preschooler's pants
 

Are preschoolers intrinsically hard on pant's knees or is mine unique?
3 out of 7 days in the past week, my 4.5 year old has put holes in the
knees of her pants. Now in the defense of the pants, most of them are
two years old (this is the second year of her wearing these pants).

I guess I need to figure out where to buy pants again.
Karen G

preschooler's pants
 

I would imagine that most preschoolers probably spend a lot of time on
their knees. I can vividly remember that as a young girl all my pants
had colorful patches on the knees that my mom had sewed on. At the time,
I thought they were cool!

Anna




Karen G wrote:

Are preschoolers intrinsically hard on pant's knees or is mine unique?
3 out of 7 days in the past week, my 4.5 year old has put holes in the
knees of her pants. Now in the defense of the pants, most of them are
two years old (this is the second year of her wearing these pants).

I guess I need to figure out where to buy pants again.
Karen G

preschooler's pants
 

In article , Karen G says...

Are preschoolers intrinsically hard on pant's knees or is mine unique?
3 out of 7 days in the past week, my 4.5 year old has put holes in the
knees of her pants. Now in the defense of the pants, most of them are
two years old (this is the second year of her wearing these pants).

I guess I need to figure out where to buy pants again.
Karen G


Two words:


Land's End.

Banty

preschooler's pants
 

In article ,
Karen G wrote:

Are preschoolers intrinsically hard on pant's knees or is mine unique?
3 out of 7 days in the past week, my 4.5 year old has put holes in the
knees of her pants. Now in the defense of the pants, most of them are
two years old (this is the second year of her wearing these pants).

I guess I need to figure out where to buy pants again.
Karen G


Sounds normal.

I used to put iron on patches on the insides of their pants at the
knees. That way they didn't show, but added some strength -- and when
they did first start to go through the material, the pants would hold
together enough to hang on to for playing in.

I also sometimes patched them, but I don't think that's popular anymore.

meh
--
Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care

preschooler's pants
 

In article ,
Karen G wrote:
Are preschoolers intrinsically hard on pant's knees or is mine unique?
3 out of 7 days in the past week, my 4.5 year old has put holes in the
knees of her pants. Now in the defense of the pants, most of them are
two years old (this is the second year of her wearing these pants).

At least with boys, preschool is just the beginning. My 10yo has holes
in the knees of most of his new school jeans already. sigh....

Up through size 3 or so, jeans seemed to last through two or three boys.
After that, I'm lucky if they last the season.

--Robyn (mommy to Ryan 9/93 and Matthew 6/96 and Evan 3/01)

preschooler's pants
 

In article ,
Banty wrote:

Two words:

Land's End.

Are they really more sturdy? Someone else told me Gap jeans last well,
but Ryan has put holes in his in no time. :(

--Robyn (mommy to Ryan 9/93 and Matthew 6/96 and Evan 3/01)

preschooler's pants
 

In article , Robyn Kozierok says...

In article ,
Banty wrote:

Two words:

Land's End.

Are they really more sturdy? Someone else told me Gap jeans last well,
but Ryan has put holes in his in no time. :(

--Robyn (mommy to Ryan 9/93 and Matthew 6/96 and Evan 3/01)


What Land's End offers are pants which are double-kneed as well as being made of
tough fabric. We like the 'cargo climbers', which have the double-knee
incorporated with the whole style pretty well.

Banty

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In article ,
Banty wrote:

What Land's End offers are pants which are double-kneed as well as being made of
tough fabric. We like the 'cargo climbers', which have the double-knee
incorporated with the whole style pretty well.


I guess the question is whether or not the fabric is really any tougher
than other jeans, because the double-knees don't really gain me much.
They boys don't care if their jeans have holes in them; *I* care about
them going to school in holey jeans, and it seems that the pants would
look just as unpresentable if they had double knees so the holes were
"only" on the outer layer.

And of course, with no sales on, they cost more than twice what Wranglers
cost at KMart, so they'd have to last more than twice as long for me to
feel the money was well-spent.

How adjustable is the waist with the built-in belt? Very few styles come
in slim, which is the best fit for all my boys.

--Robyn

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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:35:14 EDT, (Robyn
Kozierok) wrote:

Up through size 3 or so, jeans seemed to last through two or three boys.
After that, I'm lucky if they last the season.

That's what I was wondering. In this case, my preschooler is a girl,
but the pants are wearing out just the same. I wondered if we were just
hitting the "season of wear."

Thanks,
Karen G

preschooler's pants
 

In article , Karen G wrote:
Are preschoolers intrinsically hard on pant's knees or is mine unique?
3 out of 7 days in the past week, my 4.5 year old has put holes in the
knees of her pants. Now in the defense of the pants, most of them are
two years old (this is the second year of her wearing these pants).

Preschoolers vary enormously on how hard they are on clothes.

In defense of the kids, more damage is done to cloth in washing
machines than by the kids---they just add the final stress that tears
clothes worn out by washing. "Stone-washed" clothes are particularly
fragile, as cellulases have been added in the manufacturing process to
digest the cotton fibers and make them behave like worn-out cloth.
Bleach is also very hard on cellulose fibers (cotton and linen).

I don't think my now 7-year-old son has ever torn the knees of any of
his pants. I attribute this to three things:
1) He's not very active, prefering reading to most forms of
physical activity. He gets exercise by walking and
riding the Trail-a-bike, neither of which is
particularly hard on clothes.
2) We have a gentle washing machine (one of the newer front
loaders) and use small amounts of mild detergent and
no bleach.
3) He's gotten a lot of hand-me-downs from cousins, so does
not wear the same pants over and over.

When I was a child I wore out a lot of knees in pants---I had very
bony knees that put a lot of stress on the pants. Even into my
college years I wore out a lot of knees. Nowadays, my pants are more
likely to fail at the bottom cuffs, or in a line just below the seat
where the edge of the seat of my recumbent bike rubs against the pants
when I pedal.


--
Kevin Karplus http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus
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Professor of Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
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