Target to launch gender-neutral bedding line for kids

It started with the toy aisle.

Target removed the “boys” and girls” signs from the toy aisles and bedding area last fall.

Now, the retail giant is adding gender-neutral bedding to its kids home decor line to further blur the line between what is considered boys and girls.

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The Pillowfort collection offers universally-themed bedding including trees, bicycles and arrows in neutral colors like white, black and yellow.

“Who are we to say what a child’s individual expression is? We really wanted to develop a collection that would be universal,” Julie Guggemos, Target’s vice president of design, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

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There still are dinosaurs, astronauts and flowers, however, the colors of the motifs are not so gender oriented. Target tested the patterns at a kids fair asking children to choose their favorite, according to the Star-Tribune.

"Girls were picking prints that the boys picks and vice versa," Guggemos told the Star-Tribune. "They're not afraid to express who they are. We picked up on that right away and decided we were getting in our own way a little bit with some of those paradigms. It's time to change."

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