Children's clothes - styles you don't like

[Sweetasstevia]

Is it just me? - certain styles of children's clobber make my teeth ache. Can't stand children wearing anything over styled or too grown up on a small child: These boys things make me sad :(

The back of this shirt - www.next.co.uk/x542764s3#674977x54

This ensemble - www.next.co.uk/x54756s5#665320x54

This Etonian number - m.boden.co.uk/en-GB/Boys-1H-12yrs-Coats-Jackets/Jackets/25086/Boys-1H-12yrs-Wool-Blazer.html

I have a purple tee for my DD (8mo) which says 'I'm not a princess, I'm a Khaleesi'.
Is that forgivable? It makes me laugh.

Bikinis on children are horrid. I actually don't like to see little girls in a one piece swimsuit either - they should be able just to wear swim pants at that age.

I have a real problem with boys' clothes in general. Combat trousers - my two-year-old does not need 50 pockets and isn't going to work on a building site. I still buy leggings for him - no idea why they seem to be the domain of toddler girls. They are comfy and look pretty cute ( unisex-type patterns). He prefers them to jeans, although does wear jeans too. I spend a fortune on Scandi-type kids' clothes websites as they don't seem to have same boy legging prejudices!

I hate skulls. They are all over boys' clothes at the moment. As are fecking dinosaurs, diggers etc.

Only girls get clothes with apples and cats on. 4yo DS1 loves both those things but, being in possession of a penis, apparently he can only like sharks and insects.

I did manage to get him a blue T-shirt with red edging and red, pink and green lollipops on from Polarn O Pyret. He looks gorgeous in it.

I agree Count.

Having said that, DD (2.5) has this Smafolk top that I love.

That's lovely, Poppy, because it's unisex. It'd look lovely on a little girl with jeans or a denim skirt.

I wish there was just more unisex clothing. So T-shirts with all kinds of animals, foodstuffs, vehicles etc in primary colours rather than the tyranny of sludgy-coloured tractors/skulls/dinosaurs fot boys and pink frilly cats/birds/apples for girls.

I hate all slogans on kids tshirts.

But I do have a rolling stones tshirt for my three year old DS. One of the mums at school was quite sneery about it saying he wouldn't even know who they were...''which stones song is your favourite DS?''....''hmm start me up or honky tonk woman both my favourites Mummy''
:)

Ah you see Count as the mother of a girl I bemoan the fact that I can't get girls' clothes with cars, planes and most farm and jungle animals on them. Those are all just for boys apparently.

She is only allowed apples and cats in whcih she has no interest

Dogs appear to be for both sexes (although obviously girls only get white or pink (!) dogs). Not sure how this happened but I'm sure they'll clamp down on it soon

where do people shop where all the girls' stuff is pink? I never have this problem at all and shop in Sainsbo's, John Lewis, Mothercare, H&M. Sure, there's pink stuff there but lots of other colours too. (I have a friend who has flaming red hair and she wears pink all the time, looks great!)

Boys clothes always seem so - sludgy, I guess, in colour. Navy, brown, khaki,grey - all a bit miserable, isn't it?

I like children in colourful, cheerful stuff that isn't too grown-up for them. Hate seeing little girls dressed as though they are going to work - presumably by oh-so-cool parents who don't dare introduce a bit of - gasp!- pink or purple or sparkle, in case a few brain cells die.

agree that swim pants would be best for girls, though it means less exposed skin to slap sun cream on which is a bonus of the one-piece.

Indeed mini. That's why it'd be lovely to have unisex stuff in bright colours so both boys and girls could just choose the prints they like, rather than them being so heavily gendered in colour and style.

Little girls want to wear swimming costumes or bikinis like Mum. They know girls cover their top halves in public from really small. DD2, who is a very socially aware child, would simply have felt wrong in just a swim nappy.

Also at what age do you change to a ful costume? Way easier for girls always to have costumes and anyway they are cute! (Our build a bear still wears the smallest one).

Super skinny jeans. On girls it looks like we are aupposed to be admiring their legs. On boys it's just silly and uncomfortable (the girls ones are at least stretchy so fairly comfortable). And linked to that is the a solute lack of choice. Except for h&m I cannot find jeans/warm trousers for ds that aren't skinny. As he has HUGE feet, even if I wanted to I can't buy them as he can't get them on.

I don't agree, Elephants - DD is perfectly happy to run around in pants (or nothing!) in the water, should we happen to come across a paddling pool unprepared. She wants to wear a pink flamingo swimsuit because she sees it in the shop. If she saw pink flamingo swim pants she's want those, I don't doubt. She's certainly never seen me in anything like her swimsuit!

Bling, I've got some good non-skinny warm trousers and jeans for small boys in Boden and Gap.

Leggings on girls without a tunic or dress over. Looks like they're wearing underwear.

River island win my prize for awful tweenie clothes. Picture is , but rest of range is nasty too.

because a girl is only interested in super models and brands she can't possibly afford and probably hasn't heard of?! these horrors start at age 3

Past seasons were all skulls and crucifixes. Less sexist, but equally yuck.

I don't like hairbands on girls with no hair or a cm of hair in a pony tail on the top of their head. As if you have to prove she's a girl!
I don't like clarks shoes with all the neon green bits and dinosaurs for boys or glittery purple butterflies for girls they are such ugly shoes what's wrong with one colour?
I am pro skinny jeans for my DS 3, he has stick like legs though and baggy ones have too much excess fabric that gets in the way and he has caught his foot in the ankle of the opposite leg and tripped over. I often put him in girls leggings in plain colours don't know why boys sections don't have leggings like Scandinavian company's!

Leedy, good tip thanks. We don't have a gap in our town so I have never thought of that. Must check out Boden too actually.

I don't like anything that looks like scaled down adults clothes. For girls or boys.
I don't mind that boys things have diggers on and girls things have butterflies and bunnies or whatever. As my children like stereotypical things, and having pink clothes doesn't prevent DD aged 4 attempting to climb trees or looking for bugs under rocks or mining diamonds in the back garden - she hasn't found any yet.
And as DS says (aged 8) pink isn't just for girls, uncle x always a pink shirt.

Oh yes and I hate shoes with flashing lights with a passion.

I don't agree Elephants - when I was growing up, all girls wore just pants to swim until about 7, as I recall. I'm sure we were just as keen back then to "be like mum" and we probably knew that adult women covered their top halves, but that didn't seem to make us feel uncomfortable in just swim pants. Girls didn't used to cover their top halves in public.

It's a recent change, brought about because manufacturers started to offer child bikinis so now that seems "normal" and a girl with a naked top half is unusual. But it wasn't normal 20-30 years ago.

My DDs are older13&16 and I think the swimming costume thing may have changed slightly. As more people have decent reusable swim nappies, wet suit wraps and UV suits, full costumes become an extra layer that's not needed.

Also MC mums wouldn't be seen dead putting a child in a triangle bikini, I case their friends are MNers.

I wouldn't because both my DDs would have jumped in the pool and lost it (and they look stupid).

My DS needs skinny jeans for his skinny legs and tiny bum otherwise he looks like bag of shit tied in two and forever picking the gather of jeans out of his bum otherwise.

The colour of boys clothes are so blurgh I like cheerful pastel colours

Where/when did you grow up, minipie? My sisters and I all had one-piece cossies in the 70s for our lessons/the beach, not just swim pants. Not that I remember there being much issue about covering up our top halves, and I don't remember anyone having a bikini before about 12, but one piece swimsuits for girls definitely aren't a recent innovation.

40 year old here - I loved my red triangle bikini that I had when I was 5! And I was raised by a 70s feminist and lived in cord dungarees, played with lego and meccano and never wore pink.