The tyranny of pink

[Titian]

Pink pink pink pink barbie pink

 

I have to say, striving to find anything that is not gagworthy pink does lead to supreme amounts of money being spent.

 

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/family/story/0,,2268921,00.html

[babychickens]

Lol! Soooo true...

 

Anyway, I'm trying to right the world's wrongs by dressing babybaby in almost anything other than occasional pink...today she's at nursery in black/grey stripey leggings, a black top, and a green vest, all beautifully offset by a red coat and purple shoes and multicoloured stripey socks. I do find it somewhat irksome that her favourite item of clothing is a pink and blue velour hoody, but I suppose I have to let her have some choice occasionally.

[medusa]

We were all highly delighted when niecelet chose pyjamas that were blue with cars and trains on when she was 18 months old, but these days she too is surrendering to the draw of pink (much to our chagrin).

 

She has the most beautiful coffee skin, red/brown ringlet curls and brown eyes and she can carry off anything from dayglo green to bright red but she's stuck in a world of sparkly pink tutus. We've all got our fingers crossed that she's going to grow out of it and we encourage her to wear black, blue, purple- anything apart from sickly pink.

 

Personally, I don't think that I own any pink clothing. I tend to equate pink with flowers, frills, sparkly things and girliness and I'm really not very good at being girly. I'd rather wear plain black things.

[Mathom]

Lol! Soooo true...

 

Anyway, I'm trying to right the world's wrongs by dressing babybaby in almost anything other than occasional pink...today she's at nursery in black/grey stripey leggings, a black top, and a green vest, all beautifully offset by a red coat and purple shoes and multicoloured stripey socks. I do find it somewhat irksome that her favourite item of clothing is a pink and blue velour hoody, but I suppose I have to let her have some choice occasionally.

 

Cool outfit!

 

I hated pink when I was a child, absolutely hated it with a passion and I still don't like it - I only like it when it's used in a subversive kind of way, like my pink bag with kittens on it or my pink kitten clock But then I was the child who hated fancy outfits - I was looking at some slides the other day and there I was, aged 4 in a white wool pleated dress (very cute, and obviously expensive), receiving a prize and then on the next slide playing in the sandpit. My mum said "look at you in the filth ruining your clothes". I remember it clearly - I didn't say anything but to this day I remember being really upset that I got smacked legs and was dragged out of the sandpit where I was having fun, all because of a dress being spoiled!

 

The answer is probably to give girls some boys' clothes (grown up women wear men's clothes, why can't girls do the same?) and let them cut loose in the sandpit and climb trees. I used to muck up any fancy clothes I was forced to wear (I liked wellies and purple trousers and anoraks and things like that, not the horrible lacey dresses she used to buy ) the minute I was away from my mum, so I often think a lot of little girls are just desperate to have the freedom to be non-girly! I even have a hang up as an adult in that I despise anything to do with high heels, fancy frocks and other yukky stuff, and delight in having dinner medals etc due to being forced into uber-girlie stuff as a kid.

[Rosemary]

The world of clothing is no better with for a boy. Mine's only 5 weeks old and already I'm sick of the standard rations of brown, blue, green and orange with the same old pictures of cars and monsters. Where is the purple? Lime green? Turquoise? Even red and yellow are pretty absent from the scene. And while in men's clothing sections you get a fair old splash of pink, shirts with flowers etc there's not so much as a hint of this in baby clothing world. I'm thinking about buying him some girls t-shirts, bring on the pink!

[Zebra]

My girls do wear pink but we have other funky stuff like the purple trousers with LOUD multicoloured hearts and flowers, not that girly despite all that.

Then the blue bell bottom style multi fabric jeans and the stars and stripes cords

We definitely do loud trousers.

And today twingle 2 was out in her favourite Thomas the Tank Engine jumper and socks with blue jeans.

Generally speaking they live in jeans, as do I but I prefer purple and black - we'll se what they like more and more later but right now anything Thomas for one and anything with butterflies/Tinkerbell/flowers or Fifi for the other

[cosywolf]

The world of clothing is no better with for a boy. Mine's only 5 weeks old and already I'm sick of the standard rations of brown, blue, green and orange with the same old pictures of cars and monsters. Where is the purple? Lime green? Turquoise? Even red and yellow are pretty absent from the scene. And while in men's clothing sections you get a fair old splash of pink, shirts with flowers etc there's not so much as a hint of this in baby clothing world. I'm thinking about buying him some girls t-shirts, bring on the pink!

 

Also have you noticed, there's one rack of boys clothes to three racks of girls clothes...so much for choice. Still, I've always been a jeans and t-shirt kinda girl, and there's plenty of cool jeans and decent t-shirts on the cheap if you're willing to look around.

[gina2007]

Also have you noticed, there's one rack of boys clothes to three racks of girls clothes...so much for choice.

 

Thats more than true, everywhere more girls clothes than boys. Charlie currently has..

Blue Tee, (No trousers...yes his nappy bust?!) and a off-white (Touching pink) blanket covering him...

That blanket is only for in the house (ONLY!!) according to OH

[Mathom]

Also have you noticed, there's one rack of boys clothes to three racks of girls clothes...so much for choice. Still, I've always been a jeans and t-shirt kinda girl, and there's plenty of cool jeans and decent t-shirts on the cheap if you're willing to look around.

 

Yeah! What about the cool young guy about town?! H&M is ace for something for your young man which is a bit 'different' - lots of things with pirate type designs, herringbone trousers, caps, even little braces. And affordable too - I LOVE the Monsoon stuff but it's too dear

 

But oddly enough, Ethel Austin has some interesting boys' clothes - I got a stripey hoody with pictures of weather symbols on it which was quite cool.

 

I've got a mania for tank tops for my lad too.

[cosywolf]

Try Accessorize on Chapel Walk for 70% off Monsoon clothes for kids...they always have rack, so it's worth checking through - just be aware it's more miss than hit, but the hits are worth it.