Children need gloves even more than adults: the skin is more delicate, and an active lifestyle with a constant desire to touch everything requires special warming of the hands . Despite the fact that mittens are most often the children's option, many for one reason or another buy the child’s gloves.
But how not to make a mistake? After all, children grow quickly, and each time you have to purchase a larger accessory, without the ability to equal the previous one. In the meantime, gloves should neither constrain movements, nor squeeze wrists, nor fall off hands.
Standard sizes of children's gloves
In Russia and other CIS countries, it is customary to consider the size of the gloves to grasp the palm of a person in its widest part: at the base of four fingers, but not grabbing a large one. That is, if the measuring tape showed 10 centimeters, then in post-Soviet countries this will correspond to 10 gloves. If the result is not an even number of centimeters, then you should round the number up.
Traditionally, gloves include gloves up to size 17 (or up to 19–20, if teenage options are included in the line).
How to determine the size of children's gloves for purchase in the online store
The international range of glove sizes differs from the Russian one, so in many online stores the data will differ from the usual numbers. Before choosing gloves for a child, you need to measure his palm, find out the Russian size, and then correlate it with the international using a special table.
Sometimes the sites do not indicate the size of the product, but the age for which they are intended.
This is a less accurate indicator due to the uneven growth of children, but some manufacturers use it. In order not to be mistaken, you need to evaluate the estimated size of the gloves for several systems and compare the results: they should match at least approximately. If there is a noticeable difference between them, then the choice should be given to the larger option, since in case of an error, you can leave the accessory at a time when the baby is older.
Approximate ratio of age and size of gloves
If there is no opportunity to measure the palm ( for example, an accessory is chosen as a gift ), then, despite the fact that all children grow and develop in different ways, on average, you can rely on age when determining size (Russian / international):
- 0-6 months: 10 / -
- 6-12 months: 11/0
- 1-2 years: 12/1
- 2-3 years: 13/2
- 4-6 years: 14/3
- 7–8 years old: 15/4
- 9–10 years old: 16/5
- 11-12 years: 17/6.
- 13-14 years: 18/6
- 15–16 years old: 19/7
- 17 years old: 20/8.
But you can’t blindly rely on general data, because the size depends not so much on age as on the individual physical characteristics of the child. You can take the old gloves of the child and imagine how much more should be new. Based on this, you can understand whether it is worth trusting general information or if there are deviations, and if there are any, take them into account.
Children's Gloves Size Chart
The comparison table allows you to correlate the girth of the child’s palm with the corresponding Russian, European and international gloves size, and also helps to focus on age.
4 tips for choosing and buying children's gloves:
Tip number 1. It’s better for a child to buy gloves a little larger in size, but not by much: children grow quickly, so even in a month the hand may not fit into what was bought back-to-back . But if they are too large, they will fly off your hands and will not be able to warm children's hands.
Council number 2. Kids up to four years old are better to wear mittens: they warm better and are more suitable for the development of fine motor skills at this age. Placing each finger in a separate “compartment” is irrational and prevents heat storage. For the smallest, you can purchase options even without a thumb compartment: this way the heat is better stored.
Tip number 4. Gloves should capture most of the wrist so that the skin between them and the sleeves is not exposed during active movements. Gloves that are too short often fall off, and the child may inadvertently lose them.
Council number 5. Despite the wide assortment in online stores, it is better to choose children's things live and with your child. Children are capricious, so you need to give them a choice in color or pattern, style, comfort, and only control their choice, based on the quality of the product and its value.
Trying in any case will help you choose the size more accurately than choosing at random.
