Help, I’m Drowning in a Sea of Pink!
By Glinda
I knew I was in trouble as early as my shower. Well, maybe I subconsciously knew it once my doctor told me the results of the ultrasound, but it didn’t really hit me until I began opening my gifts.
Item after item of clothing was unwrapped, only to reveal that it was- pink! Surprise! Or not… If said item was not totally pink, then it was comprised mainly of pink. Oh sure, there was some token purple, and perhaps a dash of brown thrown in. But overall the theme was definitely one of uber-pinkness. Even my freaking diaper pail has pink accents.
As someone who has been used to the utter lack of pink for seven years, it’s quite a shock.
I’m already tired of the color pink, and it hasn’t even been a month. It doesn’t help that my daughter doesn’t look particularly good in the color pink, unless it is a very deep pink. Her coloring lends itself more to deeper, brighter colors and pastels just make her look washed out. Is it sad that I am already noticing what colors look good on her? How superficial of me!
I haven’t yet been shopping for girl clothes, I’ve been dependent so far on whatever people bought me. The exception was for some warm pajamas that were on sale at Target for eight bucks (score!), so I don’t know if the epidemic of pink is due solely to the people who attended my shower, or if I am completely out of luck.
I have a feeling that at some point the color pink and I are going to have to make some sort of peace, but I’m not quite ready yet.
December 1st, 2009 at 11:32 am
That’s why we kept the gender a surprise — we received a ton of yellow, green and white, and were then able to supplement it with a few blue pieces after Sam was born. Don’t worry about it — she’ll outgrow those clothes before you know it, and the river of gifts will dry up eventually. There IS an awful lot of pink out there for girls, but other options are out there.
December 1st, 2009 at 3:22 pm
You’re going to be pretty much out of luck. When I looked for gifts for my friend’s shower, I tried to find non-pink girls items. They’re out there, but very rare.
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:39 am
My niece was named Scarlett. Try to find red baby clothes!
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:45 am
This would be why our daughter (15mo) wears a lot of “boys clothes”. Don’t get me wrong– I love pink, and I love dressing her in it, but I get tired of it. So I buy cute shirts from the boy side. (Her father’s current favorite is a The Godfather t-shirt I got at target, mine’s a penguin shirt I got at old navy). I also buy pants from the boy side — jeans are jeans, right?
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I like pink well enough, but I also do my best to avoid dressing my daughter in too much of it. I almost bought her winter coat in a color I didn’t like as much just because I didn’t want to get her a pink coat. It’s actually sort of a bright raspberry, with lighter accents, and now that it’s here, I love it. My current favorite of my daughter’s outfits is a bright pumpkin-colored cord jumper with a matching turtleneck in fall-colored stripes. (It has decorative buttons sewn on the straps of the jumper and is just unbelievably cute. Gymboree is the bomb.)
We’re in the process of buying a house, and I had always planned on painting my daughter’s new room–her first of her own–yellow. But I recently saw a room in a magazine that was a gorgeous pinky peach color and I want to do that, although I feel guilty that it might end up looking too pink…