Clashing colours and rainbow stripes or little dude/fairy princess how do you dress your child?

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I love bright colours, especially if they clash and try to avoid the head to toe pink/blue. I also hate slogans, (especially on babies) trainers, velour tracksuit trousers, combat gear etc. I know I'm too fussy about this - so I was wondering how does everyone else dress their children?

Ds1 wears colour-co-ordinated trendy clothes.
Ds2 and ds3 get hand-me-downs. If they are still matching and nice by the time they get them they are lucky!

I don't like shop logos like Gap and Next across things at all, and I'm not crazy about Disney or TV characters - I do like to dress 10 month old DS in things with pictures of dinosaurs/monsters/animals on them.

I kept him in babygros mostly, and the odd pair of jeans (don't mind denim) until I needed to get 6-9 month clothes for him in September (born May) when I did a mix of babygros and outfits. Now he wears babygros at night and until it's time to go out - my favourite clothes have nice designs with creatures on but not branded merchandising for TV programmes etc.

I love babygros in fun black and white prints or bright colours. Babygros and vests - I've found Mothercare and Woolworths best, a few supermaket ones. Outfits have mostly come from Next, Sainsburys and Tesco - my brother and his girlfriend buy D a lot of Tesco stuff as well, some nice and some not but the good things did prompt me to have a look for myself. I also use pyjamas in the daytime if I want to put him in something very relaxed - was using them on swimming days (now back at work so can't go to the baby swimming).

ds wears tigger clothes, jeans bright bold colours stripes. Always trendy/smart and colour coordinate. Mum says im obsessive about it especially when i comment on what his dad has dressed im in (completely mismatched).

i think tracksuits, trainers, logos and slogans are all a bit too chavvy for children and it seems a shame to force them into a style. i also don't like boys in all blue and girls in all pink, whose idea was that in the first place anyway? my boy, 3.5 wears a formal school uniform 5 days a week with tie and blazer etc... but when at home he just wears understated "muddy" colours with a variety of jeans, no logos, rips or severe dyes though.

Am fed up with little boys' clothes being covered in guns, skulls etc. ds (3.5) wears surfer type clothes, quite loose and comfy sometimes with patterns on but not covered in brand names. He mostly wears jeans with coloured shirts and a sweat top or zip cardi, the loose clothes especially suit as we are in the med so it's hotter. He wears trainers or Doodles, but I think it's easier to find nice footwear for boys than for girls, as the shoe shops seem to be stuffed full of glittery pink slipper type things for little ladies!

DS picks 99% of his own clothes now so will go for tracksuit bottoms/ cord pants and some superhero or other top

DDs wear a mix match of stuff as a lot of theres is second hand...lol Although my mum has a tendancy to buy DD1 princess tops and both the girls pretty dresses that last 2 seconds.

Dd1 (4.1) likes bright clothes, some character (1 lazy town top and 1 peppa pig), she has some smart plain trousers and a few plain dresses.

Dd2(2) wears monsoon brown trousers as they are the only ones that fit well. She looks nice in browns, reds and dusky pinks.

I try to avoid pink for my dd(4) too and TV characters (except for on pyjamas). I find H&M does lots of nice stuff for girls, not too girly flowery pink like mothercare or next can be. Vertbaudet can be nice too. But if I can I just stock up on clothes for my dd in Belgium whenever I visit, because it's unusual, comfy, girly yet hardly any pink in sight, and it's proper children's clothing rather than mini adult clothing IYKWIM.
With my ds(6) I'm trying to avoid trainers and track suits and camouflage, but it's hard, because it's what he wants really. I just want him to know that it's not good looking to wear that kind of stuff in the hope that he wont turn into one of those teenagers that lives in tracksuits and trainers. I want him to have some style by then

I'm not too fussy but dont like track suits on my DS or slogan t shirts. DD is 6 months so nothing too fussy but cute at the same time!
DS (aged 3) was crying in next last week for 'peppa pig' t shirt!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have my limits!!!!!!!

My DD would LOVE to be head to toe Peppa and Dora. My compromise is letting her have ONE pair of Dora socks... how tight am I?

LET HTE KDIS HAEV CHARACTERS FGS

my ds (10 and 6) wear a strict school uniform 5 days a week and at weekends they wear jeans and stripy/plain/patterned long sleeve tops and jumpers mainly form the likes of boden, gap, h&m, zara, fat face, quiksliver (bit of a surfer style beach look) with crocs and ds1 likes 'trendy' trainers but he is 10.

dd after having two boys has only jsut this week worn her first pair of trousers and she won;t eb wearign them again!!! she had a dora t-shirt and a pair of pink tracksuit bottoms but we spent all day pulling them even over her cloth bum. so back to the dresses, cardis and tights. or just dresses in the summer. she looks lovely in boden, monsoon, joules stuff, which we mix with m&s, debenhams, next, gap. zara, and stuff i make myself.

i make a mean dress these days and can whip one up in about an hour! loads of lovely unusal fabrics from ebay and two basic patterns. just ordered some kits form cothkits.com and looking forward to those coming. the boys used to have handmade shorts and toruser (sim to boden baggies) but refuse to wear them now so i jst concentrate on making dd look funky and like a 23 monthold not a 15 year old.

i like dd to look really attractive so on a typical day she wears satine hotpants with fishnet tights and a cute litte playboy crop top. she only wears kitten heels cos i don't want to ruin her feet just yet.

some times just for fun i put a transfer on the base of her spine for a fun tramp stamp look.

My kids dress quite eclectically, and rarely look coordinated. I'm not that bothered what they wear, I don't want them to be overly concerned with clothes at this stage.
In moments of weakness I sometimes foolishly waste a lot money on fecking skirts and dresses, when all my dds really wear are jeans and tracksuit bottoms

I think that girls' clothes have got far too girly tbh. I'd love to be brave enough to shop exclusively in the boys' sections. I do sometimes, but succumb to the fecking fairies and butterflies and flowers and kittens most of the time - I've got 3 dds so I suppose I've OD'd on all that

Mine choose their own clothes. DS mainly wears spiderman Ts and jeans. DD likes skirts.

I take them to H+M and let them choose a couple of outfits (and get the rest fromLa Redoute or Asda).

I dress my DD in very girly clothes, but not pink and frilly girly clothes, iyswim.

She has the best selection of tights ever, it's a bit of an obsession of mine, and I buy a lot of long sleeved jersey dresses for her. I tend to buy them too big and roll the sleeves up, and find they can last for almost a year as I dress her in them as long tops when they get a little short.

At the moment my favourite outfit for her is a navy blue cord long sleeved empire line dress, with burgundy and white stripy tights and a bright red wool peacoat.

DS wears mainly jeans or cords (with braces where possible) and has a few fab woolen jumpers and tank tops which I layer over basic white cotton t shirts.

I prefer to buy the DC a few really good quality items, rather than stacks of clothes that will wash badly and be too ragged to pass on.

Malene Your website is the answer to my clothing prayers. Off the subject a little but do the sizes come up small?

Dont mind character clothes but peppa pig on a boy??? It was all pink and girly!!

DD is clashing colours and patterns.

She looks like a girl but is NEVER dressed in artificial-limb pink, or anything in the slightest bit 'grown-up.'

So bright pink, red and orange. Lots of things in different patterns but with this same basic colour palette. Almost always bright.

I like Oililly (from ebay), Me Too (ebay again) and h and m.

Pom D'Api shoes.

All my vanity has been transferred onto her.

ds [3.5] wears denim dungarees, jeans, bright stripey t-shirts [have a bit of a katvig habit], boden tartan baggies and hand knits.
dd [13 months] wears his cast-offs. stripey t-shirt dresses and tights.
she looks awful, truly awful, in baby pink.

For some reason I don't mind Spiderman T-shirts for my ds, though not the loud screamy version only the 'tasteful' kind, but not peppa pig or Dora or even worse: disney princesses for my dd. Am I wierd or what I think it's got to do with the colours, they're usually printed on a pink background and I have a keep pink to a minimum rule.

wierd

no no no, what's wrong with my typing weird is what I meant not wierd

trickquestion -- I think the sizes on ksbk are pretty accurate. DS (just 3) has a couple of the stripy tops and they are fine width-wise and a little bit long in the body and arms (but not so much as to be a problem), which is about what I'd expect.

Wow, I am totally in the minority then. My dd loves her Dora and Peppa Pig clothes. She also has Upsy Daisy and Iggle Piggle Pyjamas. She asked for them and I bought them. I have NO problem with her wearing them - mind you, I want her to be HER not a mini version of ME.......She also has a lot of pink clothes, again because she wants them. Personally I cannot stand pink (esp on me) but even succombed to buying myself a pink spotty blouse because she thought I should.