To get “girls” stuff when I search for “boys”

…only on Mumsnet does every parent dress their boys in girls clothes, which is odd because I don't remember seeing many - if any - little boys wondering around in dresses.

And this is just obtuse- it’s not just a choice between dinosaurs/ superheroes and frilly dresses, my kids and the vast majority of people I know’s kids did and do wear stripes, plain colours, tops with dogs/ cats/ hedgehogs/ Harry Potter on, chino shorts, hoodies, jeans, joggers, funky leggings and many more clothes which look equally good on both sexes. Most girls I know over the age of 6/7 prefer not to wear dresses for day to day anyway. Loads of this stuff in next, H&M, Boden (second hand on eBay), polarn o pyret and indeed M&S before you also accuse us all of only shopping in boutiques for the woke…

https://www.marksandspencer.com/pure-cotton-dinosaur-t-shirt-28-yrs-/p/clp60652031#intid=pid_pg1pip33g2r11c1|prodflag_3%20for%202

After multiple people have now shown you, I think your search must have been wrong and was left on all. Because none of us have got the same results as you. I've never found the problem you're having, I think maybe you're not searching correctly.

https://www.marksandspencer.com/pure-cotton-dinosaur-t-shirt-2-8-yrs-/p/clp60689025#intid=pid_pg1pip33g2r4c1|prodflag_3%20for%202

starts at 2 years but will prob shrink in wash anyway.

I don't really have skin in this game anymore because the only thing DS wears these days are football/rugby/basketball strips which are unisex. That said, we do still buy the occasional non-sports-strip outfit for him and it drives me mad that shops seems to have a huge section of pinks and purples, then a section of navy blue and khaki green. What about any other colour?

DS loves bright green and yellow but it's really hard to find things he'll actually wear in a physical shop. It's also the OTT-nes of the clothes too. The pink stuff is often 99% sparkly/frilly/twee and the blue stuff is 99% minecraft/xbox/trucks. I was neither!

I was a nice range of multi-coloured clothes or clothes with, I dunno, jokes on or a picture of an axolotl or some modern art style paint splatters.

Before his sports clothes craze, I would happily let DS chose whatever he wanted in the shops from whatever section. We've had many colour changing sequin tops and lilac hoodies, along with loads of navy and grey stuff. But it's all just so dull!

Oh and finally, yes his drawers are full of fucking dinosaurs because people who design clothing aimed at boys lack imagination.

Oh the irony!

It’s not a glitch though. Many people have shown you how to search and filter and nobody else is seeing girls’ clothes.

I just checked Next and their site is fine too. I have a boy myself so I am always filtering out dresses and frills and it’s really never a problem.

This should have started eh "I'm absolutely fuming!".
Just scroll the stuff?
Breaking news, when searching for whatever item u get shown many other items, always, the search rarely leads me to a number of holy grails that would be exactly what I imagined in my mind.

Instead of going into sale first and selecting boys, it’s better to go to boys first then select All Boys’ clothing or the type you want, THEN sale. There is a big 3 for 2 banner at the top:

The search logic in sale items is never going to be as reliable as it is so dynamic.

It’s the way you’re searching. Either go to 3 for 2 on all kids then slide across to find the ‘boys clothing’ tab or go to all boys clothing then click on the ‘3 for 2’ but highlighted in yellow.

The way you’ve done it has just taken you to all the clothes on the 3 for 2 offer, you can see there’s no filter on.

Then this. No option to choose boys before seeing all the 3 for 2.

What is 'inappropriate' about lilac for a boy? Why do they just get shitty old beige?!

My friend's son would be all over the lilac and good for him!

My son regularly wears pink trousers (both leggings and joggers, though recently his preference is for joggers). He also dressed himself in a blue tshirt and red sparkly skirt on Friday (he and my daughter did a clothing swap for fun). He looked adorable.

I’m not seeing the options that you describe.
This is what I see (starting at mobile site home page)

My boys have some pink shorts this summer that they’ve hardly had off! Willies have stayed intact.

Because most clothes don't need a gender and are suitable for both.

It's only when puberty hits that some clothes have a different fit e.g. trousers with wider hips and smaller waist for girls.

If you go on the website in 3 for 2 and filter by boys these are the results.

But they are happy to dress girls in blue ones. a bit of a double standard, isn't it? When I was growing up, I had a lot of navy clothes. The colour looked good on me, pink didn't. I am still quite irritated by pink colour and can't even paint my nails in pink. I also mostly wore trousers and jeans and only had two dresses both of which I absolutely hated to wear. Nobody questioned my mum but god forbid you put a pink shirt on a boy!

They're signalling that they don't collude with gender norms. They are using the boys and girls categories because sizing and shape can sometimes differ, but making the point that they as a company believe that any style and colour is suitable for either sex.

I just followed the exact steps you described and all clothes I see is definitely unisex - graphic Ts and pastel trackies. Can't see any frilly tops and leopard leggings at all. You must have gone quite far down the rabbit hole to pull the screenshot.

Public service announcement: unless the toys are operated by the genitals (in which case they are NOT toys for children) ALL toys are suitable for ALL children. As are all careers, all clothes and all opportunities. Don’t shrink the possibilities your child has on offer.

Girls and boys clothes are sized differently, particularly as the get older. Eg the sleeves are longer in the boys.

Never had this problem. Search for boy get boy stuff. Just did it now with M&S and while there are some girls in the pics it's because those particular items are unisex. Most of it is clearly boy clothes.

This would irritate the hell out of me too op. I’m not sure I understand what the problem is with gendered clothing.