Wardrobe shopping

[marydell]

I just went and bought Charlie a bunch of fall pants, overalls, shirts, and sweaters.  Also a coat, a puffy vest, mittens, a hat, and some shoes.  I could SWEAR I bought practically this exact same set of stuff LAST fall.  What is up with that?  Ungrateful kid, outgrowing everything I buy for him!

And  I resent having to waste money on a useless left mitten! Last year's mittens didn't have thumbs, so I got two useable mittens in a pair.  Woo, windfall! This year he's a big boy so he needs mittens  a mitten with thumbs a thumb, but for some odd reason you can't buy single right-hand mittens. Again I ask, what is up with that? Is anyone out there missing either their left mitten or their right hand? Because I have some spares. Mittens, I mean, not hands.

Comments

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

Is anyone out there missing either their left mitten or their right hand?

Anyone really precocious, to be answering you while fitting into a Charlie-size mitten! I realize he's a tall toddler, but still :)

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Good point, heh.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

You may perhaps be able to turn them wrong-side-out, or palm-to-top, depending on their construction.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

This is true...in fact I did that sort of thing a lot as a young thing, since my parents were clothing multiple children on academic salaries, and we tended to lose things and have to improvise with other things. My godmamma would knit me mittens that were interchangeable, but Old Navy doesn't seem to have that sort. Say, I know how to sew a bit, I suppose I could make up a batch of fleece single mittens.

I could also dress up his robo hand with the extra mitten, although the idea of wrestling him into one more article of clothing isn't appealing. He's a wiggly creature.

[pameladean]

I've never understood why single mittens were not available, since everybody loses them like crazy.

Well, I do, anyway.

P.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

The best way to keep them together, of course, is to have a string between them, but if you're only wearing one that's not very effective. Also I remember being very embarrassed by having "idiot mittens" as a kid, which is what we called the strung-together ones.

[unhappytriad.livejournal.com]

Ask your prosthetist. I expect he/she knows a lot of people who only need one mitten, and which one and what size, for that matter.

There are organizations for the swapping around of single shoes, for people who either need only one or need two shoes of different sizes. Mittens are a lot cheaper than shoes, though, so there's less motivation to start something like that for mittens.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Hey, good idea! They do a limb deficiency clinic at the RIC a couple of times a year, where the kids can hang out together a bit and they can see an orthopedist, prostheticist, and OT all at once. We haven't been yet but if we go to the next one we'll bring the lefty mittens.

[naomikritzer]

Land's End sells single mittens!

They call it the "Lost Mitten Club," and in theory you are supposed to use it to replace half of a pair you already bought. However, all you do is call customer service with the item number of the mittens you like, and tell them you need a lost mitten replacement, you want the right-hand mitten of {whichever style you like} and they'll charge you 1/2 the cost of a pair and ship you the mitten for free.

That said, a full pair of Target mittens is a lot cheaper than a half pair of Land's End mittens.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

That's a great tip! I will have to try that when he's a little older. For now, the cheapies will do.