Tights for baby boys?

[QueenOfFlamingEverything]

I would like some tights for DS (7 weeks).

All I can find is girly ones or white/cream ones - obviously he isn't going to care, but it'd be nice to get some in red, or green, or non-gendered stripes or something.

Anyone have any ideas?

I put DD in blue babygros, and a boys coat as well

(that was for potpourri really)

omdb - me too.

Have just shown this thread to DP who is laughing and says tights are 'hardly going to make his cock drop off now are they?'

When we went to Prague when DS was a baby I bought some great boys tights in H&M - superman ones and some grey ones with cartoons on, so clearly it is totally normal in colder countries

here you go, every colour under the sun for £4

ebay only seem to have ones without feet

it was last year, but they will totally have them this year. I got them in the girls department. Be sure that you don't turn your DS gay by going into the girls dept. I heard that turning gay is really easy to catch.

black, cream and red

They are lovely but feet are essential IMO! Cannot get socks to stay on babies whatever I do...

Well actually, they are bette than no tights, as you can put socks on and then the leggings so the bottom of the leggings keep the socks in place, and if socks get wet it's easier to change a pair of socks than take off the tights too. I found this when out and about on rainy days anyway, especially when camping, leggings are more practical than tights...

baby gap will have tights too

Why not just tuck the trousers into their socks? Mind you, given I am seem to be the big bad wolf trying to overthrow feminism, there's probably something wrong with saying that too.

Incidentally, I didn't put tights under trousers on my girls either. It just seemed wrong - no airflow/sweaty

Each to their own, eh?

BTW boots and M&Co do plain coloured ones. But does it matter if they are flowery? ~(especially if hidden)

cakeretention... thank you, I'm ordering these now, whether DH likes them or not!

Asda have 3 pack of plain navy ones, sorry dont know how small they go, bought 12-18 mnths yesterday. And they deliver.

Oh yeah, actually I got DD black tights and grey tights at Gap recently. In a two-pack. And I have red ones I got on eBay, not from current season but prob worth keeping an eye out. The quality seems pretty good.

They have teddy bears on the bottoms, which amuses DS when he is "helping" to get her dressed.

but your neighbours girls can be all hot an sweaty?

trousers into socks- uncomfy, I know I do it when we camp and i forget/can't be arsed to put tights on!

you are no wolf, just think you had some silly ideas that boys should not be in tights cos tights are for girls.

My son had bad eczema and so I dressed him in babygros under his clothes eg dungarees. Would work just as well to protect from cold.

Steady on PP, who mentioned feminism? I thought we were talking about what clothes you find ok for baby boys, as opposed to "really shocking"?

I think tights are fine. I assumed that's what DS (aged about 10 months) would wear with his little kilt he wore when we went to a wedding. DP and MIL however were at the suggestion. Not in their world, apparently!

at the kilt.

Surely if your DS was to be a "real Scotsman" he'd have to go nappy-free? Is that practical?

Did he have a tiny sporran with a dummy in it?

I long to get DS a kilt. I think he'd probably keep his plastic tiger in his sporran, and maybe a rice cake.

Tchibo do them if you're near Germany!

You can probably get tights in most places, but you'll have to look in the girls section I think. My DC's (charges not children) have loads of red, white, navy blue tights, but not sure where they came from....maybe mothercare?

I put the youngest (boy) in tights under his trousers when he got to that age where they take there shoes/socks off all the time and it worked a treat. I once watched with great amusmant as two women at playgroup tried to work out if he was a boy or a girl. They couldn't decide because 'you wouldn't put tights on a boy, but you wouldn't put blue dungarees on a girl'...

According to DP real Scotsmen know about the midgees and so definitely do wear underwear. I've not tested this assertion too widely though so I can't say if it's true

He did have a little sporran, yes, and long cream wool socks in the end, a jacobite shirt and jacket too - the whole caboodle. (Yay for e-bay!) He looked lovely

I have the answer!

Try www.tykestights.co.uk/

They have tights specifically for boys with boyish designs like tractors and pirates, and they are based in the UK too!

My son will definitely be wearing tights this winter. In fact, he is wearing some right now with footballs on them!

Hope this helps someone.

My DS is 4 1/2 and he loves his tights. Got them out this weekend. Sometimes wears them with no trousers
he has plain blue and plain red ones. We buy girl's school tights. Cheap as chips. Wonderful. He chooses colours. Dark green often a school colour too

cannot understand why anyone would think it odd....

Tights are great, for boys or girls. My DS was in tights all his first and second winters, and no-one told me I was being unreasonable.

My experience was:
Sainsbury's: rubbish quality elastic, and bobbled
John Lewis: best but still wearable for DC#2 (if s/he ever exists!)
Matalan: quality and price seem optimum, but you have to seek out the colours you want.
Next: good quality and nice colours. Someone I know used the tights for two winters in a row, so seem to be durable.
Mothercare tights were a bit iffy.