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Ditto over here. Sometimes people make really offensive comments to me, though. LO has a navy blue and white striped shirt with a yellow and white flower crocheted/applique on it and my friend's husband said, "You're not doing a good job making her look like a girl with that shirt." What the heck?

I pick clothes that are cute, regardless of colour. It's not my fault some people lack tact!

we have some gender neutral things but most of the gifts we got were pink also.... lately I've been having fun dressing her crazy. (were at home so no one sees besides DH and I and it gives me something exciting/creative to do during the day.) Mostly I make her look like shes from the 80's. (onesie buttoned over her pants that don't match and some socks with her pants tucked in., topped with a fun sweatshirt.) I know its ridiculous! (but fun!)

I've made the mistake and called a baby "him" or "her" and been wrong when the child is dressed in gender neutral clothing, sometimes you really can't tell and it's not meant in a malicious manner. A baby dressed in all gray (in my case) with a bowl haircut could really be a boy or a girl!

I don't wear pink as a girl, there's not one thing in my closet that is pink or light purple, come to think of it. My son doesn't have much gender neutral stuff anymore, once the babes are out of size 18-24 months, most stuff is more pronounced in being for boys or girls.

I agree, its just a pain to have to correct the random person at the grocery store. Its easier to just throw some pink on her!

I like gender-neutral stuff. Baby Y wears a lot of green, for instance. There was a green alphabet romper that he had when he was little, and everyone would think he was a girl. But then again, not too long ago, he was wearing head to toe blue (with airplanes) and he still had three people call him a girl that day. By that point, I didn't really care. People say I have a beautiful little girl, and I just smile and say "Thanks." If they're strangers, why bother with belaboring things, ya know?

I love girly clothes for my LO. I mean, I'm only going to be able to dress her for so long before she starts having an opinion about what she wears! All of her clothes (99%) have frills or some shade of pink on them.
People mistake her for a boy when she wears a light green sweat-set. It has "fairy princess" embroidered on the front of the hoodie though. HAH.

She has a lot of super girly clothes but she has some that you'd probably think of as more boy clothes and then there's some a lot that could go either way. I don't care really if people know that she's a boy or a girl so I dress her in whatever. I just think she looks super cute in ruffles. I get confused though when she's in her pink and ruffles and people say my son is cute.

We dress our LO is all kinds of colors, I want to say that he has at least one one piece of clothing from every color of the rainbow. The styles of the clothes usually look more "boyish" to me, though.

I plan on asking for gender neutral clothes for the shower. But I have seen babies where I was unsure of the gender, so I'm wondering if I want my baby to wear pink or blue so people know.

I have heard from my brother and a friend that once they told people the gender of their baby, they got a ton of clothes in that one color. My brother said they had to start buying gender neutral stuff because he was sick of getting blue clothes. Which is partly why I want to keep the gender a secret for a little while.

My SIL is annoyed with my grandma - Grandma keeps saying my nephew is "pretty as a girl." Really? You can't say "you're such a cute little boy"?