CHILDREN CLOTHING SUITABILITY:

Infancy Period: 

Infants are usually most susceptible to catch cold therefore a sufficient and adequate care should be taken in this regard in selection of suitable clothing to be worn by the infant. The enjoying of good health needs to be carefully planned with precautions to have protection from disease by early detection and treatment.

There is an opinion widely prevalent in society, regarding tender child’s natural high power of liberating heat therefore auto resistance to cold, although this erroneously popular belief exists, which results into many fatal results. This view receives strength by inconspicuous manner. Injurious results do not surface immediately after the cold exposure. Very frequently fatal happening is assumed from another wrong basis or usually the infant sinks related to an illusive cause.

Warm Blooded Views & Facts:

Ability to generate heat in warm-blooded animals is minimum at birth, which gets increased every year to adult age; young animals, in place of  being warmer as compared to adults, are in practice  a degree or two colder, and release their heat more quickly.  These facts usually are not known to great number of people. Their belief that developing "hardening" of constitution, this wrong belief induces parent to push delicate child into the cold bath during all seasons of year, and obviously expose the child to the cold instead of protecting, moreover to face the chilly easterly wind, the child wears light clothes instead of warm woolens providing insulation to the body.

Selection of Clothing Material:

Principles for useful guidance of a parent in selecting clothing materials for her infant are briefed below: 

• Material of clothing and quantity of clothes should have the ability to conserve adequate percentage of warmth of the body, regulated by the season and the delicate or strength built in the constitution of infant. To meet this objective, parent of infant should guard against very common tradition of covering the child with many folds of warm clothing, and confining infant regularly hot and closed rooms; following an opposite extreme practice. This also helps in protecting the child because this practice render the tender skin more susceptible to diseases and as a matter of fact instead of protecting the infant from diseases it does just opposite in action by causing diseases are intended to be guarded.

• The stitching of clothes should be such as to not to pose restrictions by their use in respect of free body movements and should be loose enough to permit skin perspiration to freely exit outside instead of absorbed by the clothes, which are in immediate contact with body giving irritation.

• The quality of material should not cause irritating effect to the delicate skin of the infant. During infancy flannel material although has rough feeling has right suitability for the growing child, because it creates mild stimulus necessary for the tender skin to remain healthy.

• The making of the wearing clothes are to be based on simplicity to easily putting on and removing without causing uneasiness to the child, because the sight of an uncomfortable dress is quite irritating to infant, making it to cry, any forceful attempt produces mental irritation. There should be no use of pins on the dress the use which can be hazardous by the careless attitude of nurses, and even ordinary movements of the infant can prove hazardous.

• Wearing clothes must be changed every day. A foremost necessity of good health is that complete change of wearing clothes is practiced every day. By not doing so washing of clothes shall not be that clean as required by the good health norms of the child and skin diseases shall take place further worsening the health.

Childhood & Clothes:

Clothing needs of childhood are similar as of infancy. It should be able to offer same warmth, and are made from materials which do not cause irritation of skin, and made for practical easiness to wear.

Regarding due warmth, it is worth once again repeating, scanty clothing causes frequent production of very sudden attacks of disease. Children who are wear thin clothes in the presence of a variable unpredictable climate there are frequent cases of croup and other harmful affections of the air- passages and lungs. It must be kept in mind that too much warm clothing is also a producer of disease, many times same diseases which occur in by  cold exposure, very likely makes body very susceptible cold exposure , especially by .

Combating Cold:

Cold air inhaled in the lungs. It is necessary to adjust the wearing clothes as per the requirement of the season. Wearing of winter dress should be started early do not keep it aside for storage because in the spring and autumn the extreme variations of climate are experienced and during these periods there is greatest incidence of congestive and inflammatory complaints.

The Clothing Material:

In respect of cloth material flannel is suitable for the skin for this age.  It is advantageous to wear flannel clothing during night. During summer season cotton clothing should be replaced flannel clothing can be again started in early autumn.

In the case of delicate constitution child flannel clothing cause irritation in such cases fleecy hosiery is comfortable and be used satisfying the health considerations.

Comfortness of Clothes:

Another important step regarding boy’s clothes is that they should not restrict the free movement of body and limbs. They should loose at the chest and waist with no pressures to cause injury. All the muscles should have full freeness to move about in an un-restrictive manner and able conduct free exercise which promotes health and growth.

Dresses of girls should also provide same benefits. In childhood phase there is no difference in the dresses of each sex children. Just at the time when the girl is completing this phase of life and entering into new phase the dress is now adopted suiting her health and needs of growing body. Use of tight under wears come in the way of a free and full performance of respiratory organs.