Gender specific clothing?

I don't take my son out in public in pink or purple just because the stuff is too obviously girly. He does have a sleeper that he wears sometimes that is red with purple designs on it. I think it accidentally got sent to him from my sister. I'm sure my niece put it in there. She was only 4 at the time, though. And she just wanted to get rid of her baby sister's clothes. I get asked enough if my son is a boy or girl anyway. I don't really get why. I always keep his hair cut really short on the sides and not really that long on top. But I still get lots of "oh what a pretty girl!" comments. However, for my next child, whether it is a boy or girl, I will probably have them dressed in my son's clothes a lot, even if it is just at home. I'm not buying a whole new wardrobe if I have a girl next. I will buy her new clothes so she has stuff of her own, too. And so she can wear cute little dresses and stuff. But if she is home playing in the dirt, she can do that just as easily in a Truck or Rocket shirt or outfit.

I personally would never dress my son in pink or purple clothes, unless it was an outfit for boys and you don't find clothes that are pink for boys. Now, sometimes purple is okay for boys. The LA LAkers are purple and a boy can wear that. But that is about it for me. My boy is all boy and he wears his boy clothes. And for my reason, well, because that is just how things go. It's how it is. Why would we want to dress our kids in the opposite clothing?

I always have to correct people on my sons gender, regardless if hes wearing blue, green or red. He had a purple sleeper he wore and a yellow hat that was very girly. People see his eye lashes and think he isa girl. He is cute, but h is a boy. Clothes dont matter, ppl just don't pay attention, so they never see.

My son, now 18, went through a "MC Hammer" phase back in 91. He had a half a dozen really bright, super colorful, muscle pants that were his "MC Hammer" pants. He wore lots of purple, magenta, pretty greens etc. Then around age 9 he went through a Goth/Manson phase wearing black lipstick, and eye liner (at home mostly). My feeling has always been that if he's secure & brave enough to wear it, rock on ;)

Well, having a daughter, it's easy enough for me to say that it's fine with me - she's equally adorable in overalls and a baseball cap as she is in a frilly dress. Somehow, she was quite often mistaken for a boy when she was a baby, although I nearly always dressed her in pink back then. I'll never understand the little old lady who looked at her, in her pink sleeper and pink headband, and commented on what a beautiful little boy "he" was! I'm pretty sure I would feel differently about a little boy, though. If he wanted to play dress-up at home with his sister's things, fine, but I can't say I'd be comfortable taking him out in public wearing a skirt. I see pink dress shirts for men all the time though, so pink on a boy in that aspect would be okay - and all the other colors are fine. I love blues and grays on my daughter too. :)

I dont think I would put pink on a boy, purple yes. When my daughter was a baby she was ALWAYS in pink and purple and lavendar and white absolutely FOO FOO clothes and I am not kidding at least one person would say oh he is so cute!!! UNREAL! It would irk me beyond words because she was always dressed so girly girly and had a ton of beautiful dark hair with ribsons!So I really am not sure what to say about colors other than dress your kiddo how you want, he or she is yours

Colors are JUST colors. My daughter picks out her own clothes, and I don't tell her she cant wear certain colors in public. She has lots of pinks and purples but also, tons of blues, greens, reds and yellows. Like I said, colors are JUST colors and don't say a thing about how your child will grow up, or what his/her orientation will be when they grow up. And, yes, people have asked the gender of my child several times, even when she is dressed in pink with a head band! So, no, it didn't offend me at all!

Colors are just colors. People made pink a girls color and blue a boys. Personally, I'd dress my children in whatever I wanted to. It's not one's decision but mine and mine alone. If people don't like it tough. I don't see why what color a child wears should be of any concern of others.

I've always dressed my son in blues or bright vivid colors, but not girly colors. I have a very macho hubby and he flipped out when he saw a rainbow on one of his cloth diapers lol, I told him he just pees in it! But my son has the coolest blue-grey eyes so I like to dress him in light blues to make them stand out even more. He has such a boyish face I'm not sure if anyone would make a mistake if he was in a girly color.

I normally don't dress my boys in pinks and purples, because the clothes I pick out for them in the boys section at the store I go to don't usually have those colors. Plus I don't care for pink on a boy. Dark purple would be okay though. I don't really like grey clothing for either gender. Being a female I have worn blue clothing lots of times. The only time someone got my oldest son's gender wrong was because of the length of his hair, not the clothing he was wearing.