Is it important to you to dress your baby in gender-specific clothes?
Query by dyneiddiwr: Is it essential to you to dress your child in gender-specific clothes?
I mean, if your baby’s a boy, is it important to you that men and women can tell right away based on his clothes?
If so (or if not), why?
Greatest answer:
Answer by S
Maybe for the initially little one. Following that it is what’s clean and what fits, never ever mind the colour!
What do you think? Answer beneath!
August 20th, 2011 at 5:05 am
No not really I depends on how u want to dress ur kid!
August 20th, 2011 at 5:43 am
Yes, because I hate to see boys are wearing girls colors or girls clothes, gay start at early stage if you have a boy you always dress him as girl 9/10 when he get older he will always think is ok to dress like that a all times.
August 20th, 2011 at 5:59 am
idonly say yeah for when its at the stage when you really cant tell if its a boy or girl .. but after that then not really
August 20th, 2011 at 6:41 am
No, it’s not important especially during te baby age since most baby clothes look non-gender biased and before puberty children look less different from the opposite gender (boys and girls look sinilar to each other more before they hit puberty). Plus, it shouldn’t bother you what people think of your child(ren) if they are a boy and you dress them in something rather “feminine” and vice versa. Besides, honestly ask yourself what’s the worst that could happen if you don’t dress your child in gender specific clothes? They’re a baby so a girl wearing “male” clothes won’t have some deep psychological impact.
August 20th, 2011 at 7:18 am
IDK. I dress my daughter in blues and greens and yellows sometimes. She doesn’t look like a boy.
And to the poster that said “Yes, because I hate to see boys are wearing girls colors or girls clothes, gay start at early stage”, gay starts at an early age? Dressing your child in one color or another does not mean that you will make them gay. Really? Who says stuff like that. LOL
August 20th, 2011 at 7:56 am
nope……my babe has some very gender neutral clothing….ppl may ask “boy or girl?” but so what???
August 20th, 2011 at 8:35 am
I hate to say it but I feel like I have to put a boy in boy’s clothes.
However putting my little girl in boys clothes is not an issue at all.
August 20th, 2011 at 9:12 am
Not at that young of a baby
August 20th, 2011 at 10:03 am
Not especially important, no.
I couldn’t care less whether random strangers know if my baby has a penis or not.
August 20th, 2011 at 10:13 am
Yes, I want everyone to know that I have a baby boy. Not sure why, I just don’t like to leave people guessing. My husband is even worse than I am, he didn’t like light blue shoes for the baby because he said it looked like a “girl color”
August 20th, 2011 at 11:07 am
no. i mean if its a boy i wouldn’t put it in a dress but i really don’t care other than that. and it won’t make the child gay.
August 20th, 2011 at 11:42 am
Not for me. I had two girls, and I picked their clothes on what I liked. I didn’t care if people didn’t know immediately their gender. I rarely if ever put them in pink (I like green, purple, blue and yellow better) and I like quite a bit of denim on them. And rarely put them in frilly clothes.
So I am sure if had boys the same thing would apply. I would put them in what I liked, not what others expected them to wear as boys.
August 20th, 2011 at 11:46 am
We did more with our three-year-old daughter because she was our first child and most of what we had for her for the first year and a half to two years were clothes intended for girls. We did buy her two or three pairs of jeans and I made sure that they were “gender neutral”. I figured that if we had to break down and buy new, they would be able to be used for any subsequent children, regardless of gender. When the local Steve and Barry’s closed, I found some cute golf shirt dresses for my daughter and I also got an Army green golf shirt and a navy golf shirt for her as well. They were technically boys shirts, but again, I decided to get something that would be either way. I also got one of the one-piece golf shirts with the bottoms looking like shorts in a mint green. I didn’t like the outfit like that, so I put skirts, shorts and pants over it. At my MOPS recycle table (moms brought in things they no longer needed and every body else looked through and took what they wanted) I found a boys white button down when my daughter did not have a white blouse. It’s now set aside for my son.
For our daughter we also got her a couple of sleepers that were intended for boys that look like baseball jerseys, complete with the pin stripes. (My husband is a baseball fan. I like the history of the sport, especially with the way it coordinates with American history in the last century. I do not like men getting paid millions to play a playground game a few months out of the year.) Our son already outgrew the first one (Which I think read Mommy’s All Star) and is in the second one. He also wore her old sleeper that was purple with green frogs and pink bows. He also has two of her old sleepers that are white with pink rosebuds on them. One of her old sleepers has teddy bear faces and “Baby Bear” on it in I think peach and pink. The collar has a ruffle on it and I noticed that the feet have stitching that look like ballet shoes. (Because only girls dance ballet, apparently. If my daughter wants to play professional baseball, even if it is still a boys’ club, I will help her fight to do so. If my son wants to dance ballet, I will not object.) Anyway, he has one or two more, including one that is all pink.
I’m not concerned with gender-specific. My daughter has said things like her brother can wear her old skirts and dresses. I have laughed and said that our culture may not agree with that. I have more important things to worry about than whether or not my kid is in the “right” clothes.
August 20th, 2011 at 11:51 am
I don’t consider colors to be gender specific, I just buy what I think is cute.
August 20th, 2011 at 12:30 pm
I want my child to be in clean, warm clothes. The baby doesn’t care what they are wearing. We are buying pretty neutral clothing for our baby on the way, but if one shirt looks a little more masculine or a little more feminine, so what?
August 20th, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Of course… They are unaware of what their wearing as a baby but once they get older they will start to take notice and you wouldn’t dress a 2 year old boy in feminine clothes as he may grow up thinking this is right!