LatteMama sees no colour

Now that I’ve been spending some time in Sweden, I’m a better judge of what true Swedish clothes are. Genderless is the term that is often used to describe Swedish fashion. White, brown, green, yellow, the so-called neutral colures are meant to empower children. Let them know that it’s ok to wear red if you’re a boy, and it’s adored when a girl wears blue. Because I am from Sweden I’ve never cared about colour when it came to dressing my son, majority of his clothes are red, some shirts are pink and it’s not until recent gender confusion (people referring him to she and her) that I’v decided to put a little bit of blue in his closet. I’ve recently noticed that the clothes at LatteMama differ greatly from brand to brand when it comes to colour, and associating them with gender. No Added Sugar and Bonnie Baby our popular British brands, tend to put girls in a certain colour and boys in a different one. It’s not always pink for girls, but it’s always opposing colours for the two. Are No Added Sugar boys like LatteBaby always mistaken for girls and need the blue to make a statement to the works?

Last week I couldn’t find any pyjamas for LatteBaby. I saw my nieces old dress and at the time I put it on him I thought I was desperate to keep him warm and I would never put him in a dress. Truth be told he wore that dress for three days. I didn’t care. I didn’t see it as confusing, nor did I find it embarrassing. It’s just a dress, on a boy who isn’t 2 yet, and who doesn’t understand the difference between wearing a dress and going without trousers. My brothers didn’t see it the way I did. One insisted I’d take it off him immediately. But why does it matter? He didn’t go out in it, nobody except for the family saw a boy in a dress and I wasn’t making a statement by letting him wear it. It truly didn’t make me think twice about the situation, except for trying to understand why it was such a problem.

There is a couple in Sweden that caused great frenzy as they’ve hidden their childs gender from everyone including their child. They want it to now “matter”. Wouldn’t it be better to tell the child it’s gender and then add that it doesn’t matter instead of depriving it of one of the greatest categorisations in the world? Doesn’t it matter more if they feel the need to hide it? What do I know? I’m just a mum who puts her son in a dress cause there’s nothing else to wear.