Whoever is buying all the unicorns....

[Gimmeesugar]

Please stop!!

I’m absolutely completely sick of all ‘girl’ clothes and toys being unicorn themed. For instance I just thought I’d browse Monsoon’s Black Friday offer for little stocking fillers for my 4 year old and it’s just unicorn fucking central. Pink, glittery, unicorns. What are we doing to our girls!

If we stop buying unicorns they might perhaps become extinct

Really? I had no idea. So there is a reason after all.

Llamacorn

@punkAssmofo What’s the point in posting a picture of some stuff which isn’t pink or unicorn? We all know stuff that isn’t pink or unicorn exists. The issue is that 90% of the girls accessories are pink/ pastel/ glitter @nonagrey you reference the other colours but 90% of the stuff is pink etc - I spent a good ten minutes counting!

Just pointing out that there are other options in the shop. Retail companies are having are hard enough time surviving as it is. Your complaining might put others off shopping there, but there are plenty of non pink options.

PunkAssMoFo I’m glad you posted, DD1 would love that Neptune disco dress!
She loves pink and blue, space and unicorns!

Monsoon girls is a bit pink unicorn heavy this season. I was irritated by it too, because I generally like their kids’ clothes. I’ve bought dd their blue penguin pyjamas for Christmas.

Lots of shops have girl clothes with dinosaurs on at the moment. Also Next have a lot of nice tops with just stripes or a star on. Yes there are a lot of unicorns but it is still easy to buy clothes without them.

I agree that girls clothes are heavily dominated by unicorns glitter and frilly shite.

DD doesn't want to wear Boy Clothes (which aren't cut to suit her figure anyway, she needs room for hips but has small waist) because why should the default normal = male?

For us the only reliable section is the 3 for 3 part of H&M selling plain t shirts and leggings etc, and Uniqlo non skinny jeans.

I manage to find plenty of non unicorn stuff for both girls in the girls section.

Another here who is absolutely fed up with them too! Everytime I see something nice for DD it had a bloody unicorn on it somewhere!

We went to Stirling castle recently and played hunt the unicorn. They are everywhere.... in the tapestries, the ceiling cornices, the walls, carved in stone.
As the castle is a good few hundred years old I would suggest that this is not a passing phase....

Sorry it's DD1. I'm bloody sick of the pointy headed little pests but she is fucking obsessed to the point her Christmas list just consists of the word "unicorn" over and over again.

The other DD loves dinosaurs and monsters so I got them fairly balanced between the pair of them.

DS (9) loves unicorns and has made up a song about them-happily wears a bright pink unicorn onesie. Actually his favourite colour is pink. He wears what he likes-so should everyone else.

We get a lot of our kids' clothes from Boden, Kite and Sainsburys. Plenty of non-unicorn, non-llama stuff there. Pink and glittery isn't inherently bad though. DD1 says pink is her "worst favourite" colour; DD2 adores it. Would I get more parenting gold stars if DD2 was a DS?! They're just colours.

Tbh Monsoon/Accessorize (are they still the same company) would not be my go-to for practicality or diversity of colour/print. They're very tasteful and grown-up so makes sense they'd have a certain "Winter 18/19" colour palette and theme their prints.

There's plenty of plain girls clothes out there both in shops and online.

If you don't like the unicorn, girly stuff then just don't buy it.

I often go to the boy's section in shops as I find that the clothes are more practical and sometimes cheaper. I bought 3 plain gloves in h&m for 2.99 in the boys section when they only had the choice of 1 pair of pink sparkly gloves in the girls for the same price.

I’m sick of seeing bloody swans with crowns on. Last year it was alpacas everywhere.
Alpacas have always been a favourite of mine but last Christmas I was inundated with Alapaca note books and the like.

I hear you op the unicorn thing is really in your face. Debenhams and M&S have some nice girls clothes without unicorns or glitter.
Stocking fillers I've not really worked on yet apart from some bubble bath but I have to say when I was in M&S the other day the unicorn section - clearly aimed at girls- was overwhelming and there was little else.

I agree that I principle a unicorn is not the end of the world, DD has a nice unicorn jumper actually, but they are absolutely everywhere at the moment and clearly marketed at the fluffy girly style of being a girl.

I agree OP. When DD was a few months old about 15 years ago, I'd finally had enough of pink. I thought she'd really suit black with her skin tone. DM was horrified and refused to knit a black cardigan for her. There was nothing but pink, yellow and white in the girls sections and just white blue in the boys. When she was a bit older I found a black turtleneck and DD looked gorgeous in it but I think that might have been the only one around.

Cue the disapproving looks from everyone though that I'd put my baby in black rather than the pink fluffy princessy things that were expected.

I took my 8 year old niece shopping yesterday and treated her to clip on earrings. She picked the cat ones. Testing the water I asked her "not the unicorn ones?" She made a face and said "no Auntie I love the cat ones. Everyone has unicorns".

I have mixed feelings on the clothes business. My own mother refused to let me show my own personality with clothes growing up so if DD (3) wanted everything pink and unicorny that is what she'd get. She seems to be happy with the plainish bright clothes I choose at the moment. But is starting to show a preference for rainbows. Try finding rainbows without fecking unicorns.

We do have pink but agree with OP, DD is a girl. I want her to look like a little girl but one dressed practically. Why on earth would I want her in a pair of baby pink shoes for autumn? In Russell and Bromley's semi defence the blue and brown ones were labelled as boys and unisex.(Why could a boy not have pink?) For fiddling in the park we have a lovely brown pair. I noticed Clarks have done it with ankle boots. Baby pink for girls and navy or brown for boys. I hear of more and more people ignoring it and buying the navy pairs for their girls. I also, rarely see girls dressed inpractically so maybe shops will get the message soon.

You are wrong,

There are also llamas

Retail companies are having are hard enough time surviving as it is. Your complaining might put others off shopping there, but there are plenty of non pink options.
Do you work for Monsoon
If the high street is failing it’s because it’s not offering customers what they want. They’ve got it wrong by buying into a dying trend, better luck next season. It’s not up to the OP to protect their reputation.

I don’t work for monsoon or any other retailer. Sometimes it seems like people look for reasons to complain. Don’t like pink, don’t buy it. There really are plenty of other options out there (although I’ve never felt the need to count the percentage of items on a webpage). Dd and I are not fans of pink and never struggle to find stuff. Some people choose to dress their dd’s entirely in pink, so they are catered for too.

I just can't get worked up about this. My DD isn't into unicorns but she does like cats, butterflies, pink and glitter so we do buy some of this stuff. But the rest of her clothes are all different colours, patterns and prints which I have NO problem finding and don't feel it's a limited selection at all. We get lots of stuff from H&M. Zara is also good as well as the usual M&S, John Lewis, supermarkets etc.

Using a brand that is essentially party and occasion wear as an example is obviously going to be more skewed to the pink and sparkly end of things.