In Danish if you have one tiny thing it is 'lille'. If there are more than one of them they are 'små'.
In English you have both words (little and small) but don't seem to make a singular/plural distinction - so are they little shirts? Or small shirts?
"Small shirts" just sounds better doesn't it? In New Zealand (and possibly Scotland) they are "wee shirts".
F has a great-nephew living in Canada. There is only one of him so he is probably little. Having said that, small seems to suit the description of him better than little. As in: He's small, or better still, 'The Wee Bloke'.
Either way he is about 6 or 7 months old and not yet dangerous to cats. He's going to get lost inside these shirts any time in the next 12 months or so; which is probably a good thing as they are summer shirts and might meet in him in age and size at the start of summer in 2022. By then she might be able to go there and deliver them in person.
By then she might have to pack an extra suitcase. There is a pile of fabrics on the ironing board and all the 'small' sized sewing patterns are out on the floor ... shirts, overalls, vests, jackets...
Mr B's family added another grand-daughter in the same week that Wee F (for his name, meaning 'a great happiness', starts with F too...maybe we should refer to him as F2) was born. So there are separate stacks of sparkly party dress material and lace and frilly dress patterns ... and Vogue style coat patterns...
There is a question of some sort in there about checks (plaids for our US friends) and earth colours for boys, and fairy costumes and high fashion for girls, but cats don't care. They are all small humans to me and the clothes sort of help me tell them apart before they get within range; and take suitable avoiding precautions.
Philosophical meanderings about gender stereotypes aside, F's getting ahead of herself isn't she? For now they are just messing up baby-grows, and nappies and bibs aren't they?
F's note: The 'checks' are significant ,by the way, in that they are remnants of fabrics F's Mum used to make work shirts for TJ (F's Dad and special grandfather to F2's own Dad). He'd have loved F2.
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