Xander Week 60 – Biased Department Stores
December 14, 2007
I love my son, and I wouldn’t trade the experience of being his mother for anything. That being said, before he was born, I wanted a girl. I wanted a girl to dress in skirts and pretty dresses. I wanted a girl to play dolls with and have tea parties with. So far, I haven’t missed that stuff too much. Playing trucks is ok, and for the most part, dressing Xander is just as fun as I imagined it would be to dress a little girl. The one complaint I have is with department stores and holiday clothing. I have been to lots of department stores, and this time of year I always scope out the holiday outfits.
In every single store, there are racks upon racks of little red velvet dresses. Dresses with lace, dresses with polka dots, dresses in every style and holiday color you could imagine. Then I begin my search for the boy’s holiday clothes. In places like Sears or JC Penny, there is typically a big column of dresses – 3 racks wide and 4 racks tall on all 4 sides of the column. The boys section is 2 racks wide, 3 racks tall covering two sides of a column. These clothes are far more generic – red sweater vests, black pants. I finally found a cute sweater with a little train on the front this year. Of course they only had one, and it was too small. Places like WalMart are even worse. They don’t seem to have any holiday clothing for boys, unless you count the red on the Emo shirts.
Why is it that girls can get dressed up but boys can’t? I don’t understand why little boys get shafted when it comes to holiday clothes. Why not more sweaters with winter stuff on them – snowmen, toys, teddy bears, etc. And why are these clothes always buried. Why is it that the girl’s dresses are right on the edge of an aisle, but the boys clothes aren’t next to them – they’re buried in the back of the clothing section.
I just want there to be some equality. I want to walk into a store, and not have to dig through an entire section of clothes looking for a holiday outfit. Every time I walk by those red velvet dresses I get angry at the inequality I see. I know in the grand scheme of things this is really nothing, but it still irritates me for the whole season.
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