I think little baby girls look super-cute in pink frills, as do boys in blue sailor suits. But to be honest I also think either of them look great in orange, yellow, green, red... and I think white and mushroom beige are pretty lazy excuses for 'unisex' clothing (take a look at BHS's unisex page if you want to see what I mean - dull or what?). Teddies and bunnies, robots and dinosaurs are great, but surely there are other things that can be printed on a babygro?
If you look for alternative baby clothes what you get is skull prints and funky slogans... amusing once in a while but really all I want is a wide range of fun colours and maybe a bit of variety or humour in the patterns: how about kitchen utensils, DIY tools, flowers, leaves and trees (proper botanical ones), fruit and veg, houses, cityscapes, proper animals not just cartoons, book covers and so on? Have some imagination, designers!
Anyway, rather than just moan about it I've done a bit of research and here are some great baby clothes sites that are definitely heading in the right direction (hats off to Sweden and fellow countries who seem to have a more interesting approach to designing for babies): it's a shame they're all more expensive than the standard 3 babygros for £15 from Mothercare (Mothercare, surely you could do this - a print is a print whether it's carrots or bunnies?).
Polarn O. Pyret Swedish - really fun clothes and very different cuts, a friend gave us a bright green and blue suit with a moose print, in a vaguely Asian-style cut, very cool.
Busy Peas I LOVE this, mostly because my husband is mad keen on gardening. The '100% home-grown' is cute enough but it's the peas, carrots and most of all aubergines that I think are brilliant.
Nordic Kids Again, the Nordic lot have it....
Impkids Nice, some unusual colours etc.
Tootsa Mac Ginty The world is full of colour is their calling card and sure enough all their clothes are unisex and very nice too. Animals (foxes, ducks etc), smiles, dots and British animals make up the patterns.
If you look for alternative baby clothes what you get is skull prints and funky slogans... amusing once in a while but really all I want is a wide range of fun colours and maybe a bit of variety or humour in the patterns: how about kitchen utensils, DIY tools, flowers, leaves and trees (proper botanical ones), fruit and veg, houses, cityscapes, proper animals not just cartoons, book covers and so on? Have some imagination, designers!
Anyway, rather than just moan about it I've done a bit of research and here are some great baby clothes sites that are definitely heading in the right direction (hats off to Sweden and fellow countries who seem to have a more interesting approach to designing for babies): it's a shame they're all more expensive than the standard 3 babygros for £15 from Mothercare (Mothercare, surely you could do this - a print is a print whether it's carrots or bunnies?).
Polarn O. Pyret Swedish - really fun clothes and very different cuts, a friend gave us a bright green and blue suit with a moose print, in a vaguely Asian-style cut, very cool.
Busy Peas I LOVE this, mostly because my husband is mad keen on gardening. The '100% home-grown' is cute enough but it's the peas, carrots and most of all aubergines that I think are brilliant.
Nordic Kids Again, the Nordic lot have it....
Impkids Nice, some unusual colours etc.
Tootsa Mac Ginty The world is full of colour is their calling card and sure enough all their clothes are unisex and very nice too. Animals (foxes, ducks etc), smiles, dots and British animals make up the patterns.
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