Baby clothes are as expensive as the clothes for grown ups. In fact if you were observant enough, you would notice that baby clothes are expensive in more than one ways. The reason being kids grow faster and the clothes that you bought six months back seem no longer fitting the size of your child. This would be true at least for initial few years. The baby clothes are bound to have lesser life.
The difficult part with buying children's clothing is that despite the fact that your baby will out grow the clothes you buy now, you can't buy one size larger, the reason is obvious, you wouldn't want to compromise on the comfort that the right size clothing offers. Phew! So much fuss about the size of the baby clothes. Another aspect that one has to bear in mind while shopping for children's clothes is the fabric of the clothes. Depending on the season you will have to decide what type of fabric would give comfort to your bundle of joy. There is no dearth of variety for sure, may it be the colors or the fabric, and there is a whole lot of range in the children's clothes market.
Still as you decide on the fabric, cotton is the safest choice, no matter what season. Of course the woolen clothes and sweaters are also available in the children's clothes range, but do not get carried away with fancy looking furs and leathery fabric. Apart from the size and fabric, pay attention to other little details like whether the baby clothes you are buying are easy to mange and are washable or not.
There can be an exception or two for the fancy clothes that you might buy for special events like the fancy dress competition, Halloween costumes etc. You might not be able to manage such baby clothes the way you can mange cotton clothes or jeans etc. Nevertheless majority of your children's clothes certainly can't be the fancy wear, they have to be wearable and washable with ease. If you have had enough experience buying children's clothes you would know what those tight elastic waist-bands can do to children's delicate skin.
Hence take enough care to buy skirts, shorts and pants etc that has good quality elastic waistbands and also check for the cloth lining around the elastic band. A lot of cheap quality baby clothes do not have an extra cloth lining to cover the elastic bands around the skirt waistbands and pants' waistbands. What is applicable to shopping for baby clothes is nearly applicable to shopping for baby shoes too. It's quite a fun treat to look at the wide range of baby shoes that we now have in market. World has certainly become smaller in terms of imports and exports of baby shoes and children's clothing. The baby shoe market is flooded with colorful, cute and beautiful booties and fancy looking baby shoes.
There is umpteen variety in baby shoes, including the boots, booties, sandals, shoes, rubber shoes, leather sandal, plastic footwear, baby shoes with straps, baby boots with belts and so on. One can't possibly fit the variety of baby shoes available in the market now in a limited space like this here. You have to go out and find it out yourself to understand what it really means to have choices. However as mentioned before the care and caution that you are required to use while you shop for your children's clothes, the same kind of vigilance is required for baby shoe shopping too.
While you shop for baby shoes, two most important factors to take care of would be the comfort and the quality of material used.
William Brunt is author of this article on Childrens Clothing and shoes. Find more information about Childrens Clothing and shoes here.
