Wednesday, September 1, 2010

An interesting spin off of my previous post about Dinosaur Science Camp was a was in regards to kids clothing and how I don't often see things like bugs, dinosaurs, rockets etc. on clothes marketed to girls (at least not frequently).

Becca pointed out in her comment that there are insects like butterflies and ladybugs associated with little girls, but I stood by my belief that the "creepy crawly" ones like spiders, centipedes and scorpions tended to be reserved for the boys section. The same is true for rockets, dinosaurs, trucks and other typically masculine icons. In general, they are hard to find amongst the racks and racks of pink Princess, Dora, and Hanna Montana adorned girls clothing.

Now yes, in all fairness I could shop in the boys section, but honestly my 4 year old wants to wear the princesses, fairies, ponies and unicorns (Hanna Montana is banned in the LabMom household.) She likes the real 'girlie' stuff. I am not going to fight it.

So imagine my surprise when this little number showed up in my twitter feed this morning, courtesy of Zulily.

Can you see that? It is a PRINCESS riding a PINK T-REX!

Oh hells yeah!
So of course I tracked down the origins of this fantastic tee and found out the geniuses behind it were Jusami Designer Shirts for Kids.

They are fantastic! When is the last time you saw a pink dinosaur/princess T?
That is AWESOME! ThePrincess would love to wear that!

And bugs? They got bugs:

Okay, we have all seen ladybugs, but what about praying mantises/mantids/mantes?
Fantastic!

So, I guess I stand corrected. There are great science based "boy-topic" girls' clothes out there. You just have to look.