To be starting to think that girls clothes are shit?

[Sockstealer]

Basically I've been looking at clothes for my nieces, I'm also pregnant so I've been thinking I could be having a daughter this time.

I buy most of my ds' stuff from Next or H&M, there's loads of cool, trendy and practical stuff. Functional coats and shoes, tshirts with Lego, dinosaurs, super heroes and funny pictures or slogans, sensible trousers.

I'm looking at the 'girls' sections and most of what I can find is what looks like somebody has vomited a load of pink, glitter and sequins, pictures of birds and cats, daft slogans like 'think pink'. Leggings and more leggings (I mean they're not going to keep your legs warm), shiny fluffy coats with leopard print or sickly pink that's going to show up every mark. And what characters are there, frozen or hello kitty?

Is there a shop that I don't know about that sells better stuff?

I had to give up looking because all the pink was hurting my eyes, and even the stuff that isn't pink is smothered in hearts or fairies.

Do you dislike online shopping? Because I found that you can get almost anything on the internet.

Like, this sort of nice shirt for girls: www.cafepress.com/orderofthestick/10861435

And then there's sellers who have fairtrade and organic cotton - those usually tend to reject gender stereotyping, too.

I haven't tried to find children's clothes on Etsy, but I'm sure you could find some non-mainstream designs there, too.

I buy most stuff from the boys' section for both genders when small and throw in a few dresses. Girls' stuff gets a lot less pink sequinned princessy and fluffybunnyfuckingpony printed from about age 7-8, probably because the girls themselves have hang-on-a-moment realisations at around that age and very few girls want to be cutesy-poo pink and sweet at 7.

YANBU. Check out Clothes Be Clothes. I think there are some good unisex/gender neutral children's clothes shops out there - probably Scandinavian!

Oh and Pink Stinks!

I struggled with this when I first had DD. I am not a fan of pink typically 'girly' things but couldn't find what I was looking for. I now dress her in a lot of vintage girls and boys clothing, sew a lot of stuff for her myself in fabric I like, buy from the Little Bird range in Mothercare or Zara/H&M. Next is very hit and miss. I find it's great one season then pink and sparkly the next. At least it's very easy to dress girls. Boys options are so limited, I know I'd really struggle if I had a son.