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My girls were born in the early 2000s and I was poor so I did a lot of thrifting, but also hit Target sales etc. I never had any problem ending up with rocks/sticks/candy wrappers in my wash. Also many shirts with pockets. Has this gotten worse?

@Gelatinousrube I dunno about girls, but fake pockets on children's clothes is not sex specific.

@Gelatinousrube Or mom could just buy her boys pants.

@AnungIkwe I agree with you, however one thing I've noticed in the last ~20 years is that children's clothing is extremely gendered now! I always tried going less girly with my girls. Ok with my younger daughter, but my older daughter felt "plain" clothes were boyish and worried about standing out. Depends on the kid I reckon.

@sj_zero @AnungIkwe Oh God I didn't even think of that. It has been interesting to see that this sharp gender division seemed to start with clothing and toys 20ish years ago and now has progressed to YEET TEATS! I'm elderly so I remember when the JC Penneys catalog had a boy and girl modeling the exact same turtleneck because WHO CARES

@Gelatinousrube Little girls used to wear overalls and blue jeans just like the boys up until the mid 1970s. Then the advertising companies started advertising princess shit to little girls on Saturday mornings. At the end of the day, it's the parents - usualy the moms - are the ones who make the decisions about what a little girl wears. (Except for the wacko over privileged Gen Alpha demanding make up to fight aging) Mass advertising to unsupervised children also has a lot to do with what the upper middle class kids want to wear now.

@LostInCalifornia @sj_zero @AnungIkwe Correct! Unisex or also the term androgynous but more with adults.