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Please tell me I am not the only parent to let my sons wear tights...

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TiramisuTartsandPiesInOrbit · 17/09/2007 23:31

Am I?
It is getting cold. I always put tights (navy) on my sons under their trousers in winter. I think I am the only one.

Do children need tights in addition to trousers when it is freezing cold in winter?

I think they do.

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TiramisuTartsandPiesInOrbit · 18/09/2007 10:41

arf arf law3!

Well, at least mine have the option to wear trousers. But one boy in his class was wearing shorts the whole winter last year. He had purple legs, but he did not even have ONE day off sick.

ok. ok. I am digging a deeper whole for myself and my tights now....

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Hurlyburly · 18/09/2007 10:43

Lolcats · 18/09/2007 21:21

My brother always did in winter until he started school. He had a bronchial cough from the first cold day through to march/april every year.

Surely you could get long johns nowadays?

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LizaRose · 18/09/2007 21:23

Tights are great. Why not get some for your DH too?

plainsailing · 18/09/2007 21:30

LizaRose - PMSL at the tights for men - can you imagine bedroom scene with new bf and he takes his tights off?? (Or worse, doesn't take them off!)

My exused to wear tights, but he was a motorcycle despatch rider, so acceptable.

bamzooki · 18/09/2007 21:31

Can barely manage to get ds (4.5) to wear a COAT in winter never mind a layer inder trousers! Was when he came out of school actually wearing his jumper today 'because teacher told me to' - so far this term it hasn't emerged from his book bag to my knowledge.

But nothing wrong in principle as far as I am concerned with extra layers if they are needed.
I remember my df telling me how when he was at school it wasn't 'cool' to wear a jumper over your shirt, so to avoid having the piss taken out of him he wore it UNDER his shirt instead cos he didn't like the cold!

plainsailing · 18/09/2007 21:31

Ex used, not exused. And the leathers made up for them

hunkermunker · 18/09/2007 21:34

Don't say I didn't warn you...

purplemonkeydishwasher · 18/09/2007 21:35

acceptable unacceptable

and i come from a place where it regularly gets to -30C. so i know!

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purplemonkeydishwasher · 18/09/2007 21:38

waswondering - where on EARTH did you go on holiday in norht canada??

fihi · 18/09/2007 21:40

PMSL. u made me think tho - my 4yr ds has thermal legging thingys from millets and is begging to wear them to school instead of just up mountains

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moljam · 18/09/2007 21:45

my ds1 wore tights till about 2 when cold and ds2 did last year and probably will this year when it gets cold-i just dont tell anyone as they dont need to knowneither will he when hes older!

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TiramisuTartsandPiesInOrbit · 18/09/2007 22:00

ok. I can see I need to name change to menintights, or something....

I guess I will never live this down.

And I am thinking NO TIGHTS for 5 year old boy in year 1. I can see reason.

Those pics have had me in stitches.

Especially, my son is not into football, but is very interested in clothes, and had good sense of fashion and accessories, and luckily, he likes pretty girls a lot!

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purplemonkeydishwasher · 19/09/2007 08:25

waswondering - WHY???? WHY would anyone go there for a holiday?? IN WINTER????

harrisey · 19/09/2007 10:30

I let ds wear black tights at halloween last yr (4.8yrs) and he has beged to wear them ever since!

They stay in his drawer, and I let him wear them for dressing up! Possibly a hangover from the fact he wore them loads as a baby as I used a sling/backpack and they make trousers ride up, so I always put tights on him - but not pink ones!

bubblerock · 19/09/2007 10:34

No way would I put my DS's in tights. I found the mothercare velour trousers with feet in were brilliant when they were babies though as they both used to pull their socks off.

geekgirl · 19/09/2007 10:37

completely normal in Germany. In fact, www.jako-o.de sell lovely boys tights - with car and footie themes.

mrsgboring · 19/09/2007 16:13

I use Babylegs (legwarmers for babies and toddlers) on DS as PP said he's a sling baby and it stops the gap between trousers and socks where the trouser legs roll up.

I love them because they also stop him tripping on the bottoms of his trousers, but there will come a time soon I guess when he won't want to wear them.

Can't imagine getting tights onto any kind of baby or child - it just seems such a faff to me (as mother of boy and wearer of trousers)

ChippyMinton · 19/09/2007 16:18

Picked up some nice thermal-fleece-lined cargo trousers for little boys in Tchibo this week (£6.90) and knee-high boys socks. My boys have long johns from M&S too.
Tights fine until they are too big to complain

ChippyMinton · 19/09/2007 16:18

'too big to complain'??? Obviously meant whilst they are too small to complain

filthymindedvixen · 19/09/2007 16:28

I used them under short dungarees when mine were tiny to get more autumn/spring use of the clothes. And under trousers when they were little.
Now if it is fuck-off cold, and we are, say camping or festivalling or doing ourtdoor stuff, we found thermal leggings from millets are great. But ds's would rather die than anyone know they were wearing them...

happystory · 19/09/2007 16:39

I have Russian friends who put their boy in tights until he was at least 5 and they live in the SE of England too. But the problem is, if it hasn't been said, they get too hot once in school.

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