A Mothers Ramblings: Fashion for Children

When it comes to children's clothing I'm fairly conservative, I like children to look like children and not like mini adults. For my children this means that Top Ender doesn't wear short skirts without teaming them with leggings, she doesn't show off her midriff and the images on her t-shirts are age appropriate. As Tops wants to be a Fashion designer, we are quite lucky as she knows a thing or two about accessorising and layering to create the look she wants to achieve within my rules! For Big Boy things are a little easier (seeing as at nearly four I am still in complete charge of what clothes are brought for him) and whilst he might sometimes decide to wear a top that doesn't quite go with the trousers he has picked out he mostly co-ordinates. Top Ender has rubbed off on him though and he does love to accessorise his outfits with his hats!

As BB is getting bigger and we are trying to encourage him to be more independent I guess we are going to be focusing more on finding clothes that we both like and having looked at some of the places we normally buy clothes for BB we are needing to find something a little more "Grown up". We were asked if we would like to review some Ed Joseph clothes for Big Boy, and when they arrived Big Boy had a quick look through the different packets. There were a few T-shirts that he pulled to one side and declared as his favourites and a few more that he put in a pile claiming they were for Top Ender because they were girl colours. I explained that all the clothes were for him, but he was pretty adamant that he wasn't going to be wearing some of them... I did manage to get BB to wear a couple of the tops that he said were girl colours, even if the red guitar top was decided to be pink by Big Boy and friends on our Facebook Page.

Big Boy was actually right there were some T-Shirts in the pile that he wasn't going to be wearing, it wasn't because they were what he deemed to be girl colours but because Daddy and I didn't think that they were appropriate. Some of the tops that had been sent featured skulls and even when BB is dressing up as a pirate I don't think that almost four year olds need to be wearing skulls on their clothes. I spoke with a few of the other playground Mums who have similar aged children to BB and they understood what I was saying even if they didn't quite agree and High Heels Mum gratefully took the tops that we wouldn't let BB wear for her youngest son.

At first I didn't really like the skinny fit trousers that were sent (above), they looked a little too like pyjamas and I was convinced that BB was half dressed all day. With it having become colder again I would be quite happy if BB wore them in bed at night, but as he has asked for some boots to go with them I don't think he is going to be relegating these to the pyjama drawer just yet. I do have to admit now though, he does look really cute in them!

I thought that BB looked really lovely in the T-shirts and we put them through some vigorous testing with BB and I wrestling, rolling around in the grass and BB doing the other boy things that he does during the day (jumping on the sofa, pretending to climb mountains, swinging on door frames, using his shirt to carry bricks, pretending to be a Cat, putting his knees in his shirt you know normal things!) and of course me giving them a good wash afterwards too. I was really pleased to see that the T-shirts washed really well, they kept their shape and they kept their colours.