Vinted "Girls clothing" "Boys clothing"

[Adelino]

So frustrated. Just listed a plain white baby vest on Vinted and had to select either a boys or girls category.
Even if it was bright pink with frills there's no reason it should be in the girls category. To have to select like this even for the most neutral of clothing just feeds into wank stereotypes and the idea that a boy isn't a boy if he wants to wear pink.
Presumably parents searching for girls clothing don't even get offered any designs with dinosaurs, cars or things other than frilly statements about being kind.
I know this goes on in shops all the time,but being forced to list it as such myself really grates.

Agree, very annoying!

You can contact them on this link and ask them to add a unisex category

www.vinted.co.uk/help/582

Yeah, this pisses me off every time.

Oh ffs, throw us mothers of boys a bone here. It’s hard enough for us trawling around Tesco with 5 aisles of pink unicorns and 3 shelves of grey/blue.

don’t take our nicely filtered online buying away from us and force us to trawl through 10 pages of pink to find 1 solitary item suitable for a 9 year old boy.

I agree a unisex category would be useful. I always put unisex in the descriptor.

But people that don't gender clothes search by size. Then you get to see it all anyway.

They used to have a box tick on baby items to list as unisex. The only way to get around it now is list the same item twice and remember to delete the duplicate if you sell one.

But what if the item which you'd have liked for your boy had been listed by the seller in the girls category? If I'd been reselling many of DDs pre-teenage clothes you'd have missed out.

It's not the fact that you can filter on boys and girls, it's that you can't not filter on boys and girls if you see what I mean. It's the way all the databases are designed I suppose.

Wait till they hit 14. Out of kids, not big enough for mens. It's like a clothes desert..

Sometimes you can use the filtering options as a buyer to show you both, which is what I used to do. (When it came to babygros, I just wanted cheap enough that I wouldn't care if it got covered in irremovable poo stains.)