To think that M&S should have more than 1 rack of baby boys clothes!

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Was shopping for DS (15 months) the other day, and popped into M&S. in the 0-2 range there was 1 little rack of boys clothes (absolutely everything was blue) and 5 whole racks of girls clothes.

Why is this, it makes me bloody furious that there just isn't the same kind of choice in boys clothes that there is in girls. It's seems to be the same everywhere...

• molly 'n' jack o boys (8) o girls (24)

Says it all

What I don't understand is - boys' clothes can be basically any colour except pink or purple. Everything for girls seems to be pink and/or covered in hearts and flowers - you would think that the quantities of designs of each would be the other way round when you see what they have to work with.

Also there might be fewer mens' clothes than womens' but to generalise, women like shopping more than men do so that makes sense - men aren't as likely to traipse through as many shops or as large a section - but who does the shopping for childrens' clothes, 90% of the time??

agree. makes shopping for ds1(3y) and ds2(10m) a miserable experience . Especially when you walk past so much more (and so much nicer, relatively, even spot lots of non-pink girly stuff) girls stuff.

had to do a quick shop for my nieces the other day as sister was poorly and suddenly needed some clothes for her dds (3m - 5y). Was SO much fun . much more fun than boys clothes shopping.

And so true, much bigger range of jtypes of stuff available than for boys

Or even worse than the almost non existent range for boys is when they advertise a big sale on childrens clothes but when you get there the one rack of boys clothes is still at full price!

In the words of Clarks, M+S when I have asked them;

"you are the 10th person we have told today there is no demand."

Obviously I am paraphrasing.

Completely agree OP. I get cross about it - especially the lack of 'pram shoes' (I think that's what they're called - the pre-walking ones!) My ante-natal group still meets up (4 girls and my son). The girls always have really sweet little shoes, when all I can find for DS are 'mini-trainers' and 'mini cat-boot' type things. You wouldn't put girls in mini-stilettos so why do boys have to have mini adult style clothing!

I have always liked McKays (is it M&Co now?) for boys stuff. And useless for girls as the girls' tops always had hugely long arms and short bodies that unless your DD was a gorilla would end up looking stupid.

Because we all want our boys to look like muggers or accountants on dress down day.

I went to get some little blue thing the other day as DHs half niece had her first baby (oh I feel soooo old) and there was a sea of pink.....Bet if she had had a girl it would have all been blue

Agree with the shoes - we've only started having a choice of more than one pair with DS recently

lol at 10th person today we've told there's no demand...did she see the irony?

I went into M&S last month to get a present for a new baby girl and there wasn't a lot of choice. I managed to get a blue dess-it was mainly a sea of pink and white.

dress!

I agree with you all. My DS is 4 months now so starting to look a bit big for babygros etc, although I'm still at the stage of wanting him to look like a baby so do dress him in them quite often. Went to H&M for a browse and all of their 4 months plus range was bland and grown up looking, cords, shirts, jeans. Left with one bodysuit. The girls clothes were lovely. There doesn't seem to be much choice for boys once they are past newborn but still a baby so a bit young for the more grown up clothes.

I actually did find some green shorts in Ethel Austin, snapped them up quickly for the summer as I'm also getting bored of putting him in blue. Boys can wear other colours too! Having said that most of the girls stuff is pink and if DS were a DD that would annoy me too.

Debenhams, TKMaxx, Rainbow babies have all come up trumps for me recently. I am never going into Mothercare again!

ASDA isn't too bad at the moment. What about some of this stuff?

superhero hoodie

stripy

comic tshirt

superhero top

another superhero top