Comments on: Average tshirt sizes for elementary-aged kids

Question: Average tshirt sizes for elementary-aged kids

artifarce — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:58:33 -0800

Looking for a chart or opinions on good average sizes to best suit a random sampling of elementary school kids.

I need to provide t-shirts for a few kids in each grade, grades K-5, without knowing whom I'm buying it for ahead of time. Previous years have convinced me that I have absolutely no standard to go by, since with my own skinny kids as references I have bought too many dinky shirts. Ideally, what I'd base my order on would allot two sizes for each grade and I could total it up from there.

So as an example, it's obvious to me that a youth S is a safe bet for average kindergarteners, and I would also order M as the next size up. But my experience breaks down for any ages/grades after that.

This is the size chart for the brand I ordered last year: http://www.jerzees.com/29BR.shtml

By: hoyland

hoyland — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:18:13 -0800

For what it's worth, when I was a kid, baseball shirts (which were those you've linked to, I think) were distributed by lining everyone up by height and handing out numbers in sequence. Assuming you aren't ordering shirts for a baseball team, you could phone the park district or Little League or whoever and ask them, as they're presumably faced with a similar problem.

By: not that girl

not that girl — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:23:14 -0800

Also, if it helps, my experience as a parent in similar situations is that the adults buying the shirts are less concerned that the shirts fit than that the shirts not be too small. In other words, they seem to buy more of the larger sizes and not fret if some kids' shirts hang down to mid-thigh.