I always buy winter jackets in the next size up and then hopefully the kid gets more than one winters worth of wear out of them. My younger DS also has a closet full of various sizes of hand me downs from my older DS and some are a little too big but he wears them anyway! The only thing that really needs to fit just right is shoes. More @Wikipedia
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