What brands are ‘in’ for an 12 year old boy? I need to buy DS a new winter coat and a few other bits. He likes Nike trainers but beyond that is fairly clueless about what’s in, although he desperately wants to fit in. Before I get flamed, he has high functioning ASD and struggles socially - although he doesn’t really know what is “cool”, he knows he wants to be like the cool kids, and anything we can do to minimise the stress of having the “wrong” gear at school will be a good thing (and hopefully avoid costly mistakes).
Would a North Face jacket be good? Jack Wolfskin? We need warm, waterproof, outdoorsy. He hates coming shopping, and gets overwhelmed looking online, so taking him with me to choose something isn’t an option - I probably need to narrow it down to 2 or 3 online choices. Thank you.
‘In’ brands for a 12 year old boy
Somanyreasons · 12/10/2019 21:43
North Face is def popular here.
While on the subject of costs does anyone know where you can get warm north face coats at a reasonable price ? Prefer not to remortgage the house for my sons coat 
Rachelover60 don’t I wish that it was that simple 
Thanks everyone else
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He sounds so similar to my own ds 12 who has high functioning autism. I posted on here once asking for 'in' trainer advice and someone said it was the saddest thread they had ever read 
. Anyway my son has a lyle and scott coat, a north face, a pepe jeans denim jacket and a converse pack away raincoat. On tk maxx they have some good brands on I bought the lyle and scott coat from there and a few mums have asked where it's from.
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