Canadian moms, where do you buy warm, affordable clothes for bigger babe?

[doulawoman]

where do you Canadian moms get affordable, quality, warm clothes for your bigger babies (around 20lbs and up?) especially: pants that will fit over cloth diapers, long sleeved onesies, short sleeved undershirty onesies, warm sweaters, mittens, hats, winter coats etc.? Dd is 7 months old and close to 20lbs. She's wearing 12mo+ pants and 6-12 month shirts/onseies depending on if I need them to button up. I am havign a lot of trouble findign warm quality clothes for her even though I continue to scour all the consignment and thirft stores regularly, and even walmart/the bay and other big chains I'd rather no supprot have very little in the way of practical warm clothes that fit over cloth diapers and arwen't very synthetic.
Are there etsy stores? Online com panies? Help, me I'm lost. I amsewign and knittign as mucha s I can but we've hto a cold snap and dd has nothing to wear. I'd like canadian companies as the shipping from the US is pretty$$

I lvoe woolens too. Stuff like Nova Naturals... I\d conside rtus stores if the prices are good enough to offset the shipping.

[lifeguard]

For quality outdoor wear we like MEC. They have limited baby/toddler stuff but so far everything we've purchased there has been good quality.

Otherwise almost everything we have has been hand me downs.

Layering works best for us as well.

[Tway]

I love the Gagou Tagou stuff they sell at l'Aubainerie (also saw them at Toys R Us). Very affordable and they come in lots of sizes.

[Perdita_in_Ontario]

I like MEC stuff too - they have the most awesome baby booties for trips outside. I've always been happy with the stuff I've bought there.

I find that Gymboree and Osh Kosh fit larger, and have some of the stuff you're looking for - I tend to look for those brands at consignment stores - I most certainly don't spring for Gymboree new!

I find that Joe Fresh tops are pretty good, although many of their pants aren't accommodating for a bubble butt. I don't shop there much though because with the price of their clothes I suspect there's sweatshops involved.

Please Mum stuff seems to be good quality and practical and they quite often have sales.

[paxye]

as a pp said, Aubainerie is great esp for hats, mittens, sweaters and coats etc... they also have some woolens...

by experience you don't need much individual warm clothing is you are going to layer...

Many people overdress babies and kids in the winter... and they can overheat quickly...

[~Amy~]

MEC is the best hands down, IMO. Their stuff is good quality & reasonably priced. They are cut very generously, great for CDs. We've moved on to their children's clothing for DS & I'm still very happy with them.

[redvlagrl]

We like stuff from Gap but size up. until DD toilet trained at 23 mths she was wearing size 3 shorts from Gap even though she is of average size. Her snowsuit last year was from there.

I find Joe stuff is very stingy in the butt area so we don't go there for bottoms because sizing up doesn't work (proportions wrong/leggs too long etc). That said, their snowsuits are quite nice and cheap and roomy (we had a one piece from there last year as a backup).

Although I don't like Gymboree's style, the leggings are very roomy through the bum because they have a gusset.

In fact, if you stick with stretchy stuff like leggings you can be in the 'normal' size, IME. We just did leggings and long sleeved T with a wool sweater inside then added a Gap parka for going out or the snow pants too if we were going to be playing in the snow.

[MaxMommy]

Definately MEC. We live in the Sub-arctic and the outdoor stuff is going on to the third child with no problems....very good quality.
Please Mum stuff on sale....check online.