Plastic-free July: Day 23

I hadn’t thought of clothes as a plastic danger-zone, but the other day I ordered some pants from eBay for my daughter (we’re running short of pants which fit her, and I knew I wasn’t going to have a chance to get to the shops any time over the next few days). Online shopping does seem to be a bit of a blind spot for me, as the packaging isn’t so obvious! I went for eBay rather than any of the high street shops because a) I could get them cheaper, and b) I could look for specific colours/characters which might not be currently fashionable (rather than being limited to Peppa Pig, Frozen, Spiderman, and Pirates). They all arrived today (I didn’t mean to order two identical sets — they didn’t look the same in the pictures — but hey ho, if she likes them she’ll have two lots) and you can see how plastic-wrapped they are:

One set is bizarrely wrapped in clingfilm over cardboard, presumably some kind of home-made packaging; the other is in standard shop packaging for pants (plastic bag with tiny hanger attached); both were posted in plastic postbags (and sadly not the biodegradable ones mentioned in my previous post).

While the plastic packaging for postage was an unnecessary extra, I’m not sure how I’d buy new pants for my daughter in shops without any plastic packaging. (Pants for grown-ups are sometimes sold singly on hangers, but those are the sort I can’t afford to buy! Also, I’m guessing the hangers are single-use…) Second-hand toddler pants are hard to come by, for obvious reasons, though Freegle would probably be worth a try. Does anybody know of anywhere that sells pants in toddler sizes without plastic packaging? Bonus points if they’re Disney-free as well!