A MOM found herself fighting with her mother-in-law for the way she dresses her daughter.

The husband also got involved and things got ugly pretty quickly.

Taking to Reddit so she could remain anonymous, a 34-year-old mom ranted about the situation.

"I have a baby daughter who is 7 months old. As a person, I love to dress in basics," she explained, adding that she opts to dress in black, white, gray, navy, and brown.

"My dresses are always one color (often black) and just simple slip-ins, body-con, etc. I like to dress my daughter in the same 'style' and therefore 90 percent of the time I find what I’m looking for in the boy’s departments.

"There’s no hidden agenda behind this. No ulterior motives. No malice and I’m not trying to make any statement.

"I just think I have the right to decide what I want my daughter to wear until she’s old enough to decide for herself. My husband loves my daughter's clothes.

"Mother-in-law does not like this. She wants to see my baby in fluffy pink and purple dresses. While I don’t think it is wrong it’s just NOT my style.

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"One day a couple of months ago, she came by with a big bag of H&M full of girls' clothes in all the pink, purple, and red shades. Dresses, skirts, coats, leggings, shiny shoes.

"I didn’t know what to say so I thanked her. When my husband came home, I showed him he laughed and said I didn’t have to use them, but we decided on dressing our baby in the clothes mother-in-law got us whenever we visited. It went all fine."

Sadly, that plan backfired for the couple because the mom ran into her mother-in-law at the department store.

The baby had been dressed in jeans, a black sweatshirt, and Adidas – something mother-in-law didn't like.

"She didn’t say much and left without even a goodbye. She also commented on one of my sister’s Instagram stories about why my daughter was wearing these horrible boy clothes," she admitted.

"On Christmas, we went over to mother-in-law's house (we celebrate with his and my family on alternate years). I had found the cutest black onesie with Rudolf motif that I thought was perfect for the occasion.

"When we for there, mother-in-law went berserk on me. She told me that I’m an elitist who’s abusing my daughter to make a point. That I’m confusing her by not letting her look like the rest of the girls her age and that I should wait for my daughter to be older and decide her identity herself instead of me trying to push my own agenda on her at this tender age.

"I was livid by this speech and told her she had no right to tell me how to dress or raise my daughter. That I thought the clothes we got from her were ugly and that I had donated them.

"I told her that she was sick and that SHE was the one with an agenda here and to stop pushing it on my daughter, or she will never see her again. By this stage, everyone knew Christmas was ruined so we went home.

"I took out all the clothes mother-in-law bought my daughter and put them in a bag to donate later. My husband said I was the a**hole. I told him she was the one who started the argument. He said nonetheless, I could’ve ended it. But I don’t know how I could’ve ended it. Was I the a**hole?"

Following her post, many people defended the mom for standing up to her husband's mother and claimed kids don't care what you dress them in.

One person wrote: "My two brothers-in-law and their wives live on the same property, their kids are six months apart in age.

"The older one is a girl, younger is a boy. They always give the boy the girls' hand-me-downs.

"He's frequently seen in ruffles or pink because, as they put it, they live on a farm. It all gets covered in mud so who cares if it's frilly.

"And he's two, he literally doesn't care or know he's in girls' clothes. He'll outgrow it in an instant.

"Babies don't care if their clothes are gendered, neither should adults."

A second one defended buying boys' clothing instead, saying: "Apart from that, the clothes from the boys' department is wider and more comfortable than clothes for the same age group from the girls' department.

"Even jogging trousers for girls from H&M are much tighter than the boy's jogging trousers and the ones for girls have no decent pockets!! (Horror!!)"

And a third said: "There’s no such thing as boys clothes and girls clothes."

What do you think? Who was right: mom or mother-in-law?

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