I was just flipping through the most recent arrival of a catalog I normally really like, of clothing for both kids and adults, when I saw t-shirts for boys with a huge spider on one, a scorpion on another, oh and a cobra too. The only non-poisonous creature to grace one of these babies is a grasshopper. I can only imagine the product development meetings that produced this idea: "yeah, poisonous insects on boys' tees, right on!" I'm neither a fan of insects nor the mother of a little boy - but even if I was, I really don't think I'd be buying these. Way to widen the cuteness gap between little girls' and boys' clothing design, Garnet Hill...
Hi again. You're going to get tired of me responding all the time :)
ReplyDeleteI have a boy, and I'm sorry to say, the reason Garnet Hill and MiniBoden make those clothes because lots of boys love insects and spiders and snakes. My son is a gentle, quiet reader, and he spends hours pouring over books about all those creepy crawlies. You know those little plastic tubes of animals and birds and sea life that they sell? Toobs I think they're called. He has a bunch of little plastic bugs and they constantly freak me out when I find them on the floor.
I'm kind of on the other side of th fence. I think little girls' clothes are cute, but the pink, pink, pink, pastel is icky to me. :0 it's whatever you're used to, methinks!
yeah, i needed someone with a little guy to set me straight...but I'm STILL not convinced I would but one of the tees!! morgane has toobs too and she made me get one of the ones that has scorpions etc in it. blech. I'm trying real hard not to instill my fears in her...but shouldn't we all be afraid of something ie scorpion that has the power to kill us??
ReplyDeleteand you're right - pink and pastel rule for little girls. I confess to being a pink victim...he he.
and btw i love your responses, i know SOMEONE is out there reading!
What's funny is the window for those shirts is pretty small. My little boy wore cute froggies and trains and cartoony cute bugs until about age 4, then he wore shark and bug shirts for a year, and starting about 5 1/2, he refused to wear an image of anything because he didn't want anyone "to admire" his shirt. He hated it when grown ups said "Oh, is that a SHARK on your shirt." He'd look at them like "um, DUH, yeah!"
ReplyDeleteWe're left with solids and stripes. Blue, red, beige, dark green. . . I miss cute clothes. My favorite time of year is right before Christmas when I buy my sister's girls clothing. Just once a year, I indulge in ruffles and capris and skirts and stuff.