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to want funky babygrows/ sleepsuits that cost less than a tenner each?

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sushistar · 09/02/2008 23:06

After trawling the web, all the cool sleepsuits are like £17 or £18 each. The ones I can afford are pale blue. Ds is 9 weeks and I'M SICK OF PALE BLUE!!! How hard would it be to make funky stripes or circles in bright funky colours? But no, it's 'Little Aeroplanes' and 'Cute Puppy' in PALE BLUE.

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SnappyLaGore · 09/02/2008 23:08

lol

must be even worse for parents of girls... evrything in the shops for girls is pink with embroidered flowers or butterlys on, and bloody glitter for good measure too. bleurgh!

BigBadMouse · 09/02/2008 23:12

look out for 'brights and stripes' on ebay - you just missed one two days ago which sold for £7.25 BNWT - I checked again last night and nothing but worth looking out for (it was an ebay shop that had them but all they had last night was more girly colours but still funky).

Also Next have some for about £10

btw YANBU - started a thread about this a few weeks ago.

BibiThree · 09/02/2008 23:13

Totally agree - dts are currently wearing some bright red and white Christmas sleepers becuase they're just a nice change from the blank, sicky, pale pink numbers I usually am stuck buying. Cream makes them look like boys, so why not some nice bright yellows and yes I like pink, but let's incorporate some patterns fgs!

JFly · 09/02/2008 23:13

I know! New business idea: I'm thinking I need to fill this gap in the market. If I see one more beige "unisex" sleep suit with a bear or bunny on it, I think I will scream! And my baby is yet to be born! Unfortunately it seems Scandinavians have all the luck with bright colours and here in the UK it's all beige, pink or blue.

Alambil · 09/02/2008 23:15

make your own - buy white babygrows and tie-dye them... can't get funkier than that

fingerwoman · 09/02/2008 23:15

i got some great ones in next a while ago,. which is odd becauyse I actually hate next and rarely venture inside.
only the bigger stores seem to stock them though

fingerwoman · 09/02/2008 23:16

few on this page

Bessie123 · 09/02/2008 23:16

Have you tried TK Maxx? They often have nice babygros for about £6 or £7

bluenosesaint · 09/02/2008 23:17

I got some great stuff for dd from primark just before Christmas.

Lovely turquoises and greens etc ...such a refreshing change from pink, pink, bloody pink.

BibiThree - i thought i was alone with the red and white Christmas babygros, i'm still clinging onto dd's too

bluenosesaint · 09/02/2008 23:18

Oh and i should have said - NO yanbu

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sushistar · 09/02/2008 23:23

fingerwoman, i noticed the solitary colourful ones on that page. TBH I only really like the stripy one. Why cant they make more like that? Thanks for the tip bigbadmouse - just googled brights and stripes, they look fab. Will keep an eye out on ebay...
Seriously tho, why do shops think boys can ONLY wear blue? And wouldn't wering bright colours be better for the baby, so he can actually see his arms and legs?

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fingerwoman · 09/02/2008 23:26

i know, it's crap isn't it?
actually H&M do some good ones as well

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sushistar · 09/02/2008 23:29

There's not a h&m i can get to easily so I'll have to wait till i'm in town. Here's hoping!

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Flibbertyjibbet · 09/02/2008 23:34

Just came across this while googling for bright bots www.twinkleontheweb.co.uk/acatalog/Birth_to_3_Months_Clothing.html

Orange and bright green and prices not tooooo hefty.

EachPeachPearMum · 09/02/2008 23:37

YANBU! I hate the way baby clothes are in the UK- the rest of the world has multiple colours for either/both gender, so why do we have a choice of blue or pink?

I never put dd in pink if I can help it, but it takes some doing!

EachPeachPearMum · 09/02/2008 23:40

bigbadmouse You changed your name! Had to check your profile as dd has been pretending to be the big bad mouse all day, to scare away the Grufflemummy...

Flibbertyjibbet · 09/02/2008 23:41

Forgot to say, YANBU.
Whenever we visit my sister in the lovely european city she lives in, or she comes to us, we get lovely cream, navy, brown etc clothes for our ds's.
Every time they are in them we get comments about how lovely they are and people moaning that they can only find blue or pink over here.
All that pink stuff is pretty high on my reasons why I'm glad to have boys

BigBadMouse · 09/02/2008 23:48

EachPeach yes, I did - had to after comments on crapness of previous name (it was only meant to be a temp name when I joined). My DD has also been the Big Bad Mouse all day too

at 'grufflemummy' - I tend to be more 'grumblemummy' myself right now..

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sushistar · 09/02/2008 23:53

Yes, I agree that the pink stuff is WORSE. But it always seems there is a bigger range of girls than boys clothes in shops? Or is that my imagination?

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Flibbertyjibbet · 10/02/2008 00:01

No! Its not your imagination! All I wanted was a pair of plain jeans for ds1 this week.
Peacocks had virtually half a shop of girls stuff, I had to ask an assistant to help me find the teeeeeeny range of boys stuff!
Everywhere, even the supermarkets, its 10 aisles of pink and twinkly, and they boys stuff hidden between the sausages and bread
The sales are just as bad, I have given up going. Next sale there are 50 million very acceptable items for girls, and about 3 really dire ugly t shirts for boys.
I recently called into a shoe shop that does all the 'designer' shoes, they were having a sale. I wandered in with my two boys, said 'is this one pair the only boys shoes in the sale?' to which the cheeky bitch said 'yes people with boys don't bother to buy them proper shoes, they just bung em in cheap trainers'

Rant over

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 10/02/2008 00:21

I bought this for a friend, quite a bargain!

Also try

My DC's practically lived in their things, such nice quality.

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 10/02/2008 00:23

oops missing link

Greenbaby

There are nice things in the sale

onelittlelion · 10/02/2008 00:46

TK Maxx had some lovely ones last time I was in. Can't remember what make tho...worth a look anyway!

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sushistar · 10/02/2008 00:54

I'm liking the m&s set, might get that! I love green baby, but all the stuff I like in the sale was out of stock in 3-6 months and normal prices take us back over the tenner-for-a-babygro...

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sushistar · 10/02/2008 00:56

Flibbertyjibbet, what, are boy's mums less interested in dressing them in good shoes then?!? huh. Seriously, I think there's a HUGE gap in the market here...

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