Sometimes when I go shopping for some new threads for the Boy Wonder I hear myself having a silent tirade in my head. Why? Well I just can’t understand why clothes buyers and designers find it so difficult to use other colours than blue for boys and pink for girls. And don’t get me started on the cutesy slogans and prints! I personally think little boys look fabulous in purples and reds and oranges. And little girls can look divine in blues and greens and even some shades of brown.

This stripy fleece is one of about three items of clothing that I have ever chosen to buy that is blue. The combination of the cyan and white looks pretty good, gallic almost.

But this doesn’t mean the tirades will cease…seriously all you clothes designers out there, the blue and pink thing has to stop!

Fleece pullover – Blue Zoo @ Debenhams

Green Cars charter tee (just seen) – H&M

Trousers – optional!

It’s Star Wars day today. Jedi enthusiasts across the globe will be making every effort to utter the phrase ‘May the fourth be with you’ and I have to tell you that this will include me and my husband, Rob. We are big Star Wars fans. When I was pregnant with Rohan we decided not to find out the sex so we referred to my bump as Boba Fett. Rob is such a big fan he owns every special edition of every film and when we bought an HD ready flat screen TV a few years ago, the first thing he did was dig out Star Wars IV; A new hope. We can’t wait to sit down with Rohan when he’s a bit older and watch the Star Wars films.

For me, Star Wars reminds me of growing up with my big brothers, I worshipped them and wanted to be just like them and if they were into Star Wars then so was I. Being a die hard tom boy I loved the ballsiness of Princess Leia, thought Han Solo was a hunk, wanted to squish Yoda and as for Chewie, don’t get me started…who wouldn’t want Chewie for a sidekick?

Sometimes I see an item of clothing in the sale and even though I know it will be a year or two before it will fit Rohan I just can’t help myself so I buy it and keep it for when he’s big enough. This tee was one of those. I bought it last summer and I love the hippyish mottled dyed effect background, and of course the original Star Wars illustrations are out of this world.

Star Wars tee, SpringSummer ’11, H&M