How do you avoid a pink world if you have a little girl?

I will dress my future female children in whatever colors I want. If it has a dump truck or airplane on it, so be it.

I'm kinda sure you don't HAVE to buy pink at all. It's not a law that just cause you have a baby girl you HAVE to have pink any more than blue for a boy.

Hell I had most of my son's clothing in red, black, green, orange. I'd buy whatever I liked regardless of color.

My sweet girl likes blues and greens and pinks. She is 2, I can hold a blue or green outfit next to a pink one, she will usually pick the blue or green and say "this!" I do agree that most stores have a ton of pink, but the haven't had trouble finding other colors in abundance also.

Pink Stinks!

You know, if you don't tell people what you're having, they'll get you gender-neutral stuff. This works especially well if you have a second child and it's the opposite sex -- you won't have to buy all new everything.

It isn't so much about being against pink, as it is about fighting conventionality. My son's 3 month pictures, Nov '96, weren't being taken in some blue, white, yellow romper thing. I just didn't want it. I got a lot of grief from everyone except my wife. I went to Baby Gap (was new at the time) and bought khaki pants, denim shirt and topsiders. Still love that pic. Found the clothes in a box a few years later, and thought it was clothes for their build a bear.

My wife never wears pick, but she likes me in it. Children of the 80's, The Preppy Handbook has a longer effect than any of us imagined. Lol

you're doomed to a world of princess, glitter and pink.

^^^^ No matter what! Besides, once she's here, you won't care!

Pick a theme of neutral colors for the room, bed set. You will get pink clothes, it's inevitable. We have a girl and we've bought boys clothes when we find something she likes or picks out.

My wife and I tried to avoid the pink monster, neither one of us really like the color. Our daughter is nearly five and just loves wearing it, along with lots of purple.

In fact my wife now has some pink in her wardrobe!

So found out it looks like for sure we are having a girl. I'm excited..Yay! However, I'm not excited about the future prospect of a sickly pink Pepto-Bismol world. I went shopping and every thing I looked at was pink,pink,pink. The only clothes I found exciting were the brightly colored little boy jammies with the happy zoo animals.

If you have a little girl were you able to avoid the monotone princess world or did you have to succumb to it's gender sick clutches?

Nothing against pink really it's a fine color on it's own.

Dude, do whatever you want. I'd go with a green nursery and rock those zoo animals. When your child is old enough to choose their own favorites, then you may have to go with pink, maybe not. Also, just recognize that gender doesn't necessarily guarantee you freedom from pepto bismol. My son's favorite color is pink and he adores Hello Kitty. Gotta admit he looks pretty rad in his John Deere tractor hoodie with his pink and silver Hello Kitty backpack though. Also, the little girls dig him.

Even worse than the color pink are the onsies with sayings like "Daddy's little princess" or "Pretty like Mommy". Terrible.

There are a few websites that cater to parents who don't want to turn their daughter into a hot pink tutu princess. Here's one I like:
http://www.amightygirl.com/clothing?age_range_filter=7

So found out it looks like for sure we are having a girl. I'm excited..Yay! However, I'm not excited about the future prospect of a sickly pink Pepto-Bismol world. I went shopping and every thing I looked at was pink,pink,pink. The only clothes I found exciting were the brightly colored little boy jammies with the happy zoo animals.

If you have a little girl were you able to avoid the monotone princess world or did you have to succumb to it's gender sick clutches?

Nothing against pink really it's a fine color on it's own.

After the thousandth person tells you what a cute little boy you have, you'll need to buy stock in pink baby clothes. And they'll still tell you what a cute little boy you have. *sigh*

Anyway, I don't know about now but when mine was a baby 19 years ago, there were plenty of cute girl clothes in all the colors of the rainbow. She wore some pink, but also green, yellow, blue, red, purple ...

I wonder if you're seeing more pink than there is because you hate it.

Congrats! I've never wanted children myself but I have always thought it would be more fun (IMO) to have a girl if I had!

Obviously not speaking from experience as a parent...but I think you will do well to include other colors and expose your daughter to a wide variety of experiences & activities.

As a kid I had a pink room, loved pink/purple, Barbies, makeup, long fussy hair, glitter, etc. I also loved the colors red & orange, wore jeans and Superwoman and Mork & Mindy t-shirts, loved playing outside, word puzzles, reading, animals, fishing, swimming, etc.

I have seen quite a few parents (especially moms) who really just go with the pink princess junk and make zero effort to show their girls that there's more to life than that. You won't be like that, clearly.

I put my daughter in a lot of neutral outfits. I remember that I had this little white onsie with primary color teddy bears on it. Someone had given me some boy stuff "just in case" and so I had some blue socks. There was blue in the onsie and, of course, my daughter had some brilliant blue eyes so I thought the socks went perfectly. We went shopping and a lady tells me I have a beautiful son. I very politely say, "why thank you, but she's a girl" and this woman had the audacity to snap at me "Well you put blue socks on her!!"

Why yes... yes I did put blue socks on my daughter because she happens to look good in BLUE!

People are so stupid with this gender-specific-baby-fashion-thing. Your little girl is going to be gorgeous in whatever she wears!!

Congrats!


<<< edited to add; self-same child can be seen all grown up in her Halloween costume in my profile pic. Obviously, she has never much cared for frilly-girly stuff anyway.