Am I wrong about interpreting children’s clothing sizes on Vinted?

[pontipinemum]

I’m searching on Vinted for clothes for my nearly 4 year-old DS. I want 4–5 clothing, but when I filter by “age 4” I get loads of 3–4 years items.

To me, 3–4 means for a child aged between 3 and 4 (eg 3 years 2 months etc), whereas 4–5 is for children who are already 4. Obviously kids vary in size, but that’s how I’d generally interpret it.

Am I thinking about this differently from everyone wrong?

On Vinted the filters from age 3 onwards are single numbers (“3 years”, “4 years” etc), which seems to blur it.

Size 3-4 is the same as age 4.

Size 2-3 is the same as age 3.

I buy a lot from Next and if you see the measurements, size 3-4 is identical as size 4.

Vinted is the issue here. Lots of kids clothes is sold on bands, yet they don’t have the ability to select 3-4. I always tick both boxes in my filter and look at the label/description to check that it’s the size I actually want.

I see it your way OP and get equally as annoyed when people put 5-6 year old clothes in the 6 category. So irritating. x__x

As it should be. Size 5-6 is also size 6.

@TheBirdintheCave it just doesn't make sense to me! Yes I also tick both and make sure I can read the labels. I was looking for a lot of nursery clothes and it's annoying because a lot of bundles of clothes don't have each label pictured.

Vinted is the problem here!

But that doesn’t make sense though. If I have a 6 year old and am looking for clothes I’m not going to pick 5-6 (fits children between the ages of 5 and 6) as 6 is the top end of that growth range. Instead I’d be looking for size 6-7 so there is room for him to grow 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yeah! If only they let us list things by the sizes that are actually on the label. I’ve been caught out before so now I only buy things with visible label.

There are lots of shops who list by age as one number, but it means up to that age. If I saw something in John Lewis that said 7 years I’d think of that as 6-7. Vinted goes by the same logic. I do agree it’s all very confusing as there’s no continuity between shops.

on Vinted I always make it clear what the label says when I’m selling.

I think they should sell children's clothes by measurements, not age. I know more children who fit out of age than I do wearing the "right" age. DS2 was wearing 18-24 months/ some 2-3 at age 4.

I agree DS 1 is nearly 4yrs old and still fits some clothes that are 18 - 24 months. But DS 2 who is nearly 2yrs old is well and truly into the 2-3yr clothes.

And as they get older the difference gets even bigger. At my nieces communion (girls and boys) all around 8yrs old. There had to be nearly a foot between the tallest and shortest. Then some were much bigger and some very petite. Please don't think I am criticising children's body sizes they all looked healthy and happy. Just a huge variety of sizes

in fashion retail the standard rule is to list the top age of the size band, if only putting one number.
so shops usually use 6 for 5-6.

I agree it’s confusing, but if you remember that rule of thumb it becomes simpler, and it’s how I mostly see it on vinted (except of course some people don’t know that’s the standard, so they list their items the other way round)