The perfect pants for cloth diapers!

Cloth diapers during the summer are adorable. Doesn't matter if it's a solid or a pattern, seeing a little bit of fluff peek out from underneath a wispy dress makes my heart swoon. But here in Washington State, that's a short lived season. So the other 10 months out of the year I'm looking for options to keep my baby girl looking cute and not like she's got a badonkadonk.

As a cloth diapering parent you quickly learn that mainstream children's clothing brands sizing just doesn't work. Their pants seats are designed to accommodate a trimmer 'sposie butt. So then you end up buying a size up and usually have to roll up the legs. This past month when I did my bi-annual shopping spree at Just Between Friends, I picked up a few sets of sweat pants for Penny in size 24m and 2T - judging solely on how loose the diaper area looks. When I slid them onto her, I was shocked that the waist and seat fit almost perfectly but there were literally 2 extra inches of pant leg. Yes, I have a shorty. 

But sweat pants aren't a big deal. They're lounging around the house clothes and I could easily give you a wonderful slideshow of the frumpy comfortable options we have available to us. What I'm meaning to write about today is how to dress your cloth diapered little girl with at least somewhat of a sense of fashion.

For us, I've found one bulletproof way of keeping Penny cute and ensuring that one day she will not look back at her baby pictures with pure embarrassment. A very high hope, I know, but at the very least I will spare her from the bus-backup noises that ensue when she wears a 'regular' pants and shirt option that is common for children her age.

My tip: Leggings and play dresses.

Play dresses are awesome for us because:

• even if you buy them a size up (as I do), it doesn't make a huge difference because the longer the better for covering up the diaper area.
• the play dress / leggings combo works for Spring, Fall and Winter - you can always use short sleeved dress-shirts in the summer too.

Still, most leggings that you buy are reminiscent of those 'mom pants' that we all remember our mothers wearing in our growing up years (cue the bazillion red faces of grandmothers all around the country) and therefore.. not very cute. Sometimes they come with a little ruffle or lace at the bottom, but most of the time they're just a solid spandexy pant that we want to hide under a dress.

And then there's Doodle Pants.

Doodle Pants make me want to let Penny run around (with reckless abandon, of course) sans play dress. They are just too cute! You'll find each one with an adorable print on the tushie. The best part? The seat of the pants give a ton of room for those cloth diapered babes.

Want to add some cuteness to your fluffy bum? Get 15% off + free shipping here!

Connect with Doodle Pants

facebook // twitter // online

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. All opinions are my own and I LOVE Doodle Pants!