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Cute jumpers for older boys

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Mumofmarauders · 02/11/2023 09:15

Hope this is the right place to pop this question (it's about clothes, just probably not what you'd call style!)

My eleven year old son is profoundly autistic and intellectually disabled and doesn't really seem to care what he wears. There's a fine line between making things age appropriate/not infantilising him but also finding things that he will like rather than what society deems appropriate. But I'd love to find him some nice animal jumpers, like the ones boden do for younger kids, with a simple animal face or picture on them which he will recognise. I think he'd like that. But all clothes makers I've looked at seem to assume 11 year old boys will want something much more grown up (obviously true in most cases!)
Has anyone any ideas? Short of learning to knit myself which isn't an option!!

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RavingStone · 02/11/2023 10:24

I really hate how older boys stuff is even less colourful than younger boys stuff. I swear we're going backwards with gendered fashion. I frequently bought so called girls stuff for my sons because of the softer material and animal motifs.

H&M and Zara kids do sometimes do cuter stuff up to age 14. And I once found something fab in Morrisons of all places!

Would your son enjoy things with Pokémon on? They're pretty cute and findable online from various places.

BoohooWoohoo · 02/11/2023 11:06

www2.hm.com/en_gb/productpage.1164667003.html

BoohooWoohoo · 02/11/2023 11:08

Not a jumper but cute

5-pack jersey T-shirts
www2.hm.com/en_gb/productpage.1134868002.html

BoohooWoohoo · 02/11/2023 11:20

The Natural History Museum shop includes kids clothes too

LivesinLondon2000 · 02/11/2023 11:28

My 11 year loves the Boden knitwear range. They often have cute patterns/animals and bright colours. He hates all the dark grey/blue colour palettes usually aimed at older boys.

LivesinLondon2000 · 02/11/2023 11:30

https://www.boden.co.uk/en-gb/all-over-fair-isle-jumper-multi-nature-fair-isle/sty-b2582-mul?cat=C1_S14_G6

This sort of thing? They go up to age 11-12

Mumofmarauders · 02/11/2023 17:09

Thank you all so much for such brilliant ideas! I'm really pleased to start shopping now 😊 he's actually wearing a girl's hoody from fat face right now because it was more cheerful than any of the boys ones and I spotted it in a shop so I don't know why I didn't think of looking in the girls (or small women's) section before. Luckily he's quite slight so I can probably get away with that for a few years at least!

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Mumofmarauders · 02/11/2023 17:11

LivesinLondon2000 · 02/11/2023 11:30

This is just the sort of thing, I really like these and my lad is 11 but quite slight (probably because he never sits still 😳!) so I might get one more year out of them (the one I looked at just before only went up to 8 but that can't be the case with all of them as I now see!)

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Mumofmarauders · 02/11/2023 17:12

@BoohooWoohoo now I just have to stop myself buying aalllll of these...!

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