Help, I can't get a school summer dress to fit my 9 year old daughter!

[mummyloveslucy]

Hi, my daughter is very tall for her age at 5 foot 1. She is also quite big built and her waist is a 32inch.
Last year she wore an M&S standard age 13. Now it's too small and the biggest they do is an age 13 plus size. The waist is 28.5 in on that one.
Really not sure what to do now. Is there any way of letting them out that isn't obvious? Or are there some makes which go bigger?
Thanks.

I completely agree with Cococha. No child should be that size. The mother can try to bury her head in the sand as much as she likes but will eventually have to face up to the reality that she has put her child at risk of many health problems not to mention the poor girl probably gets ridiculed at school.

So why have the GP and consultant who have actually seen and examined this child said they are not concerned, Coala?

How is it you and Coco know better than the highly trained professionals, about a child neither of you have seen?

Interesting first post, Coalandflowers

Coal and cocoa how can you be so nasty ?
Op have you tried uniform shops you might find a dress there that fits.

Interesting observation owlcapone.
Yes all GPs and consultants are perfect human beings that are never wrong.

Soontobesix it's not being nasty it's being honest and that's what people need sometimes.

But the op isn't " burying her head in the sand" she has taken her dd to a GP and consultant.

They are not worth responding to know ladies. They are not listening to what we are saying and are just looking for a fight!

Op, I hope you've found some use from the responses about your daughters dress! And don't listen to the nasty responses

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Cola , Lucy ( as long standing posters will probably know) has special needs and her stature and build are related to this .The OP did not ask for comments on her daughters health, a simple search of other threads will show you that she has many issues to contend with, merely some help to find uniform to fit .

Looks like it.

Whatever it is it stinks.

How about Tesco? Their stuff is usually very generous, isn't it?

OP at 9-10 my dd was similar to yours - about the same height, sturdily built (teutonic genes) and looked a bit chubby. She started her periods at ten and a half. Both my children are well built and M&S uniform was always hopeless - it is very skimpily cut - or was anyway. DD couldn't get an M&S age 13 summer dress done up across the chest. The John Lewis ones were much, much more generous and absolutely fine.

FWIW at nearly 16, dd is only about 5'3", weights 8st 5lb (which is what she was at about 10), has a slim waist and looks fairly dainty. She is never going to be a stick think girl or woman because that is just not the way we are built as a family. She most certainly is not fat or overweight however.

Take no notice of some of the comments on this thread. It's incredible how differently they all develop between about 10 and 14.

wow - first time I've seen live trolls - fascinating creatures

seriously there is a difference between having a little extra puppy fat and being fat.

my dsd is 10 and quite tall and not 'skinny' she still fits in school dresses but she wears 12 - 13 or a size 8 or 10 to be comfy. she just has wide hips, until I got pregnant we could fit in the same shorts even though looks much smaller than me, probably because she has wide hips and a big bum, while I have a bit of a belly. but she's not fat, just not skinny.
I don't know how we could help her loose weight, she eats her 5 a day and doesn't eat many sugery things. She does a reasonable amount of exercise. Some children just are less skinny than others. as long as you're feeding her healthily then that is probably her natural size. she will probably thin out as she gets older.

Coala - please explain, if you can which I doubt how you and Coco, who have never met this child, are less likely to be wrong about her than two medical professionals who have met her, examined her and know her medical history.

They're just bitching for the sake of bitching. No doubt egging each other on and congratulating themselves on some facebook group somewhere...

I know this is a faff, maybe a last resort.

You could buy 2 or 3 dresses that are nearest in fit - so will look the same as the others uniforms and a spare dress, then ask the dressmake to take the material from the 'spare' dress and insert side pannels under the arms.

Just a thought...

Oh, and one other little word. In Y7 a little bitch girl told my daughter she was fat; repeated it actually since they were in Y6 together and the children were weighed and measured and my dd got a letter saying she was above her bmi.

Cue my dd stopping eating; fortunately I realised her dinner money was all in a pot in her bedroom and she had lost a stone before it was too late. Quickly referred to The Priory for professional anorexia counselling and nipped in the bud in good time. Probably only because I am a recovered anorexic.

Can one or two people on this thread please start a course of K and C tablets - kindness and commonsense. Both very valuable where hormonal, pubescent girls are concerned.

As you all were.

Ah, that would explain it ABF.