Weighted Fleece Hoodie

I got this for a skinny 9-year-old and chose the size XL for 10-12 year olds. It came promptly and nearly in a bag labeled from China and had no odors nor oily residue from dye. The XL vest is past the point of barely fitting to being noticeably high-waisted. Putting on the hood brings the waist up above the belly-button and looks like he's wearing a little brother's clothes. And for a skinny kid, there wasn't any noticeable room in the width, either, even before the added weights. It loosely fit a chunky 3-yr-old we had try it on, with the hem above the lower end of the bottom and the weighted area falling around the 3-yr-old's bottom and upper thighs. It was functional but looked like a big brother's clothes so I'd say the XL should fit an average to chunky 5-7-year-old or petite 7-9-year-old. The hood does not have any compression effect at all, loosely fitting with a floppy flat seam (no elastic or tailored cut). For a proprioceptive hoodie, it's rather pointless. It could function as a visual separation from the outside world in kids with straight hair but it poofs way out on curly hair making it more of a back and side fashion statement kind of thing, causing hair frizzies but at least blocking wind from the ears. The fleece doesn't have a texturally warm and fuzzy nap; it's more compact, smooth, industrial, which doesn't hit the sensory box we were going for. I can't imagine it being very warm. I was expecting something like REI house brand vest and think it is more like Walmart brand material. There are two roomy pockets. It's well constructed. The weight pockets are sturdy and of quality materials. The seams are straight. The weight pockets are each closed with a sturdy velcro that is sown in place. The pairs of black stitching for the velcro are faintly visible on the outside of the vest on close inspection but not unless you're looking for it. It would raise zero bullying or otherwise noticeability concerns. It seems like they bought an inferior product and then added quality workmanship only in the accommodations. When I saw this, I thought my kid would stop walking around with a fleece blanket wrapped around his head and body and would start living in this instead so I paid the extra amount for what I thought would be years of daily warm and fuzzy proprioceptive input from a hood and weights but it's not going to check off any of those boxes for us, so it's a pretty huge disappointment.