Comments on: Do Real Men Wear Yellow?

By: brit

brit — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:22:46 +0000

I dressed my son in yellow – he’s two and still has yellow shirts, they have dinosaurs on, though! Even when I dressed him in blue and shirts with trucks on, people still asked me what “her” name was. So i don’t really think outfits matter anyway.

By: Dawn Allcot

Dawn Allcot — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:28:47 +0000

I am having the same questions/concerns, albeit reversed. We just picked up an infant swing ($5!!!) but it is blue and yellow plaid–kind of masculine. We just found out we are having a girl. I’m debating if I should Freecycle the swing to a little boy or just deal with it (she won’t know, after all!)

Our bassinet is more of a gender-neutral green and blue plaid (yes, it actually looks more gender neutral, since it’s lighter colors) but I was having misgivings about this, too.

To answer your question, I think yellow, since it really is neutral, is fine for boys and you can “accessorize” with more boy-ish things… such as hats and a diaper bag and sweaters and such that are more “boyish,” but still match.

Of course, a lot of this is a personal financial decision, too… if it bothers you that much and you can afford more clothes, go for it! if it really would make things tight, or that money could be better spent on other things the baby really needs, then don’t worry about his yellow wardrobe.

By: MamaMia

MamaMia — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:02:13 +0000

Blue for boys and Pink for girls is a very Western concept. If you see Asian countries, this is not there. Particularly in India bright colors are preferred for babies as opposed to pastel colors. I guess that is the only age we can dress them how we want. Later it is going to be according to their wish..so dress them up as you want now.
With my baby boy (who is 2 months now), I used my older daughters (2 years now) clothes and I did use some of the purple and pink onsies as I kept him swaddled almost all the time. So it never mattered how he was dressed inside. But yes, on occassions when he needed to go out or needed to be photographed, I went with Yellow,blue,Green and brown.

By: MrsH

MrsH — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:18:24 +0000

It only matters what others think if it matters to you. And i”m not being critical, it matters to me sometimes . My husband though, he doesn’t care. When I said we’d have to buy more blue and such if we have a boy next time he shrugged and said our boy could wear pink. And he was serious. Hehe.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:01:49 +0000

My 5 week old son wears almost entirely blue, red, green, brown, etc. He is really long and just graduated into the 3-6 month sized sleepers (things with feet he is wearing huge sizes because of his length.) These were handed down to us by a friend who has both a girl and a boy and they are yellow with cute little giraffes and elephants on them. There is certainly nothing girlish at all about these jammies, and jammies are only worn in the house and when no one else is here but me and my husband. Yet every night that we’ve dressed Henry for bed we keep saying to each other, “We’ve got to go out and get some new jammies.” I have no idea why we feel this way, but your post makes me think that we subscribe to the notion that yellow might be a little too “girlish.” I suppose it is old-fashioined, but on my to-do list for tomorrow is a trip to get new jammies.