Baby boys clothes - Is this a thing?

[Crochetcamel]

This is super silly but it’s made me very curious

Moved recently I’ve been going to toddler groups here and there seems to be a tradition almost that boys wear baby blue nice bits ( think sort of mintini and the stuff you get out of baby boutiques) until they’re about one and then they go into navy tracksuits.

That’s not strange in itself but the way people talk about it (to me at least) - ‘oh when are you going to start putting him in navy?’ ‘i know he’s too old for baby blues now but I’m just not ready for him to not be a baby anymore’ ‘my husband is moaning because I’m not putting him in tracksuits yet’ all being recent examples I’ve heard.

Obviously I know blue for boys is a norm (although not my thing personally) but I’ve never come across the idea that they should be in certain shades at certain ages or certain styles (at least not so rigidly)
Is this a normal thing I’ve missed or is just here?

My guess is that this is a very regional and a very class based thing specific to that area and demographic.

For example, I have a friend who is a bit faux old money (she is not remotely old money or even close to it), but she dresses her boys in those smocked shorts with the knee high white socks like the royals, even at 3 and in cold weather. She thinks it’s ‘traditional’ but it just looks silly and like she’s trying very hard.

I love Spanish/traditional clothes but they’re harder to find for boys once they’re no longer in baby sizes, sadly.

How odd! Here it's all bright colours and rainbows and scandi prints for boys. It's considered lower class here to put boys in blue/navy/traditional boy styles when toddlers, just as people look down on girls in pink frills, ruffles, princess socks, giant bows.

(Says the mum whose daughter insists on wearing pink, frills, ruffles, twirly dresses and sparkly trainers! 😆)

Where is this horribly judgemental place?

Considered lower class? By whom?

No, there’s quite a range of ages. I think the youngest out the group I chat is about 19 and the oldest 42 iirc.

I think this is a micro-trend in the area you live in.

When it comes to baby / toddler clothes I always thought bald babes with a big bow around their heads are as weird as it gets. But this almost tops it. How very very strange. Is it the norm in your city or have you just joint the navy blue appreciation society by accident? You put your little one in whatever floats your boat. There are ao many lovely colours.

That sounds very like the area I’ve moved from. Rural, quite wealthy area and the whole scandi brands, crunchy mum vibe is very popular.

Interestingly, despite that being more my crowd on paper I’ve actually found it much easier to make mum friends here. Books and covers and all that I guess.

My scouse colleagues when I worked in Liverpool did this with their baby boys. I found it really odd/never heard of it but they spoke about it as if it was 100% normal and everyone knew what they were on about. “When are you putting them in navy” was said the same way you might say “when are you going to start weaning/potty training”