To ask … where sells nice clothes for little boys?

[butonlyone]

When DS was a baby and younger toddler I went high end: JoJo, Boden, Fat Face even, to get nice clothes that weren’t covered in dinosaurs.

He is now 3 and I’m struggling a bit. Supermarkets are dominated by black, grey and khaki or garish colours and dinosaurs still prevail. (DS has no real interest in them.)

Wondering where I might not have looked as I could do with updating his summer wardrobe. I don’t want him to look like a girl but just not dull stuff or ugly stuff!

Zara if you like a sort of laid back surfer style. Lots of t-shirts on there to match any kind of shorts/joggers

I have a 10 year old girl. Different gender and age, but same problem in terms of lack of choice.

We get a lot of independent/handmade brands. We like
Alice and Harry
My Brave Pearl
Austleys
Albert Postlethwaite
We also liked Lottie and Lysh until DD outgrew them.

They all do boys (and girls) clothes up until at least age 7-8, and whilst slightly more expensive, I've found they last well and wash well without shrinking etc. There's also the bonus of a huge variety of fabric prints and designs.

I'd recommend joining Handmade Kids UK on Facebook, as there are a lot of handmade clothing businesses on there. A lot also do "fiver Friday" and "tenner Tuesday" offers for clothes up to age 5-6

I hope you manage to find something your DS likes soon

Right 😂

So you dress your son in skirts and dresses with floral prints and rainbows and hearts?

Or you mean every now and again there’s a plain item in the girls section you can put a boy in?

To be honest @Magentaplasticglasses he couldn’t care less but I do find the selection of boys clothes so dull, especially compared to the lovely hues available for girls.

Blue is a colour

I get where you're coming from - I have pregnant friends and the choice for girls is huge compared to boys.

Saying this, once girls outgrow the "younger girls" sections at around age 7, the choice reduces down to crop tops in black, beige, khaki or baby pink, which isn't great!

I do both. He chooses clothes he likes.

You could have a look at Fred & Noah.

So is grey and black. I’m aware thanks. But a bit of variety is nice, no?

Just buy the 'lovely hues' OP, seriously. Why are rainbows or flowers for girls? Aren't those things just things from nature?

DS doesn’t really wear leggings. Some of it is absolutely lovely but I’d say seems more geared towards babies (pretty stuff though.)

Don't you find the girls stuff is mostly pink?

@Perfect28 look, I have a girl I can dress in rainbows and hearts and florals. I’m really not going to dress DS in those things. It isn’t something I ever see in RL. It just makes people look like they really secretly wanted a girl to be honest.

Petit Bateau, Jacadi, both on sale. French brands basically. Tommy Hilfiger on Sale too. Ralph Lauren very pricy now, but again on sale can be better.

Are you ok with online?

Dunnes Stores (Ireland) has cute boy stuff in its Willow range. Worth a google!

No - there’s actually a lot of blue stuff in at the moment! I’ve chopped DDs head off but this was one of my favourite outfits - it had little blue leggings with it, Asda’s finest. She also has a lot of lilac, yellow and pale green.

wtf? 😂 I adore my ds, I have zero desire for him to be a girl… I took him shopping today and he chose all pink/lilac/squashmallow clothes from the ‘girls’ section.

I can’t abide any of it- if I had my way it would be all neutral colours (for boys or girls) but he is 10- he likes what he likes.

I had no idea Mumsnet was snobby about dinosaurs! They are real science, not a Disney franchise. You learn something every day.

We all have our little funny ways though, don't we. I personally think Next is really businesslike and makes all the kids look like Gareth from the Office. Anything with a tractor on it and the parents are probably in the countryside alliance.

Our approach is: Block coloured basics from H&M, nice jumpers from COS vintage and Arket, bretons and colourful anoraks from Uniqlo... and as much stuff covered in dinosaurs as he can stuff in the supermarket trolley.

When mine were little it was easier to find non-blue boy stuff in colours than it was to find girl stuff that wasn't pink. Ds had red trousers, green trousers and purple trousers (he suits strong colours) the ones that still had knees in them got passed to DD as everything in the shops was pink or lilac.

Have you looked at Frugi?

Bit more expensive than the supermarket but kind of on a par with JoJo, I'd say.

@juniorspesh DS just isn’t into our extinct friends particularly, so buying him clothes with them on seems a bit odd - like I’m forcing an interest on him? He did really like whales last year as he read The Snail and the Whale a lot and had a few whale T shirts from Boden. This year there doesn’t seem much but I haven’t really noticed. I did wander round Morrisons yesterday and found nothing I liked for him so thought I’d ask on here

@MikeBaldwin absolutely no one is doubting the love you have for your son. But there is a difference in me choosing to dress a three year old as a girl and a ten year old choosing girls’ clothes.

Ny boys had a mix of H&M and Old Navy (American brand) that my mum oils bring from the States. Their clothes were a mix of colours and patterns, pastels and earth tones with oranges and yellows, majority from H&M. I didn’t have an issue to shop for them colour-wise, it was more size-wise which I often ended up getting the basics (school shirts and leggings) from the girl’s section. I’ve kept quite a bit of their clothes for DD1.

Yabu

You said you think people who allow their sons to wear ‘girls clothes’ secretly wanted girls.

There is no such thing as girls or boys colours. Colours are just colours.

Zara. Both of mine are dressed head to toe in Zara. Lots of colour