Feminist baby clothes?

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My little girl arrives in January and I'm excited to raise a strong and feminist baby. (I would have done this with a boy too.) I'd love to get her a few clothes with a feminist message on but can't find any. Any ideas?

I'm not really into slogan wear for babies but I like the "the force is strong in this one" idea. Just keep away from anything disney.

Star Wars is owned by Disney.

Thank you Asaman, I got carried away there.

Bloody hell, £14 for a vest!

Just be aware, OP, that baby will have a personality of her own. That personality may like glitter and teasets and dolls. I swore before my DS was born that he wouldn't have clothing branded with cartoon characters. That lasted until he fell in love with a George Pig t-shirt in the supermarket one day!

:) Q it's so easily done. I name change CONSTANTLY

I would say dressing your daughter in comfortable, practical clothes is the way to go and coveys more of a feminist message than any slogan baby vest.

Some of you lot are funny. I don't intend to parade my child in stupid slogans but if I did that would be my choice. Same as if I wanted to out her in beauty pageants or pierce her ears. I don't but surely respecting each other's choices and having those choices is what makes a human and a feminist?

Try eBay for any phrases you want printed or embroidered.

Future Prime Minister, perhaps??

OP, even the most G&T babies I've ever heard of on MN can't read

I seem to have done OK raising a strong and feminist girl - she always wore a mix of colours from both aisles - including pink until she rejected it.

I don't think it matters too much when they're babies - it's when they get a bit bigger that you need clothes that let them be as physically active as they wish, and exercise their imaginations in all the ways they want. Never mind slogans, it's the boots and overtrousers (accessorised with tiaras and tutus if they want,, girl or boy!) which matter more.

No harm in a few fun babygros, but don't be shy of giving the message to your 'stuffy' relatives a bit more explicitly!

Oh, and congratulations!

Slogans on clothes are ridiculous at any age.

Buy what you like the look of and will be comfortable for the baby.

"Feminist baby wear" is one of the silliest concepts I've heard in a long time. However you might want to consider avoiding cheap clothes made in sweat shops by slightly older children of either sex as a more ethical choice than fretting over pink or blue.

Congratulations on your daughter.

Personally I'm not massive on slogans. However, I'd agree with the comment that the ethical (and feminist, since it disproportionately affects women and children) choice would be to try and buy ethically produced babywear. There are some lovely British companies out there with beautiful clothes in a real range of colours (nothing against pink and blue, but god it gets dull) and the stuff will last two/three children and still have good resale value.

Oh yes, and no silly dresses on crawling babies! Tunics etc work well, but nothing under their knees to trip them up!

No, I don't think a feminist has to respect another woman's choice to enter her baby for beauty pageants. Just because a woman chooses it, that doesn't make it feminist.

Maybe you should repost this on S&B?

Buy practical, easy-to-get-on/off cotton or bamboo stuff in any colour you like.

If you avoid all-over-pink you are making a feminist statement IME.

Honestly, just buy practical stuff you think looks nice and comfy for the baby, is easy to put on and take off and isn't white (the stains...). It might be pink, blue, yellow, green, have a giraffe on or a spaceship or polka dots.

Toward the Stars has bits of clothes too I think.

'Sweatshop' claims over T-shirt www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29868458

This is what you should be worried about when buying clothes- not throwing a strop if a grandmother buys a pretty dress for a girl.

Phaedra, OP said nothing about throwing a strop if someone bought her DD a dress.

I didn't necessarily refer to OP. Someone else mentioned the horrors of grandmothers buying dresses.

Babies can't read. What is the point of slogans on baby clothes? If you want to bring them up feminist, then you do that with the attitudes you instil in them.

Having said that, I did laugh when I went to a party with lots of unix geeks, and someone's child was dressed in an outfit which declared "child process" like this. Probably something not everyone will find amusing, mind you...

A lot of baby clothes have writing on, Ebear, slogans or not (50% mummy, 50% daddy or whatever)!

I'm not a huge fan of slogan on kids clothes but If my current baby arrives as a girl I'm probably goignt o get one of the Though she be little t-shirt which appeals to me both as a feminist and as I've worked on the play

Phaedra - who said that. I can't find it. Is the app missing posts again?

Oh phaedra has already been rude about this thread on another thread.

Glad she found time to pop in and have a go at the OP.

If someone has an interest in feminism why wouldn't they put that on the baby?

What's the difference to dressing your baby up in a Liverpool kit, or a a shirt with stars because you like stars? Or a band, or anything? The baby doesn't give a fuck. Mum and dad are happy, why would it actually annoy people?