I don't see anything wrong with dressing your baby in "girl clothes." Would there be a problem if you were dressing a baby girl in "boy clothes?" I highly doubt it. Personally, I think we ought to stop focusing so much on the whole stupid gender binary thing. Just dress your baby in clothes, be they pants, t-shirts, dresses or whatever. Kids that young don't really have any solid concept of gender anyway. They learn "boy things" and "girl things" from their parents and society around them. I know a lot of people with little boys who LOVE dresses because they see their moms and female friends wearing them and wanted to wear them too because nobody told them they were "for girls," and I think that's how it should be. Try telling a woman she can't wear something because it's "for men" and you get called out for being sexist, but it's perfectly acceptable to tell a man he can't wear something because it's "for women?" That's sexist too! And just goes to show how much misogyny still exists in this country.

Lots of hate in the comment section. What's it matter? It's just clothes. If you get this pissy about this I really hope none of you are baptised.

Sounds like MIL needs to learn how to call first. FYL, OP, for having to deal with her.

That is just your mother in law. I would dress up my son in girls clothes for fun and his future embarrassment on purpose. More fun later.

Well maybe you are a little mentally unstable for doing that to your poor helpless son

No big deal, Mom. Many cultures dress their male children in garb that our society would consider female. Besides, it won't hurt him and mother-in-law will be just fine. My mother dressed both of my brothers in a dress once for what she called her future blackmail...they are both fine and raising beautiful families with their wives. But for the hell of it, maybe next time your bored, call mom-in-law over and dress her in a suit and tie!

At least it wasn't a dog sweater. ^.^

I agree with u mother in law

Well... you dressed your son in girls' clothing. Never mind the reason. So I'd say she's about right.

I think your mother-in-law is more likely to be mentally unstable to believe this is inherently wrong. I'm genderqueer and the last person to care about binary gender stereotypes and social construct. 100 years ago or so male babies wore dresses and pink was considered the "appropriate" male color. What is deemed to be feminine or masculine changes all the time. What you did was totally fine. You played dress up with your child as many parents would do - doesn't matter what color or style the clothing is.