To think no one should be buying new clothes for young kids?

[Roxietrees]

With apps like vinted etc there really is no reason for parents to be buying new clothes for, say, under 8s. They wear them for about 5 minutes before they outgrow them, and there is SO much choice on vinted, even if you care about specific brands and style, you can get anything you want super cheap and in great condition. New clothes for kids is SO wasteful, and fast fashion, especially is massively contributing to the destruction of the planet. Not to mention forced child labour. AIBU to think new clothes for children under a certain age should be banned? (as if that’ll ever happen though). If more specifically children’s second-hand clothing shops started popping up I think it’d really help

I don't like the idea that it should be mandated, but I do agree with the principle.
My daughter had a LOT of hand me downs (because my brother had 4 children before I even got started lol) and it pleased me a lot to see her in the outfits that his kids had worn. And as OP said, small children get very little wear out of clothes before they grow out of them.

I didn't buy a lot of clothes from charity shops for her just because you didn't see a lot of second hand children's clothes in those days (long before vinted came along).

I would just like to add that I did buy a lot of clothes for myself second hand - both from charity shops and from dress agencies if I wanted something a bit nicer).

But you could buy the clothes new and they get like that after a while.

I don't think anyone is suggesting buying clothes fit for the bin. As I said I'm a big advocate of sh clothes ( for myself as well as kids) and always rejected baggy stained stuff. Never buy brands like primary or shein either ( although most of it doesn't last long enough to be on SH market)

@twinmum2007 its not the same at all. When you buy someone else’s clothes they have been washed for so long with different washing powders etc. their smells are embedded in them. Maybe that’s just me. It’s a smell thing. I can tell if a school jumper is outside based purely on the smell.

From babies my Gdcs have always worn loads of cast-offs, passed on among friends and family. One pair of M&S dungarees I bought for Gdd1 at the crawling stage, went on to a friend of dd, and came back a couple of years later for Gds, still fine.

As a granny I was allowed to buy new things now and then, though!

I'm not against the idea of buying second hand, I usually do so for myself unless I really can't find something I need - and underwear of course.

But DS is autistic, pretty much always wears the same clothes all the time and chews holes in everything constantly. I don't think I could keep up if I restricted myself to second hand only for him.