SSG and others, dress-up clothes?

[thiswillbe]

We're thinking about getting the kids some dress-up clothes for their birthday (in two weeks... eek!), since the only dress-up clothes they have are their monkey costumes from last fall. Anyone have recs for decent ones? (SSG, I remember you mentioning you found a good dress for E.)

I'm also wondering what types of dress-up stuff your kids have enjoyed. They'll get use out of dress-up stuff even though we're "late" getting it, right?

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Iz is 5 and still plays dress up. At 9yo, A would too if we could find anything in her size... You aren't late.

Iz has a LaLaLoopsy dress that is well constructed. Discovery makes an explorer outfit (vest, canteen, hat) that has held up exceptionally well. Stuff from the Disney store is well made if you want to spend the $$.

We find most of the kids dress up stuff at Target.

[eratmama]

We have a dress up bin the kids of all ages love. Mostly it's just random stuff accumulated from goodwill, garage sales, target & us over the years.

I would recommend a trip to a party store like bartz's . Some of our most popular items are feather boas, top hats or funny hats, silly noses, glasses, masks, wands, ties, etc. A few costumes are fun, but IMO its way more fun to watch the kids make silly combinations.

Of course high heels and princess dresses make their way in rotation a lot.

[hensmum]

You are toooootally not late on the dress-up front! They are the perfect age

Party stores are a great idea - dollar store too. If you want a couple of nice, complete costumes that are nice quality for a bday gift, Melissa & Doug has really cute ones, but they are a bit pricey. Check out yoyo.com - they offer 30% off to first time customers, and I just looked - M&D stuff is actually on sale right now! They have a construction worker, veterinarian, pirate, waitress, princess, knight, police officer, fire fighter - lots!

Henry has the M&D chef & veterinarian that he got for his bday last year. He is partial to the vet one. And we got him the firefighter one for xmas (from a 2nd hand shop actually!), and he loves that too.

[awkwardpenguin]

They're exactly the right age for dress up. My niece got really into right around 3 and it's her favorite activity right now (3.5). I made her a dress up box and found a ton of great stuff at Goodwill. The silly stuff from the party store or dollar store is great too. I also got some stuff from the dollar section at Target, maybe around Halloween though?