Straight From the Bottle

Oh no...

I say the same thing you did. NO PINK!

I don't know if I'm having a daughter or a son. (We'll know in a few weeks!). But I would LIKE to think that I would have a pink-free daughter.

I grew up wearing those great seventies solids - gold, navy, red, brown... I'm a preschool teacher and have been totally turned off pink as there seems to be no middle-ground. Every single girl comes to school in pink and purple and flowers and sparkles.

Bring back Brown corduroy smocks with gold turtle necks and red tights. Love it!

Although, I see that you have to admit when something is just right - pink does suit your super sweet baby.

I hate pink to. Would never wear it. But my daughter will wear every shade of pink imaginable. :D

Ugh, I wonder if I would go over to the pink side as well.  I have a boy and it just seems the stores are full of the most cloying shades of Pepto pink.  All the toys for girls are pink.  They make toys in pink that have no reason to be gender-specific.  The funny thing is, before I had a boy, I thought it was awesome to dress girls in pink.  So maybe I'm just being subtly influenced by the testosterone.

She is so, so, so beautiful. I'm really looking forward to hearing about all the mischief and fun she gets into.

She looks SO much like Hal!  Wow y'all make cute kids.  She is adorable.  She's gonna melt those boys with those eyes :)

She DOES look good in pink!

I was the same way!  Now I've got two little girls who will not only wear pink, but will wear boys clothes.  Wear a rainbow!

My sister swore up and down all over town that her daughter would not be wearing pink! No way were my nieces two tattoo covered parents going to have their girl in pink!

My 4 month old neice's closet looks like someone sprayed it down with pepto.

Be warned non pink believers, you will come over to the pink side!

Oh lordy, I said the same thing. I did not want pink for my daughter, but eventually she decided that pink was the best thing ever. So now her closet has a pink section. But that Fable, she looks smashing in pink. My goodness is she getting cute!

love the outfit.  I was a you...and now I'm a convert as well.  It started so innocent with a few pink onesies I asked my sister to get her when she was a few days old.  I shooed it away for a few months, but it crept up on me.  

It happens.

she's a doll, by the way, not that I HAVEN'T said that before, but man-alive.... she's just too much cute rolled up into one little girl.

i, too, hated pink and all of it's feminine implications until i had my girls.  i just couldn't handle putting them in some gender neutral clothes 'cause they looked so much cuter in pink!  hell, even i wear pink now.  

I never really had a preference till after I received a million and one things in every shade of pink you can imagine.  I got to the point where I was the only one that bought her things in other colors. I would always laugh when I would walk by my daughter's closet, and see just how pink everything was.  So I guess I was the opposite of you,  If I ever have another girl, pink will not be banned but very, very limited.

There's a big difference between cool pink clothes (like the stuff Fable's rocking) and dorky, ruffly, sugar-sweet, tacky pink clothes. Style trumps color every time!

Been there, said those things, ate my words. My babies wear princess costumes and pink socks and have an entirely pink room. It's just the way it's supposed to be.

I don't buy my Blackbird very much pink, but she has a large amount of hand-me-down and gifted pinks. I try to help J rock the pink as best she can. We tend to mix things up with layering, KISS t-shirts, babylegs, plenty of green and orange and her awesome camo sneaks. It does wonders to soften the pinkness.

I feel the same way with powder blue. I mean, my Beef looks good in blue and all but would it KILL people to consider other options? Are even navy or pacific blue out of the question? MUST it be pastel? Ugh. I buy a lot of red, green and orange to compensate.

HA!  i have ALWAYS hated pink...i made specific 'rules' at my baby shower that no one was to give any gifts that were pink.  most of my friends obliged.  there were one or 2 things i received in pink.  i did fun, neutral-gender lime and aqua crib bedding and told everyone i would return their gift if it was pink.  what a jerk!  then about 6 months into the deal...i put my girl in something pink...more of a fuschia, but still pink, and she totally rocked the color.  she looks great in everything...except gray.  my husband would sneak and register for pink stuff when i wasn't looking.  for real...who is the girl here? ahahha!

i reasoned that she could wear pink stuff that i bought her...but no one else b/c it would probably be pepto pink with roses and barf all over it.  but i gotta tell ya...i'm much more open to the idea and i don't shun all things pink as i once did, pre-daughter.  thanks for sharing...i thought i was the only one. :-)

I second Jane (Roper). Style is what's important, and you've got plenty. I have a boy but I also have my "weird" rules when it comes to his clothes (in general, no sweatpants, no overalls, no cutesy-babyish anything, and careful consideration when it comes to "merchandised" clothes). I know, I know, when he gets to choose his own clothes (and wants that Cars sweatsuit his friends all wear), I'm going to pay big time...

Fable is sooo cute!

When my daughter was born 12 years ago I said the SAME thing.  Not knowing the sex of our child prior to birth allowed for a lot of gender neutral greens & yellows in her infant size clothes.  However as soon as she was born the parade of pink and lace began.  I HATED it.  I actually returned numerous outfits that were given as gifts because they were too pink.  But then something happened - Alexis began to like pink and looked cute in it and I was turned to the dark side!  Pink can be okay in limited quantities and when it is not all baby-doll lacey and sparkly.  Thank goodness that she is now more punk rock chick than girly girl because her clothes are now back to blues, greens, etc - no more pink!  horray!

Seriously, she has to be one of the cutest babies I have ever seen.  I hate judging children by their looks, but she is adorable (and I'm sure funny and brilliant!)

Pink does suit her and I agree, style trumps any color!

if i ever have a daughter she will wear pink. if i ever have a son guess what he'll wear, yep, pink. a colour is a colour, end of story. but if anyone showers this possible-one-day daughter in pink and glitter and nothing but pretty pretty princess, i may just have to remove them from her life forever, lol.

oye, gender essentialisms.

I went over to the Pink side too...swore up and down that my little girl wouldn't wear pink.  Sure enough, she wears pink almost daily.  And I find that I wear more pink now than I ever did before...the shame...

That's why I'm kind of glad I had a boy. I've never liked pink at all, and I've sworn up and down any future daughter of mine won't wear pink. I'm sure I'll have the same problem as you too, though. Plus, I'm thirding Roper. Your pink clothes are really cool and fun, not sickly sweet and gross like a lot of the stuff out there.

True that re: the style. I'm still anti-lace, rhinestones and most floral patterns make me blecjklajds. But who knows when that will change, too. Ha!

while running around with raging hormones deep into my pregnancy i demanded NO PINK!  i thought... i am not going to have a baby and dress her just because people are pink and blue color blind.  i wear blue, nobody thinks i am a man when i do!  but it was different with zooey.  as soon as i took her out in anything BUT pink i got the, "awww, your little boy is so cute."  if they would have looked a little closer they would have seen she is a beautiful GIRL!  so i put her in a few pink outfits for kicks... and DAMNIT!  i loved it, loooove, loooove, loved it.  pink suits her.  i swore i'd never be in this boat either, but alas i am here.  she has the same cute tea outfit that you have on fable.  

little beauties!  i just love em so much.

Yay for strawberry blondes!  As one myself and the mama to another, I am always glad to see more lovely redish blondies running around.  

You're right - the girl looks good.  Pink has gotten a bad rap.  If it's cute, it's cute!  It's not like you're dressing her in rhinestones and a tiara - though I did see an 80-year-old woman the other day pushing her groceries home, while dressed in a pink coat and seriously rocking a glittery tiara headband type thing.  So maybe I shouldn't knock the sparkles, either.  

LOL! I grew up with a huge disdain of all things pink myself but the older I've gotten, the more I love pink....I hope my daughter learns to love it since she'll have plenty of it to wear...hehe!

I hated pink until the hand-me-downs started rolling in . . . in pink. Now I can't get enough of the (free) pink!

I said 'no pastels' for my little boy #1.  It lasted a good week or so.  

My mom was also right.  

Little boy #2 started out with pastels.  Now I look at 'new baby' pictures of family/friends in Holland and I figure there should be a law requiring pastels on new babies.  Am not quite serious but jeez, dressing a 2 week old in jeans and a bright red top kind of takes away that all newborness.  And that month is so short!  How could they?

well if the color fits....and oh, it DOES indeed fit!

Pregnant with my first babies, I've pretty much said something similiar.  I will not buy pink for them.  My room was pepto bismol pink the first ten years of my life and more than half my clothing was pink - despite the fact that I never liked it.  Mom loved it, and I was her only daughter (she had two sons as well).  I realize I can't stop the pink though.  Decided not to care about pink gifts, and I will buy them pink - as soon as they are old enough to request it.  Til' then I don't want to have to pay for my least fave color.

fable is amazing!!  she's such a beautiful little girl.  LOVE both outfits and that hat is adorable.  please share the details.  

The pink creeps in at night. Unannounced and unwanted and then it breeds.

I too said no way and now I always look at the pink stuff first for my girls. I long for one more girl, to buy outfits for, like the ones Fable has. Miss Fable looks divine in pink.

Fable just kills me with cuteness.  She is a precious little bitty in all your photos.  And the pink does indeed suit her.  Just wanted to share that.  

Oh man, I said the same thing!  I banned pink from the baby shower...but I love it now.  I even compromised with family and agreed to let lavendar and dark purples in!  I think my daughter is in pink everyday.  I am so upset that I went with the cool green and yellow stroller and car seat instead of the all pink one :(

So happy to hear this.

Because I am rushing - RUSHING - to Fable a pair of hot pink sweatpants with L'il Princess written across the butt in rhinestones.

I've been fighting the pink conspiracy. But I do have a stash of pink t-shirts for Peaches. You see, in the morning rush to get us all out the door, it's the pink clothes she'll put on quickest.

I'm making a friend of my enemy.

Bet you can't wait to get an adult pair of those rhinestone strides.

HA! I said the exact same thing.

"annoyingly pink" he he you are funny! I also have a 3 month old girl and a 5 year old girl, and people everything of theirs is pink because like your mother said,my mother said " its just to cute"

Your daughter does indeed look "pretty in pink"...I wasn't as strongly against the color pink - but I have definite tendencies for other colors and am much more a red person myself...so, I tend to gravitate toward non pink things for my daughter because there is sooo much pink "out there" that it is refreshing to see other colors.  It has ended up that she really doesn't have a great deal of pink in her wardrobe at this point (and when I do get any pink it tends to be in the "hot" end of the pink family) - but man - sometimes they are hardwired for it - really - learning colors, I don't think we even discussed the word pink (she's 2 now) and lo and behold the one day getting her dressed she spies her 1 pair of pink socks and says - "I want pink!".  Sometimes, you just can't stop it from happening.

Pink has come a long way. When I was a kid, it was pink on purple but now it's pink and brown which, although that is a combo I am now so tired of I'm swearing off it, is still better than hot pink on hot purple.

I was not into pink either, and kept away from it for the first couple of years, mostly - she wore black and white, red, blue, green, yellow, orange, and even a bit of purple. But then as she got older, the clothes got pinker and she got into pink herself, and so I gave in to the pink. And now, she has lots of pink, but also lots of other colours, and swears all the colours are her favourites.

I HATED pink as a child and refused to wear it. Now I am cool with some shades, but I agree that it baby stuff goes overboard with pink. The bedding I picked out came in green and brown and pink and brown, and well the green is adorable, but the pink is hellacious. It's the wrong shade of pink, and they used the pink where they used the brown. I told my husband that even if we have a girl I would like to use the green.

Wow. We are having the same exact experience.  I have a 3-month old pink weed named Cora whose closet was duly stocked with blue whale dresses and brown levis and whatnot.  Who knew pink could suddenly become everyone's favorite color on this child?  

THANK YOU Don Mills Diva. Thank you. Actually... you know what's funny? Now that I've embraced pink I'm having issues with purple... Ha!

Oh and Fable's outfits:

Striped pink pajamas by Splendid

Pink and white striped shirt by Dwell for Target

Pink hat with ears by Tea

Also, I've started a flickr set (today was the first day) where Im going to post photos of Fable's daily outfits... so you can keep an eye on that (I'll link to where everything has come from if I can!)

www.flickr.com/.../72157612607762851

I think dressing a baby girl in pink is something that no one can avoid! LOL. =) And ohmygoodness, Fable is so precious. Bless that little face! And those eyes. Those eyes of her's are beautiful. She can so ROCK pink! I love that hat she's got on. Such cuteness...

she does look pretty sweet in pink!

I'm an artist. Pink is a color, one of many, and I love all of them. My vow was to not let pink be the only color my little girl wears.  Seriously not into the gender stereotyping, but why would I let my expression of my passion over my baby's beauty, or her own expression of her personality later in life, be limited by my - or other people's - biases?

she's so sweet and looks so beautiful ;)

I said the same thing when I was pregnant with my daughter.  Now pink is her "signature color".  The book "Pinkalicous" (sp) is perfect for our pink girls!

I was all about my daughter rockin' the purple or brown or blue or green and staying away from all things pink. But, just like Fable, it suits her. And purple looked HORRIBLE on my girl. Go figure?! BTW, Fable is so freakin' adorable.

I got lost in your flickr page and being from pdx, had to check out that set.  Word--I can see Blackbird Tattoo from my apartment!

I just wrote a post on my blog (humpsandbump.blogspot.com) about a similar topic last week. I'm 27 weeks pregnant with my first and we don't know what we're having. I think that not knowing would force us into buying neutrals - the last thing that I would want is a sea of pink and blue for the unborn baby.

But buying neutrals is hard! It looks like baby things only come in pink and blue nowadays!

~ humps

I went through the same thing! I still have enormous distain for the princess crap and pastels to some extent, but my daughter is nearly three and she is already moving out of her pinkypink phase. Given the choice between a pink dress and a blue one recently she insisted on the latter. Yay! Keeping fingers crossed that we will skirt the Hannah Montana too.

New reader...I think I found you through Dooce.  In any case, just wanted to tell you that Fable is by far, hands down, one of the most adorable babies I have ever seen.  Sooooooooo cuuuuuuuute.  

Yeah, that happened at my house too. We've moved on to purple now.

I have boy girl twins and the girl's half of the room is pink and the boy's half is blue. How original. But it's so effing cute with the little designs and stuff. Sometimes we follow the "rules" I guess.

There is a wonderful scene at the beginning of the movie "Funny Face" (with Audrey Hepburn, Kay Thompson, and Fred Astaire) that celebrates the return of pink. Well worth watching, and then learning all the words to sing along.

This is hilarious. It is nice to know there are other moms out there who didn't want to dress their daughters in pink but have succumbed to the overwhelming amount of cute pink stuff out there. I don't buy pink clothes for my daughter, and yet most days she is wearing something pink. How does that happen?

I come from a family where color exploration is greatly encouraged.  My friends laugh at my neon blue tights and purple sweater dress.  They can also easily recognize a lot of my my parents by me.  Its always some shade of pink.  NEVER pastel, mind you, but fuchsia or cranberry or coral.  Shoes, bags, coats.  I confronted my dad once, and he said the same thing you feel about Fable- as a baby, they thought pink just suited me.  19 years later, they still love it on me.  It's just the color they associate with me, like orange for my brother.

I draw the line at glitter, sparkles, rhinestones, and sequins.

Even if you stuck to your rule about no pink, and everyone respected your wishes and didn't buy pink (ha! like that would happen) somewhere around 2 years of age she will decide that ALL SHE WILL WEAR is pink. This is why you see little girls head to toe in various shades of pink. My soon to be 3 year old VERY RARELY wears anything if there isn't some pink on it somewhere.

Yeah, I get you on the pink issue.  I hated pink my entire life.  As a recovering goth, it was practically mandatory.  Then it happened, when my daughter was born, I melted.  I bowed to the gender standards of pink for girls and blue for boys, and I could no longer say that I hated pink.  I mean, Thessaly *was* pink.  Everything about her was rosy and sweet.  She tasted mildly of cotton-candy with all the pinkness.  Fortunately, we've found a happy medium -- pink princess skulls.