Another moan about boys' clothes... so annoyed!

[snowleopard]

Firstly MIL, bless her heart, sends DS World Cup England kit for his birthday. He is 1, and we live in Scotland... luckily she also bought the wrong size and put the receipt in so I had every excuse to exchange it. They don't even sell the England stuff here so I had to get something different. Hurrah, £15 to spend in M&S on something nice for DS.

What do I find - for 1-year-olds - a load of stuff with not only endless skulls and crossbones, but, and I quote:

"I'm trouble"
"Tiny but trouble"
"Trouble-maker"
"Bad"
"Bad attitude"

etc etc ad nauseam. OK I have seen this kind of thing around and I've always hated it but M&S?? On practically their whole range??? Are they mad? Why don't they just write "self-fulfilling prophecy" and "boys are little wankers" and have done with it?

. I shall be writing to head office... (when I've done the squijillion other things waiting to be done after getting back from holiday... :))

i agree my ds (4) now just dresses in boring sport type tshirts, because at least they're plain, boys clothes are so boring and uninspired.

1.Its kind of saying its acceptable to be a 'little punk''trouble'
2.sexualising boys 'who is the daddy' 'lock up your daughters'

1. devoid of any sort of style

4.crass

beansprout my boys wear a lot of stripes too!! Like Monsoon for my boys also.

Notanotter, I don't want my boys to dress like small adults either, i want them to look like little boys, cecause that's waht they are!! Madness isn't it?

Ah Mazzystar that's what I should have done - but instead fell back on a plain linen shorts and shirt set, which at least will be cool for summer. Can't be aresed to go back.

Beansprout, for our girls' range:

"Jailbait"
"Slapper in training"
"Only looks matter, so I'm not going to bother with education"

:O

I feel like i am the only one! With my latest baby (4 months) i said when we all met for coffee (mums) that i did not like clothes with all these slogans and was met with silence...since then a trickle of 'cheeky monkey' clothes has become a torrent of 'little shoplifter'outfits i dont andd wont ever like it. Childhood is short enough....
WORST case is when people have professional photographs taken in this get up!!

although i did see a little boy (about8) wearing a McSh*t t shirt, which was funny

Why is it so hard to buy plain t-shirts?

Adams have quite a few plain t'shirts in amongst the others.

I got some in John Lewis.

H&M great for plain inexpensive T shirts. £2.99 for one the other day.

Tesco did reasonable PJs in normal child images or plain (not licensed) but the trick is to look in the baby department, even for the bigger sizes. (This is according to my mum)

parp at this thread

send me £10 and I'll make you one

our admas is shutting down
thy had nice stuff

Only read the OP, I have a DS who is now 3 but have been complaining for the last 3 years about the total lack of nice imaginative clothes for boys.

You go into shops and there are racks and racks of pink and purple sparkley stuff for girls and maybe 3 rails for boys. Not that I would be buying the pink/purple sparkley stuff if I had a girl so would probably be complaining about that as well lol.

I've ended up going to vertbaudet and la redoute and monsoon (sales only though far to expensive otherwise) and have raided the girls side for stuff for DS. Did find a few nice bits in BHS recently which suprised me, and H&M have some good things too.

Took a christmas present back to Next cause it had look out here comes trouble on it he was about 18mths at that point.

lol at your MIL snowleopard. I recently took back the Newcastle strip FIL bought ds (we live hundreds of miles from Newcastle and tbh no child of mine is going to wear a football strip outside the context of playing a game of football) and was to find it had cost £24 for an 12-18mo size.

ds has a nice set of PJs from adams which have non-licensed boats and bikes on them and a bunch of hand-me-down t-shirts from Sainsburys which have nothing on them. Much nicer imo, but I don't know if Sainsburys still do them.

lol at beansprout's 'I'm a right little bastard'
Green Baby has some nice things,but they aren't cheap.

I have spent very little on clothes for ds.
My heart isn't in it.

H&M tend to have nice stripey t-shirts that I always fall back on. You have to sift through thte skater boy sh*te and college preppy stuff (for 1yo fgs) but they pretty much always have lovely plain and stripey t-shirts, plain joggers, nice raincoats.
Debenhams sometimes have nice stuff in the designer section - ignore the ones that blatently advertise 'Rocha' or 'Jasper', there's a lovely range called Big A (Antoni and Allison) and they have gorgeous t-shirts for little boys, but pricey so better for special outfits.

I quite like the skater boy stuff

frogs...

You just summed it up in a sentence! You should write that letter. There is a great big gap in the market for good quality, unlogo-d (though stripes and pictures are fine - I'm thinking of those Boden stripey Ts with sea creatures appliqued on which I just can't justify buying), un'distressed', hard wearing, brightly coloured (as opposed to scaled down 'Dad' clothes in navy and sludgey green), boys' clothes.

I got disproportionately irate in Adams the other day after going in to look at a rack of lovely stripey T-shirts (all different colours) only to find they had words printed in the bottom corner..."Do I look bovvered? It wasn't me. Where's me ASBO?" etc.

ds is mainly wearing plain tee-shirts (m&s 3 pack, white, orange and beige) and blue or white shorts. Agree, thou' that boys clothes are generally dire....I hate the camoflarge (sp?) look to (army childhood coming back to haunt me) and the skulls head stuff...yuck....find myself longing to have a girl to dress....

I nearly cried in Mothercare the other day. I am BOYCOTTING the irresponsible stupid bastards for the foreseeable future. I was looking for a summer jacket for ds2 and found, to my utter horror and disgust, that they were selling jackets for 12-18mo children in full camouflage colours, real replica army kit for toddlers.

I find it heartbreaking that a company calling itself "Mothercare" is peddling this dangerous destructive crap to mothers and their infant sons. Don't they know how many children are killed in wars across the world?

I am furious. I know other people on here have expressed similar concerns in the past. I think it's about time something was done about it.

SNowleoapard you're reading my mind. MIL got DS those hideous Here come trouble t-shirt and skull shorts this w/e. 1) they look awful, shonky and just yukky, 2) the t-shirt has a huge hard patch on it which is just going to be uncomfy and 3) even a nearly 3 year old took one look and said "i don't like that"

I went to take them back but there was nothing decent unless you want to dress your son like a cross between wayne rooney and goth rambo. Vile.

by the way that jako-o site is worth it just for the translated captions - "its even pleasant to sweat in" about a check shirt being my particular favourite!!