Gorilla arms not required.......

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

......... for school shirts. We find the sleeves so short and are having a real pain finding ones that fit!

Ds needs normal white school shirts for senior school, nothing exciting in that. He is just 11 and some of his stuff is 9- 10, more of it is 11 - 12. So I bought M&S shirts aged 12, and they are so short in the arms that we will have to go up to an age 13, which will be way too big round ( the 12 is very roomy)

Is it the shirts, or does DS have Gorilla Arms?
Has anyone else had this problem??!!

DS is tall for his age with a long body and shorter legs,we have to go up two sizes. M&S sizeshave seem to have got smaller recently.

Last two years he has worn short sleeves all year round which gets around the problem.

Sadly bruffin we have to have long sleeves.
sometimes I look at uniform things and wonder if it fits anyone! We find the shirts enormous width ways and too short in the sleeves. We haven't even started trousers yet!

Trousers are a bit easier as M&S do three different lengths. We have found blazers a problem. DS is 14 and 5'11 but to get arm length we have had to go for 40 inch chest even from the uniform shop.