The clothing top-bottom gap
I’m not a fan of the top – bottom gap between trousers and top. Â I don’t like it on myself (the thought of showing knickers or worse ‘builder’s bum’ is horrendous!), but I don’t like it on babies either. Â Vests are so cute, even in plain white, that why you wouldn’t keep their little bodies toasty in them I don’t know.
But there’s a problem with this – discounting the overheating in the summer problem – we’ve pretty much run out of vest sizes.
N has a long body compared with his legs so we always have to move up a top size and vest size earlier than trousers. Â But what I can’t understand is how quickly vests (and when he was in sleepsuits, those too) shrink. Â Basically after one 40 degree quick wash they can sometimes be coming up a lot smaller than they were during the first wear when you’d expect them to have stretched a bit. Â It seems to happen with all brands – M&S, Mothercare, supermarket ones, and yet adult clothes don’t seem to do the same. Â Very odd.
So he’s now wearing age 2-3 sleeveless ones (he’s in 18-24 pjs and clothes, with some shorts 12-18 as the waist on the bigger trousers tend to be too big) at 16 months old. Â He doesn’t look like he’s not got a totally out of proportion body to legs but that’s what the sizes of toddler clothes would suggest. Â But 2-3 is the biggest vest size and I searched everywhere for those, only finding them in Tesco.
I have found now though, that he seems to be quite happy wandering round with only one layer, so at the moment he’s got that gap. Â It’s not quite so offensive now, although I do wonder whether he gets a draughty midriff! Â Not a good look when it’s a bit gangster hip hop trouser style with the top of his nappy showing as the trouser waist droops down. Â At least having only just moved up a clothing size, his t-shirts are all a decent length, but once he grows a bit we’ll struggling on body length again.
Come the colder weather, I’m going to have to locate some of the ‘old man’ style vests for him in a long body length otherwise he’s going to have gaps galore. Â Let’s hope his body shape evens out as he grows.