To remind sport shops girls play sports too?

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Dd has just started a sport.

Looking for boots this weekend and there were Junior boots which only went up to a fairly small size and then men's ones.

With HUGE signs over the top saying mens.
No women's section no girls section which wasn't an issue but why not just a sign saying adults or senior.

Now I'm not particularly fussed as we bought boots from the men's section but surely some girls would be.

And seeing the drop out rates for girls in sport and the this girl can campaign and the fact we have a damn good women's football team i found it really irritating

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Just Junior and adult

Or

Astroturf and Studded section if adult won't work.

As it was we had to get boots slightly too big as the last size in juniors were too small and the first size men's were a lot wider than the narrow junior ones.

I know many girls who would be fine with junior but hate shopping in the mens section.

As it was we had to get boots slightly too big as the last size in juniors were too small and the first size men's were a lot wider than the narrow junior ones.

And wouldn't this have the same effect on boys or girls?

I was in a big football clubs club shop on Saturday looking at the training wear. I'm a size 8/10 and could easily fit into an XLB sized football clothing (which is what all my shirts are for this team). The training jumper I wanted was:

XLB: £35
Women's: £60

It was ridiculous pricing! I never get women's sportswear as it's always pink, it's always some bright colour. I end up having to buy boys or small men's a lot of the time as I'm sick of the colouring. Netball shoes are the worst, look on netball uk's website at their shoes. They are all pink. Nothing neutral at all.

JD Sports near where I live. Junior section only boys clothes. I asked where the girls section was, they didn't stock any girls clothes!

Sports Direct have a pretty good women's section, usually seperate to the mens and kids.

Ugh nicketynac, the selection of women's trainers at the "King of Trainers" is shocking!! Schuh is much better for fashion trainers... sports trainers I usually get from asics!

Harriet - I will only buy Nike trousers for sport but have noticed that Sports Direct and all the brands they own, ie Karrimor, everything is pink or black or luminous yellow. I've never seen any other colours. They just assume every girl loves pink and wants to wear it. I've spent three years trying to buy a 3/4 length pair of navy blue leggings for netball and not once have I seen anyone that sells them. Literally my choices for sports clothes are black, pink, white and yellow. All horrific. So I have to go to the boys/men's section for clothes.

Or shoes really if you have narrow 'feminine' feet.

this drives me absolutely nuts. I have wide duckfeet. DH has narrow feet. Invariably, even the same exact model is narrower in women's version than men's. Works fine for me but they don't do women's shoes in DH's size. Surely it would make more sense to make shoes in narrow and wide fit, instead of women's and men's?

Hear hear. I wonder if the 'This girl can' campaign could do some tie ins with the major retailers to get them on board.

FFS - while they're at it could someone remind the powers that be that boys need to not be naked? In our sainsburys there are 3 double sided aisles of kids clothes, 6 in total and ONE of those for boys filled with fucking skateboarding alligators and tshirts proclaiming 'get angry' and 'here comes twubble'.

Some of it is supply and demand too in fairness - is if a sport that many women play? Shops aren't going to waste floor space for something that is unlikely to sell.

Well it's not totally supply and demand
It's quite a lot of - doing what we've always done ( and failing to adapt..)
Eh.
Women's clothes come in various lengths
Women's sports clothes very very rarely do
Women's shoes go up to a nine in about 25% of shops
Women's sports shoes don't
Men's sports clothes tend to be designed based on practical considerations and best use of new material technologies
Women's ...Are fashionable
It's depressing

Eg .Not eh

Jelly yadnbu at that.
There were some awful boys clothes with negative slogans last time I looked for my friends boy.