Is character clothing tacky?

[OhOkayThenx]

I have a 'friend' who hasn't spoken to me since I had DC. There was a picture of my DC who is 17 months old in a character top.
This friend spoke to me just to say how tacky character clothing is and she'd never dress her kids in them.
I was a bit taken back by the rudeness to start with and just replied simply with 'okay'. Her kids are always in Ralph Lauren, Nike etc. That's her personal choice.
Are they really that tacky? DC is young and loves the character clothing and throughly enjoys picking one out everyday. Also almost every pjs are character.
I thought they were cute!

Obviously I don't want DC to look 'tacky' feel like just blocking her or at least hiding my posts from her now.

Do people really think they look horrible?

I think baby Nike and Ralph Lauren is kind of the definition of tacky.

The thing with character clothing... it’s awful ... BUT sometimes it’s all children will wear. My oldest is very difficult to dress. Months of only wearing the same top and trousers combination for example (lots of getting up in the night to take it out of the wash). I’m not sure before I had a child with such aversion to clothes how difficult it could be. At one point it would take two adults to pin him down to get him into clothes, so if he will wear a character top without too much stress so be it.

She has probably read the many threads that occur on here with loads of posters who say it's tacky!

Yes she's rude and I wouldn't worry. Most people dress their children in a mix of clothes.

People are strangely controlling about what their children wear, only letting them wear character clothes to bed for example because imagine the horror if someone saw you out when your child is wearing a Paw Patrol too!!

I dress mine fairy plain but they absoultely love character clothing and are getting some along with santa gifts.
Your friend is very wierd and also rude to speak like that. You don't need people like that in your life.

I blocked her now. She's an odd creature and in the past said a lot of weird things. One example being she wouldn't let her son play with a kitchen or pushchair 🤦🏻‍♀️.

Thanks for all the opinions. Yes I tend to stick for cotton as DS's skin flares up often.

Glad I blocked her now. Her views are nasty and actually homophobic regarding the kitchen etc. Silly woman.

Toddlers in pristine Nike, Ralph Lauren & other labels can’t be running around doing messy toddler chaos. Give me a paint daubed 2 year old in a Batman t-shirt any day.

When I was Guiding, the number of girls who’d bring Nike leggings & trainers to camp who’d refuse to get them wet/muddy/collect firewood was nuts. Utterly bonkers.

I must confess I did almost get a nice Ralph Lauren top on ebay but was outbid. Some people turn up their noses at second hand too.

I've read some amusing threads on here about improperly dressed babies and toddlers.

My kids wore character clothing as toddlers. And now they're teens they still do sometimes, just more age relevant game and films/tv shows, along with band merch. And so do I. Tacky for life!

I think dressing babies and young children in Nike and Ralph Lauren is tacky. I know one or two women who buy expensive baby clothes mainly on tick and I think what's the point, just go to Primark.

They are all made in the same factories in Bangladesh or China.

I’m not too keen on it but I don’t judge people who dress their kids on it
I have tried (and largely managed) to steer my DC towards a compromise so DS Marvel stuff is the retro 50s vibe for example. Having said that he’s wearing a bloody awful Among us xmas tshirt for school today

Personal choice! I won't dress DD in anything with writing on it. I just hate it. Characters, fine, as long as they're not too gaudy.

At that age, only thing that matter to me was practicality. As long as it's easy to wash and no ironing needed.

I'm more fussy about slogans personally. I don't mind a bit of embroidered writing but some are a bit wtf? I hate when it's a nice top ruined by some wtf? writing.

1- She is rude and it’s none of her business how you dress your child. I’d tell her to do one.
2- yes I personally think character clothing is tacky - but my 3 year old absolutely loves it and so we have lots of it and I love that he is happy and enjoys wearing it. Do I absolutely love the way it looks? No and I would rather not dress him in slogans and characters (actually surprisingly hard to find clothes without both of these) but hey I don’t actually care that much and can’t be that previous over what a child wears when it’s inevitably going to get messy!
2- I personally think having your child head to toe in obvious labels (and being too snobby to wear non designer) is 100% tackier than character clothes! It’s a very chavy look in my opinion - although unlike your friend I wouldn’t be so rude as to say that to someone else!

I find most branding ugly, I like plain things. But I would never ever comment because I am not exactly stylish.

I think it barely matters. I wouldn’t usually buy anything with pictures or slogans (or obvious labels) on because it isn’t hard wearing and dates so quickly. It’s usually printed synthetics, which I don’t like.

Did my children ever have anything Disney, yes almost unavoidable; did I like it, no. Did I try to discourage it, yes. Did they find it at the bottom of their drawers?Yes. They wore it until the tacky stuck on image was cracked and curly.

What a bitch! My little girl loves peppa stuff and now frozen. Yeah it's not what I would pick for her so I try to buy the nicer ones I find. I don't understand saying it's tacky though. I feel sorry for her kids never getting to wear their favourite character!

I remember being in the car park years ago with (three year old) Spider-Man and Superman. No one sneered and it clearly made lots of people's days as they beamed at me.

I'd feel the same now looking at other small children in their character gear as I know how much they love wearing those outfits.

Meh, kids wear what they wear and they rapidly grow out of them. I never saw any point in spending a fortune on every day clothes for toddlers, or worrying excessively when they wanted favourite characters that I thought were hideous.

Its a short phase of life, there are bigger things to worry about.

Your ex 'friend' is a chavvy cunt with no class, so I wouldn't give another thought to her. Dressing a baby or toddler head to toe in (probably fake) RL is just cringeworthy.
And btw, upper class children absolutely DO wear cheap / character clothing and pjs for playing at home or at granny's country pile - I've looked after enough of them to know!! They might not take them out somewhere nice dressed like that, (nor would they dress them in RL either!), but for playing in the garden it was Mickey Mouse and teletubbies t-shirts all the way!
Don't forget, the genuine upper classes don't give a fuck what anyone else thinks, it's the aspirational middle classes who get frantically hung up in this sort of nonsense.

@nokia3210567

Funny because to me putting them in designer labels seems tacky 😂 but tbh it's far worse she messaged you just to say that!

This! Putting a child in designer clothes to flex is tacky, not a child wearing children's clothes

It's a bit rude tbh. She can have an opinion but should be sensitive.

Did she contact you just to say it's tacky?? If so that's quite nasty of her

Who messages someone to say I saw the pic of your son and btw his clothes are tacky 🤣
What a weirdo!

@olderthanyouthink

Oh and I wouldn't say what she said because thats rude AF!

DD is starting to get an opinion on her clothes but I'm still steering towards a capsule wardrobe that is practical and hand down-able.

Very middle class mumsnet post

How does a capsule wardrobe work with dc? Mind grow out of stuff constantly.

Mine not mind