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AIBU?

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to want to buy some non-pink stuff for my baby daughter?

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starkadder · 26/02/2012 20:18

An unashamed bid for lots of replies by putting this on AIBU...hope that's OK...because I don't think IABU, at all, really. Anyway, I have a little baby daughter. She gets dressed in pink almost every day, because she's been given loads and loads of pink clothes by our friends and family. A combination of not wanting to offend the givers, laziness and stinginess has led me to just accept this. BUT we went to a little girl's birthday party today, where there were about 20 identical pink children - this, combined with the fact that I am currently reading "Delusions of Gender", has freaked me out a bit. So I'd like to buy some nice, not too expensive, non-pink girls' clothes please - any recommendations??

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Eglu · 26/02/2012 21:37

Jenny at the marshmallow bit. I'm sure my Mum sould like to dress DD like that given half a chance but grudgingly buys her pretty stuff in other colours. My SIL dresses her DDs in very pink stuff. They came to stay with me one weekend and were sent with 50million several outfits each, and I hunted through their bags to find the least pink things. :)

latebreakfast · 26/02/2012 21:50

Interesting to compare this thread with the boys wearing pink clothes one from last week. Seems it's quite reasonable to suggest buying clothes from the boys section for a girl, but no the other way round. Why??? I know we "just don't do that", but why don't we?

otchayaniye · 26/02/2012 21:51

By all means buy non pink clothing. You can find it everywhere. I was given all my best friends' kids designer clothing. Most of it is Bonpoint/Marie Chantal in muted 'children of investment banker' colours. But there's plenty of pink (hitherto a boys' colour).

I find you can dilute the effect of all that pink by teaming it with red as the clash works well.

But if you think eschewing pink clothing for girls has a profound effect on life chances, you are mistaken and naive. All that stuff is so shallow, misguided and the preserve of the second rate thinker.

otchayaniye · 26/02/2012 21:56

Was going to add, I think the pink avoidance is akin to the 'never take my children to mcdonalds' it's a certain meme, a badge, if you like.

Don't worry folks, working class-ness isn't catching!

To answer the OP

Bonpoint, Marie Chantal, Ermanno Scervino, Caramel Baby, Chelsea Clothing (and to an extent) Catimini at the high end

Dreary old Scandinavia stuff for the Duwichistas

H&M, Cos, Gap, even large Mothercares stock plenty at the bog end

FannyFifer · 26/02/2012 21:57

We do not do pink either. Cannot stand the head to toe in pink, yuk.

DD has loads of clothes in green, blue, orange, yellow, black, purple.

I have had absolutely no problems getting non pink stuff.

LetsKateWin · 26/02/2012 22:02

I don't link the pink thing to class or anything that may or may not happen with DD's life in the future - I too question the relevance of wearing pink and future aspirations. I just don't like the colour - never have. Not even when I was young.

I dressed her in all the pink things that were given to me, but there are more colours in the world than pink and I think it's a bit boring wearing one colour every single day.

Now she is starting to state a preference for pink so apart from shoes, I will start buying her pink clothes if that's what she wants to wear. The loo seat I bought for her recently is pink.

I draw the line at pink buggies, shoes and car seats.

Tiddlyompompom · 27/02/2012 00:13

Have bought a surprising amount of non-pink girls stuff at M&Co of all places, they have a couple of decent ranges a season that are entirely free of butterflies, glitter, and slogany crap.

keepingupwiththejoneses · 27/02/2012 03:59

Next has a great range of baby clothes called animal brights no pink or frills, just totally cute and if you keep going past them you come to bright starts which is also seriously cute. Some lovely stuff blue in m&s, debenhams yellow and blue
All i did was go on the shops website, find baby girls and chose any other colour than pink, the are loads, in fact my dsis is due any day and if she has a girl I will be buying some.

ZonkedOut · 27/02/2012 06:00

I agree about baby pink, it's a little depressing going to a clothes shop and seeing a while section of baby pink and another whole section of baby blue with a few white things. Fortunately, that's only a few shops, and usually only in the newborn to 18 months styles anyway.

I try not to overdo the pink with my DDs. DD1 (2.9) now likes pink and asks for it often when given a choice, but mostly has bright pink stuff rather than pastel.

I get clothes in all colours for my girls, a lot of purpose though, because I like purple. But all sorts of things from all sorts of shops.

I love some of the links here, but some are really expensive - Nordic kids, for example, £25 for a bodysuit? Sorry, I wouldn't spend that on a whole outfit!

inmysparetime · 27/02/2012 06:42

Surprised nobody's mentioned this already, but if you want all those fancy brands without forking out £££ just go to an upmarket area's charity shops. They don't have such an adherence to pink and blue sections, and there is always plenty of choice in baby clothes.
You would also be helping charities

cupofteaplease · 27/02/2012 06:54

I am not keen on baby pink. Bright pink is fine IMO. But I have found that for newborn age, baby pink seems to prevail.

It is possible to find other colours though, you just have to look. Dd is currently wearing a brightly coloured babygro from Mothercare.

MsF1t · 27/02/2012 06:59

Really? Doing pink is a class thing?

I hate the whole 'pale sugary pink' for girls thing so much, I actually did a joke Facebook group about it. My daughter wears hand-me-downs from my friends' little boys, stuff from ebay, NCT sales and charity shops. Her dad is a bit of a Goth as well, so he likes to find her black stuff (as do I).

The paternal grandparents are horrified when she isn't in pink, though, and very pointedly buy her pink clothes whenever they visit- so she does wear some, and we're fairly jokey about it; they've made a bit more of an effort recently to not get the REALLY OTT stuff, which is nice.

We were never dressed in all this explosion in a marshmallow factory stuff when I were a lass. Didn't do us any harm...

RealLifeIsForWimps · 27/02/2012 07:18

I deeply hope YANBU as I have a DS and suspect that DC2 (due Aug) is a girl.

I am far too tight to even contemplate not recycling the vast majority of DS's clothes.

PoultryInMotion · 27/02/2012 07:30

I've honestly never had a problem getting DD non-pink clothes, I think the choice for girls is far greater than boys! DD really suits navy blue, and has a lot of it in her wardrobe. We tend to use Next, Tescos and Sainsburys.

But yes, the pink thing may be beyond your control in a couple of years DD (2.2) loves pink! (I rather like it myself! Although I'm not keen on pink prams etc, I don't know why seeing as though mine is bright red!)

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DialsMavis · 18/04/2012 14:34

I also never have a problem avoiding too much pink, I get DDs clothes from H&M, M&S and car boot sales

squoosh · 18/04/2012 14:55

Pink is a class thing? I thought it was a 'dislike of an ugly and unflattering colour' thing.

Scandinavian baby clothes are the best, albeit not the cheapes. I love all those fun graphic designs.

EldritchCleavage · 18/04/2012 14:56

Try Mini Club at larger branches of Boots. There is a lot of pink for girls but also some very nice non-pink stuff and non-sludge boys' clothes you could try.

lazylula · 18/04/2012 16:35

Dd had a wardrobe of pink. First time I went 'pink' shopping I came back with blue and green. She now has a varied wardobe which does include pink but with such an array of clotges for girls it is easy to pick up all sorts of colours for girls. Less selection for boys though, but ds1's wardrobe probably has more pink in it than dd's!

ClaireArchie · 18/04/2012 16:35

The shoe thing is what made me launch Little Stomper, I was so annoyed with everything being pink with butterflies etc on. Nothing against others choice but it's not for us as we were buying clothes from the likes of www.loveitloveitloveit.co.uk and www.juicytots.co.uk so they just didn't fit the bill. We only have 2 pairs of pink shoes at www.littlestomper.co.uk with no butterflies in sight!

ClaireArchie · 18/04/2012 16:38

Pink a class thing?! Really.

Mrsjay · 18/04/2012 16:44

YANBU i didnt dress my girls in pink baby clothes although i did get a lot of pink as presents so they wore them , I had trouble getting a non pink no frills outfit at the weekend ,

FoxyRoxy · 18/04/2012 16:47

Next has currently got a lovely range of non pink girls clothes. Very pretty ones.

Yanbu I hate pastel colours.

CuppaTeaJanice · 18/04/2012 16:50

Dylon machine dye is your friend! Anything too pink or sickly, lilac, pastelly or nasty coloured in general gets a new lease of life in a lovely shade of bright red, green, aqua, purple, black etc. Also works great on whites that have gone a bit grey or stained.

DashingRedhead · 18/04/2012 16:52

YANBU. I didn't dress BabyRedhead in pink at all - for lots of reasons. When I couldn't exchange it (and I didn't care about people's feelings - I HATE pink tyranny), I dyed it lilac and she looked adorable in it. Dylon washing machine dye - do the whole lot in one go. She might still not have a very varied wardrobe, but at least it'll be different.

And Vertbaudet do some lovely stuff that isn't pink.

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