pyjamas and horrible boys clothes

[loulabelle222]

hi everybody, just thought i would have a moan at the lack of pretty boys clothes. After struggling to get my ds (13m)into babygros i thought about looking for some pyjamas however all i seemed to find was disgusting printed ones with thomas the tank engine and postman pat. There are lovely little girls stuff all pretty and pink.
However yesterday i took a trip to marks and spencers and found some gorgeous ones and he got a beautiful towelling fluffy dressing gown perfect for after swimming or before/after a bath.
I was really suprised they have some lovely things in at the minute .. not to old or to young for his age. Zara impresses me too even though their sizes are ridiculous.
Where are your favourite places to shop?

Thought I'd add my opinion. Ds1 4.5yrs will not wear a plain t-shirt which I find annoying as he has at least 5 brand new ones. He wouldn't even put one on to sleep in the other night when all of his short sleeve pjs were washed. Even if I get him to put them on he just takes them off goes to his drawer and chooses whatever he likes. The other day I got out a beautiful pair of beige Gap shorts I bought in Gap last summer and he refused to wear them even though they were lovely.

Decorated t-shirts don't bother me as long as they are ones I have chosen. I like blue anyway and 90% of both ds's clothes are blue I can't bare bright colours (although I am probably in the minority). I used to shop at Gymborie and Gap a lot but now due to it almost being impossible to shop with a 2 & 4 year old boy I buy a lot of their clothes in Sainsburys, Asda (make a special trip just for clothes) and sometimes Tesco but I find their clothes terrible quality.

Recently my Aunt sent some clothes from BHS and I had to change the size. I was surprised to find some really nice shorts there and got ds a couple of pairs - he wears them all of the time and likes the fact they are elasticated waists not buttons.

I do think though that it is hard - and perhaps unkind - to outlaw all crap clothes as far as little boys are concerned. We have come to a compromise, ds has to wear plain, logo free clothes to school and go out, and messing around at weekends he can wear his revolting spiderman trainers, batman t shirt and action man socks.I go for the little lord Fountleroy look, he wants to be a walking film trailer......

Whilst on the subject of boys - has anyone else noticed a revival in those ghastly little long bits (plaited or not) sprouting from the back of little boys heads. Shudder. No matter how well dressed the child, add a long bit draped over the collar and the dinky little boy looks instantly grim. Or am I a snob and should I just accept other people's taste?

i just find a lot of things too old for my ds (13m) mothercare at the mo has some lovely dungarees .
A lot of people say what is the point in buying designer clothes for kids but sometimes i'd rather pay the extra money for something a bit different. My faves are miniman and jean bourget. they do beautiful little boys clothes.

I don't mind t-shirts with stuff on them, I just don't like it when the stuff is to grown up or commercial. Ds has some cute t shirts with whales and cowboys etc, it's the little david beckham, mtv look that I hate I mean some stuff comes with those bloody key chains on. Spiderman etc is sweet when your son is obsessed, I love it when little boys think that something from Woolies made from a 100 per cent nylon is the one item of clothing they truly love. That's what being a kid is about they are endearingly un-encumbered by preconceptions about taste or dare I say it class. Used to teach a little boy who would turn up each day for a while in his spiderman outfit complete with red wellingtons!
Worst is some of the stuff in junior magazine . D&G for 2 year olds? And the Liz Hurley school of dressing....poor kid clothes bought for you by Uncle Elton can not be fun!

i don't like d&g stuff think its a bit gangsta looking.

Oh,soooglad there are people who feel the same!
Triceratops,are you me-you've just listed everything I hate!

I don't understand who the hell has the time or inclination to but all of these coordinating outfits (ie three or four pieces) for boys and girls? Chances are,one bit gets filthy while the other parts are clean,laeding to laundry hassle 9or is that just an issue for anal retentives like me?[grin)

My ds (10 mths) only wears babygros and knitted cardigans.Warm,comfy and cheap.

I get loads of little cottage industry clothes catalogues,my ultimate fantasy being to dress my two like Enid Blyton characters (all sturdy t bar leather sandals,aertex shirts and twill shorts!)

'Pride and Joy' is great-Fair Isle tanktops and the like,although I do get some really weird ones-things like velvet romper suits and poplin tunics. As my sister puts it 'The kind of clothes that weird ambassador's children based in Geneva would wear.'

Ooh, I love the Enid Blyton look too. Yesterday had ds in navy shorts and beautiful big blue shirt from tulip and Nettle (my current passion - www.tulipandnettle.co.uk) and we bought some fab Startrite t-bar sandals. He's small for his age, chubby and fair and did look yummy. I also bought a job lot of white Aertex shirts from Primark and put them on him with a beige slipover from Vertbaudet. He also wears jeans though as don't want him to be too Fotherington-Thomas, iykwim.
Dd was wearing a smocked pink check romper suit with white collar and looked pretty adorable too. Luckily dd is too small to have an opinion and ds is like his dad and doesn't care!

My pet hate in boys clothing is the obsession with everything to do with football. I particularly loathe those nylony football shirts and shorts (none of my boys will ever have one of those items!) but I also dislike football logos, names, pictures etc on ordinary clothing. My boys don't like football. They can't be the only ones! I would rather they wore clothing with skulls on than anything suggestive of football.

My pet hate in boys clothing is the obsession with everything to do with football. I particularly loathe those nylony football shirts and shorts (none of my boys will ever have one of those items!) but I also dislike football logos, names, pictures etc on ordinary clothing. My boys don't like football. They can't be the only ones! I would rather they wore clothing with skulls on than anything suggestive of football.

My pet hate in boys clothing is the obsession with everything to do with football. I particularly loathe those nylony football shirts and shorts (none of my boys will ever have one of those items!) but I also dislike football logos, names, pictures etc on ordinary clothing. My boys don't like football. They can't be the only ones! I would rather they wore clothing with skulls on than anything suggestive of football.

Sorry computer is playing up.

We don't do football, skulls, army camouflage, yukky khaki, the teenage skater look or "I'm naughty", and definately not anything which is overly branded (all those tops with Next and Gap emblazoned on them - ugh).

But we do have some with designs - JCB do some grat t-shirts with big plastic diggers on for example - and things which reflect ds's enthusiasms (tractors, trains, diggers, pigs!), but it's mostly just plain bright colours and stripes, with the occasional fun item from places like Lads and Lasses , Seesaw (although they've gone for the camouflage thing too lately), or Kids Kaper . Also nice, and cheaper than the UK craft type companies, but you need to get them posted from Canada are Sew Cute .

ggg, not noticed the long, straggly hair thing over here again yet, please keep it in France!
Although I did see a small child, about 3.5, with a huge mohican the other day.

i love my ds hair long, but not long and straggly just with a bit of shape. My friend used to just shave her boys hair off , i always think it makes them look like a hooligan!

Agree about short hair. Made the mistake of shearing off my boys' hair once and when I see pictures of them now, they look like thugs.

Not so long ago dh decided that he would cut ds's hair. Being a typical male he assumed that he automatically knew how things work, and didn't bother reading the instructions for the clippers. It wasn't until too late that he realised he had them on the shortest setting, whereas I usually have them on the longest one. Of course once he'd doen some of it like that, he had to do all of it.

Fortunately ds is young enough to not be worried about it, but I hated the way it made him look like a thug. Thank goodness it's just about grown out to somewhere near normal now.

i love the old fashion look ! I just bought ds a set from zara which is white trousers, a white long sleeved polo vest and a baby blue sleeveless jumper over the top , topped with his white kickers he will look beautiful!

moondog- thats great that you have your baby in babygros and knited cardigans . personally i think thats fine until they are 6 months then they just look like they are ready for bed!
I love dressing my ds up as he gets older he is goin to have more of an opinion on what he wears and will probably not let me dress him anymore; so while i can do it i do!

jodee at the child with the Mohican! Agree that we don't want Chris Waddle haircuts re-imported thanks gggl. Was this wispy child called Kevin by any chance? Always makes me ROFL that the country that gave us such delights as Fabrice, Pascal, Jerome etc has embraced Kevin of all names with such baffling enthusiasm.
Also agree that 0% turtle/gun/Disney intolerance is not fair or really workable. Ds is allowed "fresh from the sewer" underpants, Scooby socks and "Bwahaha, I am ZURG" pyjamas. The rest of the time he is as Fotherington-Thomas as I can get away with, and luckily still likes bright, jaunty clothes.

lol at the fotherington-Thomas look!

Yes, loulabelle, ds does now look permanently ready for bed but damn it,he's cosy! Also living as we do between Turkey and Wales,I need life to be as simple as possible. He was in a pair of trousers yesterday with a groovy little yellow Beatles t shirt that I gotfrom some company or other.Looked bvery sweet.

Here in Turkey, little children always have a 'nazar boju' (evil eye) somewhere on their person to keep them safe. The grandmother of a friend asked me where ds's was yesterday (he does have one,but on his winter zip up thingy) and as he didn't,she sewed one on his cardigan. Sweet!

Marina, LOL at the thought of lots of Kevin Rousseaus and the like!

I think boys clothes are quite cool! I shop at Next a lot cos I have a directory account. At least boys have a better choice of colours than girls - what is it about girls' clothes manufacturers that makes them think that they only like pink? It would do my head in if I had girls; as it is I only buy girls' clothes for friends' children's birthdays and then I am gobsmacked by the lack of choice. Pink or lilac. Yeuch!

Wordsmith, my dd will only wear pink (or possibly lilac if it is a pinky shade). You would be amazed at how many clothes I have bought for her which were not pink and she would not wear.

That's beacuse she's been conditioned by the lack of choice!(Only slightly joking)

I would have agreed with you if I had not had dd. When she was a tiny baby she liked to hold clothes and always chose pink for preference (and as I had two sons already and dressed my dd in her brothers' old clothes) it wasn't that she was conditioned to like pink. It is very odd, I admit.