Does anyone else by their children designer clothes apart from me?

[loulabelle222]

Hi my ds is 13m and i find it so hard buying nice things for him. Of course he has got a few bits from mothercare,next,marks and spencers and asda but occasionally i would like him to wear something different. These places never seem to offer anything different, they offer babies acting as old men in shirts and ripped jeans.
There are a few children shops near me and i just can't resist it. For ds first birthday he wore an adorable miniman outfit that was expensive but he looked beautiful.
What do you all think about designer baby clothes?

Lockets - Not at all! Everything was just held in there until bedtime.

lol Marina Have to say that both dd and dss look stunning in their cossies. Grown Men have turned green with jealousy at the embroidery on dss's costume.

Definition of a Viking reenactor is a Hells angel lookalike who does embroidery on public transport.

I think we are being a bit unkind linking lederhosen explicitly to Nazism...they are tradional Tyrolean garb and therefore we are being mean to sneer at this cultural phenomenon, aren't we...snort.

Back to your portacabin you disgusting Scot! That is a vile image.
Unlike Tarantula's which is just very amusing.

PMSLat potty training in Lederhosen

Aloha - I love tank tops on little boys! Longish shorts, tanktop and a shirt or polo shirt - a winning combination on my blonde-haired, blue-eyed lovely son.

me and sister were sent on Sunday School Walking Day in homemade pale green (does nothing for the complexion as you can imagine) matching frocks with gauzy sleeves..i had the added humiliation of a beehive

dd2 has pink/white tank top today (knitted by me), on top of longsleeved white vest and pink/blue stripey leggings type trousers.

marina, no it isnt 'bruno' lol.

'bruno' the magic boy

I think tanktops are lovely on angelic toddlers, particularly little boys with white-blonde hair and dark brown eyes, like my divine ds

Hoorah for Fotherington-Thomas, I say. Hullo trees, hullo sky.

I always pmsl at any mention of 'magic boy' Enid. Bless him

If we are having a competion re horrible things we were forces to wear Can I add Brown trousers with about 6 million pockets, a cream, orange and brown check shirt and a brown and orange silky scarf tied round my neck that was my 'good sunday outfit'. WHAT WAS MY MOTHER THINKING????? Oh yes and sdd to that a lovely pageboy haircut.

Can remember itching like buggery all the way round Lullingstone Villa in a pair of home-made and unlined woollen loons with matching long bolero. Onlooker must have thought I had fleas.
I think it is just as well for our own mothers that Mumsnet was not around then.
I look out keenly for mentions of Bruno too, Enid, you must keep us informed of his doings.
Am just trying to picture a mini-bundle with beehive at least I only got a Purdey inflicted on me...

will try to dig out photo, it's a hoot, i'm up at mum & dad's tomorrow. marina, was only discussing itchy wool with helpful assistant in johnny lou lou's on saturday..she asked me if my dd's had the same allergy as me and i said i didn't know as i only ever knit in cotton for them fearing for their skin...

My mum ('darling, I'm so bad at English clothes' - you've lived here longer than I have, FFS) made me wear the world's most repulsive tank top, red and white striped acryclic with little trees on it. Particularly fetching on a pudgy 11 year old redhead.

I have 2 dss and used to spend a lot of time buying them clothes but now I just don't get much time to do clothes shopping as they hate shops. I didn't even realise OSHKOSH was designer as their Nana is always sending them stuff like that from Australia. I know I spent a lot on a Timberland jumper for ds1 for Christmas and he point blank refused to wear it. It has only ever been worn once and that was after a lot of persuasion yet he will happily wear Asda T-shirts with various designs.

IMO there are more important things to worry about than designer clothes for small children but if you can afford it and it makes YOU happy (as I am sure a 13 month old couldn't care less)then go for it. At the end of the day I think parents who spend a fortune on designer brands are doing it for their own satisfaction rather than for the kids.

These women were nothing short of monsters.

Um, that's to MI, Tarantula, bundle and everyone else dressed in a ghastly fashion by a so-called responsible adult.
All of us need to bear in mind that in 25 years or so's time our children could be posting in a very similar vein...

I made myself a dress from an old pillow case printed with potato cut fish and wore it everywhere when I was about 9

dd1 at 'Bruno Magic boy''s house for tea tonight - will report back

I agree totally Marina. But as dss's Mum once said (and I agree with her)parents are always going to embarrass thier kids in one way or another so we might as well have fun doing it as not

My mum also made me wear her cast-offs from around nine onwards, which in retrospect I find more than a bit odd. I think I sort of accepted that I didn't deserve nice clothes because I was too fat, but it is odd isn't it?

Should you not wire her up for maximum feedback Enid? Can she be a reliable witness to latest Brunoesque doings?
LOL at pillowcase. I am photographed aged five in a HUGE sculpted cast-off nylon bra slip in my back garden.

MI-not as weird as DH's mum who made her teenage SON wear HER old clothes!

I wonder why we don't speak to her....