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clothes_horse · Dooney & Bourke

my 6 year old daughter needs jeans/pants...

pollyjean23 · Marc Jacobs

I remember Old Navy being the worst when I worked at a bookstore (crawling a lot to stock shelves), so I'd avoid ON as much as poss.

Take advantage of great sales at department stores (like Dillard's, Macy's, JCPenney, etc.) as one of several resources for jeans and pants. I suspect that some of their brands will last longer.

Carhartt and Dickies make kids' clothing. Those have got to last.

Levi's are usually longer/harder wearing too (Kohls still carries Levi's?)

-- Edited by pollyjean23 at 16:20, 2008-01-11

cahabo · Kate Spade

My five year old has a pair of jeans from The Children's Place that is holding up way better than her pair from Old Navy. She plays hard too. I'd like to try Gymboree's jeans on her. Their corduroy's have been pretty good so far. I wouldn't get their knit pants though. My daughter got a hole in the knee within a month. Gymboree is kind of pricey to me, but they always have really good sales.