Clothes

This week, whilst sat downstairs with the first cup of tea of the day, I heard Andy say "What a poor deprived little boy!".
Why would he say that? Joseph is not deprived in any way at all, he get as many hugs as we can possibly give him, I always do my best to provide him with fruit and vegetable meals that are cooked in many different ways so he doesn't get bored and boy does he have a lot of toys. I've put a stop to more toy purchases until we can find more space to keep them - by buying a much bigger house.
No, the reason for his deprivation was his baby-gro, which at last had shown that it was too small for him by going at the toe. I was presented with a giggling little boy with the teeny nail of his teeny toe just sticking out. Sadly, that was one of my favourite baby-gros, it was red and made him look like he'd stolen the underwear of a cowboy.
Still, the label did say 9-12 months on it and he's a strapping lad at 15 months, still on the 75th percentile for height so above average for his age. It's not surprising that the baby-gro in question was finally showing the strain.
We dug out the pack of new babygros I bought quite a while ago that clearly state that they are for 12-18 months on the label. Perhaps they were actually for a 12-18 month elephant, they certainly weren't going to fit my son, he'll have to grow another foot (in height, not an actual foot) before they fit him. As I said before he's above average in height so just where did Sainsbury's, for indeed it was from their baby range, get their measurements from?
To make it even sillier he's currently in bed asleep (well, quiet at least) in a baby-gro with a label boasting 6-9 months on it and it's much bigger than the red one we just threw away!
And I thought the sizes on womens clothes were variable and unreliable. You'd think clothing retailers could have some consistency in their ranges, or at least someone getting sizing information for them who actually knows something about the average size of babies.
On the other hand we have more than one top that is the right age for him and fits around him all right and the sleeves are fine, but they're just too short in the body. Does my son have an unusually long torso, or are the clothing designers actually making things for baby orang-utans?
Who knows? After all, if they let Posh Spice have her own clothing label then that doesn't bode well for the rest of the industry.