Children’s dungarees from l-r: Verbaudet / La Redoute, H&M, Tootsa Macginty As a 12 year old nearly-teenager, I wanted more than anything in the world to have a pair of patchwork, cropped dungarees. Other fashion ‘inspirations’ at the time were big floppy hats a la Blossom, home made tie-dye, and anything worn by Clarissa Explains…
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How not to buy your child’s first pair of shoes
Read morePhotos: shoe buying attempt one, shoe buying attempt two, and shoe buying attempt three (success!) Buying your child’s first pair of shoes can’t be that difficult…can it? Well you’d think so, but we’ve just bought ours; on the third attempt. So to avoid making the mistakes that we did, here’s a guide of things to…
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50 ways to wear it for Comic Relief, with TK Maxx
Read moreCan you believe it’s coming up to the 25th Red Nose Day? I can actually remember when it started (how old does that make me feel?). This year the brilliant Stella McCartney has designed a range of t-shirts for the charity, which are currently on sale at TK Maxx. There’s several different designs, from a giraffe…
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The best dressed necks in all of babydom
Read moreMove over, bandanas, there’s a new neck contender in town. And old-school style bibs? So last season. The snood is now where it’s at.
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Baby lions from burp! Boutique
Read moreEliza is a mini person of a million nicknames, but the one that seems to have stuck the most at the moment is Lion (every time I call it her in public within earshot of anyone else, I realise that I’m probably partly responsible for all those threads on mum forums about ridiculous baby names). So…
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We love the Peter Rabbit collection for BabyGap
Read moreMind the (Baby)Gap; the new limited edition children’s collection for the store is themed around Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit. With not a hint of Watership Down in sight, it is unsurprisingly sweet – think pastels, knitted tops with bunny ears, printed babygros and animal hats. It’s much more classical than recent collaborations, such as the…
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Christmas costumes for children
Read moreAre you dressing your baby up in a Christmas costume come the 25th December? Will they be a pudding to open presents, or a Santa to sit around the dinner table? I missed out of the opportunity to do this last year by a month. Eliza now seems just on the cusp of an acceptable…
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