Tagless underwear: My son never leaves home without them
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My son is a freak. We bought him a
boatload of new underwear for Christmas. Oh, stop it - he got his fair share of fun gifts, trust me. Besides, this is
one kid who's actually delighted when you get him new underwear, especially if the pairs sport Batman and Spider-Man.
The only thing is, we've had to make a slight, um, modification%uFFFD to all of his new underwear: the tags. He hates
them. He claims they're "itchy". Nearly every item of clothing he owns is tagless by now.%uFFFD And let me
tell you, clothing manufacturers don't make it easy to remove 'em like they did in the good ol' days. Underwear
producers in particular seem obsessed about designing the tag in a way that removing it nearly requires mutilating your
purchase; we've had to remove most of them with surgical precision using a box knife.Does anyone else have kids who are obsessive like this about tags? Or am I the unfortunate loner?
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1-10-2006 @ 1:15PM
Cathy said...When my Aspie child was little, I had to remove tags from everything. Hanes makes tagless undies and shirts now.
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1-10-2006 @ 1:15PM
suburban misfit said...Nope, not alone. However, my son has a sensory disorder so life in general with him is a challenge (the sensory disorder being the most mild of his "afflictions"!).
Hanes makes tagless shirts and underpants. And Old Navy has recently added tons and tons of tagless shirts to its inventory. Oh, and we even found seamless socks! Actually, the seams are on the *outside*, but it seems to appease him.
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1-10-2006 @ 1:44PM
Ann Adams said...Once again, Suburban Misfit snuck in ahead of me. I didn't know about the seamless socks so thanks for that. I haven't bough "tagged" underwear for a while now.
Note: They're made for grownups as well. I buy Hanes but by now, I'm sure several other manufacturers have climbed on board. Such a simple idea and what a difference it makes.
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1-10-2006 @ 2:41PM
christy said...My nephew always had to wear his socks inside out because of the seams. Luckily with my own kids they could wear a burplap sack and not notice.
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1-10-2006 @ 3:44PM
Matthew Miller said...I dunno about kids, but *I* sure can't stand the tags on underwear and seams on socks. Makes me all fidgety.
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1-10-2006 @ 3:49PM
DIANE said...I GUESS I HAVE THE OPPOSITE PROBLEM. MY BOYS THROW A FIT IF THE TAG IS STICKING OUT OF THE NECK OF THEIR SHIRTS OR IF IT IS MISSING FROM ANY OTHER ARTICLE OF CLOTHING.
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1-10-2006 @ 9:59PM
Mary said...My kids never notice tags, but the older I get, the more they bother me. (I have grand plans to be a cranky, eccentric old bat when I'm eighty.) My favourite style of underwear, incredibly comfy, has just changed the material and style of their once silky-soft tags, and then now scratch me like crazy. Argh! Picture me on the bedroom floor and a dozen pairs of underwear, carefully teasing the damn things out of the seams with my stitch-ripper.
My tip: go to a sewing supply store and buy a stitch-ripper. They get the most stubborn tags out with minimal damage to the garment!
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1-10-2006 @ 11:44PM
P.Gardiner said...My daughter has the tag problem, sock seam problem, blue jeans are too stiff, underarm seams too bulky problem, and it goes on. Some stuff we fight her on, others we let go. She wore jeans when she had to at horseback riding, and some days a shirt will bother her, other days she lets it go. In addition to tagless underwear, she also prefers them large so the elastic doesn't bind. They barely stay on. Before you start thinking she was a syndrome of some sort, when I met her father he routinely cut tags out of clothes, and his mother still does. Genetics!!!
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1-29-2006 @ 9:19PM
Martha said...I've never posted anything before but I had to on this one. In fact, I got on line to look for some tagless underwear, and this came up. My three year old is obsessed. It started on his shirts and I'd use scissors. When I started doing everything else I began using a seam ripper. I do think some is genetics and some of it is now habit although his skin does look a little irritated sometimes. Unfortunately, he's now into picking at the threads until he gets one free. He does this at school and out shopping. Lately I'm wondering if there'll be anything left when we get home. I always am sure to cut all threads etc. out, but now I'm looking for something better. So, No! You're not the only one. And
I'd like any advice too.
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