To put my baby boy in shorts with tights?

[Blii]

Someone bought my baby boy a really cute dungaree set, but they’re completely the wrong season as they are short dungarees.
Would I be out the ordinary to pair them with tights!?
The dungarees won’t fit him in the summer and they’re out of stock for me to exchange for a bigger size for summer.

Oh I can. But I'm not giving you the satisfaction of feeling like you've won with your stupid manipulation games.

Ok, whatever you say.

...but what? Wth?

Just ignore the stupid shops. This is ridiculous.

I dressed mine in all sorts. I would have loathed and detested bland shit clothes like that, all beiges. Yuk!

Lions are not for boys, and bunnies for girls, how retrograde.

Grow up people.

My dad was a builder and my husband and my son none have ever wore tights .
I have been a nanny for thirty years occasionally on a snow day one of my charges wore tights but generally boys that I have looked after don’t wear them as a daily thing .

You could just dress a baby in yellow or white and call that "gender neutral." Obviously pink and blues are no-nos There is a gender neutral style, I think. I'm thinking of clothes from Polarn o Pyret or Blades and Rose.

JassyRadlett you're not even funny. A grown man in women's rights is fucking weird.

Whereas you’re really pretty hilarious, but probably not in the way you mean.

Imagine being so uptight about sticking rigidly to extreme gender roles and clothing that you’d rather a man doing an outdoors job in cold weather be cold and uncomfortable rather than put on something that is marketed to women that might make his job a little less miserable in winter. Hilarious if no so sad, narrow and mean-spirited.

Logically, you should have just as much of an issue about women in trousers or wearing socks from the men’s section.

Unless you can explain, using actual logic, what is ‘creepy’ about ‘wanting to be warm at work’?

There are plenty of options to stay warm without wearing women's hoisery.

TBF, most shops have girl baby sections full of bunnies unicorns, mermaids and boy baby sections full of lions, dinosaurs and tractors. I think that pp was being tongue in cheek.

Girls can have dinosaurs, but they have to be on a pink background.

I buy a lot of my DDs clothes from the boys section as I just want tops and bottoms in plain colours without frills and ruffles. To my mind a blue top (for example) is just as 'suitable' for a girl as a boy and is gender neutral.

Black trousers only seem to be in baby boy sections, but again are not gender specific either.

I dressed my son in outfits with ducks on. I thought the outfits with ducks on would look good on a girl or a boy so are therefore gender neutral.

My boys always wore tights under their shorts/trousers. I was totally over them pulling their socks off and flinging then God only knows where after DS1 did it, like, twice...

I think its a cultural thing, my dad wears tights under his ski trousers (sold in the mens bit of the shop)

Man tights don't seem to be a thing in England but DH used to wear long johns under his trousers when he worked outdoors.

The only difference is the built in feet!

Girls can have dinosaurs, but they have to be on a pink background.
I was actually going to say that. A blue or green background then you run the risk of your daughter being mistaken for a boy.

The only difference is the built in feet!

Indeed. Longjohns are just thick tights without built in feet.

These builders arent wearing 20 denier sheer tights under their work trousers...

Why would you want your baby girl to be mistaken for a boy?

There are plenty of options to stay warm without wearing women's hoisery.

So? What if this way is better for them? Simpler? Cheaper to be able to adapt their existing work gear rather than buy entirely separate for the coldest weather? Why does it hurt you?

I honestly haven’t got a better way of keeping warm outdoors than fleece-lined tights under warm trousers. Layers, with one layer close to the skin, is one of the best ways to ensure warmth. Why shouldn’t men working outside get to have access to that?

It’s pretty illogical to be ok with women adopting male clothing or wear clothes marketed to men for practical reasons, but to find it ‘creepy’ for men to do likewise.

And yeah, I find it really sad that an adult would rather see another person be less comfortable than have them transgress rigid gender clothing boundaries.

you run the risk of your daughter being mistaken for a boy

Oh no, the horror!

Why would you want your baby girl to be mistaken for a boy?

Why would you care? Does it matter if strangers know the sex of your baby or not?

No wonder we've got people 'self-identifying' as anything they can think of.

A girl in a blue top is still a girl

@pinkyyy good to know people still exist in the world with some decency left. This whole gender neutral thing is one of the most absurd things society has come up with.
Yea.. kind of side tracked from the tights topic oops

I haven't said that a girl can't wear blue. But I certainly wouldn't put a boy in a dress.

I think people just don't really care?

If its something that doesn't get used much like a snow suit I imagine most people would stick their DD in their older brother/cousins old one with cars/diggers on etc.
A conversation in the playground could go
"Your little boy is very good on the slide, how old is he?
"She's almost two, its her brothers old coat though so don't worry!"

Its just not a big deal to me (and probably lots of mumsnetters)

@Doods3 I completely agree which is why I choose to buy gender specific clothing. I won't have anything to do with anything gender neutral as I think it's helping to raise a generation of confused and depressed children with heaps of mental health problems. Anyone who disagrees may want to spend time in a school with teenagers and see what's happening.

As others have said, pretty standard in other countries, esp Poland/east Europe. I used them for mine when they were little as I hated trousers riding up when I picked him up and leaving legs exposed and him pulling socks off. Plenty of fab boys tights on eBay pretty cheap that come from that side of the continent. Cars and trucks in them and everything to confuse the gender neutral haters! rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F151826613626

Gendered clothing is quite a recent phenomenon. Up until the early 20th century boys and girls would be dressed in gowns.