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Why can't DS1 have pink shoes?

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hunkermunker · 06/07/2006 20:51

Discuss.

He's 2 years old and LOVED the pink shoes in Clarks yesterday. We came away with brown ones in the end, which he also loves - but why can't he have total clothing rights?

Felt a bit sad, really. The pink shoes are pretty.

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 06/07/2006 20:52

Course he can have pink shoes. Why shouldnt he? Bet FIFI has pink shoes....

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hunkermunker · 06/07/2006 20:53

She has pink wellies, actually.

Do you know nothing?

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beansprout · 06/07/2006 20:54

That's up to you. If you really wanted him to have them, presumably you could have bought them. That said, unfortunately, there would be comments from the people who decree that pink is not a colour he "should" be wearing. I agree that it is tedious and am one of the people who are utterly fed up with a lot of the macho crap that toddlers are supposed to wear.

You have my full sympathy!

Harold · 06/07/2006 20:54

Why, did they not let you buy him the pink ones?

I liked some boys trainers in there once they looked like dunlop greenflash and asked for dd's size and the man told me they were boys trainers and guided me to the pink ones. I wish i'd stood my ground now.

Snafu · 06/07/2006 20:54

I've posted about this befor, am sure, but remember being furious with stupid Clarks girl who told ds he was 'a naughty boy' - for picking up the gorgeous glittery pink sandals instead of the vile brown clodhopping things she'd picked out for him...

ILoveYouMoonDog · 06/07/2006 20:55

You should have bought them

Gobbledigook · 06/07/2006 20:55

Would you honestly put a boy in pink shoes?

VeniVidiVickiQV · 06/07/2006 20:55

No, hunker, not about girly programmes.

My two watch Fireman Sam.

Gobbledigook · 06/07/2006 20:56

A pink shirt, yes, but pink shoes are very definitely sparkly adn flowery and girly.

puff · 06/07/2006 20:56

mine have pink t shirts and pink trousers

FrannyandZooey · 06/07/2006 20:56

We go to a shop where there are lots of different colour shoes. When ds was nearly 2 he chose purple suede boots with (detachable) flowers on the laces. I took them off when we got home at which point we discovered the main thing he liked about them was the 4 detachable flowers. I eventually compromised and let him keep one on I was and am very ashamed of my cowardice. In my defence I mostly thought (with good reason) that people would think I had chosen them and was 'making' him wear them to prove some kind of point.

He almost chose silver kickers last time. I think he possibly has a great future ahead of him in glam rock.

SoupDragon · 06/07/2006 20:57

Because pink shoes are hideous.

Snafu · 06/07/2006 20:57

but if boys like 'em too, then by definition they're not 'girly', surely?

lunavix · 06/07/2006 21:00

Ds used to adore fifi, for his 2nd birthday a friend was going to buy him a fifi lunchbox, drinks bottle and umbrella.. I wussed out and said I was worried he'd be bullied at pre-school.

Having said that would have been a waste of money, he's obsessed with chicken little now.

Maurice · 06/07/2006 21:00

my ds loves pink too (dd's influence). His favourite footwear is her outgrown pink, glittery Teletubbies boots.

He won't wear her old clothes though

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hunkermunker · 06/07/2006 21:01

DH was with me. If I'd been by myself, I think DS1 might have had the pink sandals with flowers on the front.

Or he might not.

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Wilfred · 06/07/2006 21:07

Ah that is the innocence of toddlerdom. My DS is 5 and I made him wear some Vertbaudet shorts - light green, blue, grey stripes and he complained vehemently that they were "girly". They were quite clearly from the boy's page of the catalogue. Yet he will happily wear his pink polo shirt.

Wilfred · 06/07/2006 21:09

PS do you think I ought to change back to my usual name when posting on threads like this and stick to Wilfred for the men's room stuff? I am quite sure that "Wilfred" would disapprove of you almost allowing your DS to wear pink sandals.

sugarfree · 06/07/2006 21:16

My take would be buy the pink shoes,'specially if he felt particularly strongly about it.He's got years ahead of him to wear boring old black shoes for school or work.

I love to put ds3 in flowery shirts and he doesn't care one way or the other (as yet).
Ds2,who is as delightfully camp as Christmas,wouldn't ever wear something remotely 'feminine' strangely enough.(but he does like to have painted toenails now and again)

Jimjamskeepingoffvaxthreads · 06/07/2006 21:23

ds2's (4) favourite colour is pink. I assume that won't last after he starts school. He needs ballet shoes for school, I did not let him get pink ones.

SoupDragon · 06/07/2006 21:25

Why don't you ask the question on theLive Chat With AngelaBiddolph thread?

Tommy · 06/07/2006 21:45

I had same dilemma the other day. DS1 was chooding a lunchbox to take to big school in September and he chose the pink one with kittens on....
I gently persuaded him away from it but felt really bad He has a pink beaker and if he wasn't going to school, I wouldn't have had a problem with the lunch box. I told him there would be some silly boys at big school who might say that pink is just for girls.

Cloudberries · 07/07/2006 16:50

My ds used to love pink so a few months ago I bought him a pink striped shirt from Next for parties. Sadly, he has started to be aware that pink is deemed to be a "girls colour" and won't wear it now. He's only worn it a couple of times and it won't suit his younger brother who has different colouring so i'm starting to wish i hadn't bothered

megglevache · 07/07/2006 16:53

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