Do you dress your baby girls in blue & green?

[hireaskipandclearout]

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 ?

DD wore anything cute, whatever colour. And I didn't care if people thought she was a boy or girl. It irons out some of the gender bollocks that they are subjected to. From birth.

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I dressed dc1 (boy) in lots of bright vibrant colours and then I dressed dc2 (girl) in his hand me downs. She's dark haired like me with blue eyes and blues, reds, greens really suit her.

DD wore lots of ds's stuff, so was sometimes mistaken for a boy.

Hey ho

Blue is my favourite colour so I dressed her in lots of blue - which ended up with lots of people mistaking her for a boy for a few months but it didn't bother me - it did annoy me that all the 'girls' clothes were in pinks, yellows, etc and so the only blue clothes were often in the boys range.

But it was eye-opening that the blue trainers were often much cheaper than the pink sparkly ones

@Clymene

You should tie a bow with a flower on it around her head. That's a good way of people knowing she's a girl

Hope you are being funny here....

She’s 16 now but as a baby, yes. I loved navy on her (she’s strawberry blonde). One of my favourite outfits was a navy pinafore with an adorable gingham blouse underneath.
Green? Not so much, it’s not a colour I care for.

My daughter almost always wore blue because it really suits her colouring. Why should boys get all the good colours? Seems like girls are only left with pink and purple. It's stupid. They're just colours.

Yes, she's not going to grow different genitalia as a result. She's in a lot of her brother's old clothes because they're in perfect condition still as they outgrow everything so fast. She does have a fair few bits of her own though, a lot of pink too, as that's what my parents bought her. She also wears some bright and bold patterns to match her brother.

I dressed my daughter in yellow, green, blue and white for the first few months. Then as she got older she was in denim jeans and dungarees due to the impact of crawling on her knees. She liked dinosaurs etc and she never wore pink before I'm not a fan of the colour.

I love it when multipacks have blue And green in as well as pink. But then I dress my dd in all colours, I don’t really see them as boy or girl colours. My dd has feminine features and looks like a girl no matter what she wears, but if she didn’t it wouldn’t matter!

My baby girl wears lots of blue and green. Im not anti pink, but she's very fair with blue eyes so those colours really suit her. When my grandmother came to meet her for the first time I had her in a beautiful blue and white baby grow, and one of the first things she said was "What have you got her wearing blue for? People will think she's a boy!"

I'm just not sure why it matters whether strangers can correctly guess the sex of your child?

When mine were babies, I got them clothes I liked. Mainly bright colours. Not much pink, because I didn't like it.
As they grew bigger, they expressed preferences, I followed them.
They are 9&7 now... Mostly chose clothes from girls section (they like leggings and jersey dresses). But t-shirts are often from the boys. Shorts too, as the boys are longer and thicker.

As babies, DD1 was often called a boy. DD2 was identified as a girl. Main difference... DD1 was bald until she was a year old. DD2 was born with a gorgeous head of black hair. Even when DD1 was in a pink dress, she got called a boy...

DD had a huge range of colours but we didn't really do pink. DS wore DD's hand me downs. DD is 4 now and has strong preferences in her clothes so she wears what she wants, sometimes it's a dress and sometimes a tshirt and baseball cap. DS still doesn't care and he still wears hand me downs, not the dresses though.

I don't think I ever dressed DD in pink when she was a baby. Her hair colouring ( born with copper red hair) was what most people noticed not what she was wearing. She wore mostly greens and yellows She wore her first dress at 18 months old when we went to a wedding.

I had a girl then 2 boys. Dd was the first grandchild on my husbands side and he is one of 3 boys. MIL bought solely pink outfits for about 18 months. As a result I veered the other way and bought all sorts of colours. Brown, green, orange, purple.

Ds1 and ds2 then wore a lot of pink when they were born to save money.

Nobody has ever got their sex wrong but you know what? It wouldn't matter if they did. @hireaskipandclearout why do you feel so strongly about this?

And the socialisation of another woman into the patriarchy begins in babyhood by designating certain colours as “boy” colours and others as “girl” colours.

I did, but she was my third so wore anything that hadn't been totally destroyed by her brothers for quite a few years, along with a few pink things we were gifted (given a lot more clothes for dd than the boys).

Mine wore white for the first 6-8 weeks (first 2 sizes) because

I think it looks beautiful
You can boil wash it
I didn't want to know the sex before birth.

There’s no colour I haven’t dressed DD in, even black. She’s often in blue or green, she has masses of strawberry blonde curly hair and blue eyes and looks delightful in blue and green. But I dressed her in blue and green even when she was bald and mostly asleep and looked like a scaly potato.

She has plenty of pink, lilac and yellow too. I just buy comfortable clothes (joggers, sweatshirts, jersey shorts, etc) she can move easily in, nothing with sequins or faffy bits that make washing difficult, lots of bright colours and fun prints – none of the mournful Victorian orphanage brown linen looks that are so popular on Instagram.

I genuinely don’t understand the mindset of gendered colours, nor caring whether a stranger calls her he or she. Just dress kids so they’re comfortable and you can get the peanut butter off easily.

My DD's wore all sort of different colours as babies, I don't really think too much into it and just picked what I like. So they did wear pink dresses with headbands sometimes, they also wore blue, green, red, yellow. I think with most of their clothes you could tell they were "girls cothes" but it wouldn't have bothered me if they were mistaken for boys

I dressed both of my girls in a lot of greys and navy blue- because they are my favourite colours that I also wear... then came the cringy days of them growing their own little personalities where it was all pink pepper pig- which I did With a smile, because they are little people with their own personalities... now I can’t get my oldest to wear a dress 🙄😂

Eh? My DS happily wore some pink baby grows. His penis didn’t fall off. In fact he wore quite a bit of pink as it’s DH’s favourite colour. Strangely enough DH still has a penis too. You seriously need to look at your inherent prejudices - thinking like you do is a massive part of what keeps women back from achieving real equality.

When my daughter was a baby, she wore lots of blue. I like blue. Next did great navy blue leggings, which were a staple. She had very little hair until she was about three so often got mistaken for a boy, but I cannot see why this is a problem. To be fair, I did avoid buying pink stuff as I didn’t like it, but she was given a lot of pink clothes and she did wear them, I just preferred her to wear bolder colours.

I know what you mean OP.

I was shopping for DD yesterday and checked Tesco. All their multi packs of tops and leggings were black/grey/mustard. Very dull looking. I want nice bright colours.