Do you dress your baby girls in blue & green?

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DC1 was a boy, I dressed him in gorgeous funky prints, reds, greens, orange yellow and of course the boy staple blue. I generally only avoided black and wasn't so keen on grey, but I did have it.

DC2 is a girl and I finding so many multipacks have what I would consider as dull boy colours in them. So M&S or next a pack of bodysuits has one blue one or green leggings in a set. Am I being U to not want to dress choose these for my DD? Obviously when she's older (like DS ) she can pick, but I want her to look like a girl as a baby. I don't do hair bands and ott dresses, I want normal everyday clothes but in like pink, dusky pinks, white, peach, yellow, Liliac. Am I totally on my own here ?

I hate the pink for a girl and blue for a boy attitude. It’s an outdated old fashioned and not helpful.
I have b/g DT’s. They lived in babygros for their first nine months. They wore whichever babygro I picked up first. Some days DS wore pink and DD brown, other days they both wore lilac. It didn’t change that they were a boy and girl.

But girl blues and green tend to be different.
My fave colour on my little girl is cornflower blue. She looks gorgeous in it with her blue eyes. It could not get any more girly. And normally goes with flower details etc.

Also historically girls wore a lot of blue. Blue ribbons are a staple in nursery type some. Beautiful blue and white lacy dresses etc.
But anyway just get what you like. If you search hard enough you will be able to find it whatever colour you want.

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DD wore white, pale pink, pale yellow, lilac, pale blue as a baby. She had some babygros that were darker/brighter colours that she wore at night.

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@juliainthedeepwater

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Why?

I won’t dress my baby girl in blue. Green, yes, if it’s a light green, but no dark colours/greys/blues etc.

I want her to look pretty, cute, feminine and yes, like a baby girl. There’s nothing wrong with that.

I want her to look pretty, cute, feminine and yes, like a baby girl. There’s nothing wrong with that.

DS was dressed head to toe in blue at around 3 months old and a lady came up and said "isn't she beautiful". Scarred him for life it has.

A baby looks like a baby regardless of whether they are a boy or girl. Why do they need to be dressed in a particular colour clothing? They are still a boy whether they are dressed in pink or boy.

There is a fortune to be made by manufacturers producing gender neutral clothing.

Why do they need to be dressed in a particular colour clothing?

Parker231 They don’t need to; I want to dress my baby girl in pretty, feminine colours. Similarly if I had a boy I would dress him in masculine colours. I’m not into also this gender neutral bullshit.

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@emilyfrost

Why do they need to be dressed in a particular colour clothing?

Parker231 They don’t need to; I want to dress my baby girl in pretty, feminine colours. Similarly if I had a boy I would dress him in masculine colours. I’m not into also this gender neutral bullshit.

Putting a girl in blue isn’t “gender neutral bullshit” they’re just colours! People get so weird about this stuff. My mum gets upset that my daughter doesn’t wear pink - she does, just not head to toe and not all the time! There are other colours girls can wear!

The colours babies are dressed in might be just annoying when people follow the outdated attitude of pink = feminine = girl and blue = masculine = boy but it’s more of an issue as it describes people’s attitudes to girls and boys and it’s scary that this is continuing through yet another generation.

My DD is a redhead/strawberry blonde with blue eyes and pale skin. She wears pretty well every colour except yellow as yellow makes her look ill. Pink looks better than yellow.

After about 18m most bottoms are dark colours because mud and pen marks are less visible!

DS (Ash blonde blue eyes) looks good in basically any colour, but again I try to avoid pastels because he likes mud and food and hates bibs...

I think stereotypical girl colours are the more boring, as they tend to be pink, pink and pink.

I didn’t know what I was having and hate pink anyway so went for more seemingly boyish colours. She has some pink clothes now but not what I’ve chosen.

The only colour I won't dress a baby of either sex in is pink. Clashes with their pink skin

I am old enough to remember a time before a baby girl could only look like a baby girl if she was dressed in pink. It's come in very suddenly and now it's like the natural order of things. It may be old-fashioned...but it's not actually very old.

I don’t like dressing babies in white when they start to move, but before that pretty much any colour is fair game. My poor DS even had a couple of pink floral sleep suits because we were told he was a DD at 36 weeks 😂. I dressed DD in blues and greens, she looked absolutely lovely in blue. Sainsbury’s did some beautiful blue floral sleepsuits and vests. Those were my favourite.

My DP went out and bought loads of small clothes on his own because DD was smaller than expected. He had actually bought the them all from the boys section (his first child and he was clueless) but they looked so sweet and I love that I passed them down. As she was the first DD in the family for years everyone bought her pink so there wasn’t much I could pass down to DS when he was born.

Yes I did. And sometimes she was called 'he'. But saying that, there were times she was dressed in pink or in obvious girl clothes and she was also called a "he" then.

So the moral of the story is...dress your child in any colour you want because who cares whether anyone thinks your baby girl is a boy (or vice versa).

I'm curious as to what a baby girl is supposed to look like? There's really not a noticeable difference at that age.

Also game me a good laugh at how vehemently against "gender neutral bullshit" a PP when it is gender itself that is bullshit gender ideology really is an insidious fucker.

I dressed my DD in every colour going....except pink. I detest pink, there was no way I'd dress any child of mine in that.

Hi OP I’ve not read the thread as I can’t be doing with the arguments but just wanted to say that Newbie might be a good bet for the sort of dusky pinks and purples you are after. They don’t tend to do multipacks and are a bit more expensive but are cut massive so last for ages and are so beautiful they are worth it!
Happy shopping

August 2020 thread, people. OP probably isn't looking.

Dress her as you wish