Why are boys clothes so rubbish ?!?

I'd say buy from the girl section, but the girl section is full of tighter, shorter clothes. Shopping for three-year-old B/G twins, I can tell you there's a market for generously-cut, brightly-coloured clothing, without everything being pink/glittery/unicorny. I don't understand children's clothing.

Wait until your son is into the child section and out of the infants. It gets worse!! 😥

I agree with others about George at Asda having fun, affordable boy bits. I don’t have a boy but lots of the stuff I buy from the Little Angels range on their website for DD is categorised as boys even though I think it’s really cute and suitable for both.

Agree with others about not necessarily discounting girls bits either. There’s lots of nice unisex clothes out there that have to be categorised one or the other online but will work for both.

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Next is particularly bad for girl v boy. Look at the difference in these pants! Girls deserve good elastic!

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On a more budget end, the Asda Little Angels range often has some great pieces in it and they wear really well too. Just because Organic Zoo is too pricy for me most of the time, even second hand. I don’t think it’s in store though, just online.

The are depressing print-wise but they’re cut SO much better. Even the pants! Girls pants are so much flimsier. My daughter’s leggings last waaaaay less time than my sons’.

So many people seem to think this is clever ‘why not shop for your son in the girls section? Clothes have no gender!!’….. well, because I want them to be able to play without their clothes restricting them? Frills, rubbish flimsy fabrics, knees that get holes, too-short t-shirts that aren’t long enough in waist or sleeve. Depressing!

So yeah, rather than my sons wearing girl’s clothes, my daughter wears boys clothes. Obviously she loves unicorns and rainbows and all that but we do not shy away from the boys section! And I shopped for my boys (no longer small) in fun shops with fun prints.

My mum went through a phase of buying them both camo, probably because it was the only thing available, that was depressing and dreary!

I think you’re misled about girls options!

girls are limited to pink and frilly. Yes variations on that theme but IMO it’s as limited as boys are. Walk into next and it’s pink one side and brown dinosaurs the other. Finding non-pink or practical trousers is a challenge- girls trousers seem to be slim fit, and even jeans will have pink flowers or princess style embroidery.

girls definitely don’t have more options, it’s pink or pink. Pastel purple maybe at a push.

i used to buy from eBay a lot. Get more value for your money. Pumpkin patch, vertbaudet, Jojomamanbebe, gap, and the like were my go to, and I never restricted by gender, I’d happily buy “boys” clothes for girls and coce versa. EBay I also got some good designer bargains which were a lot less gender styles and colour coded.

Blade and Rose, Kite, Frugi and Boden all have nice stuff and different options.

Massive gap in thr market for cute, fun, bright boys clothes. I'd love to be able to put my boys in more colourful stuff, I have to hunt for what they do have. I fortunate to be able to spoil my boys and think it's a shame for the economy that I don't spend as much as I could do due to lack of choice! If I had an entrepreneurial bone in my body I'd start the business myself!!

It’s because they are building up to the teenage years of either jeans and a polo or joggers and a T mandatory uniforms. No coats unless it’s a big old goose one.

I hate that girls clothes very rarely have pockets. Hate that. Also that it’s all pink or sparkly. I have one daughter who loves that and one who shops in the boys section. So I think really shops get it wrong on both sexes often.

I really do not like and would not dress my little boy in clothes with any kind of character, Marvel, Minecraft, cartoon faces. I also don't like the baby turd brown that Primark is fond of using, or the horrendous "Little Prince / Little Man".

I like Asda for brightly coloured plain t shirts and stripey t shirts.

DC hates jumpers so I look for hoodies on Vinted from a mix of brands - we have some nice plain but brightly coloured ones from TU and Vertboudet. We also have some lovely little checked shirts from Next that I bought on Vinted.

Boden and Frugi do cute kids clothes

I felt the same way about girl clothes when my daughter was younger. (She in 3-4 now) it’s still not great.

Most of her clothes have always come from Zara and H&M. I used to buy more “boys” clothes as the colours were better.

Next go up to age 16 but not in our store, only online. Mine is just in small mens clothes, but I found women's size small, things like hoodies ( as long as they weren't cropped) were a good fit and come in bright colours. Nobody knows which sex the clothes are meant for.

Sometimes all bloody three on one top, a space dinosaur in a truck, like dude, chill 😂

Yep, Minecraft (which ds5 doesn’t have the first clue about) Spider-Man and lightning McQueen in shades of black, navy and grey. It is so miserable for little boys.

I do have a few items from Boden and JoJo (although he’s outgrowing that) but even they are stereotyped and assume dinosaurs, space and vehicles are the only interests a boy can have!

Oh, I was quite unhelpful there! Good ones are, I think, Boden, Joules sometimes, Kite, Zara (altho they can be a bit beige happy at times!), H&M and sometimes Tu. Vinted is great for the dearer brands, and for some you may not have thought of already, plus vintage stuff can be lovely!

I used to feel the same when looking at the endless tracksuits and cartoon characters but H&M and Next do very nice boys clothes in my opinion.

My 13 year old doesn't want to wear black everything, but good luck finding anything else in that size! In fact, I struggle to find any clothes that fit him as a lot of places only go up to 12 in kids sizes, but men's (even in xs) swamp him. He can't wait to grow into adult sizes as apparently men are allowed colours in their clothing.

Vinted for Little Green Radicals, Kite, Frugi, Maxomorra etc. I have managed to get DS to age 10 in bright fun clothes with these brands.

They’re not missing a trick. They have more girls clothes more they sell more of them vs. the boys clothes. Maybe there’s a wider debate there but it is what it is and the shops are only reacting to demand.

Personally I like Zara, Uniqlo for basics and Next for slim fit trousers with the odd thing from Jacadi for special occasions. You definitely find more online for boys. Avoid the supermarkets unless it’s for basic basics like pants that no one sees or it’s from the school uniform section which usually has nice plain polo shirts.

It’s shit isn’t it? It doesn’t get much better either… well, it gets significantly worse actually 😂 at least some places still do lovely little boys clothes at preschool age. My son is 4 but in clothes 8-9 years (sometimes bigger!), and the selection is fucking dire. Grey joggers, black joggers, Minecraft or PlayStation hoodies, ugly drab T-shirts… it’s a nightmare. I’ve actually ‘made’ a few tops for him myself recently with iron on transfers because it’s just so shit that he doesn’t get to wear proper little boy clothes anymore. Out here looking like a teenage roadman if I’m not careful 😂