to want to buy pyjamas that are something other than sugar pink...

[Rhubarbgarden]

or branded with Pepa fucking Pig for 3yo dd?

I'm sorry if the age old whinge about excess pink princessy stuff for girls has already been done to death on here, but I've been looking for some nice inexpensive pyjamas for dd for weeks, and everything, everything is sodding pink. Or branded with TV/Disney characters. Even places that should know better, like M&S.

If dd really wanted pink sequinny princessy shite I would buy it for her, but so far she is immune and I'm damned if I'm going buy this stuff and encourage it.

Once again I have ended up buying boys pyjamas for her, with a nice colourful rocket on, but I shouldn't have to look in the boys' sections to find anything interesting, should I?

Or am I just overreacting? It is just pyjamas after all. I'm not normally particularly militant about this sort of thing, but today it has really annoyed me.

I got lovely turquoise pyjamas from gap with balloons on for DD, and some stripy Bee ones. I got red and white spotty ones in mothercare.

There are a few nice ones at Tesco online.

I quite like these ones. Not sure if they would be warm enough for winter though.

Or you could get a top like this or like this with some leggings?

Is primarni no longer the pajama king? They always had loads!

you can usually get leggings and matching or coordinated plain long sleeve t shirts in h&M. Have done that for pjs last few years, worked out cheap. Or rummage in tk maxx,just got lovely organic cotton ones there. Or John Lewis.

i got red ones with white snowflake patterns on last year from asda

also a pair with pink and purple tartan so not overly girly pink but not cartoon/ disney/ or princessy

Hatley. Boden. Job done.

Our Sainsbury's clothes dept needs a kick up the bum, I know Sainsbury's do nice things, but they aren't stocking them.

Frustratingly TU aren't on line.

I was just coming on to Sainsbury's, DDs have red/white polka dots and some mint green/lilac pairs too. Plus DD1 has lovely deep purple owls ones from there.

If you have the time and money, making clothes for children allows complete customization.

Tk maxx have some good ones, bold green leaf patterns etc

Primark have pjs in loads of different colours at £4 a pair.

Polarn O Pyret (spelling?) has very cute stripy pajamas, not pink.

Also, Gap pj's are adorable up to age five, and then they're not.

I'm the same, tend to buy boys (DD has some really cool robot ones) or Primark ad Sainsbury's have done some good ones this year.

Tkmaxx have Albetta and plum for about 7.99 both lovely brands in bold colours

DD2 complained about this for years! When onesies and fleecy pyjamas first came out she really wanted them but all that was available was pink! She is not a pink cute and fluffy type of girl. She's more an action adventure sciency type of girl but you wouldn't believe they exist if you look at clothes ranges.

When they're quite young, boys clothes often have a better range of unisex items. DD used to like dinosaurs etc and, later, things like Pokemon (which are annoyingly targeted at boys only in the clothing ranges - girls are meant to like Hello Kitty or cute kittens). But as they get older boys pjs do stop fitting properly - wrong shape somehow.

Happily, she's 14 now and can get into adult clothes. Suddenly a whole world of other colours is open to her. You only have 11 years to wait

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were all found with a quick look in M&S and NEXT and non of them are particularly pink or princessy or have brand names on. If you want all PJs to be totally unisex then why are you even looking at them in terms of boys and girls in the first place?

I wonder why you don't hear mums of boys moaning that there aren't any princess PJs in the boys department?

Not particularly relevant to PJs but liking the way Baby Boden is not split into girls and boys, it's just up to parents to choose what they like. Can't see anyone dressing their boy in the little dresses all the same though! Why is this? Why is it ok for girls to wear "boys" stuff but not the other way?

Well, IsabelleRinging, I do get fed up with all the camouflage in the boys' department. This is probably a more suitable analogy.

And I would prefer to see all kids wearing more neutral colors and prints, rather than hyper-masculine or hyper-feminine.

IsabelleRinging, none of those you linked to were in my local branches of Next and M&S, with the exception of the cat tutu ones. I thought the tutu was silly.

I'm not asking for them to be completely unisex. I'm just looking for some variety. I went round all the kids clothes shops in two towns and all the girls' pyjamas were pink or branded with TV/Disney. That is my complaint. It's not the same as complaining that boys' pyjamas don't feature one particular topic (princesses). Incidentally, my son always wears the Disney princess dressing up clothes at our local toddler group - I have no problem with that.

Boden, Hatley, Polarn o Pyret etc do lovely imaginative clothes. But they are expensive and I don't want to pay it for growing children. This thread has shown that there is more variety online, but I tend to find sizing a problem - always too big or too small.

Surely it's not too much to ask to be able to find variety by looking in actual shops.

Rhubarbgarden, check out the above mentioned brands on Ebay. You'll find a lot of it second-hand, because it's pretty good quality. Quite right that buying online makes it a lot easier to skirt this particular issue.