in wanting to buy some clothing for my eight year old son that doesn't have skulls and skeletons and/or pictures of guns on everything????

[ghosty]

DS's school have a Grade 3 sleepover every year - they camp out at school for the night, loads of fun etc etc ...
It is Friday night.
Earlier on this week we assessed his pyjama situation and he begged me to buy him a 'cool' pair of pjs ... obviously he is worried that his stripey flannelette 'old man' pjs (which I adore on him) and his dinosaur pjs (old favourites) could cause him to be a figure of ridicule among his mates.
So off I went today to see what I could find. I was a bit stressed about finding something 'cool' as I was never the coolest chick on the block anyway but hey ho ...
I trawled the shops and it seems that 'cool' seems to be a bit violent though ... very nasty pictures of skulls and blood and/or soldiers with guns in khaki colours.
Foul.
I found one pair of 'soccer' pjs (being sporty DS likes them) and another pair of Bart Simpson ones (although a delinquent oik at least he isn't violent ....)

Similar situation for boy's daytime clothes too ...

Why the need for pictures and motifs on everything and why such horrible images?

Do I need to wake up and smell the coffee and accept that this is what we face when our children are the Yoof of today?

The only place that the skull and cross bone theme really stood out to me was Adams. I can't really think of anywhere else i have noticed them.
Just checked my shopping from today and none of them are violent, well except a little Batman teeshirt.
I think scull and cross bones are quite cute sometimes! And i can't even think of ever seeing boys clothes with bombs or guns on. So can't be that bad really!

My dd (7) loves skulls. And I think they're cute. Can't be doing with guns, bombs or slogans though. And luckily, dd is very sensible and doesn't like tarty/girly/pink stuff too much.

I've recently been buying dd tees from the States too. She's into Club Penguin, so I got her some Wall.e tees, puffle tees and a rockhopper tee...very cute. Cost me a fortune in blardy taxes though, so I might have to start checking out other sources!

The thing that worries me, though, is that she's now in age 8/9 clothes and things are pitched at little grown ups at this age. CAn't I have just one or two more years of having a child who's a child?? I despair at trying to get her nice tee shirts as they're generally trying to tap into the pre-teen mentality and my girl is still torn between this and the little girl mode. Sorry...ranting now. Best go before I REALLY get on my soapbox.

YANBU...but I think you know that!

Agree ghosty it's awful that kids wear clothes with combat/violent imagery on - I avoid anything like this for my ds

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Can't say that I've seen many guns.

my mil loves buying clothes for the boys. unfortunately we don't have the same taste. one shirt which she really loved had machine guns (!) and skulls on it. a recent one has a dinosaur on it but with the words "Back off, Buddy" on it. It's a shame because she is obviously being generous and kind but I can't stand some of the stuff she loves. i can handle pirates/skulls, though.

yanbu. we have a great market stall here for bedlinen and pjs, I asked the man there, ages ago, if I couldn't have some PLAIN pjs, as they were all as you describe, I wouldn't have minded 'characters' but none he had were in favour, anyway, his response (delivered in v depressed lancashire accent) 'oh, no love, kiss of death is plain, can never shift it'

jako-o are good for clourful kids clothes without the miltiary themes/steroetyping slogans. In Germany but the site is in English too, and they do deliver here. Sadly more expensive than they used to be thanks to the exchange rate at the moment.

I can cope with characters and kids stuff, but slogans? I'm not overly fond of the 'daddy's little princess' things (makes me think of salmon) and the 'You think I'm cute you should see my mum' (and they always looks like rottweillers - as indeed I do myself, but why set yourself up like that?).

I just object to the knowing, almost adult, slogans they insist on putting on kids stuff sometimes. Not the blatantly rude stuff...that clearly has an audience, but the insinuated, I'm grown up already type stuff, drives me nuts.

Actually cod, I didn't have ballet t-shirts as a child but there you go.

I am not 'het up' about it ... I just think it would be nice to have a choice. Which in the UK there clearly is. But not so much in Australia. Ho hum.
I don't have a problem with character stuff ... just wish there was a choice ...

Actually cod, I didn't have ballet t-shirts as a child but there you go.

I am not 'het up' about it ... I just think it would be nice to have a choice. Which in the UK there clearly is. But not so much in Australia. Ho hum.
I don't have a problem with character stuff ... just wish there was a choice ...

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I agree - hate it hate it hate it with a passion, the way all girls are cutesy and boys a little monsters

lazy designers

I wasn't quite sure what the OP was on about 'til I tried to buy pants for ds (2).

Skulls?? On pants for 18mo+

Is it fashun??

I did go when seeing Adsa'a headers for the children's clothes section. They were worded thus:

girls' clothes - "Butter Wouldn't Melt"
boys' clothes - "Here Comes Trouble!"

Luckily for me, all my kids are into skull and crossbones stuff. My middle daughter wears glow in the dark s&c pj's and my eldests duvet currently glows in the dark with eerie skulls too

My son is into pirates at the mo, so finally i'm in fashion for once!

I have no trouble with him wearing combat gear and indeed he chose a combat duvet. "Here comes trouble" t-shirts are no problem too cos tbh in his case, its true!!