ripped tights

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Anonymous wrote:No tights because I'm not spending the money to replace them. Dresses with tights aren't play clothes, plain and simple. Jeans/leggings/bare legs are play clothes. You don't play in dress clothing.

They can play all they want. I'm old enough to have HAD to wear dresses/tights to school. We had to keep them clean and changed into jeans to play in after school. Not a big deal.

op here - do you live in the DC area? i'm asking b/c we have lots of stores here that sell playdresses - not formal wear, but comfortable casual cotton dresses. gap and old navy carry these online and are pretty cheap at sales - $8-10/dress. The tights I'm writing about are the wooly warm kind - they run from $5-10 at gap and old navy (and hanna anderson on sale). Non of these clothes could even remotely be called "formal" - they are purely play clothes. And, truly, they're much more comfortable than jeans - they allow much more movement for active girls. I also think tights and a dress are easier to manage in the bathroom than jeans or pants with buttons and zips.

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My girls play outside. Tights rip. Even at five bucks a pair, that's 25 bucks or so a week! Yikes. I really don't care if he stores sell "play dresses" and expect me to buy them---they sell glitter and sequins too. I don't buy those either. Tights get full of mulch and leaves and crap even if they don't tear.

Jeans are fine. I wore them to play in. They can too.

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Anonymous wrote:My girls play outside. Tights rip. Even at five bucks a pair, that's 25 bucks or so a week! Yikes. I really don't care if he stores sell "play dresses" and expect me to buy them---they sell glitter and sequins too. I don't buy those either. Tights get full of mulch and leaves and crap even if they don't tear.

Jeans are fine. I wore them to play in. They can too.

Curious to know how old your kids are that they have designated play time and play clothes. I consider everything my 5 year old owns to be "play clothes." She's 5. Playing is what she does.

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How is this even a topic? Tights? Really? Who's parenting and/or financial decisions all hinge on wearing tights to play. Good to know.

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And I know the outfits OP is referring to. Cotton casual dresses from old navy, no one is saying her kid is wearing a poofy gown. And even if she was who cares?

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Anonymous wrote:No tights because I'm not spending the money to replace them. Dresses with tights aren't play clothes, plain and simple. Jeans/leggings/bare legs are play clothes. You don't play in dress clothing.

They can play all they want. I'm old enough to have HAD to wear dresses/tights to school. We had to keep them clean and changed into jeans to play in after school. Not a big deal.

As a woman who only wore dresses and tights for special occasions as a child, I think this is a mistake. As a grown professional woman, I still feel like dresses and such arent really every day clothes, and feel uncomfortable wearing them to work on non-client facing days. That's not such a good thing. My 2yo DD loves her knit dresses and knit tights, and we encourage her to be comfortable in them. And, as PPs mentioned, we value the small opportunities for independence and self-expression. Maybe you should look into more affordable dresses and tights-- Old Navy has great options, and you wont have to be such a hard ass about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Jeez, some of you are really mean. NO tights because they get holes in them? As though your DD's are intentionally ripping the knees? You know kids bend knees, crawl on knees, hang from knees, and play, right? But they can't have tights unless they keep them pristine or until they can drive to buy tights themselves with their own earned money? Glad you're not my mom.

News alert: not allowing DDs to wear tights constitutes parental cruelty. Check. Ok, got it.

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I have a boy, so can't relate, but I do get holes in my own socks and fix them. For wooly/knit tights, here is a quick way. Thread a needle, knot the end with both threads. Take a stitch by the side of the hole and then loop the needle through the thread loop to make a knot that will hold. Then run the needle around the edge of the hole, taking little stitches, like a lasso around the hole. Pull it tight and close the hole, forming a tiny knot of tights material. Tie/knot off thread. The whole repair takes like, three minutes and you can do it while standing over the washing machine and then toss them in.

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OP here with an update: my mother said she'll try darning the hole next time, although we both agree it might not work - i imagine it needs a lot of tensile strength at the knee.

and for those keeping score: my mother woh PT, i woh FT,she formula fed after 6 weeks and i breastfed #1 for 8 months on a dairy free diet.

thanks for checking in on this stimulating topic and have a great day.

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Pp above: I never said that my kids intentionally ripped the tights. They're fragile. Tights aren't for playing in.

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Anonymous wrote:We use leggings. If you get a hole in the knee (and that can happen to any brand - hanna, boden, children's place) you can mend them. I just got a sewing machine for the holidays and I mended 4 pairs last night. They are not good as new, but they are just fine for preschool where odds are she will put another hole in a pair of leggings this week.

I LOVE my new sewing machine.

Joys of a SAHM, most of us don't have time to "mend".

Huh? I work and it usually takes less than 5 minutes to mend a hole in a pair of leggings (if doing it by hand). I can imagine a sewing machine does it in a fraction of that time. Stop being an ass.

Hah, I am the PP with the new sewing machine. I am a full time WOHM with 2 kids. I wanted the sewing machine to teach my 8 year old how to sew for fun, I (a lawyer-what else in DC) learned to sew from my mom who was a full time WOHM engineer way back in the 60s and 70s who learned to sew from her mom who also worked.

I can also cook, but I have not operated a vacuum cleaner in years.

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my lady friend wear tights but she used them for the garden my lady friend does not throw hers torn tights out

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[quote=Anonymous]my lady friend wear tights but she used them for the garden my lady friend does not throw hers torn tights out [/quote] school tights always rip and tear it sucks to buy new ones for the kids and they are costly too

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Anonymous wrote:Jeez, some of you are really mean. NO tights because they get holes in them? As though your DD's are intentionally ripping the knees? You know kids bend knees, crawl on knees, hang from knees, and play, right? But they can't have tights unless they keep them pristine or until they can drive to buy tights themselves with their own earned money? Glad you're not my mom.

News alert: not allowing DDs to wear tights constitutes parental cruelty. Check. Ok, got it.

I didn't wear dresses to play in as a child, but I can imagine my mother telling me that I needed to either wear pants or be more careful with my tights because she couldn't afford to endlessly replace them (or didn't want to waste the money). I really don't think it's the mark of a mean, mean mom not to want to throw away money on clothes that are apparently unsuitable for the activities her child is engaging in. Why would I repeatedly buy clothing that gets ruined when my daughter plays in it? It suggests that the clothing isn't the right clothing, and she needs something sturdier, like leggings.

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Anonymous wrote:dd, 4, plays pretty hard and has ripped a few pairs of tights recently... do you darn these or toss them? the rips are large-ish (1 inch in diameter) and over the knee - so, i think they'll expand if i just let her continue wearing them.

I throw them away, it looks hideous to wear tights or leggings with holes in the knee. ONavy and the Children's Place have the cheapest tights and leggings (price and quality.) I learned the hard way, I had to buy so many since my DD is a sporty child. But then I found the tights and leggings from Hanna Andersson. They are awesome, much thicker and durable. They have lasted whole seasons, except for a pink one that my daughter destroyed when she fell from her bike.