Why don’t small babies wear outfits?

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This sounds like a stupid question but why don’t small babies wear outfits? The worst thing is I have a one year old who only wore baby gro type things for the first three months but I can’t remember why…

So the waistcoat outfit was for christenings and actually had poppers under- no excuse not to look smart for a special occasion at any age.

Dresses are actually very loose and comfortable to sleep in. Easiest to change nappies by far. My DD still massively prefers them and refuses to wear anything else actually. She is stunning 😍

Naps- daytime outfits often had a long sleeved baby gro under- perfect for a sleeping baby and took moments to remove a layer.

Because once they've shit themselves 5 times before midday, it's the easiest option!

My children are stunning too 😍, even in babygros!
ETA and in t-shirts and leggings, which are their current favoured outfits!

I don’t care what your children wear. I was answering the OP. Why did you start commenting on what mine wear? We prefer smart clothes, always. That’s up to us.

You posted on a public forum and I asked you a question based on what you wrote! It’s kind of how forums work. If everyone just answered the OP and there was no further discussion they would be a bit dull!

Babies often get colic and don't need waistbands across their stomachs.

I personally much preferred the body suit/vest plus stretchy trousers/leggings

I hated all the poppers on baby gros

You do realise they don’t dress themselves, yes?

I'm the opposite of most people. I find it much easier to change nappies and put on vests/leggings/jogger combo than faff about with heaps of buttons on babygrows.

Well, yes, but that’s my point. People (perhaps yourself!) think the Peaky Blinders baby look is common. But people dressing their babies like that are often upwardly mobile working class, potentially looking down on other families who wear pyjamas to Asda etc.

related to how REALLY posh people swear all the time, covered in dog hair, eat fishfingers standing up etc.

Brilliant 😂

I bought loads of cute outfits for my first when he was a newborn. He didn’t wear most of them. Second was very much in rompers for the first two months, other than a few occasions when I dressed her up and she promptly shitted in her new expensive outfit five seconds after I put it on her. Babies are like that sadly.

I always bought my grandchildren some nightdresses as well as baby grows. Theyre just so easy when it comes to changing the wee one (and look adorable)

I still have some here, and two of them were my youngest child’s and they’re 33 now

Yes, that's a point.
Mine was never sick or bought milk back up so we never had to worry about that and I dont think we had any issues with leaking nappies either.
Maybe if she did bring stuff up a lot or otherwise needed regularly changing we'd have stuck to baby grows.

My daughter is 15 and I remember the flat caps being fashionable for babies when she was a baby so way before Peaky Blinders. One very well to do family dressed all the children like it.

My daughter just wore simple dresses. No.logos or slogans. She didnt have any hair so (weirdly) people always called her a boy. I didnt care about that. However when her grandma took her out, she'd put a bow on her. I thought it looked ridiculous but my daughter didnt care and it made grandma happy. If the worse thing grandma did when looking after her was put a bow on her, then all is good.

I am waiting for the appropriate time to get the photos out to blackmail my daughter. 🤣🤣🤣

I think the opposite. Babygros are faffy and annoying so the more either of mine had needed changing the less inclined I would be to keep using them.

My 2 never wore baby grows. They had night dresses for sleeping, and clothes for daytime.

With a non sicky baby though surely it's easier to pull up a dress and pull down tights/leggings/trousers than mess about with baby grows?

Thinking about it, I dont really remember her wearing baby grows at all though.

It is exactly this. They are warm and comfy. No waist bands digging in or making them uncomfortable. Babies throw up so easier to change. And they are cute.

Mine did. All soft and comfy.

Babygrows were for bedtime.

Because they vom and shit

Its all personal preference surely.

To me baby babygro's are pj's and I wouldn't wear my pj's out the house so neither did dd. She had leggings, tops, dresses and tights etc.

Other friends had their kids in babygros til they could walk.

Frankly I couldn't care less what they or anyone else did.

As long as baby is clean, fed and loved then does what they wear really matter?

The idea of something being 'fashionable' for babies is ... well, telling.

So funny

Because they just need to be comfortable, they're not dolls to play dress-up with.

In my case with my DD I had no choice.

She barely fit 3-5lb clothing for way too long and prem baby grows helped keep her warm. I did make a range of matching cardi sets to snazz them up a bit but had to wait till she was 12 months old and hovering around 12lb to get 0-3 month baby clothes to suit a walking toddler.