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Dress my 11 year old dd please!

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IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 05/09/2022 18:29

DD will be 11 in 6 weeks time. She mostly lives in shorts (wears shorts to school year round), or football kit, and vvvvvv occasionally jogging bottoms/track pants.

After a (very delayed) trip to the theatre and her birthday trip to Pizza Hut with her friends looming, she is beginning to realise that she needs occasionally needs "decently smart" (her words) clothes. However, she will not wear...

Skirts or dresses
Leggings, of any sort apart from sports skins
Trousers which are close fitting
Trousers which are too flappy
Jumpsuits, regardless of leg style. Like me she is long bodied, and we've never found one long enough in the body.
Anything denim
Frills, flowers, sequins etc
Anything too stiff - she much prefers preworn clothes. It's a sensory thing, I'm sure.

Literally, the only clothes she'll cover her legs with a cricket whites, or skins under her football kit.

Last winter you lovely lot found some culottes for her to wear for a music competition, now sadly too small.

She's tall, 5'4" and wears age 13-14 kids sizes, but has a couple of women's size 8 t shirts.

What on Earth can she wear?

OP posts:
kateandme · 06/09/2022 13:09

Also try depop
H&M has some cool stuff
hollister
cotton traders
mango
m and co
new look had some great soft dungarees
even stick what you want into Amazon they have majorly upped the game
and I will say it about shein too.
searching for smart joggers brings loads up from them.
does she like cardigans.there some lovely multicoloured slouchy or oversized one out there that don’t look scruffy.

fyn · 06/09/2022 13:42

I’d look at Mango teen - they have cotton cargo trousers and some other trousers that might work!

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