To think sports shop websites shouldn't have 'Boys' and 'Girls' sections?

[feudebois]

Looking for some trackpants for my 10 year old dd. I'm finding it increasingly depressing that every sports shop website I have looked at so far divide the junior clothing by gender. Click on the Junior Clothing section on JD Sports and you get the profoundly depressing message:
Boys (753) (items of clothing)
Girls (21)

My dd does not need polka dots and florals on her sportswear, she needs good, practical, technical clothing as she trains 5 x a week.

I would say she would wear 99% of the stuff in the boys section. It's plain, navy, black, blue, green, grey, yellow.

Sports Direct and Nike have roughly the same amount of stuff, but I fail to see why the two genders can't be combined? Why can't girls wear plain navy sportswear? Why can't boys wear pink?

OP I totally agree.

There is very little difference between young boys and girls body shapes.

It makes total sense to me to have unisex tracksuits for DC, great idea!

We might see some colours other than pink for girls and navy/grey/sludge for boys then too, bonus!

I actually find that the stores where they are exactly the same for, the joggers come under unisex

feudebois you're not alone in thinking this, despite what some here would have you believe.

I'm.on my phone so a bit if a faff to link but there was a blog post in the Huffington Post last week I think, about the campaign Let Clothes Be Clothes about unisex clothing, did you see it?

yes they are different. I tried a few men's pairs. Don't like them.

You are, presumably, an adult female? Not a primary age child? I don't generally use girls and boys to refer to adults.

In fairness, I think this thread has raised an important point that should be discussed in more detail. Should JD sports be considered a proper sports shop?

Agree entirely with what ctjoy103 says about what Worra says. Your trying to start a fight in an empty room here..

I personally have no desire to wear 'unisex' clothing but that doesn't mean that there isn't a market for it.

If there is a market for it Retailers will provide it.

Similarly it's market forces which drive the colour ranges in male/female clothing. If sales of pink suddenly fell through the floor shops would sell more of other colours.

Female clothing does not equal pink.

If we want to see less pink then we should collectively stop buying it for our daughters. We don't need unisex clothing to enable that.

DD wore ds1 track suits until he became too tall but she was always Two years younger than the boys label and the correct age for the girls label unisex would of been a nightmare for ordering online.

You are, presumably, an adult female? Not a primary age child? I don't generally use girls and boys to refer to adults.

I also said the same of my dd. There was also a wider discussion about women's sports wear not cut for women.

And my ds who can't wear any of dds old clothes.

Lots of sites now will let you search for what you'd like, how about just typing in 'sweatpants' or 'baselayer top' etc and shop using that? Then you avoid missing anything as it should show boys AND girls. Failing that just spend a little more time looking? And stop being so precious?