finding clothes for a stringbean!

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It definitely gets better as they get older. Mine is now size 8 on the bottom and 10 on top because anything less than a 10 is too short. Still have to get adjustable waists and her jeans are barely long enough, but by tweenage there's enough ultra-tight harlotwear on sale that she fits into the slimmer stuff - fatter kids must look awful in them. Honestly I don't know why I bother trying to get her full length pants for winter, she rolls them up to her knees or mid-calf and pulls her socks up so far the heels are well above her ankles. It looks absolutely terrible, like a clown suit (most of her socks are striped) but I still haven't convinced her it looks bad.

Tights, skirts, and 3/4 length clothes work the best for slightly smaller kidlets though. Ribbed tops that are designed to stretch sit better on skinny kids than plain fabrics. Anything with elastic smocking is also good for skinnies, and smock tops tend to be longer in the body anyway.

As they get older you really notice they grow in shifts - mine gets growing pains and then you measure her, and realise that all that complaining of sore legs translated to 7cm leg growth in less than a year so no wonder it hurt!

My mother makes a lot of clothes for the kids. She's FINALLY realised that she needs to add two sizes to the length and subtract 2 to the width to get things to fit.

[Nai]

I forgot to mention leg warmers are back for winter! These will help fill the gap between the leggings/jeans and the socks/shoes so their ankles don't freeze If you can get any, try some babylegs as leg warmers for her.

[LimeSlice]

Shop online with some WAHMs, - they can generally do smaller waists or longer legs of any size.
Without adjustments though I have found them such a better and more consistent fit for Charlotte, another string bean

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Shop online with some WAHMs, - they can generally do smaller waists or longer legs of any size.
Without adjustments though I have found them such a better and more consistent fit for Charlotte, another string bean

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It definitely gets better as they get older. Mine is now size 8 on the bottom and 10 on top because anything less than a 10 is too short. Still have to get adjustable waists and her jeans are barely long enough, but by tweenage there's enough ultra-tight harlotwear on sale that she fits into the slimmer stuff - fatter kids must look awful in them. Honestly I don't know why I bother trying to get her full length pants for winter, she rolls them up to her knees or mid-calf and pulls her socks up so far the heels are well above her ankles. It looks absolutely terrible, like a clown suit (most of her socks are striped) but I still haven't convinced her it looks bad.

Lol, mine's the same. Isn't it a great age! She's put clothes together, that, yes, are nice....with something else! & insist there's nothing wrong with them & that they look good. So frusterating sometimes!

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Lol, mine's the same. Isn't it a great age! She's put clothes together, that, yes, are nice....with something else! & insist there's nothing wrong with them & that they look good. So frusterating sometimes!

We went through her wardrobe and removed all the clashing stuff (she had some shockers) when we did her winter wardrobe as she is just drawn to the stuff that looks awful together. Now anything she grabs looks good. At first she hated it but she's getting compliments and seems to like that now.

But I forgot the socks! Her dad has bought her all these horrible coloured socks that don't match any of her clothes (yellow, red, lime green, aqua etc in patterns - her play clothes are all pink and her uniform is navy) but she loooooves them so I can only get rid of them when they have holes in. Argh!