I was just reading this article on Feistybook. It’s all about new clothing ranges for kids designed to blast through the boundaries of boy/girl clothing. I remember first seeing the signs back in 1986 when my youngest girl was born. Absolutely everything for girls in the local kids’ wear shop was pink. I hate pink. Always have.
Me in the middle hating pink. Can you tell?
So I bought her a really cute little penguin snowsuit in blue. (She was born in October.) You would not believe the number of people who asked stupid questions or criticised me for doing so: ‘dressing her like a boy’. Her older sister was a whopping great 14 months older, but when I went to buy her baby clothes, there was a lot more choice on the rails than pink pink pink.
Big brother, 3 years older still, always dressed (and dressed up) in whatever he fancied,
which sometimes made his dad wince a bit. 
When he wanted an ironing board set for Christmas, he got it, and spent hours ‘ironing’ all his baby sisters’ clothes. I was so sad when he didn’t turn out gay lol!
I encouraged all of them to wear bright colours, 
and refused to put them in the optional uniform for primary school, which caused some tantrums over the years- some from them, some from me…
…and some from teachers on photograph or prize-giving days. 
Tough.
So I’m really glad that at least some people are kicking back against the clothing industry/media attempts to compartmentalise all our girls and boys. Now let’s get all school uniforms having a skirt option for boys too!
thedementedfairy 
My youngest daughter, born in 1988, had a massive head of hair( still has, but she’s grown into it now). When she was about three, the hairdresser, fed up with trying to keep it tidy whilst she squirmed, held her head in a vice like grip ( which she still recalls) and cut it into a very cute pixie cut. All was well till she went for her playgroup photo, dressed in red tartan trousers with a red jumper which had a white lace collar and a tartan bow. “You’re next, sonny” said the photographer. She was furious and the hair had to be grown till she decided it looked girly enough!
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Hahaha! When I was nine, I wanted to be a boy, so that would have delighted me! My eldest girl opted for a ‘mushroom cut’ somewhere around the age of 10 or 11 [so in about 1995]. It looked great…but she could easily pass as a lad, and she was not impressed. She grew it, and it has stayed long ever since.
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Having always dressed my daughter in bright colours when she was a baby the only pink she wore was hand me downs and gifts She went through a stage in her early teens when she requested ‘trendy’ brands which she soon grew out of. Although required to wear a uniform at school she was an individual because I made the school trousers she requested which skimmed the hip and flared like an oxford bag….. she was always being asked where she bought her clothes so I must have done something right.
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I don’t have any truck with the gender enforcement police, and I have seen toddlers in black or navy.
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It was a revelation back in the 70s to discover that continental children wore clothes in bright primary colours, why didn’t we?
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In my case, because most of my clothes were either hand me downs form various cousins, or ill-fitting (‘you’ll grow into them’) stuff from my mum’s Kays catalogue. Oh the horrors of baggy cheapo jeans when all my mates had gorfeous skin-tight Levis….
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