Am i being an underwear snob - only buying Petit Bateau underwear for my DD

[tildaandarchiesmummy]

My DD is 4 and i only buy her Petit Bateau underwear, i do this because whenever i have bought other brands such as underwear from John Lewis i always find them so thin, and i don't feel they cover her bottom especially in the summer when she wears dresses without legging underneath. Am i being an underwear snob, is there any other brand that make good quality knickers that aren't thin. I would be happy with Petit bateau it's just then only tend to make pale pink and white and DD wants to have some flowery knickers like her friends.

And that would be £17 pounds well spent Sparkling as my buttocks would be toasty and suitably covered

i duno what petite bottom is never heard of them honestly i must be completely skint or just ignorant, i take it its an expensive brand?

i would say be a snob on underwear for yourself, i am even though im not exactly rich, some women splash out on handbags, some shoes mine is underwear.

you mention john lewis i have heard of them thankfully, but i wouldn't dream of going there for kids underwear either. kids that young dont need expensive underwear shop around you can get thick under wear even in supermarket clothing ranges. i think kids are costly enuff just buying their evryday clothes, keep it cheap on the underwear it can be done. i noticed in supermarkets the value range is normally thin, the next range up is thicker.

mothercare underwear for kids is thicker and the designs r good too. i don't know about next, although i get all my kids clothes from there because the quality is usually good and i get a discount :), i refuse to get kids underwear from next. i just think its ott when i can get perfectly good underwear from supermarkets or other budget stores i dont pay lots for their socks either, but i do prefer mothercare socks for kids when possible, as they seem to be thicker and better quality overall.

like someone suggested if yor kids like character clothing theyre a dime n dozen in budget stores and supermarkets and they are often thick too, check them out.

Boinsoir, my daughter also has the startrite english classics and we love Boinpoint (we get it from bisceter village). And for those of you complaining about the price, they have very good sales and we buy lots of them when we go on holiday to france (far cheaper there). I am reassured that many of you agree that they are good quality. Thanks for the link to their new vintage collection, just what we have been looking for, love the floral prints. My mum bought DD some white company vest with fairies on which are the same quality as the Petit Bateau ones, so we will give the knickers a try especially if they have fairies on.

One of my friends has 3 daughters and the eldest is 8 who she bought petit bateau pyjamas and underwear for since she was old enough to wear them. They are such good quality that each of her three girls have been able to wear them and the colours have not faded or worn in the slightest. The cotton used for the knickers is also very soft which is a godsend for my daughters delicate skin.

I quite happily buy supermarket clothes (asda and sainsbury is much better than tesco) but i will willingly spend money on decent pants for dd.

When she was 2 she wore M&S boys pants in bright colours, from thenon i have got shorts (not the skimpy short style ones but proper as big as boxers ones) from H&M or even LIDL or thicker cotton ones with wide gussets like the petit bateau ones.

MIL bought some back from Paris, not petit bateau a damn site cheaper but still proper cotton and with coverage.

I bought my son two pairs of boxers for £5 just because they had Disney cars on I haven't spent no where near as much on any since! I get him packs of 5 for about £3 which are plain. He is potty training so the Disney ones were a way of getting him to go to potty and not have accidents. Think once he's older I will buy character ones but I wouldn't spend a lot still. I don't spend a lot on my.own underwear never mind his lol

I am always interested to learn that middle class children have much more
sensitive skin than working class children. Not sure why they need thicker knickers though.....

Yes you are being a snob - and a show off.

Gap sales are great for children's knickers - dd2 is 14 and I swear she is still wearing some Gap ones that she's had since she was about 9.

And if she really needs 'special' pants to wear with dresses in the summer, then you are buying her dresses too short, surely?

Daft thread.

Middle class kids obviously have different shaped bottoms

justanuthermm JL underwear (socks, pants) is about same price as sainsbury's- not expensive at all.

I have to agree petit bateau are the only vests we've had so far that keep their shape after hundreds of washes (not even M&S, JL etc do long term tbh)

I have had a sleepless night worrying about the quality of my DSs undergarments. DS1's are from M&S, and DS2's are from Debenhams. I have let them down, I had no idea.
Will order some of the 'Dress like Daddy' stuff to make up for it.

Don't worry, sparkling- my children are so middle class they have ciabatta in their packed lunches- they are 10 and 16 and don't appear to have suffered either physically or emotionally from years of chain store underwear.

It will come out in later life though seeker. Underwear ishoos.

Ooh thanks for the pants tip, I have been looking for some good quality ones for dd. The boden ones are just as expensive but look crap so I'm going to get the vintage petit bateau ones, so pretty. and the stripy blazer with dress I love clothes shopping for dd.

My dd has excema everywhere, which included in her groin for the first 6 years of her life. I never realised that made her middle class.
She does need thick knickers too. When your uniform is skirts and no tights and the temperature is -3 every little helps.

Who knew it was a class issue and not a scratchy,wedgie avoidance issue?

I am going to deliver 'ah yes she is bleeding from her thigh because of the excema' with a certain swank now. God I am posh

I love Sainsburys for clothes and dd's knickers cover her bum very well :)

I do agree with buying stuff that lasts though, which is kind of why Sainsburys seems to be my place of choice at the moment, washes well, nice thick cottons, doesn't fade. I have some bits and bobs of Petit Bateau, Tartine et Chocolat etc and tbh I don't think there is that much difference.

I have a French mother, I was dressed in Cyrilus as a child. I adore France, I love the clothes, I salivate walking down the street in Bordeaux BUT with a bit of careful shopping I can dress my dd in nice little tops and dresses that lasts just as well and doesn't cost the earth.

My dd also has excema, probably not as bad as Pagwaatch though, so we need knickers that cover her bottom properly otherwise when she wheres tights they cut her skin and it makes her really uncomfortable, how is this a middle class issue??

But Pagwaatch. until I read this thread it hadn't crossed my mind about what sort of underwear my boys wear. It was just underwear to me.

I wonder whether the much lower prevalence of childhood eczema in France versus the UK has something to do with better underwear?

On a more serious note, I do think that the lower prevalence of childhood eczema in France has something to do with the ready availability of fabulous skincare products in pharmacies, and that all sorts of people (not just the eczema afflicted) think it is normal to buy high-quality skin care products.

Oh don't be silly. Eczema of course requires special underwear. It should be on prescription. But that's not what the op's about. It's about being an underwear snob. And snobs deserve to be teased.

Inverted snobs deserve even more teasing

"It would be extraordinarily profligate - an absolute moral wrong, punishable by burning in hell - to dress my DD in anything but supermarket knickers on sale."

I feel like starting a thread about DS2's Primark pants with Bart Simpson on now, asking what does it say about me?

That you are insecure about being thought an underwear snob?

Fail. My first ever -->

I desperately want to buy dd4 some nice posh pants .

But ...she has asd and often pees herself because she needs help to go to the b shroom and doesn't always ask. So we just get the cheaper ones.

Character pants are hit and miss ...on buying her peppa pig pants ( just potty trained) she spent all day flashing them and shouting peppa pig. Had to keep her in trousers until I managed to get some plain ones .

The comments on this thread are hilarious, the title was meant to grab attention and it has. However i have now found some good quality knickers with sausage dogs on from the White Company which i shall be ordering for DD and i have been made aware of the Petit Bateau vintage collection, so for me thread has given me the information i needed. However there does seem to be a lot of inverted snobbery on mumsnet, and people taking comments way to seriously, for gods sake this is a light hearted thread about children's underwear not a battle between "middle class" and "non-middle class", it's about underwear for goodness sake, that aimed to find out if there were any more brands that sold good quality underwear. If you don't have any helpful suggestions then don't comment. However the comments are hilarious though!