to buy DD boys' shoes?

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No girls' shoes in her size left in the Clark's sale. She's 22mo and a bit of a tomboy thug but even so...
Thing is she will need new ones in 2 months. They are soooo expensive. £32 a pair

Is it an 'in' thing on MN to think anything remotely girly is disgusting? I fucking love all the pink, glitter factory vommed on me stuff. Don't give a cats arse whether you put it on your son or daughter, I'll love it either way.

It's fine. I'm sure the assistant didn't care either. The girls shoes are expensive but I think some are adorable. I am a tat loving bitch though.

Pink is just another colour. Don't get all the hatred/ avoidance of it.

I don't think pink is the issue, pinkification is (ie using colours as a marketing technique to promote domestisticity or sexualisation to girls in an inappropriate way). The knock-on effect is that people can get sick of pink itself when it's so overused in this way.

(And the OP said there were no girls shoes anyway so it's not like she was deliberately rejecting them).

Dd is very girly but I bought her boys wellies one year because she liked the raindrops pattern on them.

No, there were pink ones, but they were 'garish'.

I've just bought myself some boys shoes to wear...

YANBU. I buy DD "boys" t shirts and pyjamas all the time

My dd currently has mens skaters (because they were grey and black which suited her) and ds has women's trainers (because they are cyan, purple and yellow and he wanted bright colours). There's no intrinsic difference as far as I can tell. They both have quite large feet (teenagers). The assistant thought it was quite funny.

I buy mens shoes. I have big wide size sevens, and I find mens shoes to be more well-made, and often cheaper too.

My sister and I wore boys shoes, as they lasted longer and wore better. Boys clothing is made better and cut more generously that clothing for girls. The difference between a boys XL and ladies S white turtleneck is seven dollars.

There were no girls' shoes in OP's DD's size "left in the sale", it is the height of winter and the child in question has rapidly growing feet. Any of those are more than good enough reasons not to choose the "garish" pink shoes which were a) not included in the sale, and b) not 100% to the buyer's taste.

I agree that it's important for us to highlight the issue of companies using the colour pink to market almost exclusively unsuitable footwear to female children - which, it can be argued, "open" styles are in this kind of weather. If functional shoe styles also happen to come in pink and that is what the child (or parent, within reason) chooses, that is of course fine.

What makes her a tomboy OP?

OK OK just for clarification, DD has had pink shoes in the past. They were fine. The ones left in the sale were horrible: bright pink with bloody frills on them FGS. Not to my taste at all and as DD likes nothing better than running around in the mud, jumping in muddy puddles not a Peppa addict oh no not her/me and messing about in the garden with her bike they would've been filthy in no time.
The assistant tried very hard to get me to buy the full price girls' ones. But on reflection I know IANBU because the boys' ones I bought are so much more suitable. We do loads of walking and they will be much warmer and harder wearing, and they also seem quite a lot wider than the girls' shoes.

Just looked at clarks online sale and bought some baby boys shoes for a tenner (for my ds so not really in the MN spirit). Thanks for mentioning the sale OP!

I am always when people even ask this.
Really, you can't just do this without consulting MN for permission? YABU for that alone!

I always buy "men's" shoes for work. I do a lot of walking and find them more comfortable/longlasting and I have enormous feet
I bought DS (10) a pair of "ladies" white canvas plimsolls for PE at school because he takes an adult size 5 and is seemingly stuck in limbo between children's shoes and mens shoes at the moment.

My dd (10) wears boys clarks shoes as they are the only shoes that fit her insoles and support her feet, the girls shoes are horrid, offer no support and don't keep their feet warm, my dd's love jumping get in puddles and running through mud so the girls Mary Jane style shoes are useless.

I think the reason people ask here is that they are made to question it by insistent shoe sales people. I've had to argue with them to get them to sell me "boys" shoes for my girls many times.

I keep boycotting shops where this happens, and telling them why, but I'm running out of shoe shops!

My DD (8) has boys shoes for school. I got them from Clarkes. All the girls shoes looked flimsy, wouldn't keep her feet warm or dry and were no good for climbing. She also has a high instep so the buckled strap or t bar style shoes won't fit. I get so angry at Clarkes sexist advertising and girls shoe selection (my daughter is more than capable of testing her shoes to destruction!) but feel caught as I know really well fitting shoes are important at that age.

Weird. I can manage fine to buy my daughter trainers, wellies and smart shoes without having to go to the boys section.

I wont get shoes from Clarks ("boys" / "girls") I had to take DD to Dr's about her feet. Clarks are much too structured for growing feet, the shoes allow the feet to get far too hot with all those synthetic fabrics. A simple leather shoe with a flat base allows for a growing foot and doesn't force the foot to distort all day.

Me too ginger

Dd has some lovely blue ones atm

YANBU and I totally get where you are coming from on the Clarks assistant. Last time I was in trying to get my (ridiculously fussy) daughter to pick a pair of winter shoes, and she was showing some interest in a boys' pair, the assistant came up and three times said to her/me "yes but those are boys' shoes, don't you want girls' shoes?"

(Of course on here 400000 people will tell me that by letting my 2.5yo daughter take 45 minutes and two trips to pick her own shoes I'm just pandering, but I'll say one thing, I never have any bother convincing her to put them on in the morning!)

(Oh and we ended up with girly shoes. I still think those aeroplane shoes would have been brilliant...)

It's ok and normal for a toddler girl to wear boys stuff. But I have never seen a toddler boy wearing girls' shoes.