December 7th, 2010 | 
Author: I’m mother of a lovely little girl, and I’m six months pregnant with her younger brother. I’m in the process of going through her infant clothes and sorting out little dresses etc, which don’t seem quite suitable for a boy. Now, it had happened several times to me, that my little girl was dressed in a bright pink skirt and people still asked me ‘What is HIS name?’/'How old is HE?’. So I start wondering, if people despite of pink skirts refer to any child as a boy anyways, do I really need to bother sorting out/dying pink onesies, t-shirts etc. just because he is a boy? Or would it be really odd dressing a boy in e.g. a pink t-shirt and blue trousers? (Just to make it clear: I’m not planning to put him in dresses or skirts.)
Eh. I dressed my daughter in boys’ hand-me-downs quite a lot, and my younger brother got a lot of his sisters’ hand-me-downs. No one is psychologically scarred, I promise. Even kids who are dressed in pink for girls and blue for boys get called the wrong gender all the time. I say, if it keeps them warm, I don’t care if girls wear blue and red Thomas the Train shirts, or if boys wear Princess Jasmine shirts. Who cares. The function of clothing is to cover and keep them warm, so if it does that, there’s nothing more needs to be said.
Boys can wear girls’ clothes if girls can wear boys’ clothes. Let’s not have a double standard here, one standard is enough to keep up with on its own.
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My daughter gets called a he all the time even when she has PINK bows in her hair and very pink clothing.
I don’t care anymore, when we do have our second and if it’s a boy, we have alot of yellow,red,green oneis that I will reuse. We also have plain blue jeans etc and footed Pjs with ducks that would work.
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If I had a son I’d never dress him in pink. Then people will say aww what a cute girl and i’d say its a boy and they would ask why is he in pink.
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people just really don’t pay attention sometimes. My daughter was called a boy on one occasion. She was wearing pig tails, teal overalls with a bright green flower on the front.
I got the whole boy or girl thing. she was 2.
it’s odd
girls can dress like boys but boys can’t dress like girls.
pink shirts on a boy are fine. if nothing else just put a jacket over it.
it’s really up to you. if you are ok with it then go for it. if not then don’t.
EDIT: Personally I ask unless it’s obvious.
But I also pay attention.
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If the pink shirt didnt have a butterfly or flowers on it wouldnt bother me even if you only use it at home for play it will be clothes which we know are scarce even when you have 5000000000 peices for one kid theirs never enough….My son wore a few of his twin sisters things that were purple or pink i just always made sure he wasnt sporting a daisy or something with it lol….And as far as onesies go well they go under the shirt so i dont see why the color would matter if no one will see it.
I think its personal. If it wont bother you i dont see the problem some people it might bother them…I saw some guy headed to work in a Fuschia dress shirt the other day…He looked pretty good
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LOL at people thinking she was a boy! Some people are funny!
I would defiantly keep the onesies, t-shirts and pants for him…but probably just for around the house, and like you said, pair them with something non-pink. There’s no point buying all new stuff when he’s going to have grown out of it in a few weeks. If it’s winter, you can put a little pink t-shirt him and then something boyish on top, no problem!
If I took him out though, Personally I would put him in boy clothes, at least for his top layers!
When he gets a bit older though – I think he might appreciate something in a boy colour!
And don’t forget, your family and friends will I’m sire give you plenty of boy clothes to keep you going for a while.
It’s good for the ‘pink’ stereotype’ to be broken once in a while!
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I would never dress my son in pink – no way, no how.
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I think people use the term HE because it is more universal than she and just slips out sometimes. I get it all the time with my daughter even though she’s in bright pink or purple. Lol. He can rock the pink! Men have pink shirts all the time! As long as its not frilly or super girly I think pink would be fine. Especially if its a onesie going underneath of other stuff or jammies or something like that, then it really doesn’t matter.
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Unless it is under shirts like the onezies or something they are going to wear inside the house, no I would not put my son in a pink t-shirt or pink pants, or whatever. If you put pink on the outside you are just setting yourself up for the "how is SHE doing"
I remember my oldest daughter got called HE all the time. Most of the time I just laughed it off because sometimes she was dressed boyish (she liked dressing like papa and daddy), but one day she couldn’t have been wearing more pink if I had dipped her in pepto. She had pink pants, a pink shirt with flowers, pink bow, and pink and white shoes. A woman said to me " oh isn’t he cute" grr that one got me though lol.
Now my youngest daughter was called a he a lot simply because she was basically bald until she was about 8 or 9 months old, and apparently only boy babies are bald.
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Eh. I dressed my daughter in boys’ hand-me-downs quite a lot, and my younger brother got a lot of his sisters’ hand-me-downs. No one is psychologically scarred, I promise. Even kids who are dressed in pink for girls and blue for boys get called the wrong gender all the time. I say, if it keeps them warm, I don’t care if girls wear blue and red Thomas the Train shirts, or if boys wear Princess Jasmine shirts. Who cares. The function of clothing is to cover and keep them warm, so if it does that, there’s nothing more needs to be said.
Boys can wear girls’ clothes if girls can wear boys’ clothes. Let’s not have a double standard here, one standard is enough to keep up with on its own.
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I wouldnt put my son in pink…thats just not my style but I totally know what you mean. I had my daughter dressed head to toe in pink and got asked if she was a boy or a girl. I had her in a dress the one day and was asked what "his" name is. Are you serious? I may as well have saved myself tons of money and bought a load of gender neutral outfits when they were going out of season when I first got pregnant since some people cant tell a baby in a dress with a hairband is a girl.
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There was this guy at university who always wore pink shirts. He said "only real men can wear pink".
I don’t see the point in dying them. If you are not comfortable using them to go out, then just let him wear them at home. It is really up to you!
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