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To think green is quite neutral as a colour?

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Mshonie · 02/03/2025 21:01

Out today with DD(2) wearing a puddle suit as where we were was very muddy. I put her in this

https://www.marksandspencer.com/hooded-frog-puddlesuit/p/clp60496763?color=GREENMIX

Absolutely everyone referred to her as ‘he.’ It doesn’t bother me and in fairness the puddle suit is a hand me down from her brother but I’d have thought the outfit was definitely neutral rather than boy?

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smallchange · 02/03/2025 21:05

Mshonie · 02/03/2025 21:01

Out today with DD(2) wearing a puddle suit as where we were was very muddy. I put her in this

https://www.marksandspencer.com/hooded-frog-puddlesuit/p/clp60496763?color=GREENMIX

Absolutely everyone referred to her as ‘he.’ It doesn’t bother me and in fairness the puddle suit is a hand me down from her brother but I’d have thought the outfit was definitely neutral rather than boy?

It is, but I once put toddler ds in a navy coat with little foxes on it and when I expressed bemusement that he'd been called "the little girl" was told that things with little motifs on them were clearly girls' clothes.

I would have thought that both yours and my item would be gender neutral but hey ho.

DappledThings · 02/03/2025 21:05

Yes, but people are really weird about the colours of children's clothes.

DD was once wearing a blue cardigan and someone asked me "what's his name". When I said her name the woman got really huffy and said it was my fault people thought she was a boy if I put her in blue. I hadn't actually been bothered at all what sex a random passerby thought my baby was but yeah, people are weird about you not following their random assignment colours to sex.

KellySeveride · 02/03/2025 21:04

Yes that particular item is very much neutral. If I saw a kid in it I wouldn’t guess either way.

Amd yes generally green is quite neutral as a colour.

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