To not really get Frugi clothes

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Don't get me wrong they have some lovely clothes and nice prints, but they're just so expensive for what they are. I mean £21 for a single babygrow? Loads of my mum friends absolutely rave about them and fork out to dress their children exclusively in Frugi everything. Am I missing something?

I love that print. Baby is gorgeous too

I think my kids missed out on Frugi. I must say, though, when I was having a bad day with toddlers, if they were dressed in an outfit I liked it was easier to like them . So I probably would've splashed out on one or two things from there.

Probably because it's organic and the designs are aimed at people who like to dress their children as children, rather than mini-adults.

I've bought mainly secondhand Frugi clothes for my kids for years and it's generally nice stuff and certainly worth paying more for. However the quality is nowhere near as good as it used to be. The stuff I bought 6+ years ago is much thicker and longer-lasting. The newer tops etc are much thinner and don't wash and wear as well.

DD1 lives in Joules, Jojo Maman Bebe and Ralph Lauren, mainly gifts and sale/outlet purchases, they're now seeing DD2 through her First clothes and still look brand new and I'll probably sell them at a good % of what I paid. It's worth paying more for good quality stuff that lasts, all the Asda stuff I bought went bobbly and faded after a few washes

I love Frugi because it is bright, and washes etc well. It sells on secondhand well too, and I’ve bought quite a bit secondhand. Also buy stuff from TU and Tesco - they sometimes have great bits. DD is 9 months old, and I love her in bright, fun colours, which Frugi is great for. Odd ideas about the type of parents of children in Frugi - I FF, never did NCT or baby wearing, and never co-slept etc.

Oh, and IT'S NOT BRITISH MADE!!

It's made in India (ethically)

I am surprised a few posters have said it was the only alternative to 'sludge brown'. I have never dressed my children in this brand, or any of the expensive brands (I stick to charity shops and supermarkets) yet they have never worn brown

I said sludge Duke but by that I mean black, grey, dark blue and brown. I find that with supermarkets etc you can find occasional nice bits but you have to be picky and it can take a while to build up a decent amount of nice colourful clothes. With brands such as Frugi and Kite I can find all the bright colours together. Basically I am lazy and don't want to check the supermarkets every few weeks.

Yes M5 agree with that! When they were cut for cloth, about 10 or so yes ago they were cheaper and better quality

I’d never heard of the brand (I’m abroad) but thanks for posting as I like the clothes - very Bodenesque 😊.

You can buy soft clothes from anywhere that sells kids clothes

There's very limited choice in supermarkets/primark/boots though. Mostly jeans, cargo pants or sludge colour joggers with fake drawstrings. I find they don't stay soft for long, a few washes and they loose their shape and softness.

Cheap clothes are a false economy. If you buy good quality they still look and feel good when the child outgrows them, and can then be sold or kept for siblings.

But RingFence we’ve already established that you are dressing your children in Frugi because it reflects your status among your peer group . I don’t think you are ever going to live that comment down. Time for a name change maybe.

We have a few more sober Frugi bits, but it's bit full on for me. I prefer Polarn tops/hoodies/coats for my boys and their leggings are the thickest and best fit i've had for very chunky thighed DD. Boden lined trousers have been best wearing with the H&M/Gap ones a close second. Polarn trousers are not popular tho.

I always dress mine in bright colours and it's mainly a combo of Boden, Polarn, John Lewis, Gap, Next, H&M, Kite, LaRedoute, Tu.

I spend about £300 every 6 months on DS1 clothes and they pass down really well to DS2 - I rarely have to buy him anything new (thank god the boys are this way round because ds2 destroys all his clothes but ds1 doesn't). I buy all of them off season in the sales for the next year. DS1 is 5 but i have picked up clothes for up to 8yrs old for him when it's been really good value. DD is only 1 but i have clothes for her up to 3yrs old.

I'm currently shopping for DC1 due in April. Have bought a lot of Little Bird and Boots mini club because I love the bright colours. Have also got some nice stuff from Sainsbury's. Can't really get on with Next or Asda because I find it's a wall of pink and a wall of blue in there, and I prefer more gender neutral stuff (whites and brights).

I've bought one Frugi thing (from John Lewis) but overall I think it's a bit gendered - we're having a boy, and finding it difficult to avoid the ubiquitous vehicle and dinosaur motifs. Frugi are just as bad as any other brand for this.

If you want to talk about wasting money on baby clothes though, look at what I found on eBay earlier. £72 for a pair of dungarees

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Maxomorra-EUC-Pigs-Dungarees-74-80/263484782126?hash=item3d58eab62e:g:B~oAAOSwll1afCB-

But RingFence we’ve already established that you are dressing your children in Frugi because it reflects your status among your peer group confused. I don’t think you are ever going to live that comment down. Time for a name change maybe

Where did I say that? I think you've misunderstood. Clothes are an indicator of social status: it's sad and unfair, but people do judge others on the brand/style/cut of their clothes.

You would probably label me a 'crunchy mum' if you were to bump into me in real life, as DD wears a colourful mixture of Maxomorra, JNY, Bobo, Papu and stuff we pick up secondhand in Denmark. We have some Frugi too. I don't consider any of those brands 'designer' or flashy.

The best vests i have found for my babies are the Lidl organic cotton ones. Primark are the worst - the arms go baggy and when you put their jumpers on you then have to poke your fingers up the sleeve as the vest is gathered under their armpits. Babies bloody hate that fishing and fiddling around and getting dressed always resulted in us both being red faced and cross.

I've bought one Frugi thing (from John Lewis) but overall I think it's a bit gendered - we're having a boy, and finding it difficult to avoid the ubiquitous vehicle and dinosaur motifs. Frugi are just as bad as any other brand for this

I agree. Frugi girls' stuff all seems to have flowers or polka dots on it. I refuse to buy anything that can't be used for a boy in future. She has a few dresses as she likes them in summer, but I get unisex prints that can be turned into tops later. I think it's wasteful to buy lots of gendered clothing if you plan on having more children.
Supermarkets and shops like Next are very gendered.

Depends what you buy. Because i had my boys first the things from Next aren't really gendered - orange/red hoodies etc. But if i'd had DD first their girls stuff is very 'frilly'. But i find that with most brands - far easier to pass down from a boy to a girl than a girl to boy.

Altho I have a girls felt coat from Next that DD gets compliments on all the time, which is an unusual citrine colour.

I've bought gender neutral nursery equipment and a lot of neutral toys, but with not clothes particularly. We've got lots of friends and family with kids, so just pass bags of clothes around according to age and sex. My mum knits a lot and likes to make cricket-type jumpers and cabled jackets/waistcoats for the boys and little lacy cardigans for the girls using my grandma's vintage patterns. I admit I'm not keen on too much glittery sparkly stuff or cartoon characters on children's clothes, but why is gender specific clothing seen as a bad thing these days? Surely equality of opportunities, expectations and parenting behaviours is what matters, not the colours or prints on their outfits?

I have b/g DT’s. When they were little I was given/bought clothes from a variety of shops. The babies were dressed - I didn’t check whether DS was being dressed in blue and DD in pink - they wore what I picked up first. I like brands like frugi as they they have bright colors and survived lots of rough play and frequent washes.

Lidls organic cotton is really nice, they had some lovely wrap over vests when youngest was born.

why is gender specific clothing seen as a bad thing these days? Surely equality of opportunities, expectations and parenting behaviours is what matters, not the colours or prints on their outfits

I think it matters because clothes do affect how children perceive themselves and how others respond to them.
Girls' clothing still aspires to make them feel pretty and feminine (decorative bows, frilly capped sleeves, frills on the cuffs of leggings, ditsy floral prints, heart shaped buttons, fluffy bunnies, princess slogans etc). Boys clothing carries a different message: that they are strong, brave, capable (featuring vehicles, superheroes, monsters, predators, dinosaurs, slogans about adventure etc. No unecessary decoration.)

I know they're just clothes but it makes me think of the Famous Five, where boys had all the fun while timid Anne just wanted to make house and look after everyone, and George had to dress as a boy to be taken seriously.

It seems a shame to stereotype them so young. They have their whole adult life to wear beautiful dresses and bows, if they want to.

A lot of highstreet girls clothes are flimsy and thin, as if girls will not run/climb/roll in mud as much. Especially shoes. I have nothing against pink (for either gender) but why are girls clothes less hard wearing?

Society's come a long way, but gender equalities are still there, and it doesn't help that girls are often dressed decoratively from babyhood. That people say 'oh aren't you pretty, what a cute dress' to a girl and 'what a big strong lad you are' to a boy.

I love frugi! I would buy it full price if I could afford it. I even have one of thier nursing dresses

Agree with RingFence about gender stereotyping. And it seems to have got much, much worse in the last couple of decades.

Now, thanks to gender pigeon-holing and stereotyping, there seems to be widely accepted, but very narrow definition of what it is to be 'masculine' or 'feminine'.

Great for those who fit into it.

But the flip side is you now have men who don't fit into that narrow 'masculine' definition, deciding they must be a women instead - often without the first clue of what it actually is to be a woman (because all they see is the stereotype). But that's a whole nother issue.

Some brands seem to market themselves very well...Frugi and Grimms both have a huge following which (if you follow any Facebook pages with their brand on) isn’t the same as people who like Next for example.