The Off Topic Topic

[crazy canuck]

And now he drives for Ferrari in F1 

[Josquius]

Is it just Britain or is ita global thing that boys clothes are really depressing?
It's all black, brown, beige, camouflage green... If there's a primary colour it's really dull and muted.
And I'm not talking adult fashion here. It's clothes for little boys. 3 year olds.
 They want bright colours and pictures of animals.
But to get that you have to go to the girls section and try and find something without too many obvious frills.

[Jacob]

Where'd the Gestapo guy get a photo of Hauteclocque (clearly identified) before the war, and how would he know to compare it to the photo of Leclerc? And would he necessarily have a photo of Leclerc to begin with?

[HVC]

I'm sure there was Google in the 40s, right?

[The Brain]

Where'd the Gestapo guy get a photo of Hauteclocque (clearly identified) before the war, and how would he know to compare it to the photo of Leclerc? And would he necessarily have a photo of Leclerc to begin with?

I find your lack of faith in Helga disturbing.

[Valmy]

Is it just Britain or is ita global thing that boys clothes are really depressing?
It's all black, brown, beige, camouflage green... If there's a primary colour it's really dull and muted.
And I'm not talking adult fashion here. It's clothes for little boys. 3 year olds.
 They want bright colours and pictures of animals.
But to get that you have to go to the girls section and try and find something without too many obvious frills.

I don't recall having any problems getting bright blues and reds and so forth for my boys. Might have an issue with pink or pastels but not bright primary colors.

[Barrister]

Is it just Britain or is ita global thing that boys clothes are really depressing?
It's all black, brown, beige, camouflage green... If there's a primary colour it's really dull and muted.
And I'm not talking adult fashion here. It's clothes for little boys. 3 year olds.
 They want bright colours and pictures of animals.
But to get that you have to go to the girls section and try and find something without too many obvious frills.

I don't recall having any problems getting bright blues and reds and so forth for my boys. Might have an issue with pink or pastels but not bright primary colors.

So yeah - I don't remember having any issue with bright colours for little boys clothes (with the proviso my youngest turns 11 next month, so it's been a little while).

But I know I'm not the first to note that it's kind of weird how absurdly gendered little kids clothes are.  Like girls clothes will invariably be pink, or pastels, probably with frills - and that's even before you get to whatever characters or images are on them.

[Razgovory]

Do you ever wonder?

[Sheilbh]

So yeah - I don't remember having any issue with bright colours for little boys clothes (with the proviso my youngest turns 11 next month, so it's been a little while).

But I know I'm not the first to note that it's kind of weird how absurdly gendered little kids clothes are.  Like girls clothes will invariably be pink, or pastels, probably with frills - and that's even before you get to whatever characters or images are on them.

Yeah it's true.

The parents I know with boys have them in lots of primary colours - bright reds, blues, yellows (one of them is, for some reason, kind of obsessed with yellow). So it might be an age thing where there's a crossover point. Or possibly a shop thing? I don't know if kids clothes have similar "identities" like clothes shops for adults do? Maybe it's the point when you move from specialist shops for kids to getting stuff from H&M etc and it suddenly becomes dressing a mini-me?

[Barrister]

So yeah - I don't remember having any issue with bright colours for little boys clothes (with the proviso my youngest turns 11 next month, so it's been a little while).

But I know I'm not the first to note that it's kind of weird how absurdly gendered little kids clothes are.  Like girls clothes will invariably be pink, or pastels, probably with frills - and that's even before you get to whatever characters or images are on them.

Yeah it's true.

The parents I know with boys have them in lots of primary colours - bright reds, blues, yellows (one of them is, for some reason, kind of obsessed with yellow). So it might be an age thing where there's a crossover point. Or possibly a shop thing? I don't know if kids clothes have similar "identities" like clothes shops for adults do? Maybe it's the point when you move from specialist shops for kids to getting stuff from H&M etc and it suddenly becomes dressing a mini-me?

When my kids were younger we wound up colour-coding a lot of things for them - which included clothes.  One kid liked blue, second kid liked red - so when the third kid came along we just chose green as his colour.

[Sheilbh]

When my kids were younger we wound up colour-coding a lot of things for them - which included clothes.  One kid liked blue, second kid liked red - so when the third kid came along we just chose green as his colour.

Like the Chipmunks?

[HVC]

The kiddie colour stuff is weird. Everyone knows about the blue pink shift thing. I know that there are studies that shows little boys and little girls like different types of toys, across cultures and timelines, but it's funny how things like colours get socially imprinted on them too.

[Barrister]

When my kids were younger we wound up colour-coding a lot of things for them - which included clothes.  One kid liked blue, second kid liked red - so when the third kid came along we just chose green as his colour.

Like the Chipmunks?

Netflix did a Chipmunks revival a few years ago, the guys latched on to it precisely because there was a chipmunk associated with each of their colours.  

[Valmy]

Is it just Britain or is ita global thing that boys clothes are really depressing?
It's all black, brown, beige, camouflage green... If there's a primary colour it's really dull and muted.
And I'm not talking adult fashion here. It's clothes for little boys. 3 year olds.
 They want bright colours and pictures of animals.
But to get that you have to go to the girls section and try and find something without too many obvious frills.

I don't recall having any problems getting bright blues and reds and so forth for my boys. Might have an issue with pink or pastels but not bright primary colors.

So yeah - I don't remember having any issue with bright colours for little boys clothes (with the proviso my youngest turns 11 next month, so it's been a little while).

But I know I'm not the first to note that it's kind of weird how absurdly gendered little kids clothes are.  Like girls clothes will invariably be pink, or pastels, probably with frills - and that's even before you get to whatever characters or images are on them.

I know. But it's fun and cute. There are plenty of gender neutral stuff as well.

But I let me wife and mother in law indulge in all the cutesy stuff.

What kind of weirds me out is the cutesy yet quasi sexualized stuff. Like having a shirt for you baby boy saying he is a babe magnet and so forth. And it only gets weirder but I forget the specifics. I was probably too traumatized.

[Josquius]

So yeah - I don't remember having any issue with bright colours for little boys clothes (with the proviso my youngest turns 11 next month, so it's been a little while).

But I know I'm not the first to note that it's kind of weird how absurdly gendered little kids clothes are.  Like girls clothes will invariably be pink, or pastels, probably with frills - and that's even before you get to whatever characters or images are on them.

Yeah it's true.

The parents I know with boys have them in lots of primary colours - bright reds, blues, yellows (one of them is, for some reason, kind of obsessed with yellow). So it might be an age thing where there's a crossover point. Or possibly a shop thing? I don't know if kids clothes have similar "identities" like clothes shops for adults do? Maybe it's the point when you move from specialist shops for kids to getting stuff from H&M etc and it suddenly becomes dressing a mini-me?

Are these friends on the middle class side?
I do know there are some brands that do really colourful ungendered stuff but they tend to be pretty expensive so not really something we can be dressing the kids in every day.

But then what brought this on was trying to buy socks in sainsburys which is the 3rd poshest supermarket so....