Generous fit high school uniform?

AylesburyDuck

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

The adult equivalent is needing a size 20 but getting a size 8 label sewn inside to make you feel less 'generously' proportioned.

:EasterBun

Thats mean spirited when the thread is obviously regarding a child.
Just plain nasty.

Bogalot

AylesburyDuck wrote: »

Thats mean spirited when the thread is obviously regarding a child.
Just plain nasty.

It's not nasty, it's a fact. I was a well built child, the wrong shape for normal clothes. I wish someone had pointed out to me then that I was in fact fat and needed to do something about it.

I'm not saying OP's child is fat. But we do need to stop !!!!! footing around childhood obesity.

(We can't say p*ssy?)

Person_one

Bogalot wrote: »

It's not nasty, it's a fact. I was a well built child, the wrong shape for normal clothes. I wish someone had pointed out to me then that I was in fact fat and needed to do something about it.

I'm not saying OP's child is fat. But we do need to stop !!!!! footing around childhood obesity.

(We can't say p*ssy?)

What are the kids supposed to wear in the meantime?

peachyprice

Person_one wrote: »

What are the kids supposed to wear in the meantime?

Sack cloth, obviously.

heartbreak_star

I would have needed "generous fit" shirts at that age simply because I developed very early and my chest was out of proportion to the rest of me for some time.

Luckily, my school uniform included a sweatshirt so I could hide in that.

Not everyone who needs a different size is fat, as stated above. There's no need to be rude.

HBS x

Fireflyaway

For kids that are ' not in proportion' which often happens in the teen years fair enough,or if you are very tall or naturally a big build, but I also agree with bogalot that sometimes we need to stop beating round the bush when parents are buying bigger clothes because thier child is fat. Obesity kills more people than smoking and what parent would encourage thier child to smoke?! Many parents don't even realise their child is overweight because what we now deem 'normal' has changed so much.

peachyprice

Fireflyaway wrote: »

For kids that are ' not in proportion' which often happens in the teen years fair enough,or if you are very tall or naturally a big build, but I also agree with bogalot that sometimes we need to stop beating round the bush when parents are buying bigger clothes because thier child is fat. Obesity kills more people than smoking and what parent would encourage thier child to smoke?! Many parents don't even realise their child is overweight because what we now deem 'normal' has changed so much.

Do you not remember any fat kids at school? I certainly do. That was back in the 70's and 80's.

Izadora

peachyprice wrote: »

Do you not remember any fat kids at school? I certainly do. That was back in the 70's and 80's.

I was the fat kid at school in the 80s. Looking back at photos of when I was a kid I'd probably be classed as very mildly chubby by today's standards.

Gloomendoom

peachyprice wrote: »

Do you not remember any fat kids at school? I certainly do. That was back in the 70's and 80's.

I don't think they were very common, certainly not in the 1960's and 70's. There was one at my school.

His was known as "The Glob".



ETA Interesting article on the changing attitude to chubbiness:

The changing shape of fat as a cultural signifier - we’re all Billy Bunter now

Spendless

http://www.next.co.uk/shop/gender-olderboys-gender-youngerboys-category-trousers/sizetype-plusfit#1_0

Just re-read, you've said Navy. My kids could wear that colour at Junior school and it was a pig to find! Not sure if it's any easier for Secondary school. I'd still try mens ranges because they use waist and leg measurements rather than by an age.