Writing on children's clothes, naff?

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'Mummy's little monster", "I love the flowers" "Number 1 babe" and "Roar roar!" ...

Am I being unreasonable to think it's a little bit naff? Pictures, great, but not keen on writing all over kids clothes.

Perhaps they sell out?

*pp

Boden is only expensive if you buy when you have to buy IYSWIM.

If you absolutely have to have a blue t-shirt now and so you go to boden to buy it it is expensive.

If you use the vouchers and codes there are so many that they practically give the stuff away. I've had loads of free or practically free (couple of pounds) stuff from them for the DCs.

If I'm after completely plain t-shirts, I usually look at the school uniform section first. Asda certainly do cheap, plain t-shirts as part of their school uniform range. Probably other shops do as well.

I don't like them either. I don't mind 'Happy in the sunshine' but really dislike the message ones such as 'Mummy's little monster'.

I also dislike the advertising ones, e.g. a hoodie with GAP writ large on it.

Also bows & lacy frills, and excess of pink.

By the time I've ruled all of that lot out there is often only 1 shirt left I actually like!

Also DD doesn't like leggings. I've been looking for summer trousers, but none around (yet). Also this fashion tends to mean that skirts are shorter than I would prefer. Also a few years back skorts for girls were easily available in BHS, last year there was one colour (and then our BHS closed).

I find the whole experience very frustrating.

If its got a nice picture as well as writing I'll buy it (not keen on mummy/daddy ones though). If it's just plain and has writing then probably not. For instance, "I like making noise" was bought for my 3 year old. It's black and has just white writing nothing else. I've put him in it once because I just don't like it.

My niece has a pretty t-shirt I bought her last week saying "I love flowers" and it's a pretty flower garden scene.

both my children needed new clothes over the weekend, Asda, Next, Sainsbury's, First Sport, Debenhams, out of the XXXX we spent on them not one item of clothing they got was as described in your OP

YABU

Morrisons Nutmeg range do lovely plain things.

How big is your local Sainsburys? I find that the triple-packs of girls' tops are always slogan-free.

Morrison's kids' clothes are pretty good, too.

My youngest loves a picture on his T shirts but that doesn't mean a character - cheap shops don't tend to want to pay their % to Disney (or whoever, but its mainly Disney isn't it?) but that doesn't stop them using a generic picture of a car/ cartoony monster/ pretty much any animal etc.

I mostly avoid writing where I live because I am abroad and it is usually in incorrect English ... but my MIL is a sucker for T shirts with writing on, and buys the kids T shirts with half a novel written on them - the ones with reams and reams of writing mostly they appear to have been randomly generated or written by google translate and MIL will ask me to tell her what they mean when she gives them to the kids as presents ... I roll my eyes (metaphorically, not at MIL) but don't mind the kids wearing them really, I'm past being bothered what they wear as long as its weather appropriate, clean free of holes that aren't meant to be there, and the writing isn't sexually suggestive (which I do watch out for on pre teen girls clothing).

If you want totally plain T shirts you can always get them on Amazon from Fruit of the Loom for a couple of pounds, in pretty much every colour (unless you boycott Amazon, which is fair enough if you have the will power :o )

small-for-age kids/friends with slightly older/bigger ones mans lots of hand-me-downs. SO MUCH of them have silly, often nonsensical writing/slogans all over. Often (we are in Europe) random collections of unconnected English words strung together because English is 'cool'. I put very, very few of those on my kids.

I did have a Vertbaudet babygro for dd with 'Le plus adorable des bébés' embroidered on. I liked that.

I have just dressed my toddler in a top with a bird that is saying hello on it. No way would my little girl look naff Saying that, she is wearing pink leggings and Peppa Pig socks so she probably wouldn't fit in with the children of lots of mumsnetters.

I can't bear Boden stuff - does that make me naff?

if the message is witty and the typography/design is half decent I don't have a problem with it. Ds has a cute 'my dad rocks' complete with guitar (appropriate for dh) which I love and would not so secretly love it if dh bought him something with 'my mum's the best' or similar. However dh decrees it naff so I'll never have the pleasure!

I buy everything a size in advance so I can choose stuff I like (DD's too young to choose) rather than what's in shops. I've got some nice plain tops from primark and supermarkets in really nice colours.

How could anyone object to this?

Tesco is terrible for it too.

Next always has some good plain stuff and it lasts AGES.

There are lots of shops budget wise between h&m and mini boden. Unless you refuse to shop anywhere that sells clothes with writing on?!
Anyway, online shopping is your friend

Yanbu, I really dislike slogan clothing.

monkeymamma I'm with you on Boden 100% - the boys stuff is really quite weird, very over priced for what it is, and the quality is just as bad as stuff at 1/3 of the price - the knees go through just as quickly as on cheap trousers, the seams split (if you have an active kid) - happens with cheap stuff too, but that is easier to accept! Some of the very small (toddler/ preschool) girl stuff is cute for special occasions...

Zara is good for clothes. Lots of plain t shirts and surprisingly reasonable prices. Bit different too.

Love Zara. Primark has some good stuff too actually. I bought a pair of pj's for DS from The White Company and another pair, almost identical print, from Primark. Have lasted just as well!