Tea collection by far! I haven't had any issues with wearing at the knees, holes, or tearing with my previous crawler and now new walker/climber

Ladies
I'm investigating a clothing line for girls (5-11 initially) who want a cross between the boys dept and the girls dept. They are active and like many non-disney non-traditional ways of dressing. My first order of business is to bring a better legging to market. What would be the IDEAL legging? Color? Is thickness an issue?
THANKS!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I let my daughter go with holes in them. She trips, she tears, that's that. We keep some non-hole tights and leggings in storage for when she dresses up, e.g., for parties or whatever.

Can I ask why you let your kids walk around with holes. I can understand playing in the sandbox but only saving non-holed pants for parties seems odd to me.

Yeah, happy to oblige! Of course, YMMV.

So I am a pretty stressy, Type-A kind of person in general. I found myself keeping a tight reign on what my baby and toddler wore... even up to the early part of the preschool years. Then the oldest started to have an opinion about clothes, and her opinion didn't always match mine. Also, I was a SAHM for awhile when #2 came around, and I found myself getting stressed out about all the domestic chores and keeping things picture-perfect most of the time, even as the kids (and husband) came along behind me and undid some portion of my work... Anyhoo, point is, I recognized that my tendencies to want things "just so" were squelching my fun and my kids' fun and fueled stress.

So as part of my effort to de-stress -- and it takes a LOT of effort sometimes! -- I decided that there were some things I'd just let go. What my daughter wears (within reason) is one of them. Keeping things ironed and stain and spot free was another. All that, plus my daughter's insistence on wearing tights/leggings rather than pants meant that these things just got scuffed and torn at the knee. I didn't want to keep shelling out $$$ (or expending mental energy) to maintain her tights/leggings habit.

So I let it go.

Little holes, ok. Big holes, I send them to the rubbish bin.

I can guarantee you, though, that the kitchen is spotless every night before I go to bed, and the bathrooms are cleaned regulary.

OP here, we did try mending the first few times but it doesn't last long enough to make it seem worth it. She does have some yoga pants but refuses to wear them, she likes the tightness of leggings. She will, however, wear yoga pants if she has yoga at school that day. Yes, she has some odd clothing issues but it doesn't seem worth the fight!

I ordered some sale ones from Gymboree last night, we'll see how those work. I may also pick up some at the Gap.

Thanks for all the advice!

My DD must not spend as much time on her knees as other kids, b/c she only gets a hole in her leggings once or twice a year and usually then it is caused by a horrific crash on pavement.

From thinnest to thickest:
Boden - softest, but thin. Old Navy - not as soft, but a little thicker and last. Target - thicker than ON and last. Lands End - thicker than ON and last pretty well. Hanna Andersson - thickest and probably the longest lasting, but also the most expensive.

For basic colors, I usually buy Old Navy. Boden and HA if they are to coordinate with something else from those stores.

OP - has your daughter tried yoga pants? Look more like pants than leggings do, yet equally comfy.

Does anyone mend clothing anymore, or does a hole mean the end of most garments? I still mend quite a bit.

Gap seems to be holding up well.

How about leggings with knee patches? Would love a pair of those - has anyone bought them from somewhere online? Cute and probably last longer, right?

Target and zutano have held up the best. Tea are cute but thinner. Old navy ones are unwearable.

I haven't had much luck with Old Navy so I think I'll try Gymboree. Thanks everyone!

Old Navy - cheap and long lasting

Anonymous wrote:I let my daughter go with holes in them. She trips, she tears, that's that. We keep some non-hole tights and leggings in storage for when she dresses up, e.g., for parties or whatever.

Can I ask why you let your kids walk around with holes. I can understand playing in the sandbox but only saving non-holed pants for parties seems odd to me.

Gymboree, Naartjie and Gap hold up the best and you have to sort through them. I buy Old Navy and Children's Place, but don't expect much wear from them and my expectations are fulfilled!

I let my daughter go with holes in them. She trips, she tears, that's that. We keep some non-hole tights and leggings in storage for when she dresses up, e.g., for parties or whatever.

The Old Navy ones have done pretty well for us. DD has worn one of 5 pairs almost every day since, say, October, & just got her first hole. And they're CHEAP.