finding clothes for a stringbean!

[Olive]

DD1 is tall and skinny, shes 104cm tall at 3.7 yrs but her waist is tiny, she needs size 5 pants for length but is only around a size 2 in the waist, pants with adjustable elastic just dont look right on her she has no bum at all, anyone have any suggestions for long skinny clothes??
shes also going into a size 5 for tops and im guessing by summer sould be in a 6

[Nai]

Layering! Get her woolen tights and boots for winter and have skirts or dresses over the top. Often I have DD1 in tights, boots, skivvy and a dress and jacket over the top. Leggings are also good for this. Rivers do a good skinny jean for girls with skinny legs.

[~clover~]

My DD1 was the same. I used to have to get everything with an adjustable waiste. It looks funny all bunched up, but covered her ankles!
As she gets older clothes will start to fit better. DD1 is 8 now & everything fits just right. (Well most things)
Summer will be easier. The length doesn't matter as much in summer, so its pretty easy.
Other than custom made pants, which you could probably order through a few different wahms, I'm not sure what else there is. Sorry.

[Ginger]

get her some metallicus stuff- stretchy and fitted and layer it up!

[~Kim~]

Olive, you just described my DD. At 115cm and just 4yo, she can still fit into a size 000 pair of pants (of course they are hotpants now lol). While pants are a nightmare, I find tops just as bad. She needs the length of the sleeves but not to look like she's swimming in the rest IYKWIM?
Pumpkin patch are adjustable and slim, some Target stuff, BigW and Best'n'Less while huge sizings are only made for kids with short arms and legs lol.
I agree with all the girls above. We do leggings and dresses a lot, she's in sizes from 6-8 depending on the brand and how adjustable their waists are. We live for summer when it doesn't matter that things are short.

[deletedit]

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

[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

[~clover~]

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!