To not want ds kitted out in dinosaurs and sharks?

[Aliceandthemarchhare]

Ds is four months and mostly wears babygros. I had mostly white and grey and cream to start with but obviously people bought us things and there was a lot of blue and I like the darker navy blues - it seems to suit him.

However looking for a sunhat for him and I’ve had to pay £11 for a plain navy one. I forgot his sleeping bag on holiday recently and had to get one covered in sharks.

Why are boys clothes so miserable? Surely baby boys can wear bright colours and slightly friendlier animals than T rexes and sharks?!

@Aliceandthemarchhare

This one grumpy, I’m not sure if it will fit what you need though - hope so.

Thanks. No unfortunately it won’t

It’s really not.

I agree. yes there are some sharks / dinosaurs and unicorns, but it seems like most things in the children aisle are brightly coloured and rainbow at the minute.

There are lovely things but they are costly - places like JoJo, baby boden, baby Mori, John Lewis, all do some lovely baby clothes but as you say they aren’t cheap.

Acquaint yourself with the local charity shops OP. FB market place and eBay.

Mine had lots of what I refer to as 'woodland creatures' over the winter - badgers and bears and foxes. We now seem to have hit a safari-based seam and everything has lions or zebras on it.

Lindex and H&M are brilliant for brights or neutrals without slogans or patterns. I’ve got some more muted things from La Redoute too.

H&M have a legionnaires hat that’s just a blue and white stripe that four month old DS hasn’t been able to pull off.

We have dinos, sharks, transport, unicorns, fairies, plain stuff, stripy stuff, Disney stuff, Harry Potter stuff, minecraft stuff and all sorts.
I have two boys, but at 3 and 6 they choose what they want to wear. My 6 year old has a load of stuff from tescos/asda/Sainsbury’s. H&M is pricey, so we don’t shop there.
My 3 year old fell in love with a “girls” cinderella tshirt and “girls” rainbow leggings, but you can bet your bottom dollar I bought them and he wore them to nursery the next day.
Honestly I don’t see the issue. Clothes are clothes.

Yes there were a lot of foxes around when ds was tiny.

I am a fan of rather more cuddly animals I think

Will have a look in h and m

Interesting, because it used to be boys who had a colourful range on offer and girls who just got pink.

Hopefully someday the gender split will vanish and there'll just be a nice wide range in various bright cours.

Zara kids, neutral colours.

It pisses me right off. H and M is quite good, Amazon basics are ok too. I just don’t get why it’s all so pointlessly gendered. My daughter doesn’t like frills and won’t wear them. So that makes girls clothes hard. And my son like bright trousers. Not camo. Not dinosaurs. Not sharks.

@romdowa

Gendered baby clothes are the bane of my life right now. We dont want to find out the gender but I find white and cream baby clothes so boring. Why cant there be new born clothes that arent gendered .

Few newborn clothes are gendered. Unless it literally says the gender on the clothing you can put it on any child. It's your own judgment that is assigning gender. Our baby is due any day, we don't know the sex, I have purple butterfly dungarees and blue dinosaur dungarees, whatever baby come out will wear both because they're clothes and they're cute.

I bloody love dinosaurs and will be dressing my (as yet unborn) DC in them whether boy or girl. We plan to not tell anyone the sex so that any gifts are neutral, I agree that heavily gendered baby clothes are generally a bit depressing.

Do you have any friends or relatives who knit or crochet and could be pressed into service for jumpers, cardigans, hats, socks? That would give you a fabulous range of colours and designs to choose from at fairly low cost. I knit and would be thrilled to be asked this by a friend as I’ve got far too much knitwear of my own by now!

H&M do loads of lovely baby clothes in the style you are after, and not expensive. Also M&S have some nice prints and brighter colours.

I got my son a lovely green hoodie from fat face with a massive tree frog on the back

I love all things dinosaurs though!

That sounds so sweet kicker

Ds has some M and S babygros but they are definitely ‘boy’ ones - one set with cars and one with boats. They are cute though.

M&S and next have loooads of brights, stripes, animals, all sorts!

I bought a lot of dino clothes for my DD (from the boys' section!).

I think the reason clothes and toys are so gendered is that companies have reallized that with gendered items, 50% of families will have to buy new for DC2.....

Totally agree! I’m due my first DS in a couple months and can’t stand the amount of dinosaurs, tractors, monsters etc on all the clothes.

It’s not so bad for newborn, but once you get towards 6m+ it’s a nightmare.

We’ve been lucky enough to receive a lot of 2nd hand clothes from friends but I have to admit some of it has gone into a bag for donation to someone else as it’s just too boyish for our tastes 🙈

Once he’s old enough to have interests we can buy him whatever he likes, but whilst he’s teeny I just want neutrals!

Haha is this your first baby OP? I agree politically gendered clothes are a pain in the arse. But practically the thing is not to give a f, as all bay clothes are are poop-rags waiting to happen.

For my first DD I spent a fortune on adorable clothes (like you I wanted colourful non-gendreed stuff so splashed the cash on Frugi/Little Green Radicals etc).

This time I saw a woman on local FB page giving away free about three binbags full of clothes her baby son had grown out of and I pounced on it. There's a lot of blue, a lot of stripes, a lot of dinosaurs and yes a lot of sharks. DD2 at 2mo doesn't give a fuck and neither do I. Although DD1 (4yo) constantly scolds me that her sister's clothes aren't "pretty" enough (thank you preschool, social exposure and gender norms 🤦‍♀️).

I agree with others, H&M is your friend here! Lots of neutral and plain clothes and their organic cotton range is always on 3 for 2.

Ds has some M and S babygros but they are definitely ‘boy’ ones - one set with cars and one with boats.

How on earth does cars and boats mean they are definitely not clothes?? I was on boats and in cars as a girl. You’re the one reinforcing the gender stereotypes here OP.

Not= boy

Where have you found these clothes ? I've looked several places and they are all either girly , boyish or anything that could be anyway neutral is just awful. Nothing adorable at all for neutral colours.