Just not shutting up any more

[ailbhe]

OK, so I didn't shut up much anyway. But in John Lewis on Sunday I wanted to buy Astrid a hat because we'd come out without one, so I went to the baby hat section and had a look. I first saw a brown corduroy hat with earflaps and a chinstrap, called a Trapper hat, but it was in teh boys' section. So I went to see whether there was one in the girls' section. And there was, but it was pink, knitted, and 50% more expensive.

(I see from the website that there is actually a pink girl one the same price as the brown cord one but it wasn't in the shop at the time, and anyway it's 100% plastic and the boy one is 100% cotton).

So I brought both to the till and complained that the girl hat with earflaps was 50% more expensive and had no chin-strap to hold it on, and listened to a lot of ridiculous excuse-making and it's-not-that-bad-really-ing from the guy at the till, including "well the pink one is wool which is nicer fabric," when NO, it's ACRYLIC, not COTTON like the boys' one, and then I paid for the boy one and went away. But I am SO TIRED of finding that IF there's a decent girl-specific equivalent it's not stocked, or it's missing key features (pockets in trousers and shorts, for example), or covered in offensive slogans. I'm tired of it. That and the stupid bloody shoe differences.

And I'm making more of a point of being stupidly annoying in shops about it. Who's with me? We could be a Movement.

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Aha hang on. You have a wide footed child. I was a wide footed child. I heard about these: http://www.vivobarefoot.com/uk/ and thought they sounded a likely bet for the one design of shoes in the universe that might ever fit my feet. Drawbacks: £££ and London + shoe shopping with children = doom. But I'm definitely going to have a look at the adult range at some point in the medium-length future and will report back when I have.

[ailbhe]

There's a shoeshop near my mother where we have good luck, called Little Piggys, in Midleton, Co Cork. Lots of brands.