Age appropriate girls clothes (and blazing rows!)

hayden

I was shocked in Tammy with DD -showed me thongs for her age (was 10 at the time). 'm not an old fuddydudy but . . .

Penny-Pincher!!

I am lucky that DD (14 in December) likes converse and Dr M's. She is a bit of a tom boy I suppose and she has her own style:rolleyes: ...she loves funky t-shirts (kermit, tweety pie, tinkerbell etc etc) with jeans and her converse or DM's. Every night she still cuddles up with her favourite teddy that she's had for years....weird child:rotfl: ....she still loves a cuddle of her mummy and daddy too lol.

I was never close to my mum and dad, so it is nice to have a good relationship with her.

PP
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Milford_Cubicle

I'm really lucky that my DD will never wear heels as she was seen by an orthopaedic doctor when she was two - for three years had to wear inserts in her shoes as she had such severely dropped arches. Her feet are better now, but heels are well and truly banned, she knows that and understands why. So, unlucky she's had the problems, but fortunate I'll not have the heels argument :rotfl:

Becles

I would go for compromise. Let her have some trendy stuff a tiny bit over your boundary but nothing too tarty or skimpy.

My Mam refused to buy me any fashionable clothing at all, and only bought me what I can only describe as the mature woman look. I can remember starting secondary school and they had a disco for all the new starters to get to know each other. Mam sent me in a pleated wool skirt, tan tights and a frilly blouse. I can remember walking in and everyone just stared at me like I was some kind of freak

We didn't have uniform at our school and you could just wear what you liked. I had self confidence issues anyway, and wearing unfashionable clothes just made it even harder for me to fit in at school. Teenagers are very fickle and once you're an outsider, it's very hard to get back in again.

I'm 33 now and had a gypsy style top on the other day which shows a little cleavage, but nothing obscene. My Mam tutted when she saw me and said "you're showing far too much breast there"

naughty_10382

I was horrified to see a little girl a few weeks ago who was obviously dressed to look the same as her mum. She was about 3 or 4, wearing a top which would have looked lovely on someone 15 years older - one of those 3/4 sleeved things where one side ends at the waist and the other side is a bit longer. Then she had tiny shorts, tights and knee high boots.

What are some parents thinking!!!

Edinburghlass_2

Give her another 10 years and it gets worse

I remember shopping with my Mum for something for my 18th birthday and my Mum taking the attitude of while I'm paying etc etc and said black wasn't suitable for an 18 year old. Eventually a black lacy dress was chosen provided I wore a nice little blue underskirt with it

I then went and bought my own black underskirt and I loved that dress

oh and I've bought my own daughter a "little black dress" for her upcoming 18th

*Louise*

Ohhh I have all this to come!

My DD has just turned 1, and is currently gracing grandparents homes in beautiful dresses lol

I shall refuse point blank to let her dress tartily when she's older. Especially at 8 - good greif, they are CHILDREN, not mini adults!

Crop tops, thongs :shocked: , mini skirts, little 'daisy duke' shorts etc will be banned. I'm sure we will have many an argument in her teenage years (when I think back to the short skirts I used to wear at High School...yikes!) but hopefully we will come to a compromise then lol.:D

Incidentally - Peackocks, Next, George always have decent clothes. I would steer away from New Look for an 8 year old though.

aloiseb

My daughter has just grown out of Mini Boden...........sob sob.........only clothes I know of where you can sometimes make back what you paid out, on Ebay even after a couple of year's wear!
Grown up Boden is way to expensive even in the sales, for her meagre clothes budget (well, she reckons it's meagre but £30 pcm is all we can afford)

When she was 9-10 we used to find some good clothes in BHS sometimes.

Incidentally, what are M&S thinking these days??? all that High School Musical carp. Really.

MrsE_2

My DD is 21 so I don't have that anymore.

I often bought her Kickers (the kick-hi or hi-kick) they were smart, trendy & PRACTICAL.
For clothes I used to get her a lot of Oilly, do they even still make that? Again trendy & practical.
& Benetton & M&S & another make I can't even remember:o

Is stuff like that not trendy anymore?

funky-footprints

boys are so much easier to dress than girls !! my son is a sports nerd so he lives in shorts, trackie bottoms, rugby socks and t-shirts, at 7 i know that is all he will ever wear !!

My 5 year old already has some ideas over what she would like to wear but while i am buying her clothes she can 'choose' what is in her wardrobe and that is it !

pp ..Oilily is vey very expensive, my daughter has one oilily dress a year for parties !