Bad pants
I'd been under the impression, maybe based on the ridiculous rules about what can legally be sold as sleepwear here, and all the related weirdness about killer baby gear that never killed anyone, that you could not sell children's clothing with real drawstrings in the US, lest they somehow manage to string themselves up from the crib rails with the child still inside them. This gradually proved untrue, since now and then I do find something with a functional drawstring, which only makes it more galling when most of them turn out to be blind-ended bits of twill tape sewn pointlessly onto the front of the pants to dangle there, laughing at me.
The "decorative" drawstring was bad enough, but this pair actually boasts a "mock" drawstring. What did I ever do to the little boys' pants industry that it should mock me so?
I have a skinny almost-three-year-old boy who owns scarcely a pair of bottoms which could not easily be pantsed right off his skinny butt were one so inclined. Most of the pants that do fit him are meant for younger kids and don't even have the waist adjusters that come in around a 2T in most brands. And now, they mock me!
The answer, so far, seems to be The Children's Place 24M size, with waist adjusters. They're the only ones that fit in the waist without riding up on his ankles in dorkissimo fashion. He is many years out from giving a damn about any of this, of course, but I may never recover from having had to learn the arcane rules of jeans fit in junior high, the hard way (if you think these pants are mocking me you should have seen the junior high kids). I'm not going to start him out pre-scarred by Bad Pants.
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