Do you let your kids wear character shirts?

[Anonymous]

OP screams of insecurity.

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I love kids clothes with characters or cute animals or whatever. Who cares? They are only little for so long. If my kid wants a huge tractor on his sweater or a huge dinosaur or paw patrol - whatever. Although some are cringey and those become PJs.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course. Only someone who is deeply insecure would deny their child the harmless joy of a Paw Patrol shirt because they are scared other people will think they are "low class."

This. Let your kid have a say about things like this that truly don't matter.

+1

My kid loves her shirts with Snoopy, Mighty Mouse, Totoro, and Sesame Street on them. I don't really care if people think we're low-class or whatever because a kid wears children's clothing.

[Anonymous]

We did, but we got Sponge Bob socks for my Sponge Bob obsessed 4 year old, and he confessed to me that it would be just amazing if they made Sponge Bob shirts. Broke my heart! and totally going to buy some for his upcoming birthday.

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Anonymous wrote:We did, but we got Sponge Bob socks for my Sponge Bob obsessed 4 year old, and he confessed to me that it would be just amazing if they made Sponge Bob shirts. Broke my heart! and totally going to buy some for his upcoming birthday.

Sorry, meant to say we did NOT allow any.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't buy clothes with characters on them, but she has received a couple as a gift, and I'm okay with her wearing it.
The cutest is a red one with Elmo's face in the middle

+1

My child would not part with his Cars shirt.

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Anonymous wrote:No,, I'm a snob about clothing. No characters, no logos across the chest.

I allow one character pajama per year though.

I too am a complete snob about kids clothes. I’m also incredibly cheap. So, while I had strict rules about logos and “word” on kids clothes, I also had no problem digging through bins at consignment sales for said clothes. I found a goldmine of Hanna Andersson stuff at Unique once. My daughter wore those $20 of clothes until they wore out.
I’m unapologetic about this. My best friend’s fourth grader wore a black tank dress with a high low hemline and wedge heeled boots to her brother’s bar mitzvah, she looked like a drunk sorority girl walking up the steps of the synagogue. I love her mom and I love that kid, and I know that she threw an incredible tantrum to wear that outfit, but that stuff doesn’t fly in my house.

No characters, no words (exceptions are colleges that my husband or I attended) or “cute” sayings (messy hair, don’t care!) and nothing black. Little kids wearing black is just hipster nonsense. No spaghetti straps tank tops worn as shirts.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't always go out of my way to purchase them because I don't like my kids to be walking advertisements. But if we are gifted one or I know one will just really make my kids happy, yes of course.

So you don't "advertise" anything? Nike shoes? Fancy purse? fancy jeans?

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Anonymous wrote:No,, I'm a snob about clothing. No characters, no logos across the chest.

I allow one character pajama per year though.

I hope you hold yourself to the same standard. No fancy purses, cars, jewelry, dresses shoes for you!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No,, I'm a snob about clothing. No characters, no logos across the chest.

I allow one character pajama per year though.

I too am a complete snob about kids clothes. I’m also incredibly cheap. So, while I had strict rules about logos and “word” on kids clothes, I also had no problem digging through bins at consignment sales for said clothes. I found a goldmine of Hanna Andersson stuff at Unique once. My daughter wore those $20 of clothes until they wore out.
I’m unapologetic about this. My best friend’s fourth grader wore a black tank dress with a high low hemline and wedge heeled boots to her brother’s bar mitzvah, she looked like a drunk sorority girl walking up the steps of the synagogue. I love her mom and I love that kid, and I know that she threw an incredible tantrum to wear that outfit, but that stuff doesn’t fly in my house.

No characters, no words (exceptions are colleges that my husband or I attended) or “cute” sayings (messy hair, don’t care!) and nothing black. Little kids wearing black is just hipster nonsense. No spaghetti straps tank tops worn as shirts.

I buy my kids way too many clothes -- mostly mini boden and tea collection. (although i hate HA.) but i do target too. i let my kids wear characters. it makes them happy. mini boden and tea makes me happy. but i'm with you on spaghetti strap tanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No,, I'm a snob about clothing. No characters, no logos across the chest.

I allow one character pajama per year though.

I too am a complete snob about kids clothes. I’m also incredibly cheap. So, while I had strict rules about logos and “word” on kids clothes, I also had no problem digging through bins at consignment sales for said clothes. I found a goldmine of Hanna Andersson stuff at Unique once. My daughter wore those $20 of clothes until they wore out.
I’m unapologetic about this. My best friend’s fourth grader wore a black tank dress with a high low hemline and wedge heeled boots to her brother’s bar mitzvah, she looked like a drunk sorority girl walking up the steps of the synagogue. I love her mom and I love that kid, and I know that she threw an incredible tantrum to wear that outfit, but that stuff doesn’t fly in my house.

No characters, no words (exceptions are colleges that my husband or I attended) or “cute” sayings (messy hair, don’t care!) and nothing black. Little kids wearing black is just hipster nonsense. No spaghetti straps tank tops worn as shirts.

My kid went through a phase in second grade where she loved black clothing. (Now she loves rainbows. Kids are strange.) She also likes shirts with "earth friendly" slogans on them, like an shirt that says "Clean seas, plant trees, help bees." She LOVES that shirt. I avoid logos (I don't wear them myself), but she's getting to the point where she has her own clothing preferences. I think that things being age-appropriate is important, but I'm not doing to impose my personal preferences on things that don't really matter.

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Anonymous wrote:I have this conversation with my mother all the time. All my 5 year old wants to wear are 1. a Lightning McQueen sweater and 2. t-shirts with sharks on them. My mother is appalled and thinks we should be dressing him in more elegant clothes (which she keeps shipping and I keep washing and folding and then donating as he outgrows them, barely worn).

I honestly can't yell or discipline my child for wearing character clothing. It makes him so happy. When he is older, I'll explain how unfair the world is and how he is being judged for not wearing Brooks Brothers on the weekends and Hugo Boss during the week. but I'm letting him be a carefree kid for now.

It really depends on where and more importantly with whom you hang out with. In my world, no one would be judged for failing to do any of those things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No,, I'm a snob about clothing. No characters, no logos across the chest.

I allow one character pajama per year though.

I too am a complete snob about kids clothes. I’m also incredibly cheap. So, while I had strict rules about logos and “word” on kids clothes, I also had no problem digging through bins at consignment sales for said clothes. I found a goldmine of Hanna Andersson stuff at Unique once. My daughter wore those $20 of clothes until they wore out.
I’m unapologetic about this. My best friend’s fourth grader wore a black tank dress with a high low hemline and wedge heeled boots to her brother’s bar mitzvah, she looked like a drunk sorority girl walking up the steps of the synagogue. I love her mom and I love that kid, and I know that she threw an incredible tantrum to wear that outfit, but that stuff doesn’t fly in my house.

No characters, no words (exceptions are colleges that my husband or I attended) or “cute” sayings (messy hair, don’t care!) and nothing black. Little kids wearing black is just hipster nonsense. No spaghetti straps tank tops worn as shirts.

+1 to all of this.

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Anonymous wrote:OP screams of insecurity.

Why me?! It’s just a question. And you can tell from these responses that a lot of people do restrict character clothes.

I also see a lot of chatter on neighborhood buy/sell: “no characters, please” and honestly I do not see a lot of children wearing character shirts around here!

[Anonymous]

Yes but it's a very tiny part of his wardrobe. He has 2 mario shirts and a sonic sweatshirt. Makes him so happy, I don't care if anyone thinks we are trash bc of a 6 yr old's shirt.