to be sick of the lack of clothes for boys

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Am fed up of there being loads of clothes for girls in EVERY shop and a tiny crappy selection for boys.

I have two boys and two girls and it is certainly easier to find choice for my daughters.
I have never been a fan of clothes with slogans or cartoon pictures on which reduced my choices drastically when my boys were little.

Sadly some of the fault has to lie with the manufacturers - they just do not make the same volume of items available for boys as they do for girls.
Whereas girls can also wear brown, red, navy, green etc.. boys can't really get away with pink, mint, pastels and lilac so the choice is depleted before you begin just on colours.

I have experience of this with shoes - I have a little shoe shop and when I do my buying every season it is the same old boring choices for boys. Some years they don't even bother to introduce new designs for boys - they just reproduce the previous season.

There is also a 70/30 split in favour of girls with what is on offer to begin with. More colours, more styles, more patterns more of everything.

I try as hard as I can to find the most interesting items available for boys and to get colours other than navy, khaki and brown into my boys range.
Unfortunately though, when push comes to shove, I can only buy from the choices available to me and the truth is the manufacturers seem to think that it doesn't matter as much for boys.

It has made me cross for years - especially as the different items I get in stock for the boys are always the first to sell out. Then I discover they didn't bother to put any of the good stuff into the stock range so I can't buy any more

It's maddening and yes I have told them time and time again, and so has virtually every other buyer I have come across. It makes no difference though.

for a while jl were stocking french made boyys shoes - lovely but limited stock.
vertbaudet do some lovely boys clothing - very french and im gutted ds of ten is opting for the "footie strip" option

Agree. Getting very tired of the blue and grey that pretty much everything seems to be made of! Secretly hoping that this baby will be a girl so that I can get some flowers and colours back in my life

totally totally agree. I have one ds and sadly there will be no little girl/sister for him and I could weep at the lack of nice boys clothes that I can actually afford

I can't afford Boden or the lovely French labels, white company etc. My son lives in hand-me-downs of some unusual, nice bits and pieces and I scour the charity shops weekly for things.

But for girls - wow, there are such lovely things. Colourful yes, but also a huge variety of styles. I mean, there are gorgeous expensive clothes for boys so it's not as though it is impossible to design or make them for boys too.

My local Asda has one aisle only for boys my ds's age (coming up to 3) and they are god-awful. Everything is covered in spiderman or rockets.

And I agree about the shoes too.

I went on a rare trip to London recently and went to Westfield in Shepherd's Bush. Lord, you had to peel us off the floor there was such an enormous range. But Next was still quite dull - or just too grown-up for his age. There was a fab shop called Polarn O Pyret - prices not tooooo bad but cxertainly nice colourful things. I had run out of money by then though

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I tihnk YABU actually.

There are plenty of nice clothes for boys to be found if you look carefully, yeah so they might not be stocked in every high street shop but H&M always have nice boy's clothes, if you look hard enough.

And online, at places like Kids Should Be Kids, do all the tshirts and tops any boy could require, between their lovely tops, a few select items from Zara, trousers, cords and jeans from H&M and Primark, DS has a great wardrobe of brightly coloured clothes, without a silly slogan or motif or brand name in sight.

Do what I do, when you find something nice, buy it in your DS's size and the next size up, or just buy two in the same size.

and the boy*s stuff is always sooo boring. what is wrong with colours of any kind? just plain primary coloured things...

Suits me, both DS and I hate shopping, so only having to grab whatever is there and get the hell out is just fine. Even better DS2 is now wearing DS1's stuff so I don't have to go shopping for him at all!

There are plenty of nice clothes for boys if you look, but there are always more for girls. Last summer when pregnant with DS2 I trawled round shops in the smaller town where I work looking for a sunhat for DS1 - in Next for example, there were NINE choices of sunhat for girls and FOUR for boys - and two of these four were baby hats, not suitable for an older toddler. It is the same everywhere.

I have complained about it many, many times in shops. The best response I had was, "well there just isn't as much demand for boys clothes, and we have to use our shop space efficiently" - BUT I'M RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF YOU, BEING DEMANDING!!!

Anyway. YANBU.

I think the girl's stuff is boring, yes there is more choice, but only if that choice is pink.

i don't have too much trouble finding clothes for my 2 boys

i have trouble finding stuff for my 10 year old, he is also very slim, sizing nightmare too

what are you moaning about? There is so much choice.
Zara and H&M brilliant for clothes, mine all wear really bright stuff and look gorgeous- we get lots of comments. I have always dressed them in lots of girls plain orange, yellow, turqouise,pink etc. Plain blue and white striped T shirts and shirts look amazing too. If anything the girls stuff is all samey samey shite IMO.

YANBU, I have said this for ages too. Its not too bad when they are babies, up to about 18 months. When they move into the toddler clothes, its a nightmare. There is always a small selection and the stuff they do have is bloody awful sometimes. I'm quite picky as well so it makes it hard. I love the clothes in JoMamanBebe but I don't want to pay the prices when it will be grown out of in 5 minutes.

I like Mini Mode clothes (but I'm biased as DH works for Boots - discount alert!) and we get Tesco ones too. I don't like all the slogan ones like 'messy monster' etc. mum tends to get clothes in sales from Debenhams etc for both my kids.

I've been really lucky though - two of my friends have older boys and started giving us their old stuff! one wears really traditional stuff, dungarees, shirts etc, the other wears uber-modern stuff, surfy shorts, character tees etc - so we've got a full range and it's saved us so much money. leaves me free to buy DD's stuff, mostly Boots/Asda/Tesco. cheap I know, but IMO she's gorgeous whatever she wears

I know what you mean about lack of choice for boys.

However, my daughter's entire summer wardrobe this year was actually purchased in the boys' aisle. The girls section featured tiny little skirts and skimpy little vests. The boys had sensible loose knee-length shorts and t-shirts with short sleeves on them.

At least the boys' stuff is sensible and practical. The girls may have lots of choice but so much of it is between pretty pink dresses...

M&S isn't bad for cheerful and brightly coloured boys stuff, but very few of their shops carry a good selection of sizes and far too much of it is branded with Toy Story or whatever.

Agreed, but from a different perspective. I think the targeting of girls is cynical. It trains them to become consumers of a load of crap that they don't need as they get older. I hate the stereotype of a woman loving to shop till she drops. I hate shopping!

EBAY!

giorls clothes for over 10s is AWFUL though unless you have a fair bit of money to spend

I couldn't agree more I went to a shop the other day with a 50% sale came out with loads for DD and DS got two t-shirts and not everyone can afford Boden and John Lewis. I just want some trousers that are not jeans.

It seemed so unfair that dd got loads and ds got two t-shirts.

I get DD boys' stuff sometimes too, it started just because I figured one day I might have a boy (which I did!), but actually a lot of boys' stuff is more practical and sturdy.