High street stores offering 'plus size' clothing with elasticated waists to children as young as THR
HIGH street stores are offering plus size clothing with elasticated waists to kids as young as three.
Brit chains stock school uniforms and casual clothes in larger clothing ranges, with some items at least "three inches wider".
H&M is the latest store to launch a "generous size" range which includes jeans, shorts and jogging bottoms for kids aged eight to 14.
The brands shorts for eight to nine year old's have a waistbands more than three inches wider than a standard pair.
Tesco already had launched a "plus fit" range for kids aged three to 16.
A pinafore for three-year-old girl's included in its range is two inches larger than the average dress.
Marks & Spencer stock school blazers, trousers, shorts and skirts in its larger range, "plus", for children aged between four and 16.
News of larger clothing lines comes after figures from the NHS National Child Measurement Programme revealed one in five schoolkids aged 10 to 11 are obese.
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Kids in Camberwell Green, South London are most likely to be obese or overweight than other children across England.
At the other end of the spectrum Wilmslow East in Cheshire East has the lowest proportion of childhood obesity and excess weight in the country.
Tam Fry from the National Obesity Forum said in a statement: "It is shameful that so many chains now have to cater for plus-size children who are so very young."
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