To dress my child in this way?

[desperatehousewife101]

This is a dress from my early childhood , my mum passed away recently and I came across it in her belongings.
AIBU to dress my baby in this regardless of gender ?

dress you child how you want in many cultures boys/men wear dresses-skirts-kilts-sarongs robes etc
what if she had said;
i want to dresss my daughter in a pair of farmer overalls
oh wait thats ok
2nd husband has flower tattoos all along one arm.and he definitelly isn;t girly/he also wears t shirts with roses

Well there are pictures of him in a dress all over the internet now, so it doesn't make much difference what you decide.

If you do take him out in it people will think you are either very odd or desperately trying to be 'quirky'.

I don't think it's the same as little boys playing dress up in princess dresses and fairy wings either. More like mummy playing dress up with a doll.

No one really cares what a stranger's baby is dressed in , it doesn't matter.
You might care if it gets stained though, wouldn't you rather keep it safe?

a thing here for years was to stitch up little buttondown shirts and dresses and put a small infant hanger in them
used for laundry pegs- pins and a way to keep around forever

I wouldn't put a sentimental dress on a baby girl never mind a baby boy. Who is actually getting anything out of that? Can you find a doll the dress would fit? Or have the dress altered into a doll's dress or memory bear or something.

We had a Teddy who wore an old dress from a member of the family

I'm sorry for your loss OP but I don't understand why you would want to dress your son in a dress.I would just keep the dress as a keepsake.

Yes sorry I didn't explain this well. Obviously at 5 months old no he won't be confused as won't have clue!!lol!! I was jumping ahead and generalising and making assumptions - yes all daft things to do! But I was, and I was assuming this meant that OP was not just talking about a one-off incident with this dress.

Thefuck 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Dress your child in whatever you want, some people might briefly raise an eyebrow, slightly more may roll their eyes, most wont give a toss.

Doesn't make you cool, different, modern, PC, pro gender neutral, or an amazing parent in anyway just because you dress your 10 month old son in a blue frock.

Laurie I remember being deeply offended at being called a boy when I was 3. It was 1970, and apparently the woman had never seen a girl in dungarees and a butcher boy cap before.

DS2 is nearly 2 and wears a lot of pink not because I'm a cool gender nc mum but because he looks brilliant in powder blue/green/pink (blonde/sallow). He doesn't wear dresses but I don't see the problem, as long as you don't mind correcting people who think he's a girl or don't care

YANBU babies don't generally give a stuff about what they wear as long as it's clean and dry.
DS3 was constantly referred to as a girl. Once he was dressed in a romper saying Little Brother and several people asked the name of the pretty baby girl. I found it fascinating.

I wouldn't, because

(1) Although the baby won't care whether their clothing is designed for male/female wearers, putting a boy in a dress goes against social norms, and will lead people to think that you are trying to make some sort of point. It would be different if the child was an older boy actively choosing themselves to wear a dress.

(2) Dresses aren't very practical for 5 month olds anyway. I have a DD (as well as a DS), and she rarely wore dresses until she was around 2 1/2, when she started expressing a preference for them.

The Victorians dressed all babies in dresses to make nappy changing easier. Once toilet trained there wore gender specific clothes.
I think it's brilliant and a shame it's no longer acceptable.

What's the purpose
The purpose is that this is a much-loved heirloom that the OP wants to see used again and she has a baby the right age.
His (assuming it's a boy) willy is not going to drop off.
It's traditional to put boys in dresses for christenings.
It's not that long ago in history that all boys wore dresses (my grandfather was in a very long smock with shorts - to all intents and purposes a dress - in the 1920s as a toddler - so less than 100 years ago. My father in the 1940s wore a smock but you could just about see the shorts underneath!)

...putting a boy in a dress goes against social norms, and will lead people to think that you are trying to make some sort of point.

People like who? Presumably OP can explain if needed to family and friends otherwise why pander to the opinions of random strangers?

OP if you’re going to put that dress on your baby then please iron it. It’ll look much tidier.

Sorry OP no. No matter what people say about gender/sex/why cant a boy wear a dress, it would be weird to put a baby boy a denim flowery dress. Very weird.

I personally wouldn’t put my son in a dress.
My children are individuals, I have one son who wouldn’t dream of wearing pink and the other who has his own handbag and loves fancy dress. I don’t force any agenda on my children but would draw the line on putting a dress on a child who hasn’t got a choice on whether or not to wear it... it’s just a bit confusing and unnecessary.

Non mobile babies are absolutely made for dressing up and if the clothes remind of your mum / makes you feel warm and loved, then all the better.

would draw the line on putting a dress on a child who hasn’t got a choice on whether or not to wear it.
Including a girl?
Would you put a boy in pink if he "hasn't got a choice"?
What about putting a girl in blue (like this dress)?
Or flowers on a boy or a tshirt with a truck on a girl?
Where do you draw the line?
Do you make sure all your children's clothes say in capital letters THIS ONE HAS GOT A WILLY and THIS ONE HASN'T GOT A WILLY?

Non mobile babies are absolutely made for dressing up
This!

Dress him in what you like but he'll either shit or puke on it or else you'll have grannies commenting on how pretty she is

I thought dresses were brilliant for the sitting up stage. This coincided with summer for DD so thin cotton dresses were perfect. She hated rolling though, so maybe that makes the difference. I found sleepsuits a pain after the first couple of months as she’d kick so much her leg would end up trapped in them. Jersey dresses over leggings were great as t shirts would ride up but the dresses had more to work with. As soon as crawling started they were useless until she was reliably steady at walking but not for days when she’s doing any climbing (every day given the chance).

DS is currently in her old vest with a bow on it. His penis hasn’t fallen off yet but I will monitor the situation.