Tesco kids' clothes - false economy?

callansdad

I love NEXT :j

Personally i have bought and had many hand me downs from Asda, Tesco and Next.

The stuff that have been handed down from Next was worn by 2 children already and they are in immaculate condition. The stuff from Asda and Tesco was bobbly and falling apart.

I do find that Asda clothes are far superior to Tesco, Tesco's clothes just seem to fall to bits really quickly and bobble like mad. Asda's is slightly better, but to be honest i don't think there is much of a price difference between Tesco and Next. I remember looking at a pair of jeans in Tesco and there was an identical pair in Next, i chose the Next ones, they are only £1 dearer and they would have been cheap if i had bought them in the sale, but i knew that they would last over time.

I buy quite a lot of Next basic jeans as well, they are £4.99 a pair and they look really good, don't look cheap and once again wash like a dream.

I used to buy a lot of clothes from Asda until i discovered Next. My son turned 2 in August and i needed a whole new wardrobe for him, I popped over to the Next sale and spent £160 just on him but i got loads of stuff and i know that when i pass it down they will be in excellent condition.

Newborn at Next is a really good range too, a bit cheaper than their 3months + stuff but they are so cute. I got 2 pairs of velour trousers for £5.99 (not sale stuff) and i noticed in Tesco that they had a 2 pair pack as well at £7 Tesco and Asda aren't always cheap.

I do buy vests and sleepsuits from Tesco and Asda, they are fine and cheap and you dont bother if your baby goes to bed with bobbly clothes. I do find that Next sleepsuits are overpriced.

Spendless

jellyhead wrote:

i've got a photo session booked for next week, it's the last date for getting photos before xmas. i have no idea what my children will wear, the 9 year old suggests their hallowe'en outfits! it's at andree images, the session voucher costs £25 (i was given it as a baby gift) and it includes one framed print. venture do a similar thing i think.

how often will she wear the dress/coat set? is it something she will wear for parties? christmas day, etc? i've never spent anything like that amount on clothes but i only have boys. for a girl i suppose it's different :-) how much would you have spent on gifts for the grans, or are you buying gifts in addition to the photos? when i got married my friend spent £80 on a dress for her 4 year old, half of us were gobsmacked, the other half thought it perfectly normal. are there any weddings coming up that your daughter can wear this outfit to?

Yes it's a very Christmas party/Christmas day sort of dress.She will probably get more use out of the coat and hat. She's at pre-school and a nursery this year, and will be at school nursery next year, so they'll be a few parties there.No weddings coming up and it is only suitable for winter. The photo sessions were a boxed set that I bought for £10 in Jan rather should have been £20. I normally spend around £15. This will be their only present though I'm also doing one of the grans a stocking like she had when she was a child (thread on Oldstyle)It's more money than I've ever spent before on a whole outfit on either of them, though I realise it includes a hat and coat. My dearest item was eldests christening outfit which cost £50 and I thought i'd have another boy to wear it again. Daughters christening outfit was free cos made out of train of my wedding dress. In town after work so I'll gaze at it then and try and decide-lol

jellyhead

Spendless wrote:

Daughters christening outfit was free cos made out of train of my wedding dress.

what a lovely idea!

i think if i had a girl i'd buy it. it would probably be the only professional photo session i'd have, kind of a special occasion. you'd never look at the photo and regret buying the outfit i don't think.

we were at a wedding last weekend and people had spent more than £50 on just their hair alone, getting it coloured etc. during the week and washed and finished on the day of the wedding too. i'm not a toni and guy person myself but i did get mine straightened by the hairdresser along the street. my sis paid £35 to have her nails done. her top was £65 from monsoon and she also bought new trousers and boots. i'm a cheapskate, my mum bought 3 pairs of trousers to choose from so i borrowed one of those. i polished my shoes and wore a top i bought for my husbands 30th party. all of that just for one day whereas a photo will be displayed for years. i might buy clothes for my boys photo session but i doubt it - boys clothes are all much of a muchness, they had new shirts for the wedding, they'll look nice in those.

westernpromise

Spendless wrote:

Mr Spendless has a photo of his gran taken in very similar outfit and it'd be lovely to have a keepsake of our daughter too.

How about this:

1/ sell the photo session voucher on eBay
2/ get the photo of grandma scanned at Kall Kwik
3/ download the free 30-day trial version of Photoshop
4/ Photoshop the appropriate heads onto the ancient photo of grandma.

In 100 years, who's going to know??

Poppy9

Ooh some of the posts a bit !!!!!y. Calling one anothers kids Chavs. No such thing as Chav kids only Chav parents.:o Anyway this thread isn't about should you put your kids in certain makes of clothes for style reasons it's about Value for Money.

Spendless on a VFM theme. No don't do it:drool: I've been there and done that and regretted it. My DD thinks some of the lovely frocks I just had to buy her (at great expense) are really naff and she can't believe I bought them (complete with matching headband or hat!!):o. It's a huge temptation with girls to dress them up and you only really have a couple of years you can do this. Best photo I have of my daughter done in studio she is age about 2 and wearing a white cotton, floral summer dress from Next. It looks fantastic. Not fashionable, summery or anything (if you know what I mean). It's Crisp, pretty and doesn't overpower her blonde, delicate features. The photographer put a variety of backgrounds but we went for the plain black. The photographer loved the photograph so much he wanted to submit it for a photographic competition and to use in his studio and portfolio. I think the dress cost about £12 full price. This was my turning point for leaving the little shops alone with their overpriced gear.:) Although it's nice to have a dress coat they are not as practical and useful as a hooded jacket. I've found with the fashion jackets and boots I've bought my daughter that they just don't fit the next year.

Spendless

Poppy9 wrote:

Spendless on a VFM theme. No don't do it:drool: I've been there and done that and regretted it. My DD thinks some of the lovely frocks I just had to buy her (at great expense) are really naff and she can't believe I bought them (complete with matching headband or hat!!):o. It's a huge temptation with girls to dress them up and you only really have a couple of years you can do this.

Poppy you made this post at around the time I was handing over the dosh:o . I know you only get a few years to dress them up in and going by neice if this year isn't the last then next year certainly will be. It's not a coat dress though. It's a seperate coat and dress. The coat will get plenty of wear.

funky-footprints

when it some to cheap knocking around clothes i buy stuff on ebay, ive quite a few searches set up. I cant bare buying supermarket clothes for the kids, they have been given some as gifts and its just a personal thing but i take them back.

I have bought my daughter some fabby cardigans and tights in primark and my son some great pj's and socks, hainv gjust discovered the place since the budget began. buying second hand or having hand me downs, means i dont mind spending a bit more on something for best, yes that they wear once or twice !!

In this house I find that adams things shrink, paticularly the joggers as my son loves knocking around in trackie pants, and NEXT dark stuff always fades, so i dont find them value for money. H&M is good value for money, always great selection and trendy as is vertbaudet.

I dont do themed every day cartoony clothes eg ..bob the builder coats, barbie skirts etc, apart from bedtime, so p'js in this house are normally picked by the kids as they can wear to bed what ever they want to long they are snug and warm !!
x

Claudie

No matter what labels you prefer you just can't beat the NCT sales for great clothes. It is the season again...I just picked up a load of great jumpers for my lil un as well as a bike that is in immaculate condition - grand total of £23.

http://www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com/events.asp?show=nns

jellyhead

i typed in a big reply then the baby pressed a button and it went back to the previous page, reply lost - bah!

sorry for any suggestion of chavdom. i don't know what came over me. i don't think it would bother me if every child was wearing the same as mine really, groups of teens and adults dress the same anyway. as a teen i wore my sisters of mercy t-shirt regardless of the rest of college :-)

i'm bidding on a large bundle of baby clothes on ebay, just gone back to check and all of the t-shirts are 'traveller-site chic' - my husband is amused by the idea. we're not fussy dressers ourselves and baby wears whatever is cheap when i'm looking. that slogan t-shirt my eldest chose in adams is probably the first thing i've seen and bought because i wanted it rather than for the price tag but if it had been £7.99 rather than £4 i'd have thought again. i have noticed today the difference between a new pair of tesco joggers and a sold 'as new' pair of next ones off ebay. the next ones look new-ish, there's not much fading but the inside is hard, it's not soft or fleecey at all. the tesco ones are lovely and snuggly inside and i know which i'd rather was keeping splodge's legs warm on the school run. have yet to see how snuggly the tesco ones are after a couple of washes. this is the first next item i've been disappointed with though and it shouldn't have been advertised as 'as new'. problem with supermarket clothes is that you can't be sure of the size so you have to try on or buy 2 sizes then take one back and they shrink or go baggy so quickly.

gravitytolls

Yep, I'm an ebay clothes buyer too. And so far, I've been really pleased.

Tesco, yah boo sucks. I bought shoes for teh children in September; they were lovely, perfect for school. All half price too - now I know why. Thye didn't even make it to half term. I shan't ever bother with them again.