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I never planned on it, but my daughter loooooves character clothing. She has frozen tennis shoes, an Skirt with 1000 Elsa faces on it, a few princess dresses and shirts. She always asks for it if we are shopping and she should wear what she likes!

I guess I'm in the minority, I don't understand how/why someone would hate character clothing on kids. Is it the majority of his wardrobe? No. Would I wear one myself? No. But he likes Blaze, Mickey, Elmo and others, and if he's excited to put on a shirt with them, I'm happy to do it. He's two, who cares?

I just don't go out of my way to buy it, but honestly that's because I do most of our kids clothes shopping online (with minimal input from them), have them try it on once it arrives, and assuming it fits & there are no complaints about comfort, we keep it. So there isn't that much opportunity for them to even see other options!

That being said, other people have bought her a handful of character things at times, and she wears it.

I think we've passed the peak of character clothing, my son is almost 6 now and his interest is waning. Right now, we have two tees , one of minions and one with spongebob and patrick. He did have Lightening McQueen crocs, but those are also done for.

Oh, and his bathing suits. He's also got TMNT, Mario Brothers and Minions there too.

I really never cared if my son was into character clothing or not. It wasn't going to be the battle I was going to fight and it turned out not to be that bad after all.

We really try to avoid it. I find that people interact with my daughter differently when she's wearing character stuff (talking to her about her appearance instead of what she is doing ie "wow look at your my little pony helmet it's so pretty!" Instead of "you are going so fast on your bike").

The only characters I love are Hello Kitty and Minnie so DD has some clothes with those characters. However she does love Elsa and Ariel so we have pajamas with those characters. I don't mind that much since it's not her entire wardrobe and she is so happy when she wears them!

I try to avoid it because my LO is a toddler and gets very opinionated about what he wears. If he had Paw Patrol or Thomas stuff it would be all he wanted to wear.

Thankfully my son isn't into characters or cartoons yet so we don't really have this issue in terms of a power struggle. I generally don't like character clothing because yes it's tacky looking, but mostly because they are often made of some awful fabric. My boys are sweaty and I'm picky about getting them soft cotton clothing that's comfortable to play hard in but can be comfortably worn for naps. They hardly even wear shirts with collars, denim, and fleece as a result. The weird rayon/polyester blends a lot of the character clothes comes feels gross to me. DS has a few cotton Mickey baby leggings my mom got him and the boys have matching cotton Superman PJs but so far that's it.

Our preschool isn't media free in its dress code but does not allow clothing that has elements of fighting or violence. So no ninja turtles, superheroes like Iron Man or Batman or Superman, anything with aggressive speech, clothing that has angry or aggressive looking creatures on it, etc. So I assume paw patrol or Thomas is fine.