It had been a while since I had been to one of my favorite shopping malls, and I happened to finally stop by a couple of weeks ago. Posted in Big Bad Business, Boy clothes | 5 Comments » He hates the long ones more than the short ones, so he’ll just have to go around looking like Pee Wee Herman for a while. Oh a few do here and there, but they are mostly jeans, and my son refuses to wear jeans.ĭo clothing manufacturers have some sort of problem with the number nine? Do they think that boys suddenly stop growing at a size 8 and suddenly shoot up three inches overnight? If a size 8 is too small and size 10/12 is too large, then size 9 it is!Įxcept nobody really makes a size 9 in boys’ clothing. So I start looking for the obvious thing, a size 9. Shrinking never works when you want it to, does it? Mother, what is this strange language you speak?Īnyhoo, the 10/12’s arrive and they are about three inches too long, and falling off at the waist, even with me trying my darnedest to shrink them. I inadvertently used the term “high-waters” in front of him, and he looked at me like I was a creature from another planet. Sooner rather than later, he would grow into them, and all would be well with the world.Įxcept this fall I go to buy him some cold weather pants (he prefers fleece cargo pants) and I blithely order a size 10/12 online, because he’s already got 8’s and they are beginning to look like high-waters. Maybe a tad bit too long, but nothing to cause anyone to point and stare. Reliably, I could buy one size up and it would always fit him. I’ve got an eight year old who has always been on the taller side for his age. Posted in Boy clothes, Girl's Clothes, Shopping, Toddler Manolo | 5 Comments » Why do clothing manufacturers hate me so much? Sure, I could buy them at a specialty clothing retailer like REI, but I’m not willing to pay that much. But I was only able to buy them for about two years and then, poof! Gone! Never to return! ![]() There was nothing not to love, and they especially make sense in the climate we live in, which can be warm in the day, but darn cold at night and in the mornings. So clothing manufaturers, what is so hard about making a 2 piece pajama set where the pants happen to have feet? What, I ask?Īlso, when my son was about three or four, zip-off pants were everywhere. And do you know what will hamper potty training? Yup, a 1 piece footed pajama! So, her zipper tends to annoy her, which in turn annoys us.ĭo you know that in all of the vast Amazon, I could only find ONE 2-piece long sleeve footed pajamas? ONE! Come on now, I know that there are two year olds that are quite big for their age that could totally still be wearing footed pajamas but are ready to start potty training. Well, that worked well until we got to size 3T, when the manufacturers apparently made the decision that they could suddenly stop placing the piece of fabric over the top of the zipper which helps to keep the zipper from digging into the neck. My solution so far has been to have her wear footed pajamas at night. She also has pretty much no body fat and gets extremely cold at night, but won’t sleep under covers due to the tossy/turny thing. My daughter is tosser/turner/flipper type of sleeper. Posted in Boy clothes, Boys Will Be Boys, Shopping | 1 Comment » You know, the one who buys their nine year old boy shorts with flowers on them. And while I am very aware that it was just teasing, and truly kids will tease other kids about pretty much anything, I was glad that for that one moment, I wasn’t THAT MOM. He then told me that he was very relieved that I didn’t get him any with flowers, as one of his older friends had been making fun of his other board shorts. Which, fine, I’m technically pro-military myself. Normally I despise camo on “civilian” clothing, but ever since my husband took him here, my son has been very pro-military. I wound up choosing instead a green-gray plaid, which also had a very subtle camo element going through the fabric. Not that there is anything wrong with flowers on board shorts, in my opinion, but they just aren’t really in style in my area of the country right now. Children Fashionīut then I thought to myself that perhaps a nine year old boy would not appreciate flowers on his shorts, and tried to remember that he is definitely at the age where his clothing is being judged, especially by his peers. I was by myself, and I was tempted to get him the style that I normally buy for him, which tends to be colorful and include some sort of Hawaiian-related floral element. ![]() Sure enough, they had a bunch of styles, all at a pretty good price. It just so happened that a fairly well-known surf brand was having a sale, so I did a little reconnaissance. I knew that the Munchkin needed some new board shorts.
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