Where is the Tom Boy Apparel?

My daughter is a 9 year old tom boy. Not a really extreme tom boy, but a girl who definitely doesn't like to wear anything pink or frilly. Nor does she like wearing things that are covered with Hannah Montana motifs. The combination of these two preferences means that there is hardly anything that she would consider wearing in the girl's departments in stores.

So I have to ask - am I alone? I find it hard to believe that I am the only one with a child that would prefer not to be dressed as Barbie. I feel that girls are still being stereotyped by retailers and apparel manufacturers as 'girly girls'. Sweet little things made of sugar and spice with bows in their hair.

This leads me to ask whether retailers aren't brainwashing our daughters from birth. How can girls grow into strong, independent women with their own sense of individuality and style if all of them have to wear pink and lavender up to the age of about 14?

Forcing them to shop in the boy's department seems to be a signal that if you want to avoid being a girly girl, you have to pretend you are a boy. This doesn't really work for me either. My daughter doesn't want to look like a boy either.

Anyone else have this problem and why don't retailers address this need?