I am breezy. DS has character shirts, crocs, light up things. He has a huge collection of Disney stuff bc we go often ( so I buy him some cheap character stuff at Target before we go.)
He mostly wears non character shirts at home but sometimes a Mickey shirt sneaks into daily rotation.
But mixing characters drives me batty. If you wear Cars shirt then you can't wear the Mickey hat. Oh & don't get me started on mixing properties. Like no minions with Disney stuff.
How wide everything is, even as kids get older. I have a bitch of a time finding clothes for both my DDs. They are thin, but not crazy skinny. I have such a hard time with elastic waist pants - which also don't come in slim sizes (with a few exceptions at Children's Place and Justice). Drives me crazy. The poor kids just want some soft comfy yoga pants!
Post by mainelyfoolish on Jul 6, 2015 6:33:21 GMT -5
I used to hate my kids wearing clothing with stains on them but after DD started elementary school, I relaxed my standards. She inevitably gets marker on her shirt or ground in dirt on her legging knees the first day she wears them.
Screen print that feels plasticky. I'm super picky about his clothes and like to see him in "outfits" at this point. Not looking forward to the days when he has strong opinions about his clothing!
Ditto to the wide clothing. It drives me nuts. I don't even bother walking into Gap anymore.
The Carter's sets have started bothering me lately too. I looked through the entire store for a cotton set that had shorts and a short-sleeve onesie. I looked forever because IT DOESN'T EXIST. You can either get a short-sleeve onesie with pants or a long-sleeve onesie with shorts. WTF? And then if you do buy a set, the onesie is cut slim and the bottoms are cut wide. Somebody is drunk over there.
I don't like stuff with words or characters or obvious logos. I am sick of stripes because it feels like most boy stuff has stripes on it. I try to dress them in plain clothes that are classic and durable. They have a few items given as gifts with superheroes or characters on them - I let them wear that stuff, so I'm not totally strict about it. I just don't buy stuff I don't like and try to weed it out of their closets sooner rather than later.
There is plenty that is NMS. Glitter, princess sayings, shirts that call her a diva and others like that. One thing I won't buy for either of us, ever, is animal print. Nope, nope, nope.
Glitter. Wide shirts. Shirts with sayings on them. The lack of appropriate but affordable clothing past toddler sizes for girls.
That's about it. I got over my character hate and OCDness about dirt a long time ago. Really my number one complaint is how hard it is to make my 4.5 year old look her age. She's in a size 6 and other than HA and tea collection I hate everything out there.
UO- Not a fan of very young babies in the dressed in the little man mode. Until kid can sit up assisted they just look uncomfortable. The fabrics are too heavy and the designs are meant to flatter the classic strong shouldered male physique which doesn't work for people who are still sort of shaped like weebles.
Also not a fan of clothing that speaks for babies, especially when it's promoting gender stereotypes. Daddy's Little Princess, Mommy's Little Slugger.
I found the little boy's themed clothing options annoying- it's really hard to avoid sports, modes of transportation and dinosaurs in the 4-7 department. Things have improved with the addition of science themed, but it might be nice to have truly gender neutral options incase a little girl wants to wear a shirt with a shark on it.
It makes me nuts when people spend big bucks on beautifully made classic dresses for little girls and then pair them with obviously cheap shoes. I especially don't like heels and peep toes on any girl too young to be a bat mitzvah.
I don't like Velcro sneaks. I know it's not rational, but they just kind of look "special". I'm OAD, maybe I'd have felt differently if I had multiple feet to get out the door.
I don't care one way or the other about light up shoes. These were new when DS was a little and he had a couple pair he liked. I don't care much about character clothing if the child is the one picking it and the child is able to understand that sometimes her Elsa dress isn't appropriate.
Squeaky (purposely) shoes. I didn't even know it was a thing but at target recently a little girl had some on. So annoying!
Often those shoes are prescribed by a PT or physician to discourage toe-walking which is common in kids on spectrum and with other neurological and developmental disorders.
This sounds crazy but I like their socks to match their shirts (their socks have colored heels but white ankles so it's not like anyone else can see). But I know! Lol
I'm not crazy about character shirts or shirts with phrases but I'm very much pick your battles when it comes to their clothing preferences. Not worth my time to fight about their love of super heroes or ninja turtles
Currently what annoys me most is just the lack of selection and that 9 and 12 month stuff seems to be sold out. I've been trying to stick up for when my son needs those and they are always sold out.
I also dislike the graphic tee look with sayings. I don't like them for adults either, fwiw. Just seems kind of tacky to me.
While I tend to buy her more expensive stuff it's mostly because that's what I wear. So we both have j.Crew stuff and Lilly and can match if we want . Mostly I just like her to look like a little girl. I don't like clothes that make the toddlers look like adults. She will want to wear that stuff soon enough so for now it's modest and nice.
She does have some of the Peek graphic tees but I think the "grow where you're planted" graphic is much better than a "princess in training" shirt. And she does have character stuff from Disney but only from the parks and they're part of her play clothes.
I don't like sleeveless t-shirts, I've heard them called muscle shirts, or tank tops for my guys. They only have a few character shirts. I had a really hard time finding jeans this past winter for my tall and skinny pre-k son who was between a 5t/4/5. I can forget Gymboree clothes because they seem to run so wide.
ETA I forgot no camo. My boys receive lots of hand me downs from their cousins, which is awesome. My BIL was a big hunter so they have some camo clothes that I send straight to Goodwill.
Post by runblondie26 on Jul 6, 2015 8:08:07 GMT -5
Screen prints, glitter, princess-y sayings. I think places like Target have some really cute, affordable toddlers clothes. It's amazing how it turns to complete garbage once you move to the girls seciton.
I also dislike real waistbands on babies/toddler jeans and dress pants. It looks very uncomfortabe. Their mushy little tummies need elastic.
I honestly don't really notice, or care, how other people dress their kids. But there are definitely a few thing I've noticed that I avoid when shopping, including screen printed stuff, characters, and the super sporty type clothes (think basketball shorts and that same kind of shirt/tank). I can't even really explain the sporty stuff, except that I think because that is literally the ONLY thing that SS wears now, I want to hold off on putting C in it and keep dressing him in what I think is cute until he cares enough to have a say.
I also dislike real waistbands on babies/toddler jeans and dress pants. It looks very uncomfortabe. Their mushy little tummies need elastic.
I totally agree. DS is constantly moving, bending, and stretching. A real waistband would be uncomfortable, he would complain. Plus PTing. I switched to all-elastic pants awhile ago.