How to Compare Sizes of Kids Clothing From Store to Store
Shopping for children's clothing can be fun, but finding the right size presents its challenges, especially when sizes may vary from store to store. Manufacturers use sizing charts, and they may differ slightly from one to the next. Children's clothing is sized based on height and weight. Although the clothing is based on the size of the child, clothes are most often labeled according to age. On occasion, you will also find labels that only read small, medium and large. If you are prepared when shopping with the child's height and weight, finding the right size will be much easier.
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Finding the Right Size
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Weigh your child on your bathroom scale and note the result. If your child is an infant, you can use the weight given at your most recent checkup if you do not have a proper infant scale that allows her to lie down.
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Measure her height using a tape measure. Have her stand straight up against the wall without shoes. Note the result. If your child is an infant, you can lie her down on her back and measure from her foot to the top of her head. At the doctor's office, they lie her on paper, make markings with a pencil at her foot and the top of her head and then measure the distance between the markings. This can be helpful if she is particularly squirmy.
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Find a sizing chart online before you go out. Although sizing charts may differ slightly from store to store, it will give you an idea about what size to look for. Still check the tags before you make a purchase. When in doubt, always buy one size bigger. Children grow quickly, and it is better for the item to be too big than too small.
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Read the labels on the clothing and look for the manufacturer's sizing chart. The label will most often have an age, but if you look further, there may be a tag that has the sizing chart, which will have the particular height and weight that the size was made for. Remember, the age is based on an average, which means that many children will either be smaller or larger than the average.
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Learn the basic categories. Clothes for infants and babies are labeled in months from zero to 24. The size often has an M after the number, which stands for months. Toddlers' sizes, ages two to four, will have a T for toddler after the number. After toddler, there will just be the number that corresponds to age, not size. Many times, a size 4 is a small, 5 is medium and 6 is large. Continue to look for the sizing chart on the tags.
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Tips & Warnings
Do not remove any tags until your child has tried the clothing on. You may need to make an exchange if the size was not right. Hold on to your receipts.
