Back to School Shopping

Today our play date was cancelled, so we decided to get some back to school shopping done. It's still quite tricky for me because after 30+ years of shopping for clothes in the US I struggle with sizing & what to call things here in The UK.

When we first moved, I thought "Hey, I speak the language. No problem!"  Not quite. Nothing is the same, even if I could go to my favourite store. (See, even auto correct is in on it. It didn't like the way I spelled favorite there). Although I hear there is now an H & M in our old mall. 

Anyway, shopping for pants here always garners me weird looks and someone is bound to direct me to another part of the shop. Pants as I know it are called trousers here and what the British refer to as pants are what I call underwear. Confused?  Me too!  So are the sales associates. You see, I'm not a shopper. I want to get in and get out. I don't like browsing. But I can't because not only do I have to find what I'm looking for, I have to convert sizes to something that works in my brain. For whatever reason, I can't work out centimetres (auto correct did it there too). I know how to convert it to meters and everything, but I just can't convince my brain to think about clothes in centimetres. And I haven't even gotten to shoes...

So I created this helpful list to help with back to school shopping but also school itself.   Until you get the hang of it I hope this Back to School List  helps.

I also found this website that has a shoe size chart with US vs UK shoe sizes (plus as an added bonus European and Japanese shoe sizes).Shoe Conversion Table