Clothes shopping for 9 year old...?

bestpud

Where do you all buy 'basic' clothes for girls aged around 10?

DD is aged 11/12 in clothes and I'm after some sensible basics - jeans/trousers, long sleeve tees (nothing fancy) and a decent, thick hoodie or two...

I usually find clothes in Asda but they seem to stop doing basic stuff for older children.

I really don't want glittery or heavily decorated clothes - just normal day to day stuff iykwim?

I would also like to get her a decent, practical waterproof and warm coat... Do I need to go to an outdoor shop for that?

Just wondering where you all shop?

Or is it me - am I out if touch? :cool:

martinthebandit

Sainsbury seem to do much better clothes than asda nowadays, much better quality for not much more money

Rosedavid

Do you have any outlet shopping where you live as if you have they are worth a go, Clarkes Village have a Fat Face, Saltrock and Gap all great for long tops and hoodies at discount prices. Mountain Warehouse often have good deals on decent waterproof coats. Have you looked at Next there basic jeans are great and only about a tenner.

pigpen

BHS and Next sales usually.

All my girls have coats from next or vertbaudet. they wear and wash well and are usually good enough to hand down.. providing I dont lose them for 6 years in a house move in which case they go on ebay lol...

I dont ever shop at Sainsbugs or Chavsda anyway so have no idea what their clothes are like but there are very few things I get from Tesco.. school shirts seem ok though...

*onlyme*

H&M are good as well and our 10 year old DD loves their stuff and it is very reasonably priced and good quality

Spendless

Sensible clothes, yeah, good luck with that. Some time ago I started a thread about it, as I was convinced that girls' clothes are designed by lifers on special wings. Most of them look like a version of an adults on a night out. I find myself trailling around every shop in my town with my 8yo and between all of them I can get something together. I'm just grateful that I don't have to add and will last for another sibling into the mix of what she has.

Janepig

*onlyme* wrote: »

H&M are good as well and our 10 year old DD loves their stuff and it is very reasonably priced and good quality

Another vote for H&M. Good value, and imo their stuff doesn't make the wearer look like a scaled down tart (as in Spendless's post!). I've always bought quite alot of DD's stuff there, if anything, their look is slightly tomboyish.

Jxx

rachbc

H&M - great quality, good prices and trendy but tasteful

bestpud

Thanks all.

We have a small clothes section in Sainsburys but it's mainly for children up to around 10 and dd is big for her age. Same with Next, Tesco and H&M - there is very little for the older ones here. No outlets stores or BHS either.

I think I need to go to a bigger city...

We do have Mountain Warehouse though and I did get some great clothes reduced to a silly price in there for her a couple of years ago. I'll check them out again.

I used to shop at Verdbaudet when dd was younger - I'll check them out again too.

Is there a way of easily looking for outlet places online?

Glad I'm not alone, Spendless! :beer:

Nicki

So where are all these 10 year old slappers then? I only ask because my DS is 11 and my DD is 10 so I have a lot of contact with children this age, whose parents, like me, buy their clothes in regular high street stores, and none of them look like "scaled down little tarts" or girls out on the pull on a Saturday night.

I can only think of one child who looks even remotely trampy who is in my DS's class at school, and she wears tracksuit bottoms and t shirts to school, but eye make up and bright red lipstick hence the look.

I really think some of you need to lighten up a bit, and realise you are making very nasty commented about the clothes most girls this age in the country are wearing at the moment. If you think that everything looks tarty when you see it on the hanger, you are clearly projecting some issues of your own, because as I say the vast majority of KS2 girls I see IRL look like errrrr 10 or 11 year old girls, nothing more!

willow_loulou

ebay outlet is excellent just go to the homepage and click on the outlet and it take you to another home page.

I just got DD who is almost 10 a bag ful from primark for £19 leggings, hoodie socks etc.