The Importance of Comfort & Durability in Children’s Clothing

One of the most important lessons little ones can learn is that it is okay wear comfortable clothes. Being able to play and be comfortable, to get dirty and enjoy it, is all part of childhood. Constricting clothing limits a little one’s ability to have free range of motion for playtime activities. It inhibits the development of motor skills. It can even cause nerve damage. It also makes learning new social skills difficult. Clothing affects little one’s lives much more than we adults may think it does. Until they develop some sense of themselves as individuals, little ones have a deep-seated need to look like everyone else. Being accepted by their peers is of paramount importance to little ones. Little ones who are comfortable in their clothes will tend to be more involved in playtime. They will be more social, and they will involve themselves in more diverse experiences. Also, their emotional health will be more age appropriate. Stylish clothing for little ones need not be fashioned after adult clothing for your little one to be in vogue. Simple styles in bright colours will always win favour with your kiddo’s playmates.

Basic Children Clothing Requirements

Centrally, there are some important needs that are required of a child’s clothes which must be put into consideration while you are shopping for your little one.

Ideally, children clothing should have some features that are listed below.

  • Comfortable, soft, and easily worn or taken off when needed.
  • The clothes should be made in a form that can easily access the baby’s nappy.
  • It should be non-flammable as much as possible.
  • It must be lightweight.
  • The clothes must not be irritating the child’s skin.
  • The clothes should be able to transmit sweat from the baby’s skin to the environment.

 

Your Little Bundle of Joy

This age is for babies who are below two years, and they are mostly crawling or trying to touch several things in the house. Basically, their clothes are in the categories of 3, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months. One of the notable things in the age range is that their head is not strong enough to stand on the neck. The clothing you are to select for children in this age bracket should have a wide neck opening, while you should also pick up the material that suits the weather condition. It means you need to select either thick clothing or thin clothing, and sometimes they should be lightweight and soft materials.

Toddlers

As children grow up, they increase body weight size and height. From the age of two to eight, they are referred to as toddlers, while they tend to lose out some excess fat in the body due to the increased metabolism in the body and engaging in more energetic activities. At this age, they regularly have overgrown their clothes, and there is a need to get new ones as soon as possible. The slimming down process undergone as a toddler is quite apparent as the waistline shapes out, and the regular protruding stomach goes in gradually. Gradually the infant features decrease day in day out as the kid grows up. Today more than 1 in 150 children (with the numbers growing by 10% to 17% yearly) have sensory processing disorders that cause them to be more sensitive to the clothing they wear than children without this problem. They have reactions to fabrics they feel are ‘scratchy.’ Some have allergic reactions to man-made fabrics, and some react negatively to detergents. It is important for these children to feel comfortable in the clothing they wear, otherwise, with their hypersensitivity, they will be continually distracted from being able to successfully participate in everyday activities.

Older Children

Any kid that is about seven years of age and above is in the children category. Basically, children grow rapidly in this age bracket, and they tend to change clothes more often. Clothes manufacture has come to the realization that the acceptable level of height intervals is 6 cm, which is also believed to the average growth of a child per year. Considering this fact, they have been able to design clothes that fit them for a good number of their children’s growth years. As a parent hoping to shop for new clothes for your children, you must take note that the increase in height observed in any category your kid belongs to is much that the overall body growth that takes place in a one-year circle. At this point, when you are hoping to get clothes for your children, you must consider the entire body growth rather than focusing on the height alone.