Size Difference, Fit?

6x is kind of in the middle of a 6 and a 7. It is a little longer in length and a little more generous in the waist. My daughter wore a 6 when she was 5, a 6x last year at 6 and a 7 this year. And I don't agree with previous posters that it is for chubbier kids. It really is the size in between. And yes, each brand has differences.

6X is also a tad longer. My 5yo isn't chubby but I've been known to pick up a 6x before at The Childrens Place when a regular 6 was sold out as they have adjustable waistbands.

I agree with the others about it being similar to the husky size... but what I have always wondered is why only in a 6? Why dont they have the X in other sizes... lol

Sizes 6, 6X, and 7 are intermediate sizes. They are for the girl who is not a toddler anymore but not large enough for the young ladies sizes of a medium. Often times a 4-5 is a x-small, the 6-7 a small, and then the 8-10 is medium, and 12-14 large, 16 x-large. The truth is that a girls size large is often the same size as a ladies x-small and the x-large the same as a ladies medium.

The girls sizes have smaller leg openings, smaller arm holes, more straight up and down in the hip area and less curves. The ladies will often have a fuller leg in pants and jeans, swim suits will have a high cut thigh and less coverage in a bikini top, The arm holes will be larger, the hip area will be curvier to accommodate women who have had children and their hips have widened, and the ladies shirts will have fuller breast areas with darts.

They do this the same as with the odd sizes of girls shoes. A girls size 4 is the same as a ladies size 7-8. They make them look girlish and not hoochie-mama so that the girls will still like them but make them for girls to wear as their bodies get larger but they are still little girls.

So, when buying clothes always have them try on things. Each and every designer has their own ideas about what a size is, they also have Taiwan and China and Mexico and any other country that will give them a great deal make them.

When you look at a garment and compare even the same size and style you'll get much different lengths and widths. In the store that I work in we have leotards from name brand companies. I can go over and pull the same size and style of leo off the rack and one will be 4 inches longer than the other one I am holding. They are from the same company and just different shipments. They came from different countries.

Always try on clothes and don't assume a size and style of anything is going to be the same from pair to pair.

6x is cut wider and I think a tad longer for a little bit chubbier girls. I don't mean to offend anyone over that or that it is plus size, I just don't know how to word it. For boys, I think it's called the 'husky' size.

I have noticed that a 6X is just longer in length. Not for chubbier kids at all. My daughter is a tooth pick and is in a 6x now because her 6's are too short.

6X is for the child who is a little bit taller and chunkier than a size 6 but not yet ready for a size 7. I found 6 and 6X interchangeable for my daughter and granddaughter.

re: toddler sizes. Toddler sizes have room for a diaper. So a 4T has diaper room and a 4 doesn't, making the 4T larger in the body part. The 4 is slimmer.

It's an industry wide standard to deal with a growth spurt AND taper that more than half of girls get. Rather than deal with half sizes (or their clientele switching over to euro companies or buying boys clothes for that 6mo period) there's the "magical 6x".

It's a half-3/4 size up from sixes.

Boys tend to get that spurt and taper (growth slowing down a LOT afterward, only needed new clothes once or twice a year, instead of 3 to 4 times a year) at around size 4, Girls tend to get it at around size 6. Boys tend to go somewhat wider rather than taller (but not husky wide), girls tend to go taller rather than wider. It's the last 'huzzah' in crazy-kid-growth until puberty. They're both an 'off' size (boys 4, and girls 6x), to fill a major gap in the market. ((Similar to how age 2 pants are a LOT roomier in the waist than age 3 pants. Age 2 manufacturers are accounting for 'toddler pot bellies' -their organs not being all the way inside their ribcage yet- and diapers, but in T3s and T4's the waist narrows, because most kid's waists narrow as their organs move upward and they get potty trained.))

I think it's the same as a toddler 4T and a boys 4, the boys 4 is just cut longer and wider than a 4T.

no size 6 is a regular size and size 6X is a wider and bigger size