Beige Trend -- Why has color disappeared for kids stuff

[Anonymous]

Got a promo from Crate and Kids, and the palatte is so muted and beige

https://www.crateandbarrel.com/kids/

Breaking bad was making fun of beige trend in 2005.
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/breaking-bad-walter-white-wearing-beige-has-more-meaning-than-fans-realize.html/

Have we just given up on color and brightness, even for kids rooms?

[Anonymous]

I guess this is called beigification

https://www.purewow.com/home/beigification-beige-color-trend#:~:text=I%20don't%20have%20the,permanent%2C%20and%20they%20follow%20patterns.

[Anonymous]

Vote with your wallet; just dont buy and they will learn.

[Anonymous]

It’s the boho way.

[Anonymous]

It’s stepping away from traditionally-gendered colored items and helping pave the way to a singular pallet. This has been going on for awhile in more boutique settings and catching on in big retailers. Just like target just has a clothing section not divided, the goal is to have one offering. We need to stop labeling kids.

[Anonymous]

I think the idea was to present a calmer less overstimulating environment. I like somewhere in the middle.

[Anonymous]

No one
No ethnicity
Looks good in beige.

[Anonymous]

Sad beige children

[Anonymous]

You're not looking in the right places.

[Anonymous]

You HAVE to read this: https://hyperallergic.com/729335/is-bleak-the-new-look-for-a-tiktok-childhood/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s stepping away from traditionally-gendered colored items and helping pave the way to a singular pallet. This has been going on for awhile in more boutique settings and catching on in big retailers. Just like target just has a clothing section not divided, the goal is to have one offering. We need to stop labeling kids.

But that one offering does NOT have to be beige.

My kid's nursery was "gender neutral" but loaded with color-- literally every color, most of it bright. Yellow, blue, hot pink, fire engine red, etc.

I find the beige trend weird because kids naturally gravitate towards bright and colorful things. If you offered any kid of any gender a choice between a bright yellow toy bus with a bunch of brightly colored little figures to go in it, or a beautifully crafted natural, unpainted wood bus with a bunch of little neutral colored little figures, 9 out of ten kids will choose the colorful toy.

The trend is also for tone on tone when scientifically, babies are shown to develop the ability to differentiate between stark contrasts first.

The beige trend is about imposing our own hangups on children, not about saving them from gendered color combos. If we really wanted to throw off gender expectations for kids, we'd dress boys in pink dresses and girls in overalls with truck patterns. Were actually terrified of this, though, so we hide behind beige instead of being truly radical.

[Anonymous]

Have you ever seen a room like that actually in someone’s home? I don’t know anyone who would do that to their kids! I certainly wouldn’t.

It is way too bland and lifeless. Like so much generic housing these days … enough of the pale grays, “putty”, engineered wood floors, etc.

[Anonymous]

Beige is terrible, but I think we should embrace the yellows, browns, and oranges of 70s children’s clothing.

[Anonymous]

This is a class thing. If you look at "poor" children's clothes and furnishings there are lots of bright colors and LOTS of licensed characters. So rich people want to differentiate themselves and this is the way they've come up with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a class thing. If you look at "poor" children's clothes and furnishings there are lots of bright colors and LOTS of licensed characters. So rich people want to differentiate themselves and this is the way they've come up with.

+1

natural, organic, subtle, Scandinavian, minimalist, earth tones, etc.