see kids/babies dressed in the big branded designer clothing, it's far too grown up in my opinion.

Although must admit sometimes it is done tastefully like Will and Kate's children but then again I've not seen pictures of their children covered head to toe in big brand logos

Oh my god I took dd into River Island yesterday and I totally agree with this. The clothes are so trashy looking, like I’d expect girls on love island or something to wear. All right on grown women but totally inappropriate for 11year old dd. Short and tight and shiny and man made fabrics. There are hardly any shops left in our town so we can chose between River Island, Next, New Look, Primark or supermarkets and it’s dire if you want something straightaway rather than shopping online.