Is it me or is it only on Mumsnet people whiffle on about quality in kids clothes?

[LadyMountbatten]

i have never had this conversation in real life. EIther you all buy clothes that fall apart all the time, or your kids never ever grow and so you keep these clothes for years.

I just bought what I liked. And it kind of lasted I suppose. ALl this quality chat is new to me

It matters to me - I have 3 boys and pass lots of clothes down. It works out cheaper and better to buy say one decent coat that will last all 3 of them. Mine happen to all be summer born but once they are past about 2, month of birthday is irrelevent tbh.

As they are getting older they are harder on their trousers (and the younger two take the same size!) so there are less passing down opportunities.

I don't really see any difference between this and a thread asking whether a particular brand of women's jeans hold their shape well? Noone likes to waste their money! (do they?)

I buy children's clothes from anywhere really - asda through next/gap/zara/boden etc. I find the quality is fine from everywhere to be honest.

But I don't think a lot of people on here look after clothes well, eg, wash at correct setting or heaven forbid iron them which makes a massive difference to how good they look.

The paradox of mn: people too busy arguing with strangers on the internet about madeleine mccann to iron their kids clothes.

I must say it fucks me right off when you buy an baby's outfit from tesco and it goes holey after one wash. Or things shrinking in the dryer - that peeves me too. So I do want quality kids' clothes, and I love being able to pass on my children's clothes to friends rather than have them end up as landfill after one child. My friends and I do have the occasional chat about the quality of diffent kids' clothes brands, but then I love talking domestic details.

Oddly enough, everything I've bought from H&M for DDs have been absolutely crap - zips broken after two wears, holes in knees within a month, shrinking jumpers despite having been washed at 30oc and never going near a tumble dryer, that kind of thing.

However everything I've ever bought from Next has been great quality. My friend had a few outfits from Next, her DD wore them, then my DD wore them, now her DD2 is wearing them and they look great.

Sorry Mumsnet

Mum of 3 boys too. The trousers, oh the fucking trousers. I think the Israeli army couldn't make them strong enough to keep up with them.

That isn't a paradox Lady M - some people find ironing fucking boring and arguing very entertaining, thus they prioritise one over the other.

A paradox would be if spending time on Mumsnet arguing about stuff also correlated with spending more time ironing or doing other time-consuming tasks in an 'I don't know how she does it' way.

This by the way is not arguing. It is contradiction.

It matters to me, DS is 4 and he doesn't grow out of his clothes so quickly now so I don't want them to fall apart before he's in the next size. All of his clothes get washed/ironed weekly and I tend not to buy enough for that not to be an option. Plus I like him to look like someone owns him so am not happy to dress him in t-shirts with peeled transfers or torn jeans, really.

Mine were all born the same time of year and I don't believe my DDs will sprout penises if they wear "boy's" clothes, so I want things to last. A lot of it does, though, and it's not as predictable as you might think what doesn't.

Mind you, DD2 is falling into your category of children who just don't grow so has thrown the rewearing seasonally appropriate clothing plan into disarray.

If you look at the reviews of school uniform in particular on the M&S website, it's clear that loads of people feel strongly about quality.

I feel very strongly about quality and love discussing in in-depth online. Less so in real life for I would fear appearing like a dull nerd.

h and m and asda last my kids the longest. next has went waaaay down hill since dd was a baby/toddler and their prices have went up

my friends and i discuss this sort of stuff frequently, also my mum and i when we go shopping as i ask about how she dealt with dsis and i clothes wise.

lots of 'and i' there

At Frances. I have to stop myself wittering on in rl.