Clothes - Seattle,WA

I feel your pain. My dauther is very tall for her age (14 and over 6ft.) The clothing manufacturers are very inconsistant in their sizing.

I always had good luck with Target's cherokee brand. J.C. Penney had clothing that fit, however, over 1/2 of it I would not consider appropriate.

I wouldn't buy anything online, until you've found a brand that you can depend on.

Good luck.

Hi Lenc,

NO it's not just you! I have a very tall teen. She towers over me and the lengths are getting shorter and shorter and the shirts are getting tighter and tighter. She has somewhat graduated into women's clothing so I'm not shopping the same way you need to be right now. We did buy some things online from a company called modest tee...I don't remember the website (I'm sure you can google) but their tees were extra long and came up a little higher on the chest. There's another site that I have looked at several times called modestclothes.com.

I shopped for capris in the summer instead of shorts and they usually came right above her knees like long shorts. Departments stores usually have a larger assortment of blouses that are age appropriate and they are usually a classic look which my youngster actually liked. Everything is more expensive at a department store but blouses are not as expensive as pants or dresses....Wish I had hand-me-downs for you!

M.

Try Hannah Andersson clothes. They're online. Gap tee shirts, on the adult side of the stores, don't run small, as a matter of fact, they're pretty generous. How you wash and dry clothes will make a big difference in how they fit.

If you have a sewing machine there are many Simplicity patterns that you can use to make your own age appropriate clothes for your daughter. Being tall without the width at her age will be problematic, so sewing new or altering those that you buy off the rack may be your only recourse.

Gymboree also carries leggings and shirts, tunics, etc that you can pair with them.

Best of luck!

sizes appear small to me too. My 9 yo granddaughter is of average height and is already wearing size 14 tops. She's barely into 10 bottoms waist wise but they are on the short side. I think that's why short is in style. :)

I bought her a xs t-shirt in one of the teen stores in the mall. It was appropriate in style and fabric. She's outgrown that one.

I suggest that you do look in teen stores and be selective for tops at least. This may be difficult if she likes to choose her own clothes, like my granddaughter does. I plan to buy 3-4 acceptable tops, to take to her, so that she can choose 1 or 2.

It is definitely OK to have short leggings, they're called capris or ?, which suggests that you can still buy in the girl's department. EXCEPT I'm finding that even in the girl's department styles are inappropriate for a girl who is as old as 14. It seems that, so far, Target mostly has short shorts even below size 6X.

If your daughter is also larger around as well as extra tall then Sears does have sizes designed specifically for this body type.

Check out mail order sites for Sears, Penney's, Macy's. I think that they may have a larger selection than local stores who are catering to the teens and pre-teens who are doing their own shopping and/or are able to manipulate their parents. Also, I've found that some items such as knit bike shorts don't come out until later in the summer. Since the weather is cooler in Seattle they may not come out at all. Just a guess.

I have found several pairs of jeans with a natural waist line in thrift stores. And my granddaughter has been willing to wear boys jeans but she's starting to object. They run longer than the girl's jeans.

Check ROSS, you might be suprised.

Have you checked H&M? The Southcenter store has a children's department. Definitely watch for inappropriate styles, but they do have very affordable clothing and their "basics" are usually well made. Their children's clothes are in European sizes, which go by height in cm (for example if your child is 140 cm, they would probably fit in size 140). My nieces shop there a lot and like the clothes.
Good luck.