Why are boys clothes so rubbish ?!?

The likes of Crew Clothing and Lazy Jacks have some nice kids' clothes, although it is probably still skewed to girls.

You do have to look in places like Zara, sometimes they have nice stuff sometimes it’s awful. I bought DNephew a pair of corduroy trousers that his cousin had too.

Check on Vinted. There are cute boys clothes - Boden, M&S, Frugi, Next, Arket, H&M, Zara...it's not all tracksuits with truck decals

Someone else has suggested French brands - I've got lots from Verbaudet over the years, and it's very reasonably priced too. I'm quite disappointed that my son is about to grow out of their biggest sizes!

Really worth raiding vinted for children's clothes. Many of the more expensive brands for a fraction of the price. Items barely worn or brand new even!
My son has a real style about his clothing......

If you look on Vinted you’ll find lots of lovely ‘gender neutral’ clothes. Look for Frugi, Piccalily, Mini Boden, Duns, Maxomorra, Villervalla and others. If you keep using those search terms the app will start suggesting other similar brands.

It’s infuriating quite how gendered children clothes are. I buy what we like regardless of whether it’s aimed at boys or girls. Supermarkets are often a good source of cheap leggings that any child can wear but the tops are usually heavily gendered.

H&M and Lindex I found the best.

Lindex, Maxomorra, smafolk, duns, little bird, frugi all do lovely bright clothes. I hated grey and blue rubbish for my boys so they always (and still do!) dressed in colourful clothes. Next have some lovely things too, and tu can be quite good!

I miss Adams childrens wear store, they always had great boys clothes.

I feel you OP, but it gets worse past 2-3 clothes. Mines currently in 3-4 going in to 4-5. Every size up gets more limited if you don’t want sharks, crocodiles or skateboards.

I really like H&M, I’ve managed to get quite a few bits from there. Their baby range goes up to 4 too so the cute bits are available for a bit longer. It’s probably my favourite place for boys clothes at the moment. Their sizing can be a bit off though so definitely check the reviews before picking a size.

I like next too but they definitely have their fair share of boring boys clothes too so I do end up searching through endless pages to find the things I like.

What style do you like? Maybe if you share a few bits you like people could recommend where to get similar in bigger sizes?

Dress him in girls clothes, smash the gender roles.

Or just do you best not dress him in something dinosaur related.

My boys are bigger now but this was an issue when they were little.

I shopped in John Lewis Boden and frugi sale (often sizing up for next season). Little.bird.by joules Oliver also offered better boys options. Vintage nyed might be a good bet to.

The same problem exists for older boys 1 rail in the shop Vs. half the shop floor.
It has outraged my oldest child most memorably when He simply couldn't fathom why the shop had twice as much space for girls underwear compared to boys.

I found the opposite for the first 2 years, the boy stuff was full of fun bright patterns and the girls was all pastels.
now they're older, the girls stuff looks nicer but it's so impractical. You struggle to find anything that's not tight, itchy, frilly. Girls shoes have no grip and have holes in the top to let stones in
It's dressing them in a way that trains them not to be active or run or climb.

They should do all styles in a range of colours and get rid of the boy/girl divide. In primary school age the only thing that needs to be a different shape is pants.

I used to get all my sons clothes from Next, Asda, sometimes Sainsbury's. Mothercare when it was around.

I always found the clothes were lovely. Next especially do all sorts of bright colours and designs.

But I do seem to be in the minority, my eldest is nearly 18 and people used to complain about the boys clothes even back then.

Came on to say the same - Verbaudet and La Redoute. Used these even 28 years ago for my son, some beautiful clothes. Now getting things for my grandson!

yes It’s rubbish isnt it- although wait until they get to 7+ and it’s even worse!!! Unfortunately I just had to cherry pick the least offensive bits from each shop (cant get a load at once from one place) so I had to always keep an eye out. H&m online sometimes has a few bits, Asda sometimes has one or two ok bits, Primark and tu is usually a no go for me, I do tend to get most of our bits from Vinted though purely as they have nicer bits.

Yeah, mine's a teenager and everything is grey, navy or black and its hard to find anything trousers that aren't joggers or jeans (which he doesn't like).

Honestly you can just buy 'girls' stuff for more colour with a little one, no one's going to know! The only problem is that so much of girls' stuff is pink only and that everyone has now decided it's a 'girl' colour!

Agreed but also they shouldn't be gendering clothes i the first place, blue doesn't = boy and pink doesn't = girl, my boys love pink and hearts and flowers etc, as well as vehicles and supposedly 'boy only' stuff. I'm sure there are plenty of girls that love tractors and blue and green too. I buy clothes for my boys from both the 'boys' and 'girls' sections, I avoid anything I personally deem 'too girly' but otherwise some of their favourite clothes have been 'girls' ones.

Next have lovely stuff. Yes it's more expensive but their stuff is really soft and worth paying a bit extra imo. Also there is a clearance section on the site with some bits half price or better . I've got gorgeous Christmas jumpers for next year.

I’ve three boys. Hate all the joggers and character stuff too. Also hate everything in blue/brown/navy/black. Also hate camo.

I buy them lovely clothes from Frugi, Villervalla, Boden, Kite, little green radicals, maxomorra

Characters can be a difficult one. I avoided as long as possible but to be honest at a certain age it’s just all about characters and it’s hard avoiding Bluey and Elsa.

So clearly you’re the target market for pink girly clothes.

the boys sections will be aimed at those who like the brown dinosaur stuff you’re not impressed with.

can’t have it both ways 😂

Try John Lewis own brand. Often got bargains there in their clearance sale. Agree with PP’s about French style, their supermarkets often have good boys clothes.

Boots often do nice clothes.

The grass isn't greener on the other side though as many girls clothes are impractical or inappropriate. Hot pants for 2 yr olds for example or told they have to be nice, sexy or cute.

100% agree OP. Rows upon rows upon rows of girls clothes, with about half the amount for boys' and stuffed in to a back corner. And almost all over 2yrs are horrible- murky, minging colours, covered in nasty Marvel characters or weird graphics/ slogans and just tracksuits tracksuits sweatshirts tracksuits.

It makes me so annoyed, I actually told my husband once that if we won the Euromillions, I'd set up a clothes brand exclusively for boys as a hobby job.

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