droolicious : children's clothing

Big Deal: Seersucker For Your Thumbsucker

Meredith Broussard — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:15:00 GMT

Here's some bad news and some good news.

The bad first: the parent company of babystyle.com has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

The good news: they're not going out of business, just closing some stores.

Daddytypes reports that six of the company's 23 store locations will liquidate inventory within five weeks. Locations to be closed include:

The Shops at Mission Viejo, Mission Viejo, CA

Barton Creek, Austin, TX

Willow Bend, Plano, TX

Roosevelt Field, Garden City, Long Island, NY

West Farms, Farmington, CT

Cadeau on Melrose, in LA

Bargain shoppers, keep your eyes peeled during the next five weeks.

If you're jonesing for a babystyle fix in the meantime, lots of spring dress-up clothes are on sale for 30% off at the website. Try this sweet brown-and-white seersucker blazer for your favorite thumbsucker-- he'll be rocking the Tom Wolfe/Jay Gatsby look at every spring and summer function. $36.40 (marked down from $52.00) at babystyle.com.

Big Deal: Mini Boden Winter Sale

Meredith Broussard — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:30:00 GMT

It's winter sale time at Mini Boden, which means you can find slick European swim trunks (I'm partial to the Giant Lobster print) and other off-season kids' clothes practically for free. Not all sizes or colors are available, but you ought to be able to find something for next summer or for your winter vacation to a warmer clime. (If you are going somewhere warm, don't tell me-- I'm stuck in the Northeast, and it's darn cold here.) The ruffled vest below is a mere $6, marked down 70%.

If you haven't been to the site before, check it out-- Boden offers simple, stylish kid basics with a touch of whimsy. I'm a great fan of the Mini Boden catalog, which is printed in a miniature book and has neither a front nor a back. You can start looking at the exuberant pictures from either cover because halfway through, the book switches from girls' to boys' clothes, and you have to turn it upside down to read the rest. It's fun to read, much like the J. Peterman catalog used to be amusing before Seinfeld.

Hand Made: Garden Dress and Bloomers

chrisjordan — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:07:00 GMT

Two layered dress with a soft gauze as the bottom layer and a warm floral as the top layer. Matching pair of bloomers, this dress can also be worn as a tunic over a shirt and leggings. Tiny buttons on the bodice are hand crocheted in Morocco where the dress is made.

Available at Happy Expat for $42

Big Deal: Slick Sugar is Boombastic

Karen — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:03:00 GMT

Slick Sugar has a kick-butt sale on right now with tons of t-shirts with cool images of drums, motorcycles and boom boxes. Yes, I know it's 2007 and no one has called them boom boxes since 1991, but I was uncool before being uncool was cool.