SIZE

Finding Stuff That Fits

When buying clothes for a child you have not yet met in person can sometimes be a little tricky. Asking a sales person to guide you to the clothes for a 4 year old will not necessarily take you to clothes that will fit your soon to be home 4 year old. The children in orphanages are not the same size as the children in the United States, they are much smaller in comparison. You will need to buy clothes for them according to the measurements your coordinator gives you. Make sure, prior to travel, that you get the most up to date height and weight for your child. Otherwise your child will be swimming in their new clothes. Having to buy clothes abroad during your trip to adopt your child can be costly and time consuming. Your coordinator might be able to go to the children's home and measure your child's foot for you. Shoe-sizes are the hardest things to guess at.

Depending on how the shoe will be worn, trace either bare or sock-covered feet on a piece of paper. Then measure the tracing of the longer foot from the heel to the tip of the longest toe.




1	3 9/16	9	X-Small
2	3 7/8	10
3	4 3/16	10,5
4	4 1/2	11,5




5	4 13/16	12	Small
6	5 1/8	13
7	5 1/2	14
8	5 13/16	15

TIP: Go to an inexpensive shoe store,
like Payless, and buy 3 different sizes of the same shoe.
Get one size that would fit a child in the
age/size range that go with the measurements
you have on your child, then buy one size
bigger and one size smaller...keep your receipt
and return the ones that don't fit when you
get back, or donate them to the orphanage.




9	6 1/8	15,5	Medium

10	6 1/2	16,5

11	6 13/16	17,5

12	7 1/8	18

13	7 1/2	19,1	Large

1	7 13/16	20

2	8 1/8	20,5

3	8 1/2	21,5

4	8 13/16	22,5

5	9 1/8	23	X-Large

6	9 1/2	24

7	9 13/16	25

Clothing

Infant's Clothes




Newborn	48,3 - 54,6	3 - 4,1 kg.

3 month	57,2 - 62,2	4,6 - 5,9 kg.

6 month	63,5 - 68,6	6,4 - 8,2 kg.

12 month	69,9 - 73,7	8,6 - 10 kg.

18 month	74,9 - 78,7	10,2 - 11,6 kg.

24 month	80 - 83,8	11,8 - 13,2 kg.