To think there's always more clothes for girls than boys?

[ohflowerofscotland]

Why is this? There was a huge baby sale in my local Asda. Rails and rails of baby clothes but not that much for boys.

This was the case for non sale items too. It really bugs me.

You would think retailers would cater just as much for boys than girls.

I agree OP.

Popped to Asda for some cheap bits to top up DS6 wardrobe for our holiday next week (grows like a weed and has outgrown all his summer clothes already but don’t want to buy too much as he’ll need jumpers soon!)

Came out with nothing. If he had been a girl I could have picked up everything on my list!

I just don’t think ‘supply and demand’ is enough come back. There are so many individual small businesses plugging the gap for bright non frilly clothes. When Sainsbury’s stocked some ‘boy’ leggings (as in no added frills, bows and in the boy section), they sold out within a week. If it isn’t there then customers cannot show their demand.

I really wish there was a reasonably priced store selling plain colourful clothes across the rainbow, not with pictures or fiddly bits, just good plain t shirts, leggings, trousers

Me too. My son loves dinosaurs but we don’t need them on every T-shirt. H and M is quite good for this.

@TildaTurnip that's all well and good for small boys, and those are now readily available. But when the boy gets to 7, 10, 12, 16, how many boys do you know who will wear them? How old is your son now?

My 15 year old daughter would live in leggings if I let her (I don't, as I don't think leggings are trousers, but that's incidental). My 15 year old nephew will only wear black skinny jeans or tracksuit bottoms, and only from about 3 certain brands. I have about 12 nephews, and all those above 10 are the same.

If you go to a nearly new sale, I find that there is way more boys' stuff than girls', usually. Lovely stuff, very cheap and often much better quality than stuff in the supermarkets. The Mum2mum markets are great round my way in south London.

Yep because the boys' stuff lasts forever. I get a lot of second hand clothes and a lot of the stuff is on its third or fourth (or maybe more) owner by the time we get it.

Lol at the PP who has one child of each gender and that is proof that girls are more interested in boys than fashion. DS1 has been extremely particular about clothes since he was four and now chooses to spend his own pocket money on "cool" t-shirts and hoodies. He does, unfortunately, live in sludge these days :o

Was thinking exactly the same as I was passing through the kids section in my local M&S today. The girls' section is huuuuuge and the boys' not so much .

Drives me mad!!

Completely agree!

I find high street or supermarket shopping for my son's clothes is so dull, I buy most his clothes online now so he doesn't have such a limited choice.

What's with all the sickly pink for girls too? There are other colours available but it's as though the shops forget that.

DS came back from Asda with a fab glitter dinosaur t-shirt today in nice pinks/pastel colours. It looks like it was from the boys section (based on cut). It has the odd gem amongst all the sludge/blue.

Hardly any of my boys stuff lasts enough to be passed on... but thats because DS stuffs all his pockets with gravel from the nursery garden every day and likes to climb inside the bushes