Girls wearing boy clothes?

[sfmom]

Anyway, if you're concerned about folks out-and-about mistaking your DD for a DS, don't be. They'll be dumb no matter what she's wearing.

[KpbS]

Dd is two now and wears some of ds' hand me downs. The cuts are different, but IMO its a style thing more than a fit thing. A lot more of his pants survived than shirts so dd is often wearing "boy" pants (cargo pockets or other similar details) with a more girly shirt. it looks fine to me and she doesn't care.

Catherine

I do this too with DD. The boy jeans are a better fit for her as the cuts are more generous in the thighs . I am not a huge fan of pink but it is everywhere for girls and I've found that pink shoes can be very practical for tying clothing together.

[BabbyO]

Well, I think from what I've seen is it mostly cut, esp in pants as they get older. Boys are bigger and boxier. The other thing I've seen is that especially winter play-type pants are often thicker for girls than for boys. I'm thinking specifically of the Kohl's Jumping Beans brand. They have pants that are elastic waited and wide cuff, but are similar to sweat pants in material and thickness. I LOVE these for DS1 in the winter, but I found that the boy's version wasn't as thick. So I bought DS girls pants and cut the pink string/bow off. Frankly, they fit him better because he tends to run small in pants anyway.

[Jacksmommy2b]

I *just* weeded through all of my boy's clothes for a friend due next month with a son.

I was genuinely surprised with how much I thought could go both ways. I ended up keeping a ton of onesies, sleepers, blankets, etc. There were also a few sleepers I kept no matter how 'boyish' they looked. I distinctly remember both of my newborns snuggled up in them and new baby will be too, I'll just toss a blue bow on her head to match if we are going anywhere.

I also kept all of the jeans (along with all the cotton pants in any color but blue) and all of the PJs. I really dislike all the embroidery all over girls jeans and I thought the cut probably won't matter a whole lot with a diaper on anyway. As for the PJs, I'm just too darn cheap to give away perfectly good PJs just because of the styles. (we don't really do character clothing anyway) Monkeys can go both ways as far as I'm concerned.

[lizzywednesday]

...Monkeys can go both ways as far as I'm concerned.

DD wore/wears a LOT of monkeys and other "zoo" animals - giraffes, rhinos, elephants, etc. - because they are so darn cute!