What clothes and how many ?

[Pandora]

So it seems like my kids have heaps of clothes but never anything to wear!

What do you have in terms of tshirts,jeans, trousers, trackies.

I think our main issue is too many tops and not enough bottoms, cos we wash most days so it's not like the problem is that nothing is clean.

[Cassius2]

yeah we seem to have the same issue. DD has LOADS of tops, but as for bottoms i *think* she only has say 4 long pants, 2 shorts. she has a few skirts, but they are all summery...

i put it down to the fact that tops are fun to buy lol! also we get lots of tops as presents for some reason...i guess they are easier to size?

[feeb]

Seems to be same here I also think issue is pants take longer to dry!!!

We do go through 2 changes of clothes most days unless i strip him off to eat lunch!!!!

[Astrid]

Same here with not enough pants. This is so applicable to DD2 as she is toilet training, but even DD1 struggles. She seems to be fussier with pants than tops though. So we do have pants, but she refuses to wear them.

[deletedit]

Kids wear pants?

I find that when mine actually wears clothes, the tops go faster. So we've got her 3 pairs of jeans and about 6 tops, plus a couple of jumpers and jackets.

Bigger one has 3 pairs of jeans and about 6 tops too, but just for after school. She has a uniform for school time. I find that if I don't take the summer clothes away and hide them, she'll be wearing a short pink cotton dress with spaghetti strap sleeves with blue socks and black sneakers on a day it is 8 outside. And then comes inside where it is 18 and puts on a massively thick wool jumper, curls up under a quilt and complains how cold it is inside ...

I've taken a hard line on clothes recently as I've found that Child Elder will wear one or two outfits to death - usually the ugliest ones - and ignore everything else in the cupboard, so many, many clothes were getting outgrown before she wore them. Now she has very few clothes, the person giving her the ugly clothes by request has been restrained, *all* her clothes match now so we've completely removed a source of arguments in the house.