I’m one more ill-shaped pair of pants away from buying a burlap sack for my kid to wear.
It’s like pants lottery, since each day only a certain random pair of pants seems to be the one that’ll fit. It becomes like an easter egg hunt for the right pair. Today the dark jeans with the embroidered flowers may be too small, and the winning pair is the capris with the bedazzled butterflies. Tomorrow, the embroidered flower jeans may get lucky. It would make our life easier if we could have someone stand at a podium in her bedroom each morning and pull the winning pair of pants out of a hydraulic tube. And the bonus pants are, the Litte Mermaid jeans!
Seriously, why does she have like 20 pants, and none of them fit her? Where did these pants even come from? I don’t remember buying them. I don’t remember seeing them in the laundry. I feel like her pants are getting naughty late at night, and having horrible ill-fitting pants babies. They’re probably all inbred by now, which would explain their uselessness as pants that are actually wearable. I bet they’re planning some terrible jeans family reunion. Dozens of irregular pants, but nary a clothed leg to be found.
Who even determines pants sizes? An 8 is too small for her. A 12 is too big. And a 10 is just weird. I need an 11. Or a 10 1/2. Maybe even a 10ish. Why can’t that be a size? Around 10/Kinda 12. In the Sorta section of the store.
Fashion is way too big a deal these days with kids. Designer jeans every day? When i was a kid, it was all about red sweatpants with LION-O written down the leg. I was 8 and i didn’t care. Because Lion-O had the Sword of Omens. He didn’t care about fashion. He wore the same blue half shirt and speedos everyday and he was able to fight off Mumra with no problems. In jeans? He’d have half the movement and would totally get crushed by Jackalman, which would really be embarrassing.
Maybe if i give my kid a sword and blue speedos, she’ll stop fussing about her pants. That, or impale me.
they actually do make 10 1/2. it’s called girls plus size. but i’ve been there w the pants thing. time to go through all the drawers/closets and purge, my friend.
I do not have the pants fitting problem but my 13 yr old daughter does seem to have cloths that I have never seem or don’t remember. I am sure I bought them but with 3 kids who remembers. Happy FF.
Check out my FF post at http://www.pbandsmellysdad.com/2009/04/temper-tantrum.html
OK, any post with a Thundercats reference is OK in my book. Well done!
We’re about to do a closet purge ourselves…All of Number 1′s clothes are too small
I keep telling my boys, “If you’re going to keep growing out of your clothes, I’m just not going to buy them for you!”
(I also tell them that I’m going to stop buying food if they’re just gonna eat it.)
Dude, don’t even get me started. My kids complain about not having anything to wear on occasion. I go in to help them pick something and find myself under a giant pile of attacking outerwear and jeans, most of which I have never seen before. I’m like, “Dude!? WTF do you mean? Your closet just tried to kill me!”
My kids are only 3.5 and 2, so we haven’t hit this stage yet. Our biggest issue is that they want to wear the same 2 or 3 shirts every single day. Our Yo Gabba Gabba shirts are at the top of the list right now. They probably get worn at least 2x a week.
In our house, we seem to have issues with socks. They disappear. I know I’ve got socks for the kids, I just haven’t found their super secret hideout. I think at night the old socks come out and kidnap the new ones.
But onto the whole size thing – I don’t even fold laundry any more for this precise reason. I end up digging through it anyway to find something that will fit them after the magic growth spurt they seem to have at night. With three kids five and under, it’s exponentially easier to just leave all the laundry on the back porch and pick out clothes as we go.
right now our three year old is in the floor sporting flowered underwear ON TOP of her pants.
Yeah.
i so don’t ask any more.
(BTW, you may want to see if there’s a kids consignment shop in your area. You can sell clothes and buy with credit at most of them. Very affordable way to keep young kids well-dressed.)
Andrew’s clothes fit one day and then the next day it doesn’t. He’s growing like a weed. The problem is we end up putting the clothes back into the drawer and repeat the problem. This post is inspiring me to go through all his clothes and get rid of the stuff too small.
I have some how weaseled my way out of finding clothes. I just dress our son it whatever I am told. It is better that way. I used to wear toughskins. Do those count as designer jeans?
I can’t even spell my own name right. How inspiring.
Much like Otter I am merely the fetcher of clothes for my wife. She tells me what to get and I get it.
I am steadfastly against designer clothes for kids. First of all, I am cheap and something from Target will work just as well as a brand name. Two, they are going to grow out of them anyways. It’s pointless.
We’ve just got a fifteen month old, so the sizes are a little easier (and he’s a boy, so there are less fashion concerns) but I totally agree on the randomness of their fit day to day.
He’s got pants and shorts that range from a 6-9 months to 2T (which I think stands for 2 year toddler, but I have no clue) and all of them fit him well one day, then are far too tight/short the next then the following day are baggy and dragging the floor. That’s why when daddy keeps him at the house we go “t-shirt and diaper”! Dad likes to run around his boxers, why can’t kiddo too?
I’m with you all the way. Where do these clothes come from. My daughter especially has a new outfit for every 3 hour time period.
I don’t have the problem of clothing fitting children yet, I just wanted to say that I freakin’ loved Thunder Cats as a kid!!!
Oh how I wish I could see pants on my son that were too small! He puts something on and within minutes, huge holes in the knees. Not just a pair or two mind you, but all pairs! Then into the summer cutoff pile they go,
This had me almost peeing my pants….my kid is barely under 3 ,and has WAY too many clothes…especially jeans!
Love the cartoon too.
Kudos!
Well said!
My kid is 6 but needs 4T size jeans around his waist and 6 year old kid length jeans. He’s SO frustrating to buy clothes for. The kid needs to grow a waist.
Ummm, I got nothing.
Dressing kids sucks.
I’m crying here. Hilarious. I can’t wait until Bea knows how to dress herself.
I think sizes are all made up anyway. There is no standard. A 10 here is a 14 there which is an 8 somewhere else. Its the same with baby clothes. 6 months fit 12 months too small and a 9 is weird.
Its just one of those things. I have been dealing with this all my life they dont make clothes for tall skinny people. Plus now how many 34×36 pants to do you see….and if I had my choice it would be 34×37 cause 36 a little small but 38 is HUGE long.