I guess we’ll never see parents grateful for pink clothes given to boy babies.
I do like to see girls in blue, though.
If there’s enough lace and bows, it shouldn’t be confusing.
(And even if it is, aren’t half the casual spectators guessing wrong anyway?)
I also like very bright clothes for infants. Why all the pastels?
I made some hot-orange and hot-lime wrap-shirts for my nephew (the kind that tie in the back, but look like tees from the front). Only my sister seemed pleased. The grand aunts were scandalized.
Doesn’t matter. Our son will wear pink (usually dark pink) and our daughter will wear camo. They look cute in any color, so we take advantage. Of course, sometimes it’s a matter of what we pull out of the closet.
The reason I say it doesn’t matter is because even if we dress our daughter in pink and our son in camo or green, we get, “Oh, how cute! Twin boys?” Then I have to keep from muttering, “No, they’re 13 months apart and she’s a GIRL!”
I hope you meant out of embarrasment, and not for other reasons.
Really, my two don’t seem to mind. Course, with two under 2.5 years, they don’t really care.
With infants, color coding is encouraged, but not required. However, don’t expect anyone other than immediate family to get the gender right. THEY NEVER DO! You could put a neon sign over the stroller that blinks GIRL! and NO ONE WOULD EVEN NOTICE!
I always tried to make the gender clear with the clever use of clothing during that androgynous/bald stage. Even when my baby was wearing a dress, I would have people compliment me on my beautiful baby boy. I’m not sure what kind of mother they thought I was.
As far as the pastels go, my theory is that a lot of babies can’t carry off strong colours.
Now that one of my girls cannot be mistaken for a boy, she wears blue. The baby sticks to pink and neutrals. The boys refuse to wear pink under any circumstances.
My son, who is Korean, looks great in bright, primary colors. His blond blue-eyed sister wears a lot of his hand-me-downs.
I don’t stick my son in pink because pink clothes tend to be “obviously girl clothes” but he does have a stunning pair of pink pants that go with his hanbok (traditional Korean dress, pants are almost always pink).
I don’t care if people don’t know what sex the baby is. I don’t think it will harm their gender identity. But when giving gifts I stick to non-sexist things (pastel green and yellow).
Well, our daughter wore a lot of our son’s hand-me-downs as an infant, plus we had a sonogram that our OB erroneously read as “male”, so we didn’t have any pink clothes to start with.
After SHE arrived, relatives kicked in some, and she wore about 75% “girly” clothes and 25% “boyish” clothes.
When I buy baby clothes as gifts, I always get white, yellow, or green. Least likely to offend or be wrong that way
Strangers always got both of my kids wrong. My son has long eyelashes and curly hair (though it’s short enough now that it doesn’t curl) and maybe one person out of 50 guessed boy, no matter what he wore. With my daughter, who had less hair, but still had the long lashes, people guessed boy more often than girl, even when she was dressed in her bright pink bunting.
I want to find baby clothes in black! And navy, magenta, and browns. Though I am a bit of a girly girl, and love dressing my little girl up (and she’s too young to complain).
LMAO! I have a li’l nudist, too! We dress him in jumpsuits so he can’t yank his pants off. He hasn’t figured out how to undo snaps yet.
Our favorite jumpsuit is royal purple, with Baby Taz embroidered on the front. The barf stains show up too much on pastel clothes, so we tend not to buy them, unless we get them at a yard sale.
I once did a photo layout with babies dressed in movie clothes, including a Travolta-like leisure suit and a Brando-like leather jacket. I had to rush the session, cause the kids were roasting in those hot clothes. I hate to see babies suffering with heat.
Some years ago, I saw two young twenty somethings decked out in studded leather, piercings and chains, cradling their (I presume) infant in a fuzzy pink jumpsuit. Funniest damn thing I’ve ever seen.
I read somewhere that since babies have pretty poor eyesight, it’s better to stimulate them with bright colors–pastels can just kinda fade into the background.
I guess it depends whether you want your kid stimulated.
The Ryskid has an aunt who either has a horrible sense of color or an odd sense of humor. She made him 9and me) some clothes that looked like Salvador Dali’s pschedelic nightmares.
I loved 'em. Nothing like a red and brown bumblebee-striped shirt matched up with shorts that have one green leg and one blue leg and dancing dinosaur socks to make your son stand out in a crowd.
