OP here... so my son right now just cares that is clothes are comfy and they don't look like "girl clothes". We buy more neutral colors but if he's gotten upset a couple times because some aspect of it looks "girly." He just happens to not like a thrift purple/pink. (I think it's mainly because that's all his sister wants.)

I think for my husband he just noticed how well put together other kids outfits have been at parties. Our kids always just have on sneakers, shorts, and a T-shirt. Look like like adorable Gap models. But I always want them to be comfortable foremost. And I don't need $100 dollars per outfit to do that.

I'll start bracing myself for the fourth and fifth grade. I'll continuing to work on self esteem at home prior to that. If all else fails, I will make sure his sneakers game is strong. Lol.

We live in a good neighborhood where people don't bully based on clothes

Anonymous wrote:We live in McLean and have a seven figure income and my kids do not have 10 pairs of sneakers. My boys wear athletic clothing mostly and my daughter wears a mix of target and pricier clothes. I really don’t think my kids or their friends care about clothing brands and certainly would not tease anyone about their clothing unless it stood out in a bad way.

Me again. While my kids probably do have a lot of clothing, my kids choose to wear the same favorite t shirt and sweatshirts out of the laundry and leave the nice stuff in the closet.

We live in McLean and have a seven figure income and my kids do not have 10 pairs of sneakers. My boys wear athletic clothing mostly and my daughter wears a mix of target and pricier clothes. I really don’t think my kids or their friends care about clothing brands and certainly would not tease anyone about their clothing unless it stood out in a bad way.

My kids never got teased, and never teased.

My youngest wore some pants that were CLEARLY too short, and I asked him about it, trying to spare him being teased. He was adamant that no one cared, and the kids didn’t tease each other for stuff like that.

I have a rising 5th in private - being preppy and having the “right” brands started in 4th. Athleta, Lululemon, Stanley, Drunk Elephant etc…

I haven’t heard of bullying but definitely classifications of kids based on brands.

Anonymous wrote:I think this is very school culture dependent. Our school has a ban on branded clothing, for the upper grades it’s a competition to see who can make it through the year label-less.

Oh so a private school. Huge eye roll.

I had a coworker whose kid got teased in upper elementary in Bethesda for wearing target clothes but I’m not sure this generation would do that.

Depends on the neighborhood, but times have changed. teens now mostly wear pajamas for better or worse. Save your budget for the Stanley cups lol.

I would have said second grade based on where I grew up in New York, but having raised a child in San Francisco, never. There was a kid in DD's grade everyone hated, and I saw him wearing salmon colored pants that were too short. I kept waiting for the kids to mention it, but shockingly, impressively, they solely took issue with his behaviors and words. The most popular girl was once pointed out to me and she was wearing ill-fitting clothes. I asked why she was so popular and I was told "because she's really nice, to everyone."

So, it depends where you live.

I don’t know, but 15 yo DS wears athletic shorts and Star Wars or sports t-shirts & has not been picked on. He really doesn’t care at all about brands. 10 yo DD has her favorite t-shirts (eg, cool animals or someplace she visited), but also doesn’t care about brands (or style, really) yet & does not get teased. They attend schools with a lot of socio-economic (& racial/ethnic) diversity, if that’s relevant.

I was a very uncool teenager but still didn’t get teased about my clothes.

I think this is very school culture dependent. Our school has a ban on branded clothing, for the upper grades it’s a competition to see who can make it through the year label-less.

Anonymous wrote:It depends on school, kids, location. Never happened to my kids. I just asked 10- year old and he has no idea what I'm talking about. None of his friends and classmates wear fancy clothes. More often than not they wear the same clothes over and over again and those soccer jerseys.
Most kids are form MC/UMC families and clothes really are not a thing as long as they are comfortable.
Our high school kid looks like a homeless dude. Even his
backbag is old and zipper broken. I think he is in some kind of competition about who can look the worse.
Ask about being teased, but it may not be because of clothes. I actually thought the same some 13 years ago

The teen sounds hilarious.

It's never happened to my kids either, I have one in high school and one in middle school now. Most of their clothes are from Target.

Never. We never bought name-brand anything. Most of their clothes were from Target, Macy's, Kohls, JC Penney, Old Navy, Gap, Children's place, Amazon or Costco.

Now they are teens, they will buy some articles of clothing that are name brand but they tend to stick to staples.

My kids do not go to schools for rich people. They are nerdy.