I use bows on both my boy and my girl. The boy gets boyish bows. I have blue ones with cars in the middle and brown ones with little doggy bones in the middle...stuff like that. I just asked my husband his opinion. He said he doesn't like the bows on the boy (hmmm...funny he never mentioned it before). He doesn't mind the ponytail with a little rubberband, just doesn't like the bows. Oh well, he'll get over it.