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Clothing The Critter
Dec. 4th, 2006 07:44 pmIt figures... I order stuff from Hanna Andersson, and when it arrives today and I happen to look on the website to check to see whether items come in a size smaller too, I noticed that 2 of the items that I got are now on sale (and one for $20 and one for $10 cheaper, which is quite a bit, especially for kids' clothes). Thankfully they have something where if it's marked down within 14 days of your order that you can get the difference credited to you.
So tomorrow a trip to the Hanna store in White Plains, because lucky for me we have a store close by too. I need to at least get the snowsuit I got Dashiell in a smaller size. He's 77 cm's tall, and I got him the size 80 (they do sizing in cm's), because I figured that'd be the best fit... especially seeing as with his 30.5 inches he's at the bottom end of their 30 inch US equivalent sizing, and he fits the 10-24 month age range size bracket. It's so big he could probably fit a younger friend in there with him >_< I swear the sleeves are at least 4-5 inches too long. Yes, that's inches not centimetres. It's also somewhat too long for him, and if I'm not careful his head almost vanishes into the neck of it. It's cute and funny, but not very practical, especially for winter. If I were to stuff the suit he'd look like an arctic Sumo wrestler.
So hopefully in the store they'll actually have the size 70 availible so I can try it on him. And if not, I'm going to have to come up with something else, because they're sold out of the size 70 on the site.
The fleece jacket I got him is also a little on the large side, but nothing that rolling the sleeves can't fix, and that's what they're made for anyway. So I may just keep that one, especially because he'll probably wear it until something like May. I'll have to show PreZ when he gets home, get his opinion on it, though odds are he won't have one.
The cute shoes I got him might also go back for a smaller size. Somehow even though I go based on the sizing instructions, things end up being a lot bigger than they should be.
All the above really underscores an increasing problem I'm having with clothing Dashiell. He's a slim child, not skinny mind you (especially not in an unhealthy way), but because he had a heart murmur due to a sizable open duct for the first 8 months, which burned calories like crazy, he just never had those newborn fat rolls that many kids do. Plus he's super active, always jumping and bouncing around and now cruising with walking hopefully soon to follow. Add to that that Cri du Chat kids are also apparently known to be slimmer, he's starting to become too slim for many clothes, though height wise he's doing pretty good.
For example... 12-18 month Gymboree sizing says that the waist is 19 1/4 inch, and their 18-24 month sizes have a 19 3/4 inch waist. Dashiell's waist is 18 inches. The diaper helps keep the 12-18 month pants he has up, but I think that it's just going to get ridiculous when I buy the size up, especially seeing as he's getting close to needing those for the length.
It seems as though the only alternative at this time is going to be to acquire patterns and then start trying to make clothing for him myself, because at least that way I can make sure it's not sagging off his little butt, or fine in the waist but doing that floodwater-rising thing in the pant legs.
So tomorrow a trip to the Hanna store in White Plains, because lucky for me we have a store close by too. I need to at least get the snowsuit I got Dashiell in a smaller size. He's 77 cm's tall, and I got him the size 80 (they do sizing in cm's), because I figured that'd be the best fit... especially seeing as with his 30.5 inches he's at the bottom end of their 30 inch US equivalent sizing, and he fits the 10-24 month age range size bracket. It's so big he could probably fit a younger friend in there with him >_< I swear the sleeves are at least 4-5 inches too long. Yes, that's inches not centimetres. It's also somewhat too long for him, and if I'm not careful his head almost vanishes into the neck of it. It's cute and funny, but not very practical, especially for winter. If I were to stuff the suit he'd look like an arctic Sumo wrestler.
So hopefully in the store they'll actually have the size 70 availible so I can try it on him. And if not, I'm going to have to come up with something else, because they're sold out of the size 70 on the site.
The fleece jacket I got him is also a little on the large side, but nothing that rolling the sleeves can't fix, and that's what they're made for anyway. So I may just keep that one, especially because he'll probably wear it until something like May. I'll have to show PreZ when he gets home, get his opinion on it, though odds are he won't have one.
The cute shoes I got him might also go back for a smaller size. Somehow even though I go based on the sizing instructions, things end up being a lot bigger than they should be.
All the above really underscores an increasing problem I'm having with clothing Dashiell. He's a slim child, not skinny mind you (especially not in an unhealthy way), but because he had a heart murmur due to a sizable open duct for the first 8 months, which burned calories like crazy, he just never had those newborn fat rolls that many kids do. Plus he's super active, always jumping and bouncing around and now cruising with walking hopefully soon to follow. Add to that that Cri du Chat kids are also apparently known to be slimmer, he's starting to become too slim for many clothes, though height wise he's doing pretty good.
For example... 12-18 month Gymboree sizing says that the waist is 19 1/4 inch, and their 18-24 month sizes have a 19 3/4 inch waist. Dashiell's waist is 18 inches. The diaper helps keep the 12-18 month pants he has up, but I think that it's just going to get ridiculous when I buy the size up, especially seeing as he's getting close to needing those for the length.
It seems as though the only alternative at this time is going to be to acquire patterns and then start trying to make clothing for him myself, because at least that way I can make sure it's not sagging off his little butt, or fine in the waist but doing that floodwater-rising thing in the pant legs.