To think green is unisex?

[Katiem1234]

I'm pregnant with my first baby, a girl. Green is my favourite colour and I've bought a fair few green baby clothes, I always thought green was a very unisex colour? However a friend has asked me why I've bought so many boy clothes and I presume jokingly said she takes it I was hoping for a boy... We've also got pinks, purples, yellows, creams etc.
Green is totally fine for a girl right? People aren't going to assume I just wanted a boy so dressed them in 'boys' clothes?

Oh, Blade and Rose are great for unisex leggings and tops - my DD has loads of pairs of leggings in different styles, including cloud ones, dinosaur ones, fox ones, etc. and matching tops. JoJo Maman Bebe do nice leggings too (I do admit to buying her some unicorn leggings - unicorns are my one concession to girliness!). That's pretty much all she wears right now!

I’d say pale/mint green is fine for both. Brighter/darker green is more associated with boys clothing.

Green is totally fine for a girl right? Right!!

Recently bought DD a green outfit, it is mint green though which seems to be considered girlier than dark green. Basically bold colours are boy colours and pale and pastels girls as far as I can tell. Blue and pink are the exceptions. Personally I think my DD looks lovely in a blue dress...

I love mint green, when my boys were babies I bought some pale mint green sleepsuits and people said they were too girly!!! Then when I had a girl mint green was too "wishy washy" you can't win lol

I love green for a girl! It's bloody silly isn't it the way people get over things like this. I'm sure she will look beautiful in her outfits

My DD used to wear lots of green as a baby.

Mind you, even when in pink from head to toe, people used to assume that she was a boy, because she didn't have her ears pierced..

It's all rubbish really,, this pink for girl,blue for boy,is just something that has been around for generations, but hopefully it would have changed by now.

My children were born in the 1970 era,and my late Mum was a great knitter, she always knit blue for my first born.a son, and then in pink,for my daughter four years later. I just went along with all this,as it was lovely to get home made things given to me.

When my daughter was a toddler,she was a bit of a tomboy,and,she was then dressed in anything hand me down from my son, so had blue,and all sorts of colours.

I like all the choices that you have for babies now, any colour is ok, maybe not black though ha ha.

It's a slippery slope, don't dress her in head to toe pink and next you might push her round in a blue pram. This might lead on to her wanting a Batman costume and the universe might split apart.

Well done for finding green baby clothes, I love green and have really struggled to find any!

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nice to know that you teach your children gendered insults, too!)

I am consistent at least

I don't make comments about other people's choices and I don't call them pathetic for those.

And yes, I am glad we still recognise the difference between boys and girls, which is why female are not competing against men in sports. But we are getting there, so some of you will be happy about that, I am not.

If I saw a baby in green I'd not know whether it was a boy or a girl. Head to toe pink butterflies I'd hazard a guess at girl. Head to toe blue cars and diggers, I'd guess at a boy but still it might be a girl.
All colours are unisex now days. I dressed my son in some pink rompers etc because I didnt want him to grow up thinking certain colours weren't for boys! My daughter has loads of clothing which was my sons. I really dont think it matters.

This might lead on to her wanting a Batman costume and the universe might split apart.

there are a lot of lovely black and pink Batman costumes, so we are good!

I doubt it's a colour thing particularly. I suspect your friend just prefers very "pretty"/ sparkly and/or frilly designs. I bet the outfits she commented on weren't little green dresses with frilly pants or babygros with ruffles? You probably just have very different more unisex/practical taste than she does. We're all different. Dress your girl however you like! Lots of girls I know avoid pink. I like pink but there is an excess of pink in the shops and it's not a colour that even suits a lot of girls. But you can find some beautiful girls' clothes in other colours. If you find restrictions on girls' clothing hard to deal with, you'll find it ten million times harder if you ever have a boy. My friends occasionally buy the odd piece for their girls from the boy department (striped tops, plain leggings, wellingtons or t-shirts with lion or tiger designs) and all this is considered fine for a girl, but try buying a single item for boys from a girls' department- good luck with that! Boys are not "allowed" the cuter more babyish animals like ducks, cats, pandas etc and they make sure boys can't buy them by adding ultra-feminine touches like pink lining, or a flower trim to anything with a cat on it as they know most parents won't risk overly girly clothes on boys. It's really irritating. At least with a girl you have a more choice- look at the number count of items on any websites and you'll see kidswear is usually at least 60-65% girlswear, then girls can also buy from the 40% of boyswear too. Going back to your original question, I think this can be a bit of a class and regional based thing too- amongst the middle classes and certainly in London it is very trendy to dress your girl more unisex.

I agree all colours are unisex. Green is a lovely colour!

I put my dd in plenty of blue as a baby because I had this notion it was the most relaxing colour!

I put DD in Aqua green once, all i got was isn't he cute!!

I even get in now and she's 2, beautiful eyes "wasted on a boy!" WTAF she is obviously a girl FFS

Sorry get use to it if like me you don't want to stick to Pink, Purple or Yellow

Also why would nice eyes be wasted on a bit?

@MorondelaFrontera - And yes, I am glad we still recognise the difference between boys and girls, which is why female are not competing against men in sports. But we are getting there, so some of you will be happy about that, I am not.

There is a massive difference between recognising the physiological sex-based differences between boys and girls in terms of sports etc and creating differences based on gender stereotypes.

Gender stereotyping has led to a need amongst some sectors to classify individuals by gender, resulting in the conflation of gender and sex. The assumption that all people exhibiting characteristics that are seen as being aligned with a particular gender, must therefore be of that gender, has, I think, come about because of gender stereotyping.

I mean boy not bit.

I agree with isthisafreename

I’ve currently got emerald green trousers on. I’m definitely female! Greens a great colour.

DD was mistaken for a boy in a pink dress... Because she was bald.

We had exactly the opposite - DT2 had lots of hair (medication side effect) and everyone assumed he was a girl, i guess baby boys can’t grow hair? 🙄

Isthisafreename
no, you can't have it both ways.

I think it hurts us a lot and is having really bad consequences for us that we try to deny the differences. We can demand in equality in right, I am the first one there, but let's not pretend we are similar.

There is a massive difference between recognising the physiological sex-based differences between boys and girls in terms of sports etc

There are very little physiological differences between boys and girls before puberty. Many governing bodies state this in their trans policies- up until puberty there is no advantage if a boy competes as a girl and vice versa.

The reason boys and girls are sports segregate so early is generally socialisation- girls don’t want to compete with boys as they perceive them to be faster/stronger/more boisterous. That and obviously the fact that sports are segregrated as adults so they continue down in that format.

@Katiem1234 YANBU.

@Katiem1234

I think all colours are unisex, except pink. I used to put DD in blue, pink, purple, cream, yellow, orange, peach, navy, and pink. Would put a boy in the same colours. I would never put a boy in pink though.

My mother knit a shit load of stuff when I was pregnant; and some were knit in the colours on these pics... And they are ALL suitable for a girl OR a boy.... (IMO) So IMO, virtually ALL colours are unisex!