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Where can I find leggings/trackpants/trousers for a skinny seven-year-old girl?

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Clairemargaret · 19/11/2007 11:35

My daughter, age 7 and half, has no bottom and a skinny waist(I blame her dad) and now even the pull-on trousers in H&M (age 7-8) fall down.

To complicate matters, she won't wear anything with buttons/flies/zips ("not comfortable" wriggle, stamp)so any sort of jeans are out. And leggings can't be too tight around the ankles.

The pull-on contton/lyrca trousers from H&M were perfect until this year, when she seems to have done a Mike Teevee.

Any suggestions where I can get similar ones but cut a bit smaller around the waist?

Thanks!

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castille · 19/11/2007 13:13

On the whole French brands like Vertbaudet and La Redoute cut their clothes for the skinnier child - worth a look.

PrettyCandles · 19/11/2007 13:35

Tesco's tracksuit-style trousers tend to be tight on my solid-but-lean dd, so may be good for yours.

Astrophe · 19/11/2007 13:41

I second Vertbaudet - the 'o-kids' and the 'happy price' stuff tends to be slim fitting.

Wheelybug · 19/11/2007 13:48

dd is much younger but has a similar problem - the best comfy trousers that fit her are pumpkin patch and jojomamanbebe (but assume the latter don't go up to the size you need).

MrsBadger · 19/11/2007 15:19

Zara are also skinny cutters.

mintydixcharrington · 19/11/2007 15:59

I have the same shaped dd (9), also she has incredibly long legs for her height. Looks like a giraffe.
The ones that work for us are:
H&M (sometimes cut too short in the leg but nice and slim)
Zara (superb)
Gap Skinny Fit (still need to pull the elastics in the waistband though)
Boden Slim Fit (ditto)
Ralph Lauren jeans (we live near an outlet and can sometimes find them there rather than paying full price which is Just Silly)

Pumpkin patch are generally too short in the leg for her. Forget any of the cheap supermarkets, they are all cut for chunksters as far as I can tell. As is next - target market chunky children with short legs (and a desire to dress like a small hooker in many cases!)

Clairemargaret · 20/11/2007 10:57

Thank you all so much, guys, very useful. I didn't even know that Zara did kids' clothes!

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slug · 20/11/2007 11:28

I second the French designers. My dd has inherited her father's figure (curse her) and has endless difficulty fitting into English clothes. The two options worth considering are finding clothes with adjustable waistbands or, as we do, wait until someone you know is going across the channel on a booze cruise (the In Laws, bless them) and get them to raid the French supermarkets for cheap, well fitting clothes.

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