A coat for a 12 year old girl, who believes she is too grown up to wear a coat.

[CliveThighs]

Help!

Dd is 12 and has reached the stage where she's too cool to wear a coat. Despite the fact it's winter. Despite the fact it takes her 40 minutes to walk to school. Despite the fact the weather will get even colder.

Over the last year or so she's had a massive growth spurt, and is now roughly an adult sized 8-10 (depends if she'll be wearing a jumper under the coat).

We took her shopping for a new coat at the weekend but none of the coats in any of the shops were acceptable to her. No coats at all. We tried them all. All rejected on spurious grounds of 12 year old girl logic.

So, wise style and beauty people, can you reccomened a coat that will put a sparkle in her eye and prevent her from catching pneumonia

Many thanks.

I've a 14 year old that won't wear a coat. I'm wearing her old coat shes not taken out the wardrobe since I brought it 2 years ago. Brought her a new cheap coat that's now sitting in the wardrobe and won't see the light of day until its too small and I take it.
I brought a coat it up to her if she wants to wear it can't blame me when she's ill. I've done my job provided the coat and advised her to wear it.

My 14 y old is wearing an old leather bomber jacket that she found at a kilo sale. It reminds me of the jacket my Dad used to wear to go and play snooker in the 1980's 😄

Same story here.

We went to Christmas markets on Saturday in the freezing wind lashing rain.
I refused to start shopping until she (13) had been into Primark with some cash to buy a coat. I stood outside.
Thankfully her older sister (18) has regained senses and helped her find a (horrible) acceptable men's coat which wasn't very warm but waterproofed, hooded and better than nowt.

My 12 year old has been going to school with no coat for a while now! She has relented this past week though and has got me to order her this which she she seems to like

I got my 12 year old an adult size six ski jacket from ASOS. It’s absolutely gorgeous - black with a huge fluffy hood and very cool.

This was in the dregs of the skiwear sale in September.

All the big girls in dd’s school have slightly cropped white puffa jackets that make them look like white spheres on legs.

Obviously this is too £££ but this sort of thing:

www.asos.com/prd/200814863?acquisitionsource=pasteboard

Hey my ds exactly this. 12 years old and a coat refuser. I will check out primark and uniqlo this weekend. We are off skiing soon I can't let him do than in a hoodie!

I should probably be grateful mine does wear a Lee Cooper wool look one I got cheap from Sports Direct, plus thermals. But it's not waterproof.... if anyone sees a waterproof, padded coat in a dark colour which isn't the shiny material and is silent (sensory issues) and has a fleecey lining right down the arms, please do say! The last one was Primark but kids section and pink so is now not acceptable.

Oh god i remember being that age, my mother looked everywhere for 'a coat with a hood' I'd find acceptable! I didn't want a hood for love nor money!

Would she wear a lightweight parker style as equally still really warm?

What is it with teens and coats? I'm 43 now and was exactly the same.

The only 'coat' I would wear was a been velvet jacket or if it was the weekend and posing down for some reason my dads knackered old wax jacket was acceptable. I don't think I even owned my own coat.

I had a similar issue - went for an Abercrombie & Fitch puffer in the end.

Superdry

Don't waste your money.

Mine did wear gloves in the very coldest weather but never ever a coat and they had a similar journey.

My daughter is exactly the same, she’ll be 13 in 3 weeks. Point blank refused to wear a coat, until I bought her this one. She wears it every time she goes out of the house now 😂
www2.hm.com/en_gb/productpage.1025818001.html

When I was a teenager, a loooong time ago, I refused to wear a coat. I would leave our house, and then I used to put my ghastly gaberdine school mac in our garage (well hidden!) then would walk some way to school, freezing but happy, in my blazer. Don’t think I owned an ordinary coat.

Plus ca change, etc.!

Teenage daughter is fussy. Got a nice puffer from Zara that meets her approval.

@Stopsnowing

Following!

This.

4 kids, and all went through this coat-hating phase for school (youngest one still is going through it now). If she gets sick enough of being cold, or a certain coat comes into fashion, then she might change her mind. If you insist, she will ditch it / lose it / not wear it anyway, and the expense will irk. YANBU at all, and I completely get your concern, but you are fighting a losing battle on this one.xx

my teen dd is exactly the same, she chose her own bomber jacket type coat which she said she really liked but somehow now will not wear it. I have noticed teens are more likely to cover up and wear coats in the 80 degree heat of summer though my dd wore a jacket right the summer but not in the winter. why are teens so strange.

My experience of teens is limited to nieces and nephews but they seem to like cheap and tacky. The girls do anyway. Try new look for a furry hood shiny bomber jacket

It seems I am lucky that DD has allowed me to buy her a new coat. I did not feel lucky on the shopping trip as every option in every shop was rejected
Apparently North Face is a no no due to 'looking like a road man' and anything that covers your bum instantly renders it an 'old dog walking lady coat'
In the end we have wound up with quite a practical coat that I personally think is really ugly but she deems acceptable and is wearing
It is a sort of cropped puffer in a hideous shade of khaki with no other distinguishing features that came from Mountain Warehouse. It is norm core to the max.

I wouid get a brolly, hat if her choosing, big scarf, warm gloves and thermal undies.

If she doesn't want to wear a coat, she won't wear one, so it's a waste. But you can make her a bit warmer and drier by other means.

(And if you have a coat if a type that she might find acceptable in a blizzard, then you let her borrow it).

Not come across this at all. Dd who is almost 12 wears a huge pale green puffa coat from Zara. I think it makes her look like a giant caterpillar, but she loves it.

Superdry short black puffa. Made DD(14) go into the shop and choose /try it on herself. She's a 6-8 but decided on a size 10 so it's roomy to go over her school blazer and still do it up. Worn everyday since it's turned cold.

Thermals!!!