Childrens gloves - is putting elastic through coats still done ?

Agutka

Callie22 wrote: »

Just don't cut the elastic too short. I remember spending most of my childhood winters feeling like my arms were on springs because my mum never used enough elastic. Either that or you'd take one cold, wet glove off and if you weren't fast enough it'd fly up your sleeve ... that's a horrible feeling.

Sorry to laugh at younger you, but this made me chuckle. Sounds like a comedy sketch.

puddy

i dont get it. why cant kids have them on strings anymore??

teasleym

My daughter is nearly 5 and has the mitten cord from JojoMamanBebe to keep hers attached.
http://www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk/sp+mitten-string-in-hats-gloves-and-scarves+B3569
Its quite long so I have knotted it to her name label and it keeps them attached. This is even though she has a Charlie and Lola coat with mittens attached to it but the velcro doesn't work!

An alternative I tried before were these

http://www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk/sp+2-pack-mitten-clips-in-hats-gloves-and-scarves+A4914

Now I just need to get a tiny cord for my 11mth old to keep her mittens attached as both of these options are too long!
I don't see a problem with these, but my daughter is still quite young, whether she'll still want it when she gets older who knows! Then it'll be cheap gloves from ASDA and if you lose those cold hands!

ailuro2

phunkles wrote: »

Id love mittens on string and Im an adult lol.

http://www.bankfashion.co.uk/product/bank-cable-knit-mittens/24953/

£12 from Bank fashion - I saw them yesterday and remembered then when I saw your post!

ailuro2

ps If it's a health and safety thing that stops parents having a cord going through their kids' coats, then you could attach the elastic to the inside of the jacket sleeve so the gloves are always attached.

rachbc

not the done thing at our school - dd puts her gloves in her hat and stuffs the lot in her hood or sleeve.

Idiophreak

go_cat wrote: »

My DS aged 4 went to school today with gloves came home with none as he had lost them

I said to me DH I would put some on elastic but he said other children would laugh at him :eek:

What do other parents do to keep gloves ??

Give him another pair and say that if they go missing you'll have to put elastic on the next set - see if he's more careful with the new ones

Alikay

Last winter our 4 and 5 year old girls got through 9 pairs of gloves between them! Tried mitts on a cord, but they ended up getting tangled in sleeves/knotted up etc and used as improvised skipping rope. I'd recommend buying multiples of the same coloured cheap gloves so you have spares rather than odds when they lose one of a pair.

Memory_Girl

I knit my kids gloves every winter - and always do the string thing. Neither have been laughed at, but ......................... last year I made lovely bright red cashmere mitts for people as presents - with a long i-cord on them. They were a hit - with several mates who didn't get them last year asking for a pair this year.

I thought DS1 who is 11 would find them "old-fashioned" - he floored me when he said "they are not old-fashioned they are vintage":rotfl::rotfl:

MG

Lotus-eater

We strung them when DD was younger, I think reception year and year 1. Then she was old enough to look after them. She wasn't laughed at at school. But then her school isn't very fashion concious at all.