Don't get all sexist on my babysweater, world!

[celticdragonfly]

Okay, I just want to say that I think that there's no reason at all a newborn boy shouldn't be able to wear this baby sweater, knit in a deep golden yellow.

Right?

Comments

[tepintzin.livejournal.com]

Very right!

[callibr8]

I agree, the baby-girl specificity here is totally unnecessary and most definitely sexist. Could it hurt to email the company and point this out?

You are of course free to purchase the pattern and make it up in whatever color(s) you choose. But still - why be so limiting up front?

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

As it happens, my Mom bought the pattern and yarn some time ago - from the bag logo, I'd say it was on an Eastern Star trip into Alabama. She'd started it, but then abandoned it 2 or 3 inches up from the bottom - from what she said apparently after she found out my sister's baby was going to be a boy.

She then gave the project to me last time I was home. I originally figured I'd make it up and have it as a future baby shower gift for somebody - but then once I got pregnant again, I decided I'd finish it for this baby. Boy or girl.

Just - now that I'm working on it, I got a little nervous, because I'm terribly afraid this will be a boy, too. We'll see.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Right. Of course, I see no reason at all a newborn baby boy shouldn't be able to wear it in pink, either.

Baby sweater choice

[bkseiver.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. I didn't know what Robyn was having when I chose that sweater pattern and yarn, so it was intended to be unisex. Still is, by my book.

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

My eldest aunt crocheted a baby ensemble in bright yellow for my son. SHe may have done it for a child of uncertain gender, which is okay by me.

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

Right.
Caterpillar yellow?

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this would be considered caterpillar yellow or not. Here, I found a picture:


Apparently they call it "Cantaloupe"

Re: Baby sweater choice

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I thought you'd stopped because you thought it'd be too girly for Paul.

[bibliotrope.livejournal.com]

Around here all you'd have to do to that color to make it "masculine" (even for an adult male, not just a baby) would be add some black so it would fit the black-and-gold color scheme of all three local (i.e. Pittsburgh) major-league sports teams, or navy blue for some of the high-school or college teams.

It's also very similar to a "mango" color of chenille yarn I used to knit a scarf for my sister in Kansas. Her college out there, Emporia State (from which she just graduated [brag]), also has black and gold for colors, since Kansas's state flower is the sunflower.

So, yeah, I think it's a very nice unisex color.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Hm. Well, I still will have to buy a set of three little buttons for it. Maybe they'll be black, or deep blue.

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

Yup: that's Caterpillar Yellow, all right.

And if it comes out a girl, you can call it Daffodil.

[(Anonymous)]

Hold off on the buttons til you know whether you want flowers or John Deere logos...?

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Heck, I'd have put it on T even in the pink.