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Based on clothes only, is this baby a boy or a girl?

403 replies

AFewScrewsLucy · 05/06/2020 16:39

Just need an unbiased opinion.

Based on clothes only, is this baby a boy or a girl?
OP posts:
kenandbarbie · 05/06/2020 17:57

Girl because of the frills on the top.

I find with the same outfit (navy leggings, navy and white striped top) if I put on a navy cardigan people think she's a boy but white cardigan they think she's a girl.

DontStandSoClose · 05/06/2020 17:58

The top looks like a girl, which I see she is.

If you are dressing her in boys clothes (clearly not in the picture you shared though) she is going to be mistaken for a boy. If you don’t want her to dress like a girl well don’t, but people will assume a baby dressed in boys clothing is err a boy.

namechangeformeagain · 05/06/2020 17:59

Deffo looks like a girl.

MarshaBradyo · 05/06/2020 18:00

Girl only due to the frill

BringPizza · 05/06/2020 18:01

I would have said girl. I have a photo of my DD dressed very similarly at c9mths and I remember one of DH's friends asking what his name was when wearing that outfit.

Winifredgoose · 05/06/2020 18:03

It is obviously dressed in a what would have been sold as a 'girls' top due to the detail in the hems and the colours.

RyanBergarasTeeth · 05/06/2020 18:05

Girl due to the colours and frills on the top. Not saying a boy couldnt wear it but that would be in the girls section of a shop.

gah2teenagers · 05/06/2020 18:09

Girl

vdbfamily · 05/06/2020 18:09

I used to find it was the hair people judged by. My 2 girls had very little hair for quite a while and both were often referred to as boys. As soon as they got some longer hair they were girls ....weird.

ladyvimes · 05/06/2020 18:10

Even when dressed in pink sparkly frills my dd used to get called a boy. Never bothered me. You can’t tell if a baby is a boy or a girl usually.

Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese · 05/06/2020 18:10

Frilly finish to the tops edges say girl to me. However baby could be either.

SageRosemary · 05/06/2020 18:13

I would guess a girl from the clothing, maybe a boy with an older girl sibling who wore that top previously.

Mrsmadevans · 05/06/2020 18:14

Boy

Muddlingalongalone · 05/06/2020 18:15

Honestly I had no idea - initial thought was girl then boy.
Not convinced it's even clothes at times - ex-MIL used to specialise in pink frilly dresses but the blue pram I had and dd1's baldness til about 18 mths meant she was often a he to strangers.

Catra · 05/06/2020 18:15

Is the top from Next, OP?

Pretty sure my DD has the same one. She wears it with leggings just like in your photo.

RuthW · 05/06/2020 18:16

Girl

ThePianist38 · 05/06/2020 18:16

Might be the way she looks not necessarily her clothes, some babies could pass for either looks wise but with some you can clearly see if is a girl or a boy by the facial characteristics

B0bbin · 05/06/2020 18:17

Could be either.

SweepTheHalls · 05/06/2020 18:17

Girl, we've got those leggings!

ArgumentativeAardvaark · 05/06/2020 18:19

I didn’t realise at first that there were animal faces on the knees of the trousers. The frills on the top are what make it “girly”, not the colour so much.

I have a boy and won’t be having any more but I do often think that if I had had a girl I would just have put her in my son’s standard outfit of joggers/cargo pants/jeans and plain long-sleeved tops. Because that is pretty much what I wear myself and I can’t see how girls need less practical clothes than boys. I also find it quite funny that adult women’s clothes shops are full of navy and black but it’s nearly impossible to buy dark-coloured clothes for female children.

CountFosco · 05/06/2020 18:23

Another vote for 'girl top, boy bottoms, no idea what is in the nappy'.

I put DS in handmedown pink sleep suits and pink Grobags the whole time along with more neutral clothing. I had a lovely Boden tshirt with an applique duck on it that they all loved. He's now 7 and seems to have survived OK. His favourite tshirt is pink though but with a suitably masculine image on it Wink

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 05/06/2020 18:24

Well there's a fair example of ManSpreading* going on there

  • taking up too much space as blokes on trains are apt to do with their knees akimbo and their newspaper who look at you in digust when you ask "can you let me in to sit on that chair thanks"
grey12 · 05/06/2020 18:25

She's a girl. Just she gets called a boy when we're out ... This is typical clothing for her.

That happened to my kids ALL the time!! It doesn't really matter

We used to live in a country where if the baby isn't wearing earrings or a dress it's automatically a boy. You would laugh at the clearly girly clothes DD1 was wearing when I asked if she was a boy Grin

Pantheon · 05/06/2020 18:25

Girl

winniesanderson · 05/06/2020 18:26

Girl, the knee patches look like similar I've seen on girls trousers. Both my girls have been referred to as boys several times. My youngest even more so because by that point I realised pretty dresses and tights weren't great for learning to crawl and walk. Especially as most of our house was wooden floors/Lino. It never really bothered me though if people mistook them for boys. Even now I don't put my youngest in a dress very often.

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