Tweeny clothes? Where?

[Fresta]

Where do you shop for your 10/11 year old girls?

My dd wants to be 'cool', I hate buying cheap clothes as I have a thing for class and quality. She wants to dress like a half naked popstar/hooker in black leather and lace, crop tops and cheap sloganned t-shirts (half of which she has no idea of the meaning) and dresses and tops with bits missing, revealing shoulders and other things!

Until now I have dressed her from Boden/John Lewis/ with the odd more expensive designer brand thrown in from Alex and Alexa or childrens salon (I like the slightly preppy look of No added Sugar and similar).

We need to find a middle ground of fashionable but good quality and tasteful. Everything I suggest is dismissed as 'babyish' but I'm not prepared to let her dress 'tarty' or too old. So where do your similar aged girls like to shop? (She's small for age too so the likes of Superdry/Jack Wills are not suitable).

Zara is bang on the money and also great quality for the price

I buy most of my dds clothes at Zara and I find their girls sizing large. Larger than the likes of Next and John Lewis.

I hate buying cheap clothes as I have a thing for class and quality

OP, my mum was like this when I was growing up and I hated it. She wanted 'beautifully cut, French clothes' for me, I wanted cheap and fashionable. We had lots of arguments over clothes and I always felt out of it with my peers, I never had clothes I liked

My dd is 9 and she loves H&M and Next. She wears mostly leggings with t-shirts and longer tops, and shorts or playsuits in the summer. Maybe the odd summer dress. She has an H&M denim jacket which she loves and wears all the time. Yes the clothes are cheaply made but as long as they are age appropriate and dd likes them, does it really matter?

I think you might have to compromise on not buying the quality you would choose. I agree definitely no to anything hooker like but the likes of H&M, Next and the 9-15 section of New Look have plenty of age appropriate clothes.

Really clark I find Zara sizes tiny!

What kind of thing do her friends wear? At that age most girls just want to fit in - I remember feeling very awkward when I realised everyone else was in uber baggy Ts and ripped jeans (grunge era) and I was still in naice jeans and child size Ts. You may need to relax your views a little bit if her friends are all in the stuff you hate...

I would swerve River Island.
Did anyone mention Hollister? There are smaller sizes available than Jack Wills. DD has a lovely green parka and hoodies from there (in the sale).
New Look for jeans, shorts, tops and fashiony bits.
Primark for cheap fun shirts (size 6 womens).
Superdry

We have quite a bit form Next already, quality is ok I find. We have been shopping online tonight and managed to find a compromise. We have ordered denim short dungarees, a strapppy jumpsuit, a cropped top, but in a looser style, some slogan tees- but tasteful ones, a silky blouse and a bardot top. I draw the line at high heels but she has chosen some low wedge heeled sandals. Mango stuff looks nice and fashionable without being cheap looking.

at those River Island clothes for a 3-year-old!

Have you looked at Fat Face? My DD is a bit younger (8) but likes their clothes and they seem good quality.

Most of her friends look normal to me, the odd one or two wear high heels but most wear trainers or ankle boots like my dd. She seems convinced everyone is wearing crop tops and stilettos out of school, but I only see them wearing respectable child appropriate outfits, even for school discos they wear nice dresses and ballet pumps.

Fat face is babyish according to dd!

I'll enjoy this (brief) phase while it lasts then

DD announced tonight she will only wear black and white knickers from now on! And apparently lace on knickers is babyish too! I remember when she was four she wanted lacy knickers and I though they were too grown up- so what is babyish in her eyes is subjective. The fact that most women's underwear is lacy seems to have passed her by .

'babyish' to dd = tasteful

grown up= sleazy

Oh don't get me wrong dancegirl I find everything else in the store tiny , but definitely large fitting on my dd. She is very slim, but still I'd buy age 7 sweatshirt in next and it'll fit her lovely (that's her age) and an age 5 in Zara and it's too big, if that makes sense.

What about Forever 21 op?

ha ha!

Oh ffs!

I was in river island recently... They had a biker jacket for 0-3mnths