Kids outgrow clothes long before they wear them out
By the time our kids are 7 they've moved through about 12 sizes.¹
A study I recently read showed how adult clothing usually ends when it has holes, tears, or a worn-out look. Children's clothing stops being used as soon as it's outgrown. Our kids usually only wear something for one season.²
Which is why "used" is a strange word for it.
To me "used" describes something that's been thoroughly consumed
Some of it genuinely is. Play clothes, leggings with worn knees, a shirt that lived through a whole summer. That's real and it's easy to see.
But most of what a kid grows out of has barely been consumed at all. The dress worn to two birthday parties. The sweater from a grandmother that fit for one winter. The thing with the tag still on it, because it never got cold enough. These are the items we swap here at KidSwaps.
Every item is inspected by hand against The Closet Standard before it goes in, so what you're shopping is clothing that was outgrown rather than worn out, and it goes to a kid who's the size that garment fits right now.
