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Mothers of little girls, I know all that pink is frustrating, but here’s a simple fact: little girls get more fashion options than boys. Have you ever compared the girls vs. boys sides of a department store? INSANE! Furthermore, while girls can wear boy clothes without much reproach (maybe unless you’re Shiloh), thanks to some fucked up cultural issues with feminization, boys can catch serious flack for wearing girl clothes (this was national news!).
I’m not into designer clothing, but I love playing with clothes, and of course that translates to dressing my son, despite the limitations. My solution when it comes to little boy fashion is to go for extreme color, and accessories like hats, kerchiefs and leg warmers. I like decking out my son in clothes that are bright and distinctive and fun…but also clothes make it clear this little dude is, well, a dude. Once he develops his own gender identity, if he chooses to mess with the gender paradigm I will (perhaps over-enthusiastically) support him — but I’m not going to force my gender politics onto him before he can make decisions for himself.
Anyway! All this rambling aside, I decided that I wanted to collect and share some brightly colored little boy fashion, for those of you who might be considering how you can still have a LOT of fun with boy clohes. I put out the call to Offbeat Mamas to sent me pictures of their little dudes wearing bright colors and YAY! Wait ’til you see what they sent me…
Colorful toddler boy shoes that aren’t blah brown
Oh, little boys. You seriously get the shit end of the stick when it comes to apparel. Or I guess I should say "shit-colored," because... Read more
In addition to the images, I also got links to these two UK-based companies that sell awesome bright clothes for kids:
And now I want MOAR! Got links to stores and photos of brightly colored kid clothes in action? Colors are awesome! Let’s drown in rainbows!
Ha ha!! I made that booby hat on the nakey butt baby. If my next kid is a boy he will be in head to toe bright orange all the time…
I was gonna comment on the boob hat! Probably the most hilarious way to make a statement about nursing in public. Love it!
the boob hat is adorable! But what really caught my eye in that pic was bare Bum and a Prince EP.. in the same pic.. I’m dying.
I didn’t even notice the hat! I was too fixated on baby butt coupled with adorable chubby thighs.
I also struggle with the clothing options available in stores. I find most of it drab and lifeless.
Here is a picture of my son playing in the park in his favorite green stripey hat and red “girls” sweater which I altered to take out the shoulder tucks.
http://sewtheday.blogspot.com/2011/02/wordless-wednesday-i-catch-it.html
And here, with the same red sweater and his gnome costume from last Halloween…
http://sewtheday.blogspot.com/2010/10/one-gnome-costume-check.html
LOVE that gnome costume… I think I know what I’ll be sewing this October.
Yaaay bright colored boys clothes! I use a combo strategy of thrifting, Threadless t-shirts, American Apparel, and leggings. Here’s my son Kai rocking several of those sources a couple weeks ago at the park:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessandcolin/5707604795/in/photostream
I love that Threadless tee. I stalk their sale section.
ADORBZ:
My 4 year old doesn’t let me pick out his clothing anymore, so he’s almost always in BOY BOY BOY clothes. But our baby boy, on the other hand…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fresh-from-florida/?saved=1
OMG
YES!!
I love this! Orange and yellow are my fav colors for our son to wear. not only does he look great in them but so much easier to pick out of the crowd at the zoo or park.
Check out Ittikid for AWESOME imported Scandinavian clothes… Northern Europeans do not seem to have the same fear of brights as North Americans do!
I also love Zutano, Positively Organic, & Speesees for bright clothes.
All of these are expensive, but I’ve had good luck hunting eBay and keeping an eye out in second-hand stores.
I am currently going thru a Scandinavian baby clothes phase for sure. I love Molo, Smafolk and Danefae. Expensive but I try and pick the pieces that i really really love (which is difficult!)
I just found this fantastic website selling really bright and colourful baby clothes:
http://www.pinkgiraffe.co.uk/
Did I mention they also make fairy wings?
yesterday i scored at, of all places, costco! they’ve got little short/t-shirt combos on sale right now. i got a bright/bordering on neon yellow shirt with matching yellow/grey pkaid shorts. the shirt has a flying v (guitar) on it. sorry i don’t have a pic…
So Ariel, who gets your handmedowns?
My BF dressed my son in bright orange overalls today(that were shorts length) and an emerald green and white striped shirt, I loved it! So colorful, though when I said papa dressed him people just laughed!
I LOVE bright colours! Especially on babies/kids.
You’ve inspired me to do a post which can be found at http://tutuames.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-bright-munchkin.html
It’s getting cold here in Australia which means layers! Leggings, shorts, long sleeves, t-shirts, jumpers and shoes. Yay!
I LOVE these! I have 2 girls, but I have 2 darling nephews (one with his own baby on the way) and when they were little I always thought it was terrible there wasn’t a big selection for all the cute ‘lil dudes out there!
Must…have…rainbow hat!
Haha Connor was brightly dressed at the beach last summer. He wore that shirt until I couldn’t force it on him anymore. 🙂
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/45767_1359419156581_1564590161_30799334_7149251_n.jpg
Here’s Declan, doing what he does best- Drool!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24653749@N05/5641351405/
I love those knitted leg warmers. I wish I’d have thought of that a couple of months ago!
i need a knitting pattern for that hat! on the double!!!!
I have a daughter, and I gotta say that most of my favorite clothes of hers are her hand me downs from a little boy! dinosaurs, rocket ships, monsters, guitars! Oh yeah!
I found the pattern on Ravelry. If you are on there I can point you in the right direction :o)
i am! My name thingy is: aliset
thanks!!!
I effing love the daphny costume that lil boy was wearing…if we had halloween here I would let DS dress in anything he wanted….
Hannah Anderson makes adorable brightly-colored clothes for boys. My son had rainbow striped legggings with an appliqued hippo on the butt with a matching hoodie with a hippo. Adorable! HA is spendy, but super durable, so second hand items are still in good shape.
My husband and son are totally into Star Wars, so that means lots of star wars t-shirts, which all seem to be black or white or grey. Sigh.
Dinosaur t shirt + fairy wings = awesome 😉