(NWR) Inappropriate Baby Clothes?

AddieCake · January 2013

Someone I know has posted a pic of her baby on FB, and he is wearing a t-shirt that says, "Daddy Used to Get Some." I am a little creeped out by that. Am I just being a judgmental prude, or is it kind of gross for a baby to be sporting a t-shirt with a sex message on it?

Chloeagh · January 2013

I think that's really gross, but I'm also a judgemental prude.

RamonaFlowers · January 2013

There's a onesie on the market that says "9 Months Ago My Mommy Read 50 Shades of Grey"

If any of my friends' babies ever sport that thing, I will be immediately calling "Friends Off!" for life.

Babies shouldn't be used as billboards for your crude sense of humor, it's not cute or funny, it's just obnoxious and disgusting.

AddieCake · January 2013

OK, good. Sometimes I worry that I am losing my sense of humor the older I get, but stuff like that is just not funny to me AT ALL. I agree, Ramona. That would be friends off for me as well!

Summer2011Bride · January 2013

I would be weirded out too. I don't think a baby's or child's clothing is the appropriate place for sexual jokes or innuendos.

CourtAA · January 2013

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[QUOTE]<strong>I think that is incredibly tasteless.
</strong>Posted by Liatris2010[/QUOTE]

This! And not to mention gross...everyone knows how babies are made, no need to point it out.

cookie0803 · January 2013

I've seen some kind of "inappropriate" onesies that didn't bother me, like, "I'll take a bottle of the house white!" but I don't care for the ones that involve sex jokes. I've seen one that had pictures of an egg and sperm. There was a message, too, but I don't remember it. Gross.

misssunshine17 · January 2013

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[QUOTE]<strong>I think that's really gross, but I'm also a judgemental prude.</strong>
Posted by Chloeagh[/QUOTE]

<div>This. </div>

jlm9113 · January 2013

Another vote for creepy and gross.

bridalmarch · January 2013

Bleh. I hate baby clothes that say things. I loathe everything from "daddy's best little swimmer" with pictures of sperm to "Spoiled" to "Daddy's princess" to "What happens at grandma's stays at grandma's" to "mommy's special snowflake" to character clothing. It all just looks terribly tacky to me. DD has been gifted some onesies that say things...the only one I actually like is one that has the alphabet on it. Everything else is either strictly PJ's or goes under her sweaters.

I'm kind of a snob though, so...

EDIT: Sports teams are my personal exception. DD has a ton of Packers, Ravens, and Orioles stuff, but we're sports people.

dtbluv · January 2013

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[QUOTE]Bleh. I hate baby clothes that say things. I loathe everything from "daddy's best little swimmer" with pictures of sperm to "Spoiled" to <strong>"Daddy's princess"</strong> to "What happens at grandma's stays at grandma's" to "mommy's special snowflake" to character clothing. It all just looks terribly tacky to me. DD has been gifted some onesies that say things...the only one I actually like is one that has the alphabet on it. Everything else is either strictly PJ's or goes under her sweaters. I'm kind of a snob though, so... EDIT: Sports teams are my personal exception. DD has a ton of Packers, Ravens, and Orioles stuff, but we're sports people.
Posted by bridalmarch[/QUOTE]

I once read an article (I think it was an op ed type thing, not a real study) about how some dad's have trouble bonding or "getting" their babies until the baby actually has some personality or can interact with the dad in some way (smiling, being happy to see him, et cetera), but the clothes served as a subconscious message to the dad that this was his baby and the baby did love him even though it couldn't show it. I have no idea how true or valid that POV is, but it did make me more okay with that type of onesie.

I personally don't really like baby clothes with messages on them, and I hate the ones with dirty/inappropriate jokes. I also don't really like babies in jeans/grown up clothes, although I can't necessarily define why that bothers me.

bridalmarch · January 2013

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: (NWR) Inappropriate Baby Clothes? : I once read an article (I think it was an op ed type thing, not a real study) about how some dad's have trouble bonding or "getting" their babies until the baby actually has some personality or can interact with the dad in some way (smiling, being happy to see him, et cetera), but the clothes served as a subconscious message to the dad that this was his baby and the baby did love him even though it couldn't show it. I have no idea how true or valid that POV is, but it did make me more okay with that type of onesie. I personally don't really like baby clothes with messages on them, and I hate the ones with dirty/inappropriate jokes. I<strong> also don't really like babies in jeans/grown up clothes</strong>, although I can't necessarily define why that bothers me.
Posted by dtbluv[/QUOTE]

<div>Ah see this is how I dress DD. One of my least favorite things is seeing a dress or something in a super cute fabric then picking it up and finding a giant embroidered bug/flower/cutesy something on it. Disappoints me every time. Carter's is one of the worst offenders there. But I put DD in lots of little versions of grown up clothes. To each their own, I guess. We get a lot of hand me downs for FSIL and thankfully we have pretty similar tastes. </div>

melb2013 · January 2013

I think that's super gross. I also don't like when people put small children in grown up clothes. Children should look like children.

dtbluv · January 2013

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: (NWR) Inappropriate Baby Clothes? : Ah see this is how I dress DD. One of my least favorite things is seeing a dress or something in a super cute fabric then picking it up and finding a giant embroidered bug/flower/cutesy something on it. Disappoints me every time. Carter's is one of the worst offenders there. But I put DD in lots of little versions of grown up clothes. To each their own, I guess. We get a lot of hand me downs for FSIL and thankfully we have pretty similar tastes.
Posted by bridalmarch[/QUOTE]

Okay, I totally agree with you about Carter's. Some of their clothes seem so cheesy to me. After thinking about it more, I think what I mean when I say "grown up clothes" are clothes that are not conducive to playing hard and really comfortable. I think one reason I don't like jeans is that right now, the little girl I dress (not my daughter or anything, I'm a nanny) is learning to dress herself and we're working on potty training, and she can't do jeans by herself. The jeans she has are also more restrictive, she has a harder time moving freely in them. Right now she wears a lot of sweat and yoga pants, or leggings with skirts and simple cotton shirts with soft cardigans or hoodies. She also has a pair of jeggings, which are adorable on her and have the look of jeans which her mom likes, but she can take them on and off by herself, which I like.

lovesclimbing · January 2013

I think baby jeans are absolutely adorable on babies! But then, I'm not a fan of yoga pants/sweat pants in general so I wouldn't want to dress a baby in them.

But about the onesie, I think it is terribly crass to put on a baby. I don't mind "Daddy loves me" or "My auntie loves me" but crude humor should never be put on a baby. I bet that baby is horrified when they grow up!

sierraberry32 · January 2013

Hmm, that is disturbing.... However I have seen some cute onesies, one of my favorites had a picture of Darth Vader on it and it had "Who's your Daddy?" written underneath it. Made me giggle.

Simply Fated · January 2013

Sexual comments on a baby is not okay. It's creepy, gross, and pervy. Ew. Maybe I'm just a prude, too, though.

Kate61487 · January 2013

I'm in the prude club as well. I don't hate all writing on baby clothes, though I agree some, like "spoiled" and "daddy's little tax deduction" irritate me. I'm looking forward to buying this one day...

pearlaqua · January 2013

Ewww.

But you know what?

I don't mind those shirts on children, it tells me bout their tacky parents and tells me which children not to schedule play dates with.

TKzilla · January 2013

The worst I ever saw was "All daddy wanted was a blow job..."

I'm not lying.

I may have vomited a little in my mouth when I saw it.

Chloeagh · January 2013

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[QUOTE]The worst I ever saw was <strong>"All daddy wanted was a blow job..."</strong> I'm not lying. I may have vomited a little in my mouth when I saw it.
Posted by CourtaniaLynn[/QUOTE]
I vomited in my mouth a little when I read that.

Simply Fated · January 2013

In Response to Re:NWR Inappropriate Baby Clothes?:[QUOTE]I'm in the prude club as well.nbsp; I don't hate all writing on baby clothes, though I agree some, likenbsp;"spoiled" and "daddy's little tax deduction" irritate me.nbsp; I'm looking forward to buying this one day... Posted by Kate61487[/QUOTE]
That one is adorable!

Peledreamsofrain · January 2013

Add my vote to the 'hates crass baby clothes' poll. I agree that a helpless tiny person is not the place to push your weird base humor or political agenda. It's not a car, it's a human.

I also dislike the adult clothing on babies idea myself, but not for taste reasons (beyond the baby bikinis, wth is THAT about?). Mostly I just remember trying desperately to put jeans on my little neice and wondering what in the world my sister was thinking. Those jeans only lasted like 5 minutes too before my neice obliterated them with a diaper bomb.

Lol, I can tell I'm going to be one of those moms that just gives up and lets the kid run around in just a diaper.

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