How to properly create a children's wardrobe: tips for mothers. What is included in a basic children's wardrobe?

When the baby first goes to kindergarten, life in the house changes instantly. It goes without saying that a decent amount of free time is freed up for mothers and grandmothers, but additional troubles arise - you have to adapt to the baby’s kindergarten regime, and in addition, take care that he goes out “in public” in decent shape. And, if you can wear a not-so-new dress at home, you can change your child’s clothes at any time, then you need to approach the wardrobe of a newly-minted kindergartener seriously and take several points into account.

Convenient wardrobe for a child

Of course, it’s a miracle how good they are denim overalls with buttons, fasteners, rivets. But such clothes, just like fluffy, easily soiled dresses, are not entirely appropriate in kindergarten.

Firstly, the child inevitably gets dirty, secondly, he has to undress and dress, thirdly, in kindergarten he constantly plays, is in motion, and he should be comfortable. Therefore, when choosing clothes, it is best to pay attention to knitted sweaters and jumpers, trousers and skirts with elastic, which can be easily and quickly taken off and put on.

Neatness when using children's wardrobe

From the very first days, you need to teach your child to be neat, so make sure that the clothes are inexpensive, but always clean, not torn, not wrinkled. Now, fortunately, there are a lot of fabrics that do not require ironing, and this is just great - there is usually no time to stand for hours with an iron.

Dressing your child in snow-white clothes is also not worth it - in the evening you will definitely be upset because of the stains from the compote that cannot be washed off. Children are children, do not make life difficult for either the child or yourself.

No fuss if you have a wardrobe

If the house is not in order, then the morning can become very, very unpleasant. Clothes that haven’t dried out from the evening, socks and panties that have gone to no one knows where - this means nervous searches, tears, a spoiled mood since the very morning. You shouldn't get into situations like this. It is very good if the baby has five sets of clothes - from Monday to Friday. In the morning, you get a pile of clothes, put on everything clean and fresh - and no fuss. You can prepare these shots over the weekend.

Such a necessary “spare spare” in a child’s wardrobe

Make sure that your baby always has a spare set of clothes in his locker, even if not a complete one. At least spare tights, socks, panties. You never know what happens - it gets dirty, wet, torn. Let such little things not cause your child grief - he should always have the opportunity to change clothes.

These are the basic rules for enrolling a child in kindergarten. And be sure to check that he always has everything he needs and special occasion, both for the pool and for physical education.

But it’s more about school, but I was thinking about Vikushka.

Vikushka is almost 4 years old, and in some places I probably take a hyper-responsible approach to her wardrobe, but it seems very important to me, because a person grows, absorbs information about how it should be, about color harmony, about proportions, etc. and on myself too. I wasn't very good at it. WITH artistic taste maybe it’s more or less nothing like that, and it was praised in the art, but for some reason I basically didn’t think of applying all this in practice - to clothes, and not to still lifes. Yes, in the 90s in my city there was absolutely nothing to use. Chinese things from the market initially did not fit into the idea of ​​harmony. It was only in the 11th grade that I made a discovery for myself (logically, of course, I understood this, but then I suddenly realized) that those things that are photographed in magazines - they, it turns out, exist in reality, you can try them on and buy them myself - I saw the window display of the Mango store in Moscow. Until then, pictures from magazines seemed to me somehow abstract beauty, from parallel world. So, to be honest, I always dressed like shit, even though I tried to put it together as best I could. But what can you think about it if you have only one pair of boots and one jacket, and all this is not what you would like, but what was in decent quality. In the last couple of years, I think I dress normally. It’s still like we’re crawling to “stylish” in Africa.

Therefore, it seems to me that all this should be instilled in little people at once - so that later they do not have to hastily catch up, learning basic things at a fairly advanced age, as I am doing now. Of course, not to the point of insanity, because things are just things, even if they aestheticize environment, but a person should still have the right to make his own choice (even if it is wrong), he should try some combinations himself (even if they are crappy - but how else can you understand that they are crappy?), experiment on your own (otherwise where would creative solutions come from?) etc.

But in order to save myself and my child’s nerves, and so that I don’t have to get into arguments about whether it can be worn or not, I try to decide all this at the purchasing stage.

There are very good posts on how to create a rational wardrobe. The author is a fashion designer and image specialist, so everything is explained very clearly, simply and clearly: post about a rational wardrobe for a boy, post about rational wardrobe for a girl. And of course, in in a broad sense, it's not just about children's wardrobe, there are principles that can be very easily applied to your own.

I tried this scheme on Vikushkovy things, it turned out to be very convenient.
I started very small, with three main colors: white + cool pale pink + fuchsia(it’s clear that these are the most common colors in children’s stores, so the choice was dictated mostly by laziness, but they still look good on little bunnies):

In addition to the ideas for a rational wardrobe, I formulated for myself personally a few clarifying rules.

Firstly, baby a lot of places climbs, draws, grabs something, can easily spill juice or stain clothes with hands in berry juice, etc. etc., and besides, it grows quickly, so clothes are mainly bought completely budget friendly- sometimes it happens that there is enough stuff for one exit, and then a stain appears, but it would be somehow strange to forbid a child to climb and explore. That's why I buy everything as inexpensive as possible, but at the same time, of course, cute. From what is suitable for Vikushka, these are mainly Sela, Lindex, HM, even Modis (they have much better clothes for children than adults), I really like LC Waikiki, which recently opened here. Recently, I even stocked up on ketai stuff from the market - such an opportunity came up - but, of course, I chose very harshly.

And from the first it turns out naturally second- through experience, I came to the conclusion that One capsule is most convenient(the original post suggests two, but I think it’s too complicated, at least for me, I’ll explain why below), in one color and style, otherwise it is very difficult to select sets when things constantly break down and you have to look for and buy new ones, during the day every now and then you have to replace something (fell here, spilled here, tore there), sets are preferably multi-layered (remove something , wear something, sleep in the kindergarten) well, if at the same time you still have to think about color matching, then this is a brain explosion.

As a result - under an ideal set of circumstances - it turns out that you can take almost any thing from the closet and combine it with almost any other thing, and not worry about whether it fits or not - everything should fit at the selection stage. Still, when buying, you have to choose, so why not add color/style to the given criteria?

Here's how it works for me:

Well, it seems to me that this all works on Vikushka. It's funny how she herself makes some conclusions, that, for example, “I have purple jacket, that means the hat needs to be purple" (and even though I didn’t tell her this and, of course, I myself don’t think that only purple goes with purple, but it’s still great that the child himself compares and does such things in his own little head some own conclusions, that she has some of her own ideas about elementary color harmony).

And recently, I was really proud of how Vikushok herself chose the prints on the dress and skirt - she wanted to dance, and for this, she thinks, she needs a skirt. And so she put her skirt under her dress and came running to me. “I think they fit well - look, here are flowers and here are flowers, here is gray and here is gray,” said the little man. I praised. Let's leave the possibility of combining this dress with this skirt out of the question, the point is not that, but the fact that small man I myself performed a series of logical operations and made some kind of conscious and informed decision. And even if she tries a lot of things, messes up a lot, does a lot completely wrong (in the end she dyes her hair red and her lips black), but a person learns to compare colors, textures and shapes, looks for how to do it beautifully, how to express yourself, after all.

I still don’t know how to make super looks, like the ones from catalogues. Probably, someday I will learn, but this is not the most important thing - I don’t need the person to be a super-duper doll, but simply for everything in the person to be beautiful - both soul and costume)

Now share your thoughts) I’m talking not only to mothers, but to everyone in general - some have nephews, while others just walk down the street and see everything)

Comments

(29 comments - ) ioj_v_wokolade

Nov. 6th, 2011 10:18 pm (UTC)

I buy basic things and add them with accessories.. well, yes.. everything is in the same range, it is desirable that things can be replaced, because even though they are small women.. but they are still pigs))))

and I agree with you that we need to start from childhood... not instill in them a wild love for clothes, but taste. because it’s handy. useful skill.

Nov. 6th, 2011 10:41 pm (UTC)

hospday. It’s impossible to read the shit (everything is mixed up there..
I bought her simple comfortable pants for kindergarten.. and matching T-shirts.. namano.. comfortable, without synthetics, and it’s pleasing to the eye.
What am I doing wrong? Is she too fifa for me?))

Of course, the art has spoiled me)) I can’t when the colors don’t match))

Nov. 7th, 2011 04:32 am (UTC)

oh, how complicated it is:) I tried to make a capsule for my child, but there was so much suitable friend It’s somehow impossible to find clothes for a friend for not crazy money. and in Lately I even neglected the compatibility within the set, to my shame: the child crawls on his butt, and therefore, after one day of wear, all the clothes look once and for all as if the poor orphan was dressed from someone else’s shoulder :)
As you get older, you will need to pay more attention to this issue (I wonder at what age do they even notice this...) or at least learn how to dress yourself first :)

Nov. 7th, 2011 06:37 am (UTC)

Well, that’s exactly what I got burned out on. If you don’t buy everything in one store (everything is selected using the example of one), then a selection of good things different colors very limited. So if you go beyond the traditional pink and white, and for boys blue and blue or khaki orange, then the search for things suitable for the capsule becomes a problem.

Nov. 7th, 2011 07:14 am (UTC)

So with one store you need to have at least a banal gap nearby. In our country, for example, the only decent stuff is stock, and that’s on the Internet. try to pick it up :) so far I can only scrape together gray-blue options, more or less :)

Nov. 7th, 2011 08:08 am (UTC)

Basically, the stains come off well with the help of Vanish. I throw out the ones that don’t come off. those that survived the operation of the IA are put aside “just in case”
We mainly buy in Finland or online (Gap, Olneyvy, Gymboree, etc.). Gymboree, in my opinion, is the best in quality and design. to be honest, I try to save money, buy during discount periods, up to 10-12 dollars for a T-shirt and up to 10-12-15 $ for pants
but any “insulating knitwear” in large quantities I don’t buy it, there’s no need - it’s warm at home, it’s warm in the kindergarten, etc. enough fleece underneath outerwear if necessary (I don’t wear cotton) and a couple of sweater jumpers “for beauty” during the period when it’s still warm and you can’t go out in a jacket (this season lasts a week or two)

Nov. 7th, 2011 08:11 am (UTC)

this season IA's main color is green - a green windbreaker, a green fleece jacket, a greenish corduroy jacket. Snowboarder's winter kit - green with Christmas trees on an orange lining
black boots with orange insert

Nov. 7th, 2011 08:37 am (UTC)

oh, I have Vanish - like a poultice for the dead (are you talking about the pink liquid one? Or something else?), however, I wash it at 40 degrees, no more. But if you spilled juice in the garden, that is, they didn’t wash it off right away, or some kind of blueberry, then you can consider everything to be a complete mess.

you have a completely different climate after all) the main part of our wardrobe is all kinds of insulating knitwear, here we spend quite a large part of the fall and spring wearing jackets, jeans, blouses, etc.

Nov. 7th, 2011 08:43 am (UTC)

In my experience, liquid is less effective
I sprinkle pink dry. There is also a white one (I don’t really understand the difference between them, I just didn’t have a white one in the store, so I bought a pink one). old juice can clean, but, of course, it does not remove some stains. but what can you do - these are just things
he has more than 10 T-shirts alone
I wash it at 30-40 degrees, otherwise the paint will rub off.

maybe at an older age knitwear will be more relevant, but while you’re digging in the dirt, it’s more practical to wear outerwear for a walk that can be easily washed without washing

Nov. 7th, 2011 09:08 am (UTC)

I'll have to settle for pink for now. simply because it is difficult to select other colors of the right size and reasonable price. I'm already sick of this pink in combination with gray, beige and purple. There are red things, green ones, and even an orange sundress. These colors suit Lesya better. but precisely because of the problem of incompatibility with each other, they rush around less often.

Nov. 11th, 2011 12:06 pm (UTC)

yes, this is a real problem)
although there are two advantages - over time this should become easier, and in rich pink, fuchsia, Lesa is also very good)
In general, I really liked Lesya’s wardrobe last summer - you combined green and fuchsia very stylishly)

Nov. 7th, 2011 10:37 am (UTC)

Damn, my brain also exploded when I read all this :) And until now I hadn’t thought at all about combining something in a children’s wardrobe. The girls' wardrobe is eclectic - I buy something myself + my husband is abroad + they give and give a lot. In short, I proceed from what is already available. Therefore the best option for girls, it’s buying/receiving a suit as a gift right away. That is, blouses + trousers (a T-shirt can be easily pulled down) or a T-shirt + knitted jacket (can be combined with jeans and skirts). Our weather is also such that after windbreakers, overalls of varying degrees of insulation immediately follow. And there, if anything needs to be combined, it’s only a hat/shoes/gloves. And sometimes I forget about it. Today we walked like this: Sonya - lime-yellow overalls (I bought it myself last year) + pink hat (Lenne, given by my sister), boots and mittens. Anka is even cooler: a salmon-green jumpsuit, a crimson hat (not from that opera, but what can you do?), green boots with orange soles and gray mittens. Shurik has the standard jeans, T-shirts, denim sweatshirts, etc. for a boy + a separate suit and shirts for school, which are compatible with each other by default. In short, I still have to work and work in this direction.