3 in 1 performance Jacket from Muddey Puddles - DH thinks the colour is girly!!

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www.muddypuddles.com/images/girls/girls-clothes/jackets-and-coats/3_in_1_performance_jacket_aqua.htm

Seriously?!

Surely this is just a good blue for a 5 year old boy, totally gender neutral??

AIBU???!

BTW it is also in their 'boys' section

www.muddypuddles.com/boys/boys-clothes/jackets-and-coats/boys_muddy_peak_ski_jacket_colbalt_blue.htm

The colour is the same, slightly differnt jacket
sorry for multiple posts!

Excellent. Girls are good things to be. I should know.

Is he usually a bit of a tit?

Oh, and the jacket is a nice colour for any child.

I think it is a lovely colour! And totally suitable for boys and girls. Tbf a coat is a coat and the colour doesnt change its abilities but I do understand that a boy or girl may have a preference for a specific colour.

Speaking with the voice of bitter experience, I would advise buying a coat in a colour the child likes.

My three (aged 17, 19 and 21) still moan about the coats I bought for them when they were 4, 6 and 8 - I found bright yellow waterproofs in Gap Kids, and they were buy one, get one half price, so I bought each of them a coat, and one for age 10, so they could grow into it, in turn.

I loved these coats - they were all sailor-windcheater-sou-wester-y, were totally and utterly waterproof, and they meant I could spot all three children from a great distance, in the school playground. The boys, on the other hand, hated them with a passion. No-one else wore coats that colour. I was the worst mother in the world for making them wear these coats.

Like I say, they still talk about these coats with great bitterness.

unisex I would say

But the jackets are not the same colour
The girl's jacket is aqua (more turquoise) and the boy's is cobalt (more royal blue).
Sorry, but I think your DH is right.

The two jackets are different colours but Aqua is not a "girl colour"

So now certain shades of blue are off limits to boys as well? Jesus wept.

However, the aqua one does up the opposite way to the one in the Boy section which technically makes it a girl one. The colour is irrelevant.

He is being bloody ridiculous. Maybe stick a high-vis football sticker on it. Because of course, no girls play football so clearly it then becomes all "manly".
It's a fucking colour.

The Aqua one is clearly a girls coat because it does up on the feminine side, but it's nothing to do with the colour.

It also doesn't matter at all. Let your DS choose the colour he prefers.

I'd get the cobalt one as the aqua one will show dirt more.

No idea about the difference on zips but I'd say aqua was unisex.

I was expecting lilac or something, from the thread title.

It's fine. DS2 used to have a jacket with cars all over it. The background colour was that shade of blue. I'm sure your DH wouldn't have suggested that it was confused, in any way.

Oh and check out little trekkers website

Landsend clothes tend to do up the opposite way to convention, btw, so I don't think the side it fastens is a problem.

If I have learnt one thing, it is to always let your DC choose the colour of a coat.

It's not you or your DH that will be wearing it. What does DH think 'girly' is? Something negative? Something not as good as 'boyish'? A special colour that robs DS of his amazing boy-powers and demotes him to the sub level of 'girl'?

Argh.

OFGS. It's blue. Your husband is taking gender divide shit to hitherto unknown depths if he thinks that certain SHADES of blue are feminine.

Just get your son some desert fatigues and write MAN on them and see if your DH is happy with that. Just don't use a feminine pen, or anything.

Oh no! DS might catch the gay.

Oh no! DS might catch the gay.

My DS has a coat exactly the colour of the aqua one. It is entirely gender neutral, but no one has ever mistaken him for a girl while he is wearing it. I'm not sure what colours your DH thinks boys should wear if even certain shades if blue are now off limits.

I thought it was going to be for your DH so was ready to agree that it might be a bit feminine for an adult male.

For a 5 year old? It's bloody fine.

although my 9 yo DS refuses to wear a light blue rain jacket I got in the sale, because it's a 'rubbish colour'

America do their zips the other way around and Lands end are American.

unless DC is small he or she won't weasr a coat anyway.

Funny I was just last moaning about the fact I can't find a bright coloured coat for my DS (6yrs) as I'm sick of dark colours. So I will de book marking that page so I can buy some.