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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's social media. There is a group of Mormon influencers obsessed with everything beige and for whatever reason, the general American population seems to think that there is something special about them and they want to be just like them.

PLEASE buck the trends, ladies, young children NEED bright colors and visual contrast!!

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Actually no, babies just need real human environments to look at near and far things.  They don't need any purchased products to develop normally.  Just don't leave them alone in their crib staring at a blank ceiling all day.

Sad beige is grownup overreaction to adult overstimulation from clashing, garish primary-colored toys.

In the early 2000s, there was a lot of black and white stuff to help babies' eyesight.  It was very ugly and clashing en masse.

Baby Einstein - now gone from the market - had a lot of primary colors and the b&w too.

Even "The Pink Aisle" of toy stores is a long-running, but still fairly recent, toy manufacturer color trend in girls' toys.

Sad beige is a trend that plays on interest in "safer", "organic", "natural" products.  It's a way of showing wealth and sophistication by demonstrating how carefully you protect your baby.  Expensive (European and US) wooden toys usually don't have dangerous finishes.  (Painted Chinese toys were a source of lead exposure in past decades.)

The whole garish Baby Einstein thing targeted exactly the same kind of affluent moms but through insecurity about baby intellectual development.

This is all capitalism at work.

I bought so many more baby things and toys than I ever needed.  And I was far from the consumption of my friends.

Sad beige is indeed kind of pathetic-looking to me, but many people think it looks calming and natural...so the market has spoken.[/quote]

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