clothes for young boys - dull, dull, dull.
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pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
Moan about buying boys clothes - try designing them! I'm on my fourth season designing toddler footwear for some big company. The boys is always a nightmare as the client complains if I try anything new, or if I do the same as last time, it's too 'samey.' I'm seriously running out of ideas!
I've done boats (stripes and anchors), army (camouflage and fake badges), space (robots and rockets) and now Pirates. I'm only allowed to use certain colours - red, navy, khaki, not too much orange or yellow, not too much black.
Girls stuff is so much easier and more fun because I can introduce alot of handwork, beading, sequins etc, although it's all pink and I've memorised the pantone numbers for candy pink, fuchsia and lavender.
Cloo: wait til your daughter gets older, you never know - my brother dressed his daughter in boys clothes and shoes as he hated all that pink trashy stuff too, but as soon as she was old enough to care, all she wanted was pink. Honestly, we constantly try introducing other colours but it's the pink that sells and I'm not sure it's the parents that want it or what.
I've done boats (stripes and anchors), army (camouflage and fake badges), space (robots and rockets) and now Pirates. I'm only allowed to use certain colours - red, navy, khaki, not too much orange or yellow, not too much black.
Girls stuff is so much easier and more fun because I can introduce alot of handwork, beading, sequins etc, although it's all pink and I've memorised the pantone numbers for candy pink, fuchsia and lavender.
Cloo: wait til your daughter gets older, you never know - my brother dressed his daughter in boys clothes and shoes as he hated all that pink trashy stuff too, but as soon as she was old enough to care, all she wanted was pink. Honestly, we constantly try introducing other colours but it's the pink that sells and I'm not sure it's the parents that want it or what.
This thing about girls clothes being mostly pink, is IMHO pretty recent. In photos from the 1970s there are primary school girls wearing all shades, colours and styles - including some which would now be thought "too boyish". The same thing goes (more or less) for boys - few wore pink, velvet, or lace but almost anything else went.
BTW what about dinosaurs (or other animals) as a theme?
BTW what about dinosaurs (or other animals) as a theme?
Fullyplumped
in a personal capacity
Cloo
Banana for scale
Oh yeah - gsv declares she's going to be into zombies and pirates. I say he'd better prepare himself for disappointment - if she loves pink, sparkly fairy princesses, she loves pink, sparkly fairy princesses, and we're just going have to live with it. As it happens she wears quite a lot of pink, as almost all her clothes are inherited from my sister-in-law's sister-in-law's two daughters, and their mum is quite 'prim and proper'. Not that I'm complaining, as I haven't had to buy anything except vests and pyjamas yet, and a lot of it is much nicer stuff than we could afford.
My older niece is into her pink sparkly, but is also a transport geek like her daddy!
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
We did dinosaurs last season as a trend theme, but I struggled to use the icon, I couldn't fit it's long neck and odd shaped body onto the side of a sports sandal.
I spent four hours the other day trying to make a pirate ship look like a pirate ship despite being only a inch tall.
One of the reasons kids shoes are so expensive is because the small scale makes them really fiddly and time consuming to put together, every wobble in a stitch row shows up loads.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
yup. My eldest wore mostly hand-me-downs from her male cousin until she was 2 and a half or so and suddenly started expressing an opinion. I was always a tomboy as a kid, never liked pink, barely ever wore a dress or a skirt, was much more interested in getting muddy and falling out of trees. Despite all my best efforts to steer her away from that kind of pink sparkly shit that's all she likes now (she's 6)
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
I was a tomboy as well, hated pink and baby dolls and all that jazz. Course it did mean that I was pretty unpopular at school, but I just couldn't force myself! My neice developed a huge Disney Princess obsession soon as she was old enough to complain about her tasteful taupe and navy wardrobe my brother and his wife wanted her to wear!
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
Threadless do childrens stuff I think. Then your kids can be cool as me
Yep I bought my daughter this http://www.threadless.com/product/1125/Mr_Choppy?streetteam=deadhippo. My daughter loved it, unfortunately my ex hates it and wont let her wear it.
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
I quite like a lot of the boys clothes in primark, got some cool new stuff like a skull patterned waterproof coat, nice shirts and this jumper which I love him in 
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1970's all shades - are you sure? There only seemed to be one colour in the seventies brown
I'd have loved something girly to wear but my parents only ever dressed me up in hideous brown trousers.
Clothes were more expensive then, I'm guessing.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I quite like a lot of the boys clothes in primark, got some cool new stuff like a skull patterned waterproof coat, nice shirts and this jumper which I love him in
I love that jumper Clair, might swing past Primark and get one for my boy.
That's a lovely picture
He is so cute.
mauvais
on reddit or something
Hahahaha!
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
Yep, it is.
1970's all shades - are you sure? There only seemed to be one colour in the seventies brown
Colourwise, I'm sure - brown was mainly the colour of new furniture (not much of that) and new furnishings and that went into the early 80's.
As for clothes...lots of bright colours - not flouresecent, but primary or jewel shades, with a few pastels in summer (again, not always pink, not even for girls). And a lot of tartan print, muliti coloured stripes, and floral prints. Dark stuff was usually trousers & school shoes, nothing else. Some of the colour choices were a product of the early 70s "unisex" trend.
A few examples of the decade taste and colour forgot (girls first, then boys):-
Navy sandals, bright red lace pattern socks worn with an orange large paisley print nylon summer dress, with a front zip (with large ringpull) from neck to hips.
Patch denim print knee-length summer dress with shirred bodice and butterfly sleeves, white socks, brown sandals, brown anorack with narrown alpine style braid along the zip.
Dark tartan skirt, jumper matching one of the brighter colours in the tartan, white tights, black shoes (standard wear for v small girls at the time).
Pastel blue poloneck, bottle green A line corduroy pinnafore dress, white socks, brown shoes.
Turquoise & navy fake tartan trousers, mostly white blouse with mauve floral print forming narrow stripes, brown shoes, white socks, plain black anorak.
Green floral print sundress (shirred bodice, wide straps, tiered skirt to just below knee), white socks, brown sandals.
Dark brown cords, yellow T shirt, dark blue parka, brown shoes.
Stripey purple, brown & white shirt, brown trousers, brown shoes, orange fake tie (special occasions only).
Brownish plaid bomber jacket with fake fur trim, emerald green shorts, plain orange T shirt, navy socks, brown sandals.
Fake denim shorts, pale yellow T shirt, bare feet.
Red trousers, orange T shirt with brown & cream print, beige socks, brown shoes.
LilMissHissyFit
Disturbed in a pink bra
Try Verbaudet.... online or mail order, not the cheapest but the quality is excellent and nowhere near as pricey as Boden
