Where to buy affordable kids’ clothes in Czechia
What our sorting table has taught us about where kids’ clothes are worth buying, and where they aren’t.
Every piece we sell crosses our sorting table first. We pick it up, check the seams and the waistband, and measure it. It still surprises us how much children’s clothing comes in looking almost new: bodysuits with the tags on that nobody got round to using, leggings that have been washed twice. Kids outgrow things long before they wear them out.
So we don’t think everything your child wears has to be new.
Start with family and friends
The cheapest source, and often the best. Almost every family with older kids has a box of outgrown clothes somewhere, waiting for someone to ask. Ask before it goes to the textile bin.
Vinted, Bazoš and Facebook groups
These are the cheapest places to buy, especially bundles in one size. Vinted is widely used in Czechia, Bazoš and Sbazar are the big Czech classified sites, and most towns have Facebook groups for children’s things. In all of them you buy from a photo, from someone who judges condition their own way.
A photo of the whole garment won’t show you any of the things we reject most often. Ask for close-ups of the knees, cuffs and waistband, and for measurements in cm, because the size on the label can vary by several centimetres between brands.
On Vinted, expect a buyer protection fee and separate postage for each seller: five pieces from five people means five parcels. On Bazoš and in Facebook groups you usually pay a stranger in advance, and the 14-day return right you get from shops doesn’t apply. Collect in person when you can.
Cheap new isn’t always more expensive
A Garfield tee from Pepco cost 70 Kč new. We sell it for 59 Kč. With things that cheap the difference is small, and for socks, tights or multipack bodysuits a chain like Pepco, KiK or Primark is often the better buy.
It is different for pieces that cost more new. Cheap new clothes also tend to lose their shape after a few washes. Something that reaches us from another child has already been through those washes, so you can see how it will look.
When a shop like ours makes sense
You’ll pay a little more with us than on Bazoš. In return every piece has been across our table, has measurements in cm and one of four condition grades, and if it has a flaw, we say exactly where. Because you’re buying from a shop, you have 14 days to return.
We’re a new shop. Right now most of what we have is for babies up to two, and older sizes are being added. We deliver across Czechia and to Slovakia. If you’re unsure about sizing, the size guide converts age to height in cm.
The fabric at the back neck, just behind the woven label, has worn thin and frayed a little. It sits inside the hood and is not visible when the shirt is worn.From the listing of a hooded shirt, graded Well loved
Pay for a piece in proportion to how long your child will wear it.
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What we’d tell a friend
Not everything has to be new. A bodysuit they’ll outgrow in three months isn’t worth 200 Kč, new or not.
And when they outgrow it, don’t bin it. Pass it on in the family, sell it, or send it to us for Clover Credit.