Back to the stereotypes for babies clothes- sigh.

[evenhope]

I went looking for something for a colleague going on maternity leave, and I'm totally unimpressed with the range of baby clothes on the high street. Everything is either white, blue or pink. Clothes for slightly older babies are no better- brown and blue for boys and more yucky pink for girls.

Is it customer demand that there is no variety? When i had my older kids 20 years ago there was at least a selection of more neutral colours. I hate the stereotyping that comes from head to toe pink/ blue.

loads of cream and pale neutrals in

Next
Matalan
Asda
Tesco
InStore

HTH!

also - lots of newborn / 0-3 stuff that is actually an outift, rahter than a babygro

also - lots of newborn / 0-3 stuff that is actually an outift, rahter than a babygro

Try Pumpkin Patch as they normally have a really pretty range thats gender neutral often with animals on the items and a good range not just babygros

I think the problem is that once you've got a baby it's annoying having people assume it's the wrong sex, so going with gender stereotyping in terms of clothing colours is the easiest thing to do

Even blue shoes, blue cords, blue jumper and a blue coat didn't stop my FIL make me {blush] by keeping on referring to a lady's son at the playground the other day as 'she'...

(he did have cute blonde curls but still!)

I agree with the 'sea of pink' comment for girls! But have found the stereotype thing goes deeper than blue or pink - we bought the bump a set of cream rompers with little farmyard pics on them, only for the lady on the till to say 'oh, having a boy then?'

Should have said 'no, its probably a girl, have you got anything with kitchen appliances on please'...

Try H&M and Zara for slightly more 'imaginative' baby clothes.

I dressed my Dd in orange, greens, reds, purple and blues no worries (the orange and green stuff was from Gap sale; reds and purples from H&M - but range probably different now).

Got a little boy on the way - don't know if I'd have the nerve to dress him in pink though!

And as a postscipt to my efforts to not gender sterotype - Dd1 is now 2.5 and two days on the trot she's insisted wearing 'princess dress'...

There is quite a lot out there once you've trained your eyes to see past the sea of pink and blue. DS wears a lot of orange, red and green (as well as some blue, admittedly).

i wonder if it is to do with more people finding out the sex. here in Spain it is almost impossible to find anything in newborn size in pink or blue.

Oops, in anything other than pink or blue.

Topshop have got some cute stuff in all sorts of colours, including a babygro with "Give Peas a Chance" printed on it in kind of splatty writing.

We used to buy ds some different coloured clothes in Asda. I used to get fed up of him always dressed in blue or cream. Didn't stop people asking if he was a girl.

Although its got slightly better as he's got older, he's still in the 'baby' range in some shops (Woolies) and so rushing in there in emergency to buy trousers, had a choice of blue, blue or blue.

H&M and Pumpkin Patch ar by far the best that I@ve found on my current research.,

I'm extremely proud of the fact that, bar one head-to-toe coconut ice pink outfit given by my MIL, BabyDragon has only had minute hints-of-pink and she still wears girl's clothes. I don't care if she gets referred to as a he, doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Do not go into Next IMO.

i kit my boys out in h&m.
easy on the purse and lovely, different bits in there.
some really clever designs occaisionally too. lots of attention to finer details.

Du Pareil au Meme (www.dpam.com) do absolutely lovely clothes, and lots of girls' clothes in greens, browns and blues. H+M prices, nearly-gap quality.

ooo i dont know soupy, next have some lovely non-pink items in their winter range.

I'm very fond of this German company - will deliver to UK

oh a*se - that was the German site - here's the English one

evenhope: I could not agree more!

So sinister when you go into kids section of 'Next', and they divide up the clothes for the tiniest babies into gender.. only pastels available. Even worse are the messages on the clothes: things on boys' t shirts and tops (for babies, mind you!) saying 'here comes trouble' and for the girls it;s all 'I'm a princess' etc. It really makes me sick! I'll check out that German site..

There's a fab and cheap shop called Hema here in Belgium which has lovely bright baby things, but don't know if they have a website.. I just want my DS (3 weeks) to have colourful, fun and childlike things and not have to have pale blue sweatshirts with a picture of a car and a spanner or something on! This is a pet rant of mine but really, it's so depressing to categorise kids who are so young! Grr Grr grr!

dpam are lovely! always get some nice things for dd when in France. Haven't ordered from website before though.
Agree next have some nice non pink things for girls at the mo - dd rec'd a really nice green/yellow/red top a la hotchpotch boden style for her bday.

I had dd1 4.5 yrs ago and when pg I bought loads of really nice bright colours. By the time dd2 was on the way 18 mo later everything was pink or blue; ditto with ds this yr. Even things that are coloured (if you can find them) have motifs on that are clearly meant for girls or boys.

When I had ds1 8 years ago, there were loads of lovely bright clothes for boys, hardly any baby-blue stuff. Have to say though, my boys all have blonde hair and blue eyes and they do look nice in blue!

10 years ago! Ds1 is 10! I must be losing it!