Survey from Let Clothes be Clothes

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Let Clothes be Clothes are looking for people to complete their survey:

twitter.com/letclothesbe/status/1449302926141317120?s=21

They do great work campaigning against the ridiculous gendering of kids clothes - didn't see this linked anywhere else

Thanks, OP, LCBC are great. WIll complete.

Completed but not sure I said what they want. I don't think all clothes should be unisex not least because my 11-year old daughter's clothes need to fit a different shape.

Anyone know if you can do it without putting income in?

There's no prefer not to say and I don't want to fill it all in and not submit cos that is blank!

@NiceGerbil the red asterisk indicates the question is mandatory, so they should definitely have included a 'prefer not to say'. They have included for other questions so I wonder if it's an oversight. May be worth flagging to them if you're on Twitter

Thanks, have filled in

In forms that ask for income and don't give the option not to answer I assume the modern solution is to identify into whatever income you feel like being in possession of at that exact time. Garbage in, garbage out.

@Lovelyricepudding

Completed but not sure I said what they want. I don't think all clothes should be unisex not least because my 11-year old daughter's clothes need to fit a different shape.

That’s what I put in the free text box at the bottom - that I’d like their next campaign to be clear about the need to fit different child body shapes without being very stereotyped. Some boys want skinny fit, and some girls want the baggy look, quite apart from the impact of puberty (from late primary age) in body shape and clothes fitting.

Great. Done. It’s been driving me mad in the winter for my 2.5 year old that the girls aisle is full of sequin jumpers and thin leggings and they boys have all the thick practical tracksuits in cool dinosaur prints. Obviously, I just buy from the boy section, but why do they think only one of sexes needs to be warm?

That’s what I put in the free text box at the bottom - that I’d like their next campaign to be clear about the need to fit different child body shapes without being very stereotyped. Some boys want skinny fit, and some girls want the baggy look, quite apart from the impact of puberty (from late primary age) in body shape and clothes fitting.

The problem is so often 'unisex' is a synonym for 'men/boy'. Clothes are made to fit males and declared 'unisex'.

@nicegerbil I filled it in and it doesn’t ask for your details or anything at the end if you’re worried about that :)

@Lovelyricepudding

That’s what I put in the free text box at the bottom - that I’d like their next campaign to be clear about the need to fit different child body shapes without being very stereotyped. Some boys want skinny fit, and some girls want the baggy look, quite apart from the impact of puberty (from late primary age) in body shape and clothes fitting.

The problem is so often 'unisex' is a synonym for 'men/boy'. Clothes are made to fit males and declared 'unisex'.

Yes, indeed.

Tricky survey as answers will vary depending upon the age of the kids.

For under 10s unisex is fine as there is little if any difference in body shape. For older children there is a risk that unisex becomes nothing designed for female bodies.

Unisex is probably not the answer, more gender free design for sexed bodies. We should be able to buy a female cut of garments without it being pink and sparkly.