What age did your kid's 'clothing problems' start?

74jax

My daughter is, unfortunately, like me. She LOVES shopping. The Metro Centre is only 10 mins away and she'll often come home from school (She's 11) and ask to go - just to look around.

I must say though, I don't go into looking at clothes as much as you. My daughter gets t shirts from Primark, George, Miss in international and cheap places, i don't really look for the good quality that you do. Mainly because her legs will not stop growing and I give clothes away that don't fit her anymore that haven't faded in colour, haven't washed baggy and are perfectly fine.

She picks out what she wants and if it's a reasonable price I will get it. I don't really pick things out for her as she doesn't like what I pick mostly!

We have a lovely time, always having a coffee (for me) and coke (for her) and enjoy it.

try not to get too stressed about it. She has started going with her friends now and I'm hanging on to every shopping trip that I get with her, it's such a blessing.

fififoofoo

how I laughed at your post - I have a 10 year old daughter and took her out this saturday for the same reason. After the argument on where to go to do the clothes shopping, and the eventual result we arrived at an out of town shopping centre. 1st stop Tesco, just to see if there was anythong remotely nice. After 20 mins of 'that's disgusting' and 'no way' we traipsed into the changing room with a mixture of stuff, some I liked and some I didn't. 25 try on's later we emerged with 15 items she loved, and one I wasn't sure about. After totting them up I decided she could choose 10 items. She was well happy and then gave me hell because she didn't want to shop anymore in any other shop and was happy with what she had. So a kind of result, but we had tantrums along the way.
I've just read your post to my daughter who laughed also, and I quote retorted 'I she was a bit ungrateful, but she lost out in the end'
I suppose we will have to get used to the teenage tantrums before they officially start. One thing to mention, I did get a big hug and a 'thanks mum you're the best' - which made the hassle a little more bearable. Good luck and keep on going - it can only get better - or can it??????

Janepig

Things would appear to be slightly different for me than most of the posters on here. DD's not bothered what I give her to wear, whereas DS is 4 and he's got his own ideas! He didn't like the t-shirt I gave him to wear to gymnastics last weekend so he went and got his own and changed.

DD does tend to have a preference for skirts though - especially if she can spin around and puff the skirt out!

Jxx

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Erm my DD is 6 and already knows her own mind about clothes, neither of us is too bothered about what we wear, not sure where she got it from.
But when it's not school uniform, she wears pretty much what she wants, she gets loads of 2nd hand clothes from people and loves sorting them out and trying them on. So she's not a clothes snob.
I wouldn't hesitate buying her clothes in Primark, (I even buy clothes there myself ) as she wouldn't wear them long enough for them to wear out.

My DD is nearly 4 and already has her own sense of 'style' - she will pick (or at least try) her clothes when out shopping. I too have no idea where she gets it from as i'm a jeans and tops kind of girl, but she loves girly stuff! She also has to have her hair a certain way that she choses based on her mood :eek: :eek: :eek:

At the moment we just laugh it off (her sense of style that is) but i can imagine i am going to have a handful when she grows up! But that said so many of my daughters clothes come from Primark/George and none have fallen apart/shrunk/ruined in any way other than her maybe staining them painting or something. And she wears them ALOT, mainly to nursery or general everyday wear! But her 'Good' clothes come from the likes of Next and M&S and jeans are always H&M purely for quality.

Thank god the one on the way is a boy, lol!

OP - have you tried taking her to H&M? Good quality, nice low prices and nothing is geared at being too girly or provocative...might be worth a go, everything is nicely trendy too, even i shop in the kids section (only 5ft tall and size 4-6, lol) and as i said i am far from girly!

aliasojo

74jax wrote: »

I must say though, I don't go into looking at clothes as much as you. My daughter gets t shirts from Primark, George, Miss in international and cheap places, i don't really look for the good quality that you do.

I don't have a lot of money to spend on her, she only gets kitted out when she really needs it. I buy good quality and big enough to last a while. I think it's false economy to buy cheap although I will buy the odd thing if she really likes it and it's not too bad.

It's also a 50 mile round trip to go into town so it's not like we pick up the odd thing regularly and we don't have the choice of shops that larger places have.

aliasojo

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle wrote: »

OP - have you tried taking her to H&M?

I have looked there but our branch had very little in her size, it was all geared towards age 8 and under.

Matalan is usually ok but we never got that far today.

aliasojo

fififoofoo wrote: »

After 20 mins of 'that's disgusting' and 'no way' we traipsed into the changing room with a mixture of stuff, some I liked and some I didn't.

*waves to fellow tortured soul* :rotfl:

esmy

DD1, now nearly 20, was into the Spice Girls at 10 and was thrilled when a friend bought her a union jack dress a la Ginger Spice - I was horrified! She wore nothing else for about 3 weeks, then it was discarded when the novelty wore off.
Believe me, you'll look back fondly to the Primark days. As she gets older, her tastes will tend to high end fashion shops, with high end prices but for Primark quality!

Threebabes

My DD is 10 in a couple of weeks. Been a while now since I could pick her anything out to wear. I quite like the stuff she does choose. I will suggest and show her tops and she says she likes them and when I say shall we get, she says no ! She chose a few tops and some jeggings from Tammy in BHS and theyre nice. Shes chose some pumps, sandals and a pair of converse boots. I would be annoyed if she went in a huff about something, its not your fault the sketchers were no good.

My son is 14 and he will wear anything, hes not much interested in fashion. I think its mostly a girl thing.

I think it will only get worse. On my sons facebook the girls are all dressed up in tiny skintight dresses with really high heels on eeek......

xmaslolly76

My DD is 12 next week and just discovered Henleys and Superdry and OMG i nearly shreaked when i saw the price of the coat she wanted. So we have come to an agreement her everyday clothes she gets from the cheap places Primark, Asda, Matalna and for her birthdays she can get one item from the high end stores. ive never really had a problem with her dressing inappropriately she seems to have really good taste but if she does pick up something horrefying we can usually come up with a compromise that works IE she can have the short skirt but she is only allowed to wear it with some bright age appropriate leggings underneath or if she wants a skimpy top then it gets layered with other things. :-)