To think clothes become chavvy after age 2.

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I loved looking for clothes for the children up to 18-24 months. After this, instead of the nice pastels, flowers, bears etc it becomes tracksuit bottoms for boys with slogans or garish patterns. It all looks cheap and nasty. Even a lot of the Next stuff is particularly bad for little boys.

I love the Boden/ Frugi / Blade & Rose stuff but most of that is not an affordable day to day option with 3 under 3 ( Vinted and sale shopping aside).

I like my children to be nicely dressed, not in awful tracksuit type outfits. I don't understand why at least up to 5 they don't have more of the baby / toddler designs. More pretty pinafore and soft colours for girls and dungarees, bears, blues, browns and burnt oranges for boys etc.

I was thinking this my two year old is always in joggers, hate jeans for him. Have seen some nice linen type trousers on George that look comfy though

Thanks so much, they look like they'll do the job for him!

I guess I'm a bit worried too that it's the first step towards big brand slogans- Adidas etc-or football shirts. I don't want to be a slave to trends and keeping up with the peers with the latest trainers. I know idealistic but will try as long as I can.

Eh? Have you heard of boden op?

Totally. Black tracksuit and a pair of nikes anyone? 🙈

Not had this issue I shop around online a lot of stores to find things. My DS1 is 2.5yrs old and he has lovely things. I often shop st Leredoute when they have 60% off.
H&M often fo lovely co-ord smatt outfits.

I don't like the crazy patterns and slogans and prints of cartoons / super heros etc etc. I like the plain and simple items.

This, I want DS to be comfortable so it's either leggings or tracksuits

We used to get soft corduroy elasticated trousers from JoJo's and Boden years ago.

I hate all the twee frugi type clothes and dungarees, especially on boys. Along with the long wavy hair to match. The leggings look awful. Don't look remotely comfortable either. Joggers are much more practical and comfortable for girls and boys.

Well aren't you a really nice person using that horrible classist word, OP?

My kids at 8 months were dressed in a completely different style from my kids at 18 months. When they're on the move, they're grubbing about on the ground and in muddy patches and in trees and I find that pastels/light colours get very dirty and mud/dirt patches are actually quite difficult to wash out and do tend to stain a bit. So especially in cold/wet weather, it makes sense to stick to dark coloured joggers with a cheerful t-shirt and jumper (and coat if necessary). At 8 months mine were just beginning to crawl and mostly in the pram so there was much more scope for dressing them in those cute, ridiculous little baby outfits in light colours with buttons and flowers and frilly bits. But they don't work at the playground and for potty-training so we moved away from them.

Wait til you have to buy clothes for children from about 14yo. Too big for child ranges that seem to stop at 13yo and still a bit small for adult ranges.

For the shorts issue, these are great! They're basically jogger shorts. Nice and loose with a drawstring waist direct.asda.com/george/clothing/10,default,sc.html

direct.asda.com/george/kids/shorts/plain-jersey-shorts-5-pack/GEM1098217,default,pd.html?cgid=D25M1G1C17&shareProduct=true

Sorry link didn't work above x

Oh wait until they’re teenagers with Saturday jobs and the postman knows you by name because of all the parcels from ‘pretty little thing’ 🙈. ‘Doll , your haul has arrived’.
My glory days of scouring the chazzas for little cashmere jumpers and Italian leather sandals are well over 😭😭😭😭

Oh I do agree that pinafore and dungarees have to go woth potty training.

I just like tasteful but practical.

He wears lots of blade and rose leggings which I think are much nicer than tracksuit bottoms but the elastic goes in them.

Agree. Just recently discovered this as toddler aged out of 2y clothes. Now the majority of places lump 3 into ‘older girls’ and it’s all black leggings and graphic t shorts, with way too short tops.

It's more the leap from little, cute softer (pastel is maybe a bad example). I like the burnt oranges, navy, the boden/ frigi type colours.

The "cool dude" slogans and very grown up looking clothes on a 3 year old I don't like.

My DD age 2 is really opinionated about clothes (not encouraged by me, I’d dress her in her older brother’s hand me downs if I could!) and definitely wouldn’t wear twee pastels and teddy bears. She wants bright colours and rainbows.

I completely agree, OP. I'd never have dressed my children in joggers or tracksuits 🤮 So awful.

Pick and choose carefully for my children re clothes. Boy 7, girl 9.
They only wear tracky bottoms for sport. Leggings for extra layer when it's cold or, for daughter, with a longer top.
Lot of, imo, really inappropriate clothes for children out there. I aim for classy and practical + dress appropriately for the occasion.

Marks have lots of lovely age appropriate clothes for girls 3+, especially in summer. Next do too but they have the crop top stuff too so it takes a bit of searching.

What a horrible judgy post

How anyone can have a pop at 'garish patterns' and then cite Frugi as a favourite, I don't know. They are hilariously garish!

Blade and rose leggings are my absolute favourite thing to have my son in!

Thats what he goes to the park in to climb.