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In light of some past articles on diversity, SoylentNews: "How to Get Girls Into Coding" and SoylentNews: "Google to Release Diversity Data About its Workforce" This CNN article caught my attention.
Princess Free Zone offers empowering T-shirts with images such as dinosaurs, skateboards and soccer balls. "Kids should not have to be brave to wear the things they like," says founder Michele Yulo.
[...] "Girl clothes without the girly" is the mantra behind Girls Will Be, which includes longer shorts and T-shirts (no pink ones!) with images that seek to break gender stereotypes.
[...] The company buddingSTEM offers a line of girls' clothes celebrating girls' interests in science, engineering, technology and math.
Please, browse the photos. They are full of lovely little girls, minus what I call the "silly frilly" stuff. You might even click some links, and find something fitting for the young lady in your life!
Some might complain that it's a very small start - but the longest journey begins with a single step. Each of these startups seems to be doing pretty much what I've called for - giving the girls what THEY want, rather then telling them what they should want.
One of my favorite T-shirts, seen on girls young and mature, http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=92703208
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday August 30 2015, @11:43AM
I'm with Phoenix.
My son likes pink, green and yellow. (Pink mainly because blue is Elsa's colour, so all the blue in the house is my daughter's. (Frozen; if you've escaped, be thankful))
My daughter likes blue and yellow and pink.
Clothes in shops are frilly (or barely covering things - string straps, short-short sleeves, tiny shorts, tull(!), and thin fabrics) for girls
And boring but at least functional for boys.
Now it seems Runaway's post might help me find clothes for my daughter, which might not tear when she climbs trees, and not have princesses on them.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex