to be a little miffed at my local Primark

[Boudica1990]

So popped in today to just get some newborn bodysuits, I have loads of 0-3 but no newborn, but as baby is predicted to be big didn't want to spend a lot on bodysuits that might not get worn, but better to have some just incase he isn't that big iyswim.

So I get my white bodysuits 3 pack for £2.50 I pick up a few, then think oh let's have a look at their newborn baby boy clothes....ONE flipping rail, about 7 outfits :( I then look around and there are about 60 rails of dresses and girls outfits!!!

Why so little baby boy clothes??

I left with my bodysuits slightly miffed that they had half a shop for baby girls but fuck all really for baby boys :( maybe I should just let him roam naked?!

I ask this all the time I went to get my DS pants the other day from asda 10 different ones for girls with matching vests for boys it they didn't like fireman sam (like my DS) then they had to have plain.

Apparently it's because girls like being 'dressed up' so need more variety and boys don't dress up just wear jeans/shorts and a top

I also don't get why asda sell "mummy's new man" "born in 2014" in sizes 18-24 months my DS isn't 'new' after 18 months and he obviously wasn't born in 2014

I have a lot of non-frilly but pink (or with owls, cats or flowers) things for DS from the girls' section of TK Maxx -clearly they weren't girly enough.

Im a manager for a higher end label and we have just pulled our baby girls collection as boys does far better, we do baby boy and big boy and just big girl now but boys outweighs girls 80/20 in sales always has

Boys can wear tights, they are very practical!

All the frilly dresses and summer dresses would be really impractical for babies, no point in putting them in dresses until they can walk as they just ride up their back or when they are crawling they crawl into the dress and get stuck.

I don't put dresses on ds ( apart from dressing up) I tend to try to shop in shops which don't have a gender divide but when I buy clothes from shops with gender divisions ( when I visit the UK) I just ignore girls/boys departments and choose clothes I like.

I found this with my first child, a boy obviously. It does get better as they get older.

girls have more choice of pink, peach and lilac. I actually found shoppingfor a girl much worse even though there initially looks like lots of choice.

Try having twin boys that you don't want to dress the same - nightmare. Most of the time the best I could do was the same outfit in different colours which was almost as bad for me as dressing them identically! The other moan I had (they're all old enough to buy their own now) was that everything was emblazoned with characters, brand names, tacky logos when I just wanted plain stuff.

Likewise try finding nice girls clothes that aren't pink and frilly and princess!

I have a DS and two DDs. I loathe pink. Polarn o pyret, smafolk, vertbaudet, H&M and TK Maxx are just about the best for both reasons. I know what you mean about boys clothes though... It's almost as if boys don't make up half of the worlds population or something I'd understand if people had more girls than boys so there was more call for it but it's just about an equal divide so makes no sense.

I wish I had Kate and Wills money, they dress George in some lovely clothes.

Zara do some lovely boys clothes.

As others have said, it's not that much better for girls unless you like pink frills or cutesy slogans and princess shit.

When mine were younger they often wore boys clothes, dd2 (7) still has some, doesn't work so much for my 10 year old though.

I find it difficult to buy baby girl shoes. When it was cold I wanted some pram shoes o coer her feet but thy were all open topped, all the boys ones were more sensible but said little dude on them.

The idea of dressing a newborn in anything but a random babygro makes me exhausted, as you will only have to change the thing an hour later. Babies are baby-shaped, and really don't need manly tiny jeans or frilly dresses.

Mind you, DS was dressed in a lot of pink until he hit about 10 months, as the friends who had babies immediately before us had girls, and we inherited their outgrown clothes. (Stopped at 10 months as DS outgrew the older babies!) We had a rough rule that pink was fine, as was floral, but frilly was not - though I don't like frilly anyway and would have stuck with this rule even if DS had been a DD.

Sounds like nothing's changed since my dc were small over 20 years ago. It used to drive me mad having to wade through racks and racks of girls' clothes to try and find the very meagre selection of boy's stuff.

MOTHERCARE have a good online (and instore) sale at the moment. Packs of two sleepsuits for £3 etc.

M&S, Next, H&M, Debenhams, Gap, John Lewis, Matalan, Sainsburys, TK Maxx and BHS all do nice boys clothes.

I tend to shop online at Pumpkin Patch for DS (and DD too). They seem to do a really nice range, with lots of choice for boys - more than I have seen in Primark that's for sure. I do have to wait for the sales and free delivery codes on top, but even then there is a lot of choice. It works out cheaper than the supermarkets if you shop at the right time, and the quality is great.
I bought DS a t-shirt last summer, and it has been worn and washed every week since and it still looks new! DDs dresses and jeans have washed and worn really well too. It is reall decent quality, though I can't afford full price, I can see why it sells for that!
Can't say that about any Next or Primark items we have bought in the past.
The do a newborn range, so might be worth a look.

Newborn Boys 4 pages just in the sale section.
Newborn Boys 8 pages of boys items.
Then there is the Charlie and Me range on the same site, which is great quality too, but a bit less choice, just a page or 2 of each age group.

Debenhams Blue Zoo range was fab for bright colours and patterns and agree sainsburys best for supermarket non character branded stuff.

ArcheryAnnie that was exactly my rule with DS and is what I'm going with for DD. I accidentally bought a frilly dress (I bought a lovely striped non-frilly dress from the same range) as I don't mind them for dress-up e.g. church, and I'm really annoyed now!

I reckon dresses till she starts crawling, but not after that except for parties. I put DS in leggings (instead of tights) but I hadn't thought of tights under shorts which is a great idea.