September 6, 2008
During the hard drive debacle last week, K2 and I were stuck at the mall in Tyson's Corner mall for several hours, waiting for my repair. After watching little kids run full tilt into the full length glass walls...
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August 30, 2008
Was it only last year that I actually looked into making a bootleg version of Damien Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull printed on a black Onesie? Because now I can't think of anything more played out and boring. Though if your...
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Why should delivery room nurses and their paperwork have all the fun? Congratulations to Andy, Erin and Elsa, and welcome, Astrid!...
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August 25, 2008
Am I just oblivious? Is American Apparel always this cheap on Amazon? I mean, six bucks for the karate pants K2 basically lives in is a great price, but I don't know how urgent or limited time only this...
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August 19, 2008
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Katamari Prince(ss) of All Cosmos!, originally uploaded by Veronica M. Crochetblogger/meganerd/new mom Veronica and her...
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August 14, 2008
Having a baby is a rough time for Chuck Taylor snobs. I mean, dude. Converse has been owned by Nike since before your kid was born. For the rest of us, the obvious reasons not to buy Converse First...
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August 1, 2008
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } IMG_3481, originally uploaded by Pulp-Secret.com. I had to look it up. Captain Action was the...
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July 24, 2008
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } jeans quilt for sale in the Ivins town Pioneer Day celebration, originally uploaded by daddytypes....
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July 23, 2008
Dude, I thought that APC jeans for kids were as awesome as it got, but they only go down to size 4, which still drowns our kid, eight months after I bought them. Now I see that Makie, the...
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A lot of people struggle with balancing work and family. A lot of people struggle with balancing a private life with one lived in the public eye. A lot of people struggle with drawing the line between online and...
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July 17, 2008
Because the exorbitant margins on CafePress go straight into the pocket of some random profiteer, not the actual GOP. Turns out the GOP's even threatening to sue for trademark infringement. Also, those elephants are pointing left. HAH! Rightwing Stuff...
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July 13, 2008
Changing the backend software here at Daddy Types has resulted in many valuable comments getting flagged by the spam filter. While I look for a solution, I've been wading through several thousand spams a day, pulling out the legitimate comments....
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July 7, 2008
Though Christoph Niemann's boy laughed at the obsolescence, I'd buy these NYC subway map socks [$7] precisely because they still show the Q running as an orange line to 21st Street, Queens. Back in the day, the Q was...
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Little did I know when I wrote about it last week, but Plain Christian clothing isn't just for polygamists and Amish anymore. It's a whole movement! Or a cluster of tiny, fringe movements, anyway. And as the fine, made-to-measure...
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note: this post began as a link roundup, but the topics were so far-flung, I broke them all out into separate posts. The glass-half-empty crowd at Consumerist is treating the shrinking Pampers count as a sneaky, 5% price increase [from...
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July 2, 2008
It's a familiar story by now, actually like five familiar stories: Parents objecting to the Wal-Martification of American culture: clothing's either racy and inappropriate or loaded down with characters owned by giant corporations. Plus, it's all made in giant factories...
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June 19, 2008
Seriously, is it me, or are there just next to no good places to get vintage kids clothing? There was one rack of kids stuff at a vintage store in Huntington, mostly old t-shirts and Tufskins. [here it is on...
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June 17, 2008
My First Scrubs are available in sizes 0-6 months, all the way up to 8 years. In blue and green, also pink, but not, inexplicably, in those crazy psychedelic paint brush patterns the nurses wear. They can be monogrammed,...
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June 16, 2008
Staging the Renegade Craft Fair in the Pool at McCarren Park Pool is a great way to crystallize the cultural divide that is Williamsburg: you walk through thousands of Hispanic families camped out under every tree in the park,...
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June 11, 2008
Looking to help John McCain earn $50 the easy way? You can buy a "Dads For McCain" cap and his integrity for just $25 apiece. Oh, sorry, it's just an Integrity t-shirt. Too bad it's not a fragrance: John...
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June 6, 2008
This awesome shirt by The Girl and Rhino is currently not available in either kid or infant sizes! Sorry to mess up your weekend. The AT-AT Tee, $17-22, when it's in stock [thegirlandrhino via dinosaursandrobots] update: weekend saved! they...
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June 1, 2008
It's becoming nearly impossible for me to surf Etsy anymore; there's just too much stuff, and too much of it is crafty schlock [different strokes, I know, but hey.] Fortunately, dad, cyclist and blogger Matt Haughey met Bre Pettis, who's...
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May 23, 2008
Not sure which is less surprising: that the West LA publicity whores running the baby store Petit Tresor occasionally totally make shit up about celebrity purchases at the store. that they self-importantly proclaim that they "don't talk about any of...
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May 8, 2008
Wow, I've driven through Parowan, Utah a dozen times, and I had no idea that I could get kid-size American Indian caftans handmade of hand-beaded boarskin. Then I wouldn't need to email to get measurements of the "size 2-4";...
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May 7, 2008
How did I not know about this? It feels like I was looking for Carhartt kid gear a couple of years ago, and couldn't find any. Or was that Dickies? Either way, now I'm worried that somehow, passing 40,...
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May 5, 2008
Looks like it's Etsy Day around here. Feel free to chime in. I don't want to roast my little butterball, either, but the Gilligan Bucket Hat Hegemony in the baby market has been getting me down. The soft jersey...
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Though she's married to the dadblogger behind NonToxicReviews, the maker of this sweet, crocheted ninja baby blanket does not call herself Mrs. Stinkyhead. At least not on her Etsy store. She also makes a sweet robot blanket, too. Somehow,...
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Kayster is a crafting genius. I mean, every time I sit down to crochet a Tetris baby blanket, I get a row done, and it just disappears. Very annoying. Topic: Tetris blanket [craftster.org via wonderland]...
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May 4, 2008
Seriously. Moore and her husband Bart Freundlich have donated a "gently used" Stokke Tripp Trapp high chair to Johnson's Celebrity Hand-Me-Down Auction. All proceeds go to some dizzying constellation of kid-related charities. [And all goodwill goes straight to Johnson's....
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April 25, 2008
Apparently, humanity is doomed unless we all change our shoes. And by "change," NY Magazine means "dump." You Walk Wrong [nymag via dt reader dt]...
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April 16, 2008
If sales are what interest you, here are some interesting sales I've heard about in New York, Miami, and around the whole world on the Internet: Sweet Dutch Designers Sample Sale, Apr 17 (9-6) & Apr 18 (9-3): "SPRING 2008...
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April 7, 2008
THERE WAS CHER ON JOAN RIVERS' NEW SQUAWK SHOW, wearing tight pants with a gossamer bustle, a well-distressed T-shirt, rhinestone suspenders. Cher was distraught over her daughter Chastity's fashion faux pas. She'd rebelled and gone preppy. The kid wore Izods,...
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April 2, 2008
See, it's funny, because The Closing of the American Mind is a classic Reagan-era Allan Bloom book on how liberal academia is destroying the country and its culture! But Bloom's dead, and Reagan, too, and now the Clothing of...
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March 28, 2008
Finland: it's the little differences. I didn't know it was going to be Finland week around here, but DT commenter hfb ties the whole thing together and brings it all home with by pointing out that cardboard box cradles...
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March 27, 2008
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Family portrait!, originally uploaded by jyri. There are approximately two clothing designers I'd actually like...
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March 25, 2008
Before you buy a "funny" Onesie, remember that 99% of them are actually about as funny as Jerry Seinfeld presenting as that damn bee at the Oscars. Are you sure the one you're about to choose is that miraculous...
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March 9, 2008
Some of my favorite people are Icelanders, but seriously? Weird weird weird place. On the one hand, the government provides no-strings, no-experience-required travel grants to bands, so they can do some gigs abroad, maybe become the next Bjork. And on...
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March 6, 2008
If their rabidly crafty fans keep up this pace, Yo Gabba Gabba! may never need to bother putting out actual merchandise at all; instead they can be like PBS painting guru Bob Ross, making mad bank by selling raw materials--paints,...
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February 8, 2008
This cool skull t-shirt is on sale for a seemingly ridiculous $10-12, for infants and toddlers, assuming I didn't just buy the last one. Fooey has some other interesting designs, too; and they seem worth watching to see what...
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January 22, 2008
The new kid's still way too small for this, but that's part of the plan. This light cotton jumpsuit is probably a spring/fall outfit, which is why it was marked down like 75% at Takashimaya in December. There were...
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January 21, 2008
Unless, of course, Boston folk art dealer Stephen Score had planned on bidding more. The 40-in. crib quilt is from around 1875, and was apparently never used; it was found in the bottom of a dower chest. It was...
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January 16, 2008
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Numbers quilt, originally uploaded by stitchindye. I've always liked this Ikea numbers fabric, except that...
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January 12, 2008
My aunt sent the new kid a very thoughtful gift from babyGap, including those nice red pants right there. BabyGap threw in a swift kick in the 'nads for dad, absolutely free....
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January 11, 2008
Who'd have thought that January would be a big sale season for baby gear? Don't we have babies and need stuff at a pretty even clip year-round? Whatever, hop to, there's sales afoot: I assume you already know about Modern...
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January 10, 2008
My mom likes to make a quilt for each grandchild. As we were sweating over what design to go with and our--ok, my--ingracious inability to get enthused about the traditional quilty patterns was probably getting on her nerves, I...
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January 8, 2008
Though I can't decide between Even More Diapers and I Hate Snaps, Too! First things first, holy crap, I know they can fill up later, but it just seems ridiculous to me to throw out an entire diaper every 45...
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December 21, 2007
What have I ever done to Saks, hmm? I mean until their Club Libby Lu started shaking their Baby Paris moneymakers in my face, I never had a bad word in my life for them. And I've been a...
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December 20, 2007
Well, if a "concerned" mom who was interested in the tween skankover mall chain Club Libby Lu because her daughter "was considering working there," and who had "read some horrible things online" took time during the busy holiday season to...
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December 19, 2007
Mike Schneider, a self-proclaimed dadblogging media whore [he writes for Variety] and huge Yo Gabba Gabba! fan, reports that the show has been picked up for a second, full season. The 20 new episodes are already in pre-production.For season two,...
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December 7, 2007
Yoya's having a sample/warehouse/clearance/blowout sale next week, and you and your cash are invited. Not sure what they have planned, whether it's just books, clothes and toys, or whether there are Netto and ducduc nursery setups for immediate delivery,...
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December 6, 2007
A) Freakin' expensive at £24 B) Like nothing you couldn't make with $2, a trip to Ikea, and a pair of scissors C) Unfortunately, too much like Abu Ghraib Guy D) Freakin' awesome, if you can overlook C, which,...
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I've been a fan of animation artist Sanjay Patel's take on Hindu's greatest deities and heroes since he first published his book, Little India, in 2005. [The book was greatly expanded last year and published by Penguin as The...
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November 23, 2007
If I had to narrow it down to one fashion disaster per city, New York's would be commuter sneakers, while DC's would be trenchcoats. I'd sure like to believe when they're off the clock, all those middle-aged government schlubs...
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November 21, 2007
I know, I know, throw a rock in Brooklyn these days, and you'll hit an organic t-shirt printer or a vinyl toy designer. Still, only a couple of them are on Supermarket, the flyover-free etsy alternative for the borough's...
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November 20, 2007
Sonya Park opened her Tokyo-based brand Arts & Science in 2003 to stock, make, and sell the stuff she wanted, and what she wanted was old-school high quality inflected with some contemporary edge. Or something. It's a joushitsu na...
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November 14, 2007
Little Marc, the most important children's clothing line in Manhattan parenting history, will finally get its own store, offering the full range of cashmere casual fashion for kids 0-12 years old. When it opens by the end of the month,...
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November 8, 2007
K. Cooper's blog, hoping for happy accidents, is a goldmine of amazing Japanese modern woodworking and artisanal everything. Most of it's just eye candy, though, since these tiny little companies and stores often don't ship outside Japan. But K.C.K....
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October 28, 2007
The DT browser tab clearance is on now: NYT Magazine: Looking for Their Children’s Birth Mothers Maggie Jones takes a personal look at the complicated emotional and cultural landscape of open international adoption. Though she and her husband decided to...
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October 27, 2007
Obviously, a brilliant design, though I gotta say, I think it works better as a t-shirt. From the Kidrobot November Releases announcement [kidrobot.com via boingboing, thanks jason] Previously: Winner of the DT DIY Muno Lisa t-shirt...
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October 26, 2007
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Yo Gabba Gabba Muno Shirt, originally uploaded by super-structure. ...and that winner's dad has a...
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October 23, 2007
This just in, from an email titled "RE: Cool Product," kindershoe.com is a "website that offer [sic] a unique baby shoe bronzing service ideal for baby keepsakes or gifts." Really? Unique? Because frankly, nothing seems less unique or cool than...
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October 22, 2007
My Modern Life is an eBay seller in Lincoln Nebraska who first crossed my radar when she posted some vintage toys in insanely great condition by Creative Playthings and Kay Bojesen. As if that wasn't awesome enough, My Modern...
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The kid's been wearing hats outside since she brained herself on our front door a couple of months ago. Keeps the scar out of the sun, which helps it heal. She's been wearing these preppy little bucket hats, but...
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October 12, 2007
If you've got some Moofia toys you need signed, or if you've been waiting to get near TokiDoki Simone Legno before you buy, now's your chance. Yoyamart is hosting a Tokidoki party tomorrow night, Saturday, 10/13, from 7-10pm. That's...
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I was just going to post a happy little skull bodysuit story after seeing this in the window of the little gift shop down the street [Wake Up Little Suzie, Cleveland Park, DC], but after visiting their site, I...
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October 11, 2007
At Thingamababy, AJ posted a pretty sick collection of gory and/or freaky infant Halloween costumes from monster mask maker Specter Studios. There are elaborate octopus and bug costumes which wrap around a kid like a gnarly latex receiving blanket....
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October 8, 2007
Not like all those knockoff pine tree car freshener [sic] costumes you've been seeing around town. This may have Martha Stewart's turkey costume beat on both the unlikelihood and creepy hilarity fronts. Little Trees Car Freshner Costume - Infant,...
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In case you never realized it--and I didn't, because I don't speak Tlingit--Portland means "Land of Ports." Why this Babe [pronounced bay-bee: long a, long e] bodysuit with a marine port-looking graphic on is called PDX, the abbreviation for...
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October 6, 2007
Some things that caught my eBay eye. For some reason, they all involve $25, which variously does and does not seem right: Creative Playthings Wooden FireChief Toy Car Red Wood, opening bid $10+14 s/h? Good luck, Goodwill! Auction ends Oct...
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October 5, 2007
Yeah, basically, I'd go to Japan to buy a Swedish kid's t-shirt with a French car embroidered on it. You gotta problem with that? Rufus shirt - Citroen by tuss, 9,450 yen ($81US, ouch) [chigo.co.jp] Previously: tuss. Citroen. Chigo....
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October 3, 2007
So what better prize for the unofficial YGG! contest than an unofficial YGG! T-shirt? Basically, it's made with a stencil cut from the iron-on transfer images on the Nick Jr. site. If you make one yourself--possibly because you don't...
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October 2, 2007
I needed to practice making the YGG! contest prize--see those stencils on the left?--so I tested a stencil on one of the kid's American Apparel shirts. It's from the blog Saffron Revolution Worldwide, which was an early, active resource...
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October 1, 2007
Seems like we missed the Crafty Bastards Craft Fair down in DC yesterday. For a second, I thought I should be bummed, but then I realized there are about 10,000 edgy craft fairs popping up all over the country...
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September 27, 2007
What: Sample and overstock sale for Dwell and Dwellbaby When: Oct. 4 to 11, 11-7 each day Where: 76 Greene St [near Spring] How much: 60-80% off retail. Crib sets that were $352-390 will be $60-160. Wow. [via nyt] What:...
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September 24, 2007
Unfortunately, my Preppy Handbook is in New York, so I'm unable to confirm if the upcoming Izod Lacoste edition Maclaren stroller is all-new, or a reissue of a vintage 80's model. I considered not posting at all, because the...
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This auction ended a couple of weeks ago, unfortunately, but it deserves a shoutout: eBay seller and master craftyperson nimbus8895 [update: who only now comes out as DT reader and frequent tipster/commenter Melissa] made an Oscar the Grouch Halloween...
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September 20, 2007
StarWars.com blogger Neil Baker made a Star Wars Alphabet for fellow Star Wars bloggers to put on Star Wars t-shirts to wear to the Celebration IV Star Wars anniversary commemoration a few months back. Then he turned his alphabet...
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September 16, 2007
The kid's sick, the laptop battery was dead, so when I curled up with her [the kid, that is, not the laptop] for a little Sesame Street Therapy this morning, I grabbed a copy of the Dutch/LES design journal/zine...
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September 11, 2007
image via mega(k)nits Better to figure out how to scale the various knitting patterns for kid-sized heads. When I asked her how easy it'd be, she said "very easy," and then she said she was going to Europe and...
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September 10, 2007
It seems I've wandered into the web's Knerdish Knitting Knook. Samantha made a little snuggly/baby washcloth thing with the Starfleet insignia on it for some pregnant Star Trek fan/friends. [with Trek-themed music, but no Starfleet uniforms or Klingon cake...
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September 9, 2007
This is awesome. On Instructables, Tracy_The_Astonishing shows how to knit this sweet 6-12 mo-sized Space Invader earflap hat in just three easy steps. Granted, one of those steps involves drawing a sheaf of arcane stitch patterns on graph paper,...
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September 7, 2007
Cute dress, but does the graphic mean the one wearing it is the little brother? Just sayin'. Baobab Paper Chain Family dress, $AU42 [baobab.com.au via myjnr]...
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September 4, 2007
Ever wonder what keeps a t-shirt designer up at night? Ever want to put it on your kid's t-shirt? Next up: the "This is just another heart tattoo t-shirt." t-shirt. Hey, on the bright side, it's organic! "My T-Shirt",...
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Martha McQuade is an architect by training, but she's been running Uniform Studio, a one-person clothing design and fabrication outfit in Minneapolis, for at least a year [that's how far back her inspiration/production blog goes, anyway.] Uniform Studio designs...
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September 3, 2007
Great concept: print the lyrics to the lullaby on your kid's sleepsack, so you won't be at a loss for soothing music when you so desperately need it. So far so good: it's got the second through fourth verses....
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August 24, 2007
You know what, it's been kinda grim around here lately, time for a cute-out. The fellas at Gama-Go are having a big Labor Day Sale next weekend. The first 200 people to order $150 or more of Gama-Go-Gear between 12:01AM...
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August 17, 2007
The Limited Edition Harmony. A convergence of Pinstripe Prep, upstart purveyors of fine baby and kid gear ["country club couture without the snobbery"], custom car guru Joe Iacono and the mastermind Jason Albert, whose expert hands bring each custom...
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August 16, 2007
You know what you used to see too much of at a contemporary art auction? Robert Rauschenberg prints. I swear, the dude was off the hook in the 70's and 80's with the indistinguishable collage-y silkscreened mish-mashes of pop...
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August 15, 2007
A headline on boingboing proves why, even in the face of opposition, the menace must be stopped: Man spends 7 nights in tree to escape crocs...
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Without going too deeply into my own personal history with the subject, let's just say that I, like many, many parents, can appreciate a good do-rag. Yet when it comes to a classic bandanna you could easily tie on a...
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August 14, 2007
Not only are they fugly, they're dangerous, too? Crocs--and other soft-soled shoes like flip-flops, but as you'll see, the delta here is the spike in Crocs sales--are involved in an increasing number of escalator accidents. DT reader Jennifer points...
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August 13, 2007
Except for one outburst this time last year, I've expressed my sheer hatred of Crocs by ignoring them at every opportunity. I was sure they'd come and go as quickly as Uggs, but my problem now isn't that they're still...
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August 7, 2007
Whoa. These Elmogrified Air Force Ones are made to order by the Bronx-based airbrush artists of Airmagination. You may know their work from Vibe, The Source, or the collaborative mural in Fitty's crib. Personally, I'd get Elmo painted on the...
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Since Marc Jacobs has come so clean about overcoming all his addictions lately, I will, too: I'm a recovering Colette-oholic. I wrestled with my problem for years, even though to be honest, I usually found their highly edited [i.e.,...
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August 1, 2007
Seriously, people are there not enough Phish heads having kids to warrant some cloying hippie baby clothing from the 90's? Why are new hippie parents seeking hippie threads for their little ones forced to revert all the way back...
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July 26, 2007
Ah, summer, when we head to the beach and the pool and spend our days frolick--Holy crap, check out that dude's shoulder hair! It looks like he's wearing a freakin' sweater! And that's just the baby. The Carl (ATHF)...
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July 16, 2007
According to Bobux's own history, which started in 1991, Robeez copied them. [Robeez' history, which begins in 1994, is silent on the subject.] And according to like half a dozen other companies, including scrappy little underdogs like Target, the...
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July 5, 2007
Printing text on a t-shirt that's meant to be read from the wearer's point of view is not new, but it's almost always adorable. When it's combined with the alphabet in a chunky, clean typeface and animal photos, it's...
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July 3, 2007
Droog-and-beyond designer Marcel Wanders spent six months collecting rare and unusual beads, beads with stories, to make a necklace for his daughter, Joy. Now, whether he had enough beads left over, or he just replayed the concept, I'm not...
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June 26, 2007
It looks a bit like the early Mr. TTT Burger, but probably not. If I had my Friends With You monograph handy, I'd be able to tell you who that mouselike character on the front of Genius Jones' exclusive...
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June 20, 2007
Knit the helmet! Knit the helmet! Oh mighty warrior t'will be quite a task How will you do it, might I enquire to ask? I will do it with this kit from Bella Knitting! This kit from Bella Knitting?...
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June 17, 2007
Unbelievable. And an interesting discussion in the Threadbared comments, too. Maybe you could tweak them to be a Mr. T sweater instead, you know, to match the kid's doll. There are vintage patterns for Golly Jumpers coming up on...
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June 11, 2007
You know what I was thinking just the other day? We don't see enough neoprene in the baby world. Especially functional pieces of gear for guys. [I know, I know, the guys at BuiltNY make neoprene bottle carriers and...
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June 3, 2007
What with the heat and humidity the last few days, the idea of a cashmere baby cap seems kind of crazy. But then, the kid is sitting in front of me right now, cutting out balloons with her hat...
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June 1, 2007
The funnydumbest part of this t-shirt with a kid printed on the front? The sales pitch: "Fool your friends & family!" But whether it's "You thought I was wearing the kid, but actually, I LEFT HER IN THE CAR!"...
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May 29, 2007
Here's the tip for all you National Zoo visitors out there: if you don't want me to criticize you for turning your entire brood of small children into walking billboards for the noxious corn syrup-and-caffeine-filled junk food that's going...
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May 22, 2007
So David Horvath and Sun-Min are having a kid, and the folks running the Ugly Doll business figure they oughta get them something nice. Or maybe make something. Like, say, an Ugly Doll quilt??? Holy smokes, that is awesome....
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Oliver Moss's new t-shirt design, Spoilt, just debuted on Threadless, and it's awesome. It contains a whole slew of movie spoilers [which map pretty closely to the text-only Spoiler tees from Theater Hopper, but Moss adds some graphical touches,...
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May 17, 2007
Remember how, a couple of weeks back, Gama-Go was selling those unique, kid-sized blankets made out of irregular Tim Biskup art-decorated t-shirts? And remember how there were hints of some kind of kid-sized Biskup-y Gama-Goodness coming down the pike?...
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May 1, 2007
What could you do with a pile of irregular t-shirts printed with cool Tim Biskup/Gama-Go designs? A) Duh, slightly imperfect t-shirts? Throw'em in a landfill. B) Use them in the world's hippest car wash. C) Carefully rework them by...
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DT reader Adam sent along a photo of the insanely stupid, tiny plastic hanger that his son managed to shake off of his brand new Target/Circo socks. Why the hell is a dime-sized, barbed arrow-shaped, hard plastic hook anywhere...
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You've got to be kidding. I guess in the world of crappy, commercially made costumes, these Star Wars baby costumes might rank above average, but that's only if you include those drugstore ripoffs that are nothing more than a...
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April 26, 2007
And get a case 'a them American Apparel bodysuits, because this summer, the kid's gonna be wearing nothing but Weird Wheels Wunzies, with pictures of vintage 80's grossout hot rods ironed onto them. Frankly, I'd like the source images...
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April 24, 2007
It feels like I just woke up from the cuteness coma brought on by the last objects that showed up around here from Sarah Neuburger's The Small Object . Now her adorable is not only back, it's spreading. The...
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April 22, 2007
If you'd like to pay an extra $3 to use their image upload interface to create a CafePress infant bodysuit you could make at Cafepress.com for $9.99, then hop on over to MakeAOnesie.com. But you'd better hurry before Gerber's lawyers...
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April 19, 2007
When I got the press release announcing that Threadless, the crack dealers of the t-shirt junkie world, were invading the playground with the launch of ThreadlessKids.com, I was like, "Finally, it's about damn time." Which, as it turns out,...
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April 18, 2007
So when the Chinese make images of pandas and spaceships, it's propaganda, but what is it when Americans do it? That's easy: it's so cuuute I could just gobble them all up. The kid's aunt just sent her this...
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April 17, 2007
Among the things my wife has to put up with are the unreconstructed vestiges of my preppy youth: the horrible, old arygle v-neck sweater I'm wearing; my fondness for Volvo 240 wagons; and that old, candy-striped Hudson's Bay Point...
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April 9, 2007
Cool Hunting just posted a video visit to the studio of Salvor designer Ross Menuez. Turns out the company's named after his daughter and muse [well, her middle name, anyway. It's Icelandic.] When it came out a couple of...
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April 7, 2007
It's been almost a year since I praised the Washington Post's lengthy takedown of Club Libby Lu, the "experience-driven retail business" which sells glittery makeovers, Paris Hilton-style toy chihuahuas in handbags, and girl band birthday parties to 8-year-olds in 85...
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April 6, 2007
I'll search for very specific things, but I don't have the patience to wade through the tacky schlock that clutters the baby clothes listings on etsy. Most of it's either the ruffly, ric-racked stuff of school gym craft fairs...
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April 4, 2007
Scarface Onesie First Social Worker's Tip-Off [theonion.com via dt reader garrett] Bonus related story: Ain't Nobody Telling Me What My Baby Allergic To...
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March 30, 2007
This chocolate-colored Onesie-like bodysuit by Enfant Terrible is the closest thing I've seen to an "I Hog The Ground" costume. Sure, the little flocked creature on there is supposed to be a teddy bear, but though the belly's a...
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One of the absolutely most unabashedly beautiful, minimalist-but-not-too baby clothes designers around is Album di Famiglia. We found their newborn stuff just as the kid was growing out of the tiny available selection at Estelle, a store on 6th...
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March 28, 2007
The official selling point of Vilebrequin's swim trunks is that they have a unique vent system that prevents unattractive air bubbles from forming when you get into the swimming pool or ocean. The reasons the colorfully printed, traditionally cut...
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March 22, 2007
Which of these stories is more headscratching? I think we need a baffle-off: 1] Is Yoya at risk of losing its core target market?? A gay uncle in the fashion industry [punchline writes self] shops Yoya, the West Village temple...
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March 20, 2007
Damn, Little Ruler is just awesome, season in and season out. I was never a big Misfits fiend, but my heart goes out to the punk metalhead dads who have to choose between a little Thomas t-shirt and an...
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March 14, 2007
Garrison Keillor has always been a dick, no news there. If it didn't mean he'd just spend more time in New York, I'd be calling for Minnesotans to drop the nice and run him out of town once and for...
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February 28, 2007
Don't cut up your adult-sized t-shirt just yet. After a DT reader reported seeing them at the gift shop of Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, a few rounds of email has led back to Los Angeles. Their Museum of...
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February 23, 2007
Has anyone trained their kid to do a YouTube version of this yet? Obama Bama Bo-Bama kid's t-shirt, $17 [lowercasetee.com] previously: what if daddy wants a new president, too? Red, White & Blue Diaper Babies...
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February 15, 2007
[02/08 update: check the comments below; unfortunately, a number of people over an extended period of time have complained about problems or delays completing their orders from Reckon. Lead time on orders not-in-stock have stated leadtimes of up to 3...
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After she had a kid, Frederique Daubal designed this limited edition t-shirt for Hint, the online fashion magazine: "It's an homage to femininity," she says about the pregnancy motif, "and the poetic explosion that happens in the belly and...
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February 9, 2007
When the red string is pulled and the Mysterio Onsie [tricky!] is unfurled at your baby shower, crowds will be astounded at the accuracy of the 1-in-12 prediction of the kid's future. Unless you already are a mafia accountant,...
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February 1, 2007
Lactivist/blogger The Lactivist got a cease & desist order from The National Pork Board, demanding that she destroy her trademark-infringing, pro-breastfeeding t-shirts that say "The Other White Milk." [Cafepress pulled the shirts before The Lactivist even knew what was...
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January 31, 2007
Two's a trend. How long are we going to shuffle along, distracted by their cute organicity, as little robot-decorated one-pieces infiltrate our society, our nurseries, our diaper bags, where they just lie in wait? Waiting to hit the switch--click--and...
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January 30, 2007
