Is there a better place or time to shop for deluxe summer ragamuffinwear than on the North Sea in November? No, no there is not. Oilily, the crazy, Dutch, more-is-more, rich hippie baby clothing company which went through a convoluted...
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Category archive: clothing
November 19, 2009
It's Always Summer, They Never Get Cold: Oilily Reopens With Bankruptcy-Era Overstock
November 17, 2009
Hey You! Go To Shrimp Shop This Saturday In Los Angeles
Andy from Stork Bites Man and Ryan from The South Willard are having a colabo joint for kids starting this weekend. It's called the Shrimp Shop. Here's just a taste of what to expect:Boro Pants Ceramic Mobiles Creative Playthings...
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November 15, 2009
From LIFE: Junior NASA Astronaut
Just fantastic. Andy posted a couple of great b&w photos of this "Young Space Pioneer" taken by veteran photojournalist Arthur Rickerby in 1962 the same year John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth, but the entire...
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November 12, 2009
Leave Me Alone, I'm Self-Soothing! Onesie
If you're going to put parenting advice on the back of a Onesie [sic], shouldn't it say, "Whatrya tryin' to do, SIDS me? Put me on my back!" Wait, this is at Zazzle. How do I know this is...
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November 2, 2009
Moss Kids T-Shirts
"Small children must be held": It sounds so sweet and loving, the saying on this little t-shirt. It's only when you learn it's from the front door of the self-important SoHo design emporium Moss that you realize they left...
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Vat Do Ve Sink Of Dese Strumpfhose Tights For Boys?
Runners wear them, all those UnderArmour guys wear them, skiers wear them, dancers wear them, Spiderman wears them, and according to Laura, an expat American mom of a 4-yo boy, every boy in Germany wears them. So what's the...
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October 30, 2009
Chubby Blue Steel Meets Toddler Hollister Hair
JJ Daddy-o Mama just sent this example of what she calls "toddler Hollister hair," and I'm like, they're all the same face!"...
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October 29, 2009
Ex Thinkgeek, Star Trek Baby Nerdia
Stardate 63293.1 We have come across Star Trek Onesies at Thinkgeek, which show signs that the Gerber Childrenswear Company has apparently abandoned its claim on the Onesie copyright on this M-Class planet. The Starfleet Academy cadet Onesie shows the...
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October 23, 2009
Sesame Street Fight! SW Calls BS On AA T's PR
Haha, you know how a couple of weeks ago, everyone was scratching their heads and going, "Really?? Sesame Workshop approached American Apparel for a Sesame Street throwback T-shirt licensing deal?? Can you guess which one just doesn't belong here?" I...
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Hair Gel Not Just For Babies Anymore
Just in case you're wondering which side of the "work a little product in, give it some texture" kid's hair trend you're on, I just got this announcement from Plush, a silly new collection of cool, handmade kids clothes...
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October 13, 2009
Shanghai Tang Little Lantern Collection Parties Like It's 1997
Ah, thank you, publicists. The merest mention of Shanghai Tang takes me back to those grand old days of 1997. And I don't mean when the end of British rule over Hong Kong and the receding into the fashion...
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October 9, 2009
HAHA, Gap Casting Call Turning Into Mall Mom Version Of Survivor
Given that they're all wearing all the same clothes from the same two stores, you'd think I'd have an easier time recognizing This Country Of Mine, America. A post about the Gap Casting Call on the popblog Bumpershine has become...
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October 7, 2009
Bend Over For The Camera, Prairie Dawn
Shameless hipster muppetwhoring: it's not just for Kermit anymore! From Hands In Orifices In The Workplace And Hey, Dov Charney! What's That Woman Doing Behind You? Journal comes this news: Sesame Street and American Apparel have teamed up to...
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Will Make Kid Work For Gift Card: Gap & Disney Launch Child Labor Contest
Gap Kids and Baby Gap have launched their 4th annual "casting call" in partnership with Disney Family.com to find the new faces for its February 2010 in-store ad campaign. What a perfect marketing campaign for the new depression: giant...
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September 29, 2009
The Night Max's Dad Wore His Wolf Suit
And made colabo mischief of one kind: and another: Someone in licensing needs to get sent to bed without eating anything. WTWTA WTF?: Where The Wild Things Are X Opening Ceremony: Max Sweatshirt, $460, Max Suit, $610 [openingceremony.us via the...
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September 14, 2009
First Day Of School?
I'm feeling a first day of school photo contest coming on, but I can't tell if it's a "No way, check out this kid's awesome outfit!" contest or an "I was haunted all my life by the outfits my...
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August 18, 2009
Little Bony Pajamas At Gymboree
I don't have the patience to go in, but my wife can somehow find the one non-heinous, non-appliqued, non-pink-disaster at Gymboree. This time it was an extra set of pajamas for K2, which, if her head were bigger, balder,...
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July 31, 2009
Why Not...Turn Your Old Clothes Into Diapers?
This early Meiji-era diaper at Sri Threads already sold, but you can follow these simple instructions and make your own, no problem! It's easy and economical, plus it helps the environment! Here's what you'll need: An old yukata summer-weight...
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July 30, 2009
Blame Australia! For All Their Pervy Hullabaloo, And Their 'Tits' On Onesies, Too
Hide your Baldwin Brothers, Australia! New Zealand is pissed. Pissed about the smutty jokes being served up on baby t-shirts and rompers at Cotton On Kids, the bub-subsidiary of the hometown clothing chain that's equivalent to American Apparel or Urban...
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July 29, 2009
Put Your Child In Touch With A Conscious Blankee
In the West, we somehow accept the concept of a blankee providing soothing comfort and reassurance to a child. And yet sometimes we are so blinded by our cultural and scientific preconceptions, we miss the deeper underlying Truths. Fortunately,...
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July 25, 2009
Recycled LACMA Bears By Robert Fontenot
When the Los Angeles County Museum of Art decided to deaccession over 100 items from its collection, artist Robert Fontenot was there to scoop them up. He bought over 50 items, mostly from the museum's costumes and textiles department,...
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July 21, 2009
Joey, Do You Like Coloring Books About Cowboys?
The comic-sized Wrangler Western Museum Coloring Book is an obvious marketing tool--that was published in 1962 by Custom Comics for my high school buddy's grandfather's company, Blue Bell, which operated textile mills way out in the west-- -ern part...
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July 20, 2009
DT Monday Mommy Mailbag: Rack After Rack Edition
Wondering what Smart, Haute Moms are being sold this week? Just check out these marketing messages meant for the Mammary Set from the Daddy Types Monday Mommy Mailbag: First up, Sea Goddess contouring swimsuits:Hi There - Every summer, women agonize...
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Stoke The Insanity! Threadless Cakes
hahahahahahhahaahhahahahahaa.... lololololooolollolol.... wtfwtfwtfwtfwtfwtfwtf.... whoawhoawhoawhoawhoa... mmmmmmmmmmm.... This is my mind on Threadless Cakes. Any questions? Threadless Cakes: An online cake competition by Chris Cardinal & Threadless.com [threadlesscakes.com via waxy]...
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July 18, 2009
On The Street Where You Live: Awesome Map Quilts By Haptic Lab
Fantastic. Haptic Lab's Haptician in Chief is Elizabeth Emily Fischer, who makes Soft Maps, quilts with map patterns stitched onto them:These heirlooms are meant to be used: wrap your children in them, have a picnic, pull them close during...
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July 17, 2009
1. Have Babies 2. Race Volvos 3. Make T-Shirts
So my first thought when I read this in Automotive.com: Volvo has started off this year's racing season in the Swedish Touring Car Championship with a bang - pole position in all races and several victories. Volvo has also...
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July 16, 2009
Haha, Crocs CAN Sink
Crocs, the fugly foam shoes only an escalator-suing personal injury lawyer and a pediatric reconstructive plastic surgeon could love, are doomed. The company expanded like crazy to meet infinintely expanding global demand, only to find that no one replaces indestructible...
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July 12, 2009
Oilily Be Right Back
At this rate, I'll need to start a "back in business" tag to go with the "out of business." The bankrupt Dutch psychedelic hippie/moppet clothing company Oilily was recently liquidated; the intellectual property and trademarks for the firm were reportedly...
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July 8, 2009
Right Start Restart: Liberty Media Gets Into The Baby Business
This weekend in Pennsylvania, we passed a mall that had a big Right Start sign on the street, and I thought, huh. Are they actually still open? [They were not.] And then tonight I get an email from DT...
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June 25, 2009
Gerber, Hanna Andersson Spun Off To Pay The Bills
Whoops, looks like I missed this story from the New Depression. Which I guess was the entire point of the company releasing the news on November 25, two days before Thanksgiving. Kellwood, a women's apparel manufacturer which bought Gerber Childrenswear...
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June 22, 2009
DT Monday Mommy Mailbag: 'Tidy Whiteys' Edition
Specially selected messages from the mountain of momcentric marketing madness that masses in my mailbox:Subj: Little Boy Hats, Flip Flops and Tidy Whiteys [? -ed.] haiden surf has got your little grom covered in all the right places. Manhattan Beach,...
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June 19, 2009
It's... An ILLUSION! B&B Owner/Hypnotist/'Lord' Totally Making Up This Babyglow Nonsense
In their skeptical post about this bullshit announcement of Babyglow, a new "invention" of thermochromatic pajamas that change color when a baby's body temperature goes above normal, Engadget says that "The most gullible shopper on the planet has to...
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June 16, 2009
The Hangover: The Bootleg Nerd Shirt
Finally, something to wear when your tuxedo t-shirt is in the laundry. Still, it's better than the The Hangover bootleg T-shirt with a busted up vintage Mercedes steering wheel on the front at FratIdiotShirts.com. Knockoffery Update: Whoops, just who...
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June 11, 2009
'Dov Working On Various Construction Projects'
For those who have a hard time imagining American Apparel CEO Dov Charney making anything other than a complete, skanky, sexual harassing ass out of himself, this slideshow of all the crafty toys and furniture he made as a...
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June 8, 2009
This Week In Bankrupt Dutch Moppetwear Company News
So what's up with Oilily since the Dutch bankruptcy trustee shuttered the high-end kid clothing company's local stores and then sold off/handed back the trademarks to the Olsthoorn family, who founded the company, and who retained a significant minority stake...
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June 3, 2009
Whoops, Missed The First Day Of The Kit & Lili Sample Sale
A good friend told me about the sample sale at kit & lili which started today. It's all he wears--partly because most of the time, he's running around naked and trying to shimmy out of his diaper. Anyway, besides kit...
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May 20, 2009
Come Back, Fall! Awesome Coats At Chigo
Some friends are going to Tokyo, so I was just looking up the map to Chigo, the children's retail branch of the super-tasteful Landscape Products mini-conglomerate. And whoops, I clicked across these two coats so insanely awesome, they made me...
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May 18, 2009
Day Of Reckon-ing?
When I first posted about Reckon, the Austin poet-slash-awesome-Onesie*-silkscreener in 2006 and then again in 2007, it was because his etsy shop had the awesomest-looking Gena Rowlands, Buckminster Fuller, Krysztof Kieslowski, Wittgenstein, Robert Smith, and Jon Stewart Onesies on...
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May 15, 2009
Where The Wild Sweater Things Are
Hello, crazy Dutchman Koos Van Der Akker, who made those Cosby sweaters that sent dad fashion completely off the rails for most of the 1980s! Hello, awesome blog named We Love You So about all the crazy inspirations and...
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May 13, 2009
'Temporarily Closed': Oilily On Madison
I was in the neighborhood today, and though the Oilily website had an announcement that the US stores would remain open through the company's Dutch-governed bankruptcy proceedings, I would say that the Madison Avenue location, which has been "Temporarily...
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May 3, 2009
Leave The Stores, Take The Oilily: Founding Family Buys Back The Brand
Well that's interesting and a little complicated. The government-appointed trustee overseeing the sale of the bankrupt Dutch luxo-moppet fashion chain Oilily has announced a deal, of sorts. Turns out it's the family of Willem Olsthoorn, the hippiepreneur who founded the...
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April 29, 2009
What Do You Make Of This? A Pteradactyl! Custom Crafty Purse
The kid is a non-stop art machine. We are literally drowning in art, which comes home from school in totebag-sized loads, and which has transformed every box that passes through the house. [My printer cartridge box? Now a duplex...
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April 21, 2009
Karma, GL-Class In Village. GL-Class In Village, Karma
It's a proven historical fact that every single Greenwich Village-dwelling baby clothing company owner who uses the ill-gotten gains from selling licensed Tootsie Roll onesies at Wal-Mart to buy lease a Mercedes GL450, and then claims it's only because the...
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April 13, 2009
A Dollar And A Dream: Dish Towel Baby Clothes
Sure, any In 'n Out Burger employee can make a wrap skirt with a dish towel and a big-ass safety pin. But it only lasts to the end of the shift. But if you're in need of some seriously cheap...
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April 8, 2009
For Sale: One Slightly Used, Knockoff-Prone, Dutch Moppetwear Company,
Oilily's having a sale! Of itself. The Dutch children's clothing chain has apparently not sold enough Rosa Pomar knockoff bunnies to cover its nut, because bankruptcy administrators in Amsterdam Monday ordered the company to be sold. Which is funny [and,...
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April 3, 2009
Uh-Oilily
Suffice it to say that dealing with their knocking off of an indie Portuguese designer's rabbit is close to the bottom of Oilily's urgent to-do list. From DT's Man In Holland comes the tip that the bankruptcy judge hearing Oilily's...
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April 1, 2009
AAARRRGH!! JUST LET THE KID BE BALD FOR A FEW MONTHS!
I've tried to keep my trap shut about the headband thing, because it's apparently so important to some moms that their kid is identifiably female, they don't care if she actually looks like a striped billiard ball--or worse, a rental...
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March 31, 2009
Will Oilily's New Private Owners Address Their Rosa Pomar Problem?
It turns out that while they were launching their new Spring line of knockoff Rosa Pomar bunnies, the Dutch moppet clothing company Oilily was itself being sold. The announcement appeared in the Dutch press two wekes ago that Lea Ward,...
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March 20, 2009
Daddy Makes: Just Some Jetty, Happens To Be Spiral
I've had this image in my head for a long time, and I thought, with proper steps to assure a transformative work exemption under fair use law, it'd make a great t-shirt for the kids. And sure enough, it...
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March 12, 2009
McAwesome: French Fry Overalls
So here's the deal. I'll agree not to complain at commercials showing that when dads make dinner, they go to McDonald's on ONE condition: McDonald's agrees that when dads go shopping for overalls on etsy, they buy these. Deal?...
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February 4, 2009
Girard In The House!
House Industries pioneered the Alexander Girard objet revival in 2006 with their awesome wood blocks set, which they adapted from the sun-covered matchbooks Girard designed for the Casa del Sol restaurant in NYC. That's the House approach: adapt some...
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January 28, 2009
Keep Thinking Pink, CBC
I just finished listening to Sue Palmer, the author of Toxic Childhood, which was the hook for that bafflingly ridiculous BBC article about how girls' brainwashed obsession with the color pink is bad--even if it doesn't alter their DNA. Palmer...
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January 21, 2009
Can't You Hear Me Yell-a? There's A Clearance At Estella!
One of our favorite NYC stores is Estella, on 6th Avenue & 12th St. It's where we got the kid's first Album di Famiglia stuff, and a bunch of other stuff. Estella is starting their winter clearance sale tomorrow, Thursday...
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January 10, 2009
Beards Over Babies T-Shirt: Cute But A Tough Sell
The beauty of Yo Gabba Gabba is it's unassailable merchandising logic. They're not just cranking out random dolls to capitalize on the show's popularity; the characters themselves are the dolls. Totally different! By weaving the product into the story,...
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January 8, 2009
CPSC Tells Junksellers: CPSIA Is Not The Big One, We're Not Coming For You
The CPSC says the "clarification" issued today about the new CPSIA lead-testing regulations which go into effect Feb. 10. is "Intended for Resellers of Children's Products, Thrift and Consignment Stores." But it's also great news for thrifters, eBay sellers, craigslisters,...
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BBC Reports That Pink Princess Thing Does Not Change Girls' DNA
So apparently, girls only like pink, and so that's all the "marketeers" give them. How did this come about? No one knows, but the BBC says it has something to do with Hitler and the gays. There's nothing to be...
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January 6, 2009
There's A Sale At Vinnie's!
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop shopping! Because of the mailing list thing, the previous customer thing, and/or the DT advertiser thing, I get these heads up [heads ups?] about sales from companies that I keep meaning...
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December 10, 2008
Nice Lice, Baby: Awesome Norwegian Lice Sweater Bodysuits From Ugly
These are Norwegian Lice Body Sweaters from Ugly Children's Clothing, an Oslo company started by three guys who, when the kids arrived, discovered that "Even though approximately one half of the babies in the world are boys, it seems...
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December 7, 2008
Washington Post Pre-Eulogizes Club Libby Lu
The Washington Post has taken a moment at its parenting blog On Parenting to note the impending demise of skanky mall makeover chain Club Libby Lu. The editors mourn the loss with deep sadness, and the comments are filling up...
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December 4, 2008
Remarkably Unscary Louise Bourgeois Romper @ MoCA
I was just following up on the last place you could buy giant, flowery Takashi Murakami furniture in the US, the MoCA gist shop in Los Angeles. Looks like they finally moved the last of their 6-foot flower-shaped tuffets,...
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December 2, 2008
Makey The Make Magazine Mascot Shirts
Main man Mark made Makey the Make Magazine mascot. Magnifico! Makey: infant shirt, just $5; kids shirt, just $6! [makershed.com via the make mailing list]...
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December 1, 2008
Ceci N'est Pas Un Aibo Onesie
Two Blue Cars is a Brooklyn outfit that makes awesome t-shirts for boys, like this Onesie-style [1] bodysuit with an Aibo-style [2] robot dog on it. Too bad there's nothing for girls, but gender coding runs deep, even in...
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November 7, 2008
With Old Navy T-Shirts, Charley Harper Is The New Morgan Fairchild
Seriously, what Charley Harper this prolific when he was still alive? Charley Harper's ABC Boardbook is consistently the most popular item purchased at Amazon by Daddy Types readers. Now DT secret shopper Katy sends word that Harper's trademark stylized...
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November 3, 2008
Nothing Comes Between This Baby And His Wrangler Jeans
Are we just supposed to feel all warm and cuddly that Wrangler is part of the human family after watching this commercial? Or are we supposed to think that this kid's knees'd fare a lot better if he had on...
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October 31, 2008
The Kid Designed Her Own Halloween Costume This Year
Until she went to the dinosaur museum in St. George, Utah on our visit to the grandparents, the kid was going to be that easiest of all Halloween staples--a ghost. Then suddenly, a few days after we got back,...
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October 25, 2008
DT Friday Freakout: Uh, Better Late Than Never? Edition
You know, these days it just seems like there's no shortage of things to freakout over--but here are a few more kid- and parenting-related bits of news and research to ruin your weekend quicker'n a rainstorm at the World Series:...
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October 24, 2008
Meet Little Jeroen, Dutch Modernist Hillbilly Child With No Pants
Now I like modern architecture and the Dutch and the babies as much as the next guy--probably even more. But it's not the wood stove, or the firewood that looks like it was picked up from the forest floor...
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October 22, 2008
WHOA, Is Sarah Palin's Stylist Also Paris Hilton's Stylist?
UPDATE: Lisa Kline says not. Or at least Lisa Kline's publicist does. I spoke with Lisa Kline of Beverly Hills' publicist, who said that, while she wishes she could take the publicity, it's not her Lisa Kline. In fact,...
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Here's The Tiny, Adorable Scoop On Trig Palin's GOP Shopping Spree
"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 So as part of their report on Sarah Palin's $150,000 Neiman Marcus makeover funded by the...
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No More Calls, We Have A Winner
The contest for the Best Halloween Costume, 1-year-old division, is over. The winner is Movable Type scion Penelope Trott. The Saddest and/or Greatest Costume Ever! [nested via waxy]...
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October 21, 2008
Palin Comparison
A couple of news stories about Sarah Palin and her family get me thinking a bit about how differently our culture--or at least the media and the people who parrot it--treat men and women in the same job. Politico reports...
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September 28, 2008
Took The Kid To Crafty Bastards, Er, "The Craft Fair"
So the kid and I went to Crafty Bastards after church today. We were overdressed and underinked. Still, we got to meet Spooky Daddy in person, which was awesome. He was working the puppetmaster thing pretty spectacularly, and it...
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September 6, 2008
LL Bean Booties
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
Hirst & Koons Kids T-Shirts I Can't Get Too Excited About, Frankly
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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Feet Shirt
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
Now That's A Sale? Or Is Half Off The New Retail For American Apparel?
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
Crocheted Katamari Prince/ss Cap
.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
Baby Chucks
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
Action Baby Has Nothing To Do With U2
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July 24, 2008
DT On Location: Pioneer Day Festival In Ivins, Utah
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July 23, 2008
Hey Makie, You Look Mighty Fine Makin' Them Jeans
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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Life, Art, Fashion, Blog, Store Merge In Le Vestiare de Jeanne
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
If You Buy Just One Republican-Themed Shirt This Season, Buy This One
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
Not Amish, Not Uma: DT Comments Week In Review
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
New York City Subway Map Socks
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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Amish-Made Kids Clothes
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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Ever-Innovative Pampers Invents Way For You To Buy Fewer Diapers
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
As, Uh, Seen On TV! FLDS Polygamist-Made Kidswear
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
Wow, Sweet Vintage Kids Clothes, Err, Vetements
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
Scrubs For Bubs
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
DT Renegade Craft Fair Round-up
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
John McCain's Hat, Integrity, $25
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
Oakland In Da Rebel Alliance!
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
Blogger Dude Gives Dude's Perspective On Etsy
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
Go Figure: Tom Cruise Loses It Over PR-Hungry Baby Store
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
A Little Something To Go With Your Vintage Totem Pole
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
Wait, Carhartt For Toddlers? Did My Hipster Card Expire?
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
Squid Hat? Yes, Squid Hat
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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Ninja Baby Blanket, Also Robots
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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Tetris Baby Blanket
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
Hey-o, Julianne Moore's Tripp Trapp Is On eBay
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
Robeez For Everyone!
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
DT Clearance Sale Scoutabout
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
Cher?? This "Hip" Parenting Racket's Freakin' Groundhog Day, Dude
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
Smart-Aleck Hippie Shirts For Kids, From $30
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
Finnish Government Handouts Totally Killed Local Cardboard Baby Box Market
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
Wow. Baby Boy's Wedding Outfit By Issey Miyake
.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
"Daddyproof?" Le Sabon, Meet Le Finger
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
Baby Seal Pelt Probably Sounds Adorable In Icelandic
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
Oh My Heck! Extreme Yo Gabba Gabba! Craftiness
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
Dia De Los Muertos Skull Shirt By Fooey
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
Baby, You Can Fix My Car: Awesome Black Jumpsuit From Album Di Famiglia
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
Insane Penna. Antique Crib Quilt Would've Cost You $25,000+ Last Summer
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
Awesome Ikea Quilt Hack
.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
Mind The BabyGap
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
DT Retail Scoutabout: January Is Baby Sale Season
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 Made This Rather Awesome Quilt For The New Kid
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
In The Interest Of Truth In Advertising, I'm Thinking Of Renaming This Blog
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
Saks Children's Book: Happiness Comes From Clothes, Nose Jobs
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
Saks To Be You: Club Libby Lu Exec Discovers Joys Of Online Sock Puppetry
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
Mo Gabba Gabba! Mo Gabba Gabba!
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
Crazalert Dec. 10-12: Yoya To Fill Someone's Loft With Merch, Sell It For "Insane" Discounts
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
Q: The Ghost Towel From Lazybone Looks:
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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Merry Krishna! Ghee Happy T-Shirts Make The Perfect Holiday Gift
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
Ouno Trenchcoat Detective Bags As Diaper Bags? Ooh, Yes!
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
Brooklyn-Made Organic T-Shirts By Winter Water Factory
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
The Arts & Science Of The $275 Onesie
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 Jacobs Store Part Of Giant West Village Takeover
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
Damn, But Makie Is An Awesome Baby Store
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
DT Headline Roundup: Adoption, Boys Named Sue, Ramones & Flash Cards Edition
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
Yo Gabba Gabba! Hoodies: I Swear, I Had NO Idea
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
We Have A Winner...
.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
Have You Gotten Anything Bronzed Lately And/Or Ever?
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
RAW Clothing, Awesome Handmade Gifts, By My Modern Life
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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How To Dress Your Kid Like A Tenenbaum
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
ToDo: TokiDoki Signing Party 10/13 At Yoyamart
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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Sugar Skull Onesie* By Babylon Baby. Also Robots. Aieee!
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
I Think I Can Top The Haha Gross-Out Baby Costumes By Specter Studios
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
Official Pine Car Freshner Halloween Costume
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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Portland Port Onesie* From Born Baby
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
DTbay Roundup: Wood Toys & Indians Edition
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
Holy Moses, Check Out This Citroen DS T-shirt By Tuss At Chigo
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
Eyes On The Prize: The Muno Lisa
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
Free Burma Marching Monks Stencil T-Shirt
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
Are Crafters The New Carnies?
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
DT Retail Wholesale Scoutabout: Dwell, Offi
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
Collar-Up Stroller Mashup: Izod Lacoste X Maclaren
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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Well, I Love Trash [Can Costumes For The Stokke Xplory]
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
H Is For Han Shot First
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
Paul Rand, Punk. Punk, Paul Rand: "Graphics Incognito" By Mark Owens
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
Man Tries, Fails To Look Mean In Adorable R2-D2 Beanie
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
Hand Knit Starfleet Baby Blankie Subtler Than Most
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
Whoa. Knit A Space Invader Baby Snowboarder Hat
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
Baobab Paper Chain Family Dress
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
T-Shirt Seller Faces Existential Crisis T-Shirt
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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Uniform Studio: Cool, Simple Clothes For Your Little Star Trek Extra
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
Der Singin' Schlaftsack Mit Der Lyrics Beprintedonit
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
DT Cute-Out: Tooth Fairy Pillows And Other Yo Gama-GOO-dness
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 Harmony, For Pinstripe Prep: Zed's In Bed, Baby
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
Rauschenberg-ian Goodness On A Onesie* By Ooh La La Mama
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
I Know How You Feel, Mate
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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Whazzap! Dutch Baby Do-Rag
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
Now We Know Where To Shred These Crocs: On The Escalator. Holy Crap.
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
Crocs Must Stop, Holey Crap, Too
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
TMX x AF1: Custom Airbrushed Elmo Kid Kicks
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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Little Marc Box At Colette Is A Desperate Cry For Help
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
Dancing Bears, Dashikis, Rope Sandals: Why, It's Baby Hippie Wear Just Like Grandpa's
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
Hand-Knit ATHF Carl Baby Set: Combover Cap and Chest Hair Sweater
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
Arrr! Detect The Pirated Robeez By Their Awesome Skulls
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
Readme Animal T-shirts By Biome5
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
Marcel Wanders' Daughter's Rare Bead Necklace
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
Genius Jones-ing for Friends With You T-Shirts
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
Your Spear And Magic Helmet? Knitting Needles And Magic Helmet, Actually
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
Did Anyone Get A Handknit Golly Jumper For Father's Day?
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
Aprica UN Perpapa: Neoprene Carrier Clothing For Dads
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
Power Up Knit Hats For Your Little Mario, Luigi, Or Princess
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
Baby On Board T-Shirt By Paul Frank
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
Pepsi Generation One Kid Shy Of A Six-Pack
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
Whoa. UglyQuilt
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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What Would Spoiler T-Shirts For Kids Look Like?
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
KajaGama-GooGoo! Gama-Goo Kidwear Now Good To Go
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
Tim Biskup Designs On T-Shirts, T-Shirts On Baby Blankets
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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Stupid-Dangerous Hanger On Target Infant Socks
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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Totally Suck These Star Wars Costumes Do
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
Fire Up The Ink-Jet & Break Out The Iron-on Paper: Weird Wheels Trading Cards
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
Small Object Kid T-Shirts Turn Cuteness Up To 11
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
MakeAOnesie.com To Soon MakeAOnesieLawyerAngry.com
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
MunnaMunna, ThreadlessKids.com Launches
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
Glug Baby: Long Live The Cute Industrial Complex
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
Hudson's Bay Baby Blankets?
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
Salvor-Palooza At Cool Hunting, Kiosk, &c.
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
Club Libby Lu Employee Pouts, Calls Me Grandpa
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
Sprouto Polkadot Dress From Etsy
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
IwannathisOnesie, Chico, 'N Everthinisinnit.
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
Steve And/Or Steven-Lookin' Onesie* From Enfant Terrible
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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Now That's A Baby Box: Cardboard Rolling Crib By Album di Famiglia
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
Vilebrequin Dad-Son Swimsuits: The Official Hamptons Uniform For Doughy I-Bankers
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
Unbelievable Headlines! Gay Uncles And Sperm Switcheroos
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
Crimson Ghost, Pacified: Little Ruler Still Rules
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 Perpetuates Annoying Stereotypes
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
Finally, Yoshitomo Nara Rompers At MoCA
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
Obama Bama Bo-Bama T-Shirt
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
Reckon Shirts I Reckon I'd Buy
[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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Pregnancy T-Shirt Helps Skinny Women Celebrate A Little Bit Of Fat
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
Mysterio Onsie* Predicts Your Child's Future
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
Big Pork Says Blogger's Breastmilk T-Shirt Isn't Kosher
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
Connect The Dots, People! Another Organic Robot Onesie
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
Organic Robot Onesie* Elaborately Printed By Canadians
But wait, doesn't that make it Canadian Apparel? Robot Onesie* by Hardboiled, Printed in Toronto, $24 [elswares.com via swissmiss] * Onesie is a registered trademark of the Gerber Childrenswear Co., Inc., the CEO of which has never exposed himself...
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January 23, 2007
Gawker T-Shirt: 'I Hate Your Kids'
What more can you say? It's brilliant. If only they came in kid sizes... I Hate Your Kids T-shirt, $18.99 [gawker shop]...
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Sooooooooey!
Awesome t-shirt from The Grateful Palate. Available in kid's size 7/8, $16.95. Previously: Lips Stuck On A Pig...
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Baby Gift Arbitrage
There's some great stuff in the One Dad-To-Be Tip To Rule Them All post from last week, hats off to everyone who's contributed. This one just caught my eye, though, from Michael: baby gift arbitrage:Return 80% of the clothes...
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January 19, 2007
The Maclaren Volo Leaves Its Mark
It took me a while, but I finally figured out why the backs of my pantleg was always getting these big black streak marks. I thought it might be from oil leaking from the gearshift console, maybe grease from the...
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January 17, 2007
Method Or Madness?
Now that I think about it, right before the kid was born, someone mentioned the name--Dreft--of the only laundry detergent for newborns in the world. Naturally, we rushed to buy it/some. It was fine, I guess; the kid wasn't one...
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January 10, 2007
Daddy Types Wishes To Thank The Adver--WHOA, A SALE!
I was going to thank Vincent, the super-cool kids' shoe company from Sweden for their super cool kids' shoe ad, but then I saw they switched it. There's a sale going on, up to 50% off. Hop on over. Those...
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January 8, 2007
Dinkins-Era Throwback NYC Baby Gear
In the pursuit of pre-Seinfeld, pre-Friends "authenticity," the designs of official NYC logo merchandise have switched from trade show-impressive to retro-bureaucrato-geeky. I generally approve. Except the only baby gear at the moment is from the FDNY and NYPD. Not...
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January 2, 2007
Arts & Crafts Auction To Benefit The James Kim Memorial Fund
Over 40 artists, designers and artisans from around the world have donated their works to an auction to benefit the James Kim Memorial Fund. Bidding begins tomorrow [Jan. 3rd] on eBay, and will continue through Jan. 7th. 100% of...
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December 31, 2006
Princess Industrial Complex Drives Feminist Crazy
Too bad for Peggy Orenstein that her looong lament about third-wave feminism's powerlessness and lack of viable response in the face of the Princess Hegemony came out the same day American girls were opening their $3 billion worth of pink...
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December 29, 2006
The Toys Of Artist Richard McGuire: A DT Interview
How does awesome work from less than ten years ago disappear from the parenting culture? Granted, ten years is like five toddler generations ago, and I'll be the first to admit my baby trend radar was completely non-existent until just...
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December 19, 2006
Get Ahead Of The Obama Name Curve
There are probably a handful of 6-year-old Ralphs out there whose parents are really wondering if they should've named their kid after the man who threw the election, so it's understandable if people want to wait until he's actually president...
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December 13, 2006
Andrea Zittel Made This Hat For A Friend's Baby
Another artist I really like: Andrea Zittel. Her work explores the boundaries between art and design, modernism, minimalism, and manufactured personalization. I'd love to see what kind of baby/kid environments she'd come up with. She has also been making...
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December 5, 2006
Iiwi: Japan's Most Incredible Baby & Dog Store
It's exactly the kind of serendipitous experience you hope for on a trip: you stumble across an utterly unique, mindblowing store that's obviously the product of passionate, discerning and very entertaining people. The kid and I were on our...
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November 29, 2006
Pink: We Fought The Hegemony, And The Hegemony Won
The answer: far less than 2.5 years. The question: how long before your soul is crushed and your kid's soul is stolen by the whole pink-blue steamroller? Don't get me wrong, I still think it's worth resisting, and truth...
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November 27, 2006
News From The Bape Industrial Complex
The little-known, hyper-exclusive, underground, innovative indie design company from Japan known as The Bathing Ape opened a kids store, Bape Kids, in Harajuku last week. Here are some exclusive, staged, pre-opening spy photos, leaked via press release to only...
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Whoa. Mario Bros. Baby Blanket
Craft Magazine, the knitting-friendly sibling of Make Magazine, has pics of this awesome Mario Brothers baby blanket, along with some howto suggestions and links for converting your images--Nintendo-derived or otherwise--into knitting patterns. As for befriending a master knitter in...
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November 21, 2006
I Was Not Aware That October Was SIDS Awareness Month
All I can figure is that someone from the crib bumper industrial complex must have deleted my email announcement from someone in the sleepsack industrial complex. Anyway, kid sleeps, rests, and hangs on his back. No loose or puffy bedding....
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November 14, 2006
Dude, What's That On Your Shirt?
"Bullseye" "He shoots, he scores." "Look what I did." "My boys can swim." "The man behind the belly" At $38+shipping, daddy shirts from 2chix.com may cost twice as much as a "daddy type" t-shirt, but then again, they have an...
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November 9, 2006
Fadiddle Navigates The Hip-Cute Minefield
It's a classic story: new parents with a design sense can't find clothes they'd actually like to put on their kid, so they start designing stuff themselves. Fadiddle is a line of kid- and baby-clothes that somehow manage to...
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Skg: Unique & V. Expensive. Found: Uni & Vintage
I first saw Uni & Vintage, Christine Ekodo-Delaunay's line of extremely limited-production kids' clothes, at Bubble NYC last summer. She started U&V in 2005, and apparently sold it largely through word of mouth and/or by walking it into a...
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November 8, 2006
Pixel: Gerhard Richter By Way Of Zutano
We're big Zutano fans, have been since our first gifts arrived before the kid was born. Their prints are a little cutesy sometimes, but they're also modern enough to be considered a staple. I got to meet the Zutano...
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Design ME Some Modern Utopian Soviet Textiles, Comrade
You say you want a revolution? Well, yeah, if it means deporting the bunnies and the ducks to the gulag and decking the kid out in adorable prints of the Motherland's glorious steamrollers and tractors, well, paint me read and...
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November 3, 2006
Oeuf Mittenwear So Cute It Gives Me The Shivers
Oeuf may be famous for their bouncer and their sweet crib, but from the get-go, the company also had funny ["haha"] knits. Like a combination hood and dickey [sp, dickie?]. But when I saw their new alpaca pieces at ABC...
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October 24, 2006
Get Into My Belly: Martha Stewart Turkey Costume
Never let it be said that Daddy Types won't stoop so low as to post about Martha Stewart. We WILL stoop that low, thank you very much, as long as it's funny enough. Oh, but what's funny about the...
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October 19, 2006
Speaking of Deals...
While I'm on the subject of deals and sales, Modern Child is running a sale through October, where the discount is based on the total order size. For example, a couple of pieces of minimalist clothing awesomeness from Tuss [say,...
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October 16, 2006
Text-Based Adventure Game/Baby Anecdote Hilarious For Some
I will wager that the delicate machinations required to steer a 1-yo birthday party conversation to the NFL pale in comparison to bringing up a youthful appreciation of text-based computer games:My son just turned two, but about six months ago,...
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October 9, 2006
Vintage Rock T-shirts For The Conceived-At-Woodstock Generation
And here you thought 80's OC Punkers' kids had all the fun? Not anymore. In addition to an impressive assortment of real, vintage concert T-shirts, posters, and memorabilia--did someone come across a defunct promoter's stash at one of those storage...
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October 8, 2006
Hand-Knit Cranky Pants. Cranky Pants? What Are Cranky Pants?
If I had hand-knit pants this awesome when I was a little baby, I'd be calling them Happy Pants. I mean, what could be happier than a pair of pants knit just for you from super-soft, merino wool, that...
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October 1, 2006
Star Trek Auction: The Daddy Types Bidder's Guide
LOT 191: AUGMENT EMBRYO INCUBATOR MODULE, [est. $300-350] If you didn't already know Paramount was throwing a massive, EVERYTHING MUST GO! auction of Star Trek props, costumes and memorabilia at Christie's this week [Oct. 5, 6 &7], you probably...
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September 30, 2006
Jon Stewart On A Onesie
[02/08 update: check the comments here; 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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September 28, 2006
Lilli Bule: Le Blog/Boutique, C'est Moi
Lilli Bule is a really cool-looking [and judging from their press clippings, very plugged in] children's clothing store in BFParis [the 11th] that specializes in independent designers and limited-run and unique clothes. It's also a blog, a blog with the...
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Put Balouga On Your Next Paris Kid-shopping Trip
Balouga is a new, sweet-looking gallery of children's design, from the small to the major, which just got added to my shortlist for our next visit to Paris. I mean, just look at that wall of chairs hanging there,...
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September 26, 2006
Damn! That Is One Tasty Baby Toupee
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, provides a sweet lid to the weak through the valley of hairlessness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the savior of bald children. And I...
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September 24, 2006
Bamboo Fiber Diapers, People. Can You Get Any Greener?
I hear from the hemp folks that cotton is an extremely resource-intensive crop to grow. Organic cotton's better, I'm sure, but I really have no idea. It's all angels on the head of a pin to me, the guy who...
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September 22, 2006
Warning Labels You Won't See
The latest issue of Make Magazine features some great warning labels that you probably won't be seeing on any animatronic or injection-molded plastic toys anytime soon. Danger: Early Brand Exposure The maker of this toy is trying to create a...
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September 19, 2006
While Marlin Waits In The River, Marcus Wrestles The Squirming Baby In The Minivan
Marcus Melnick's wife wouldn't let him wear his favorite 17-pocket vest on safari to Jamaica because "it made him look like a tourist." But that all changed when he realized it could also function as a masculine diaper bag...
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September 17, 2006
Spectacular Brainy Onesies From Reckon
[02/08 update: check the comments here; 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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Morgan & Milo Help You Out In A Tough Kid's Shoe World
Honestly, I had no idea how hard it was to find decent shoes for the kid. It's easy to find cheap shoes, ugly shoes, expensive shoes, and ridiculous shoes, but decent, good-looking, not-exorbitant everyday shoes? Uh-uh. You know, I'd...
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September 16, 2006
Legwarmers Are Back
I posted this picture from Gwen Stefani's post-fashion-show photo-op because the kid is staring down the barrel of the lens like a weary pro. And yet, I suspect that's not where most peoples' gaze is directed. What, I meant...
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September 12, 2006
Baby Gear At The Ferrari Store [sic] At Wynn Las Vegas
Last night I went to Wynn Las Vegas to meet some folks after dinner. How classy [sic] is Wynn? Well, there's a Ferrari Store--not just a showroom, a store--full of Ferrari logo merchandise. Almost all of it is available...
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ABC Kids Expo: Se Habla Barney
I'm starting to upload photos to flickr from the ABC Kids Expo in Las Vegas, including this picture of what does not, unfortunately, stay in Las Vegas: a giant wall of Spanish-laced Barney merchandise for the Hispanic market. Daddytypes-tagged...
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September 8, 2006
Frankly, I'm Fed Up With This Monkey Business
I missed the Paul Frank monkey trend when it was hot, in the 90's, and the kid's not a Small Paul groupie, either. But her 11-yo cousin is a Julius fanatic, and that's been all I need to know. So...
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August 29, 2006
Crocs Rock. Not
Yeah, I know, it's pretty gutless to come out against a pervasive shoe trend only after it's reached over-saturation, and only after most of the summer has passed us by. But let me just say now that those Crocs...
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August 26, 2006
God The Builder T-Shirt
Your soul's not the only thing you'll be saving; the shirt's marked down to $10, from $13. The fine print on there is Hebrews 3:4, btw. [limited toddler sizes only, at putonfaith.com]...
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August 24, 2006
Whoa, Sweet 18th c. Dutch Chintz Baby Coats
Normally, the only time I would let a mention of chintz slip through is during a public reading of The Preppy Handbook, but I'll make an exception for these sweet, so-sweet-even -Phoebe-frickin- Cates'-store-on-Madison-doesn't-have-them antique baby coats from the Rijksmuseum...
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Handmade Clothes By Little By Jenny: The Heirloom Tomatoes Of The Baby Industrial Complex
From the boardbooks to the toys to the wallpaper borders and animal sounds and beyond, I've always thought it was odd that we surround babies with so much farm-related content. Unless something happened this morning, the biggest environmental problem...
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Just Because It's Called Vogue Bambini Doesn't Mean It's For Kids
...Fing’rs, which sells preglued press-on nails, patterned with stars and kitties, to appeal to girls who, she said, “have the latest ‘it’ bags and rhinestone-covered Sidekicks.” Sales of preglued nails for children are up 13 percent this year, Ms. Gonzales...
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August 23, 2006
T-shirt For The Chopsticks-Impaired
The actual translation is, "because I cannot use chopsticks, fire comes out of my face," but it's close enough; this is another obvious candidate for Threadless kid-sizification. "Sticks of Shame" t-shirt by Candace Okumura, $19 [threadless.com via superdumb]...
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August 17, 2006
Though Cute, "Friendly Danish Stereotype" Clothing May Complicate Your Transracial Adoption
Danefae makes "simple, non-branded, and handy graphics-based objects of desire for charmed visitors, good-natured residents, and sticky-pawed toddlers. All inspired by friendly Danish stereotypes and placed on a simple range of basic, solid products whose quality won't let you down."...
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August 16, 2006
Enabling Your Cross-Dressing Child
DT reader Andy writes in about a subject I've taken note of myself lately: little girls' underpants. I was taking the laundry out of the dryer the other day when it suddenly dawned on me that for the foreseeable...
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August 14, 2006
Frubi Sunglasses: Not In The Eyes! Not In The Eyes!
The Phoenix opthalmologist who invented Frubi sunglasses for babies and kids did so because he was really concerned about the possible risks tiny eyes face from overexposure to sunlight. Apparently, baby lenses are far less resistant to UV and...
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"[Desperately Seeking Susan-era] Madonna-style" Rompers
"Well, you see, honey, you know that old lady, Madonna? "Well, way back when Daddy was a little boy, she would dress up, and wear a lot of necklaces and bracelets and belts, all at the same time. And...
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August 11, 2006
Zid Zid For The Kid Kid
The Bubble New York show popped a couple of days ago, but I still have some spotlights left to shine on some of the standout exhibitors. One definitely goes on Zid Zid, a two-year-old or so label based in the...
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From The Denounce Your Capitalist Roader Parents Dept: TSA Junior Screener Stickers
Or was it the "Ask me about my utter ignorance of historical context for fascism department"? Paul Saffo reports that the SF Intl Airport is handing "Junior Screener" stickers out to the kids. Personally, I'm holding out for a...
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X-Box Free Kid?? That Just Goes Too Far
Sugar, Peanuts, Television, Dairy, even Mercury I can totally see. But I can think of an easy dozen t-shirt slogans I would've released before "X-Box Free Kid." Any suggestions? Also, shouldn't these be in Spanish? Update: best quote from...
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August 8, 2006
Snakes On A Plane On A Onesie
As of this morning, there were 358 Snakes On A Plane-related designs available on kid-related gear, either creepers, kid-sized t-shirts, bibs, etc. FINALLY, the full promise of CafePress comes into view. Snakes On A Plane Baby & Kids Apparel...
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Tuss: It's Swedish For Awesome, Minimalist Baby Clothes
More news from the Bubble. Actually, tuss stands for 'the ultimate simple solution,' an English acronym for a Swedish company. Call it what you want, it works. Tuss was started [say it with me] two years ago in Stockholm...
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More News From The Bubble: Salvor Fauna Printed Matter
One of the biggest booths at Bubble New York was from Salvor, a New York based designer [? collective?] whose silkscreened products have a very sweet, instantly recognizable style. They're all/almost all photography-based images of animals, which are single-color...
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August 4, 2006
Awesome Blik + Threadless Mashup Wall Decals
I, for one, welcome our Blik overlords, who seem to be in a constant state of revolution in the contemporary wall decal market they revolutionized. A couple of months ago, they threw a competition with Threadless, the hotornot.com of...
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August 2, 2006
My First Boxer Shorts Are For Sale Online
Before I get your hopes up, I'd better rephrase that. Although they're best known for their theme-y baby towel sets and costumes, Mullins Square also makes diaper covers called My First Boxer Shorts that look like--you guessed it--boxer shorts....
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July 27, 2006
"Read My Daddy's Blog" Onesies
Dad Mark McClusky has come up with a way to put the kid to work promoting the family blogs. Check with your accountant to see if this gear can be expensed on your Schedule C. Babies are Great Marketing...
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NYT: Skulls R Kewl
I guess I had my head in the sand a decade or more ago, but according to the NY Times, skulls are the new Precious Moments: Reminiscent of the vogue for angels a decade or more ago remember how...
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July 21, 2006
Damon Sucks Bib Back On eBay
A Boston-area at-home mom starts selling bibs and Onesies with "Damon Sucks" on them on her little online baby clothing store, and suddenly Johnny Damon's agent is all up in her biznazz about it, getting her kicked off of...
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July 13, 2006
Los Pollitos Dicen.... !Comprarme!
When some Miami-raised Cubanos met up in Nashville--que paso with that?--and realized there was a serious shortage of cool, latin-inflected baby clothing, they decided to do something about it. The result: Los Pollitos Dicen, named after the first line of...
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July 6, 2006
See See Kai Run: These Shoes Are Made For Walking
On Mister Rogers yesterday, the kid and I watched McFeeley make a visit to a children's shoe factory. I quickly picked up on the narration, "Shoes of made out of a material," and "Here, she cuts that material..." Of course,...
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Johnny, Who Is Our Next Contest Prize Sponsor? Alexander Girard Pillows, Come On Down!
That's right, Bob, as design director at Herman Miller, Alexander Girard practically defined the color palette of mid-century modernist American design. His bold use of color and his sensitivity to the way folk art and indigenous design resonated with...
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July 5, 2006
Ismodern Isawesome, Ishaving A Sale
They grow up so fast. Ismodern was one of the first parent companies I came across after starting daddytypes, and back in the day, their only product was minimalist silk baby blankets. Since then, they've added a whole range...
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June 29, 2006
Buckaroo Style Wants You Buckle Bunnies To Ride Herd On Oprah
From a press blast I recently received here at DTHQ:COWBOY BABY GEAR [1] IS FINALLY HERE! Please tell Oprah about our Rope Art Names and how they make a super special baby gift with personality and flair! YOUR CHANCE...
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June 28, 2006
More From The About-Damn-Time Dept.: Threadless T-shirts For Kids
Finally, finally, finally, Threadless, the awesome, kinda open source purveyors of cool t-shirts, has introduced designs for kids, too. So far, there are ten designs, and they're each $17. While I'd be happiest if they made a kid-sized option available...
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June 26, 2006
Thanks To The Baby Bunch, America Now More Like UK Than Ever
You remember how, first they had a king, and then we had to have a king? And how they obsess over David Beckham, and then we obsess over David Beckham? And how they think Bean is funny, and so we--OK,...
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June 20, 2006
Totshop Throws A TotSampleSale
Got an tip last night, and I debated posting it until I got first dibs by finagling my way into the VIP preview tonight, but the kid and I were too busy popping edamame at Whole Foods, we missed it....
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June 13, 2006
Mi Abuelita Is Wearing Embroidered Clothes From Tea Collection
So far, our plan to just get the kid a couple of great pieces of clothing each season, mixed with the cheap staples, and the grandma gifts and such [which never seem to stop, so many party dresses!], has been...
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June 9, 2006
"It's product placement at it's [sic] finest."
That's Ronn Torossian, President & CEO of 5W Public Relations, quoted in a press release from his firm:5W PUBLIC RELATIONS SECURES THE TOP CELEBRITY PRODUCT PLACEMENT OPPORTUNITY IN THE WORLD - SHILOH NOUVEL JOLIE PITT Product Placement at its Finest...
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June 7, 2006
Other Daddies Typing: Sheer Slackitude Edition
It's this weird guy thing, I guess, where I get busy, busier, and then I cut back on surfing and checking in on all the blogs for a week, then two, then... then it's just embarassment at being out of...
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June 2, 2006
I Want Some Hot Pregnant Chick Mudflaps
Can you imagine what kind of stars would have to align for hot pregnant chick mudflaps to take off? Just for fun sometime on the freeway, try and figure it out: whose the typical customer for regular hot chick chrome...
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June 1, 2006
LOLOL Namibia Is For Lovers T-shirt
I will have little to say about doings in Namibia here on daddytypes, except to point out that this "Namibia is for Lovers" t-shirt is $15.99 plus shipping. Also, the operative word in the description is "sheer," so unless...
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May 20, 2006
Whoa. Awesome Crocheted Hightop Booties
These hightop sneaker-lookin' booties by yarn artist Jen Fishbach at Mahar Dry Goods are freakin' awesome, but they're just the tip of the hand-crocheted bootie iceberg over there. There are also cowboy boots, ice skates, socks-n-maryjanes, and socks-n-sandals [nerd alert!],...
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May 17, 2006
Hey Boy, You Look Mighty Short In Them $100 Jeans
Until just the other day when I posted one damn thing about Von Dutch [the original racist pinstriping genius, not the faux white trash trucker hat sellout trendoid licensing brand his name has become], I remained dumb and happy about...
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May 15, 2006
Von Dutch Children's Rocking Chair. Damn.
Clearly, I'm not on the right email lists, because I just found out about last Saturday's auction of Von Dutch art and memorabilia in LA about 15 minutes ago. Not that it would've done me any good. Forget for...
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May 9, 2006
All Genki Hats Come In Child & Baby Sizes, Too. Including The Evil Panda Hat.
Now that it's been proved that pandas are evil, and the only reason we love them so is because we've been manipulated by their publicists, shouldn't you rethink your previous decision not to buy your kid a custom, hand-sewn...
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This Pixellated Baby Sweater Totally Outgeeks Me
On Collision Detection, Clive tells the story of a sweater his friend knitted for his newborn son. As they were discussing what design to put on it, he remembered "Game of Life," an early 80's computer game in which pixellated...
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May 2, 2006
A. Crewcuts - J. Crew For Kids
Asked and answered, at least for people with 2-year-olds and a penchant for preppy clones. A couple of months back, DT reader Christy sent in a heads up on J. Crew's new range of clothing for kids ages 2-8. It...
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Q. Holy Moley, Where Are The Decent Kids Clothes At??
I ran some stuff back to Neiman Marcus to exchange sizes last night--one of the grandmothers had been in town and had showered generous gifts on the child, who promptly had a meltdown that prevented any trying on in the...
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April 27, 2006
Run, Lola, Run! Charlie Sheen Debuts Kids Clothing Line At Kitson
Well it just goes to show you, you can't put a restraining order on celebrity-inspired children's fashion! Sheen Kidz, Charlie Sheen's line of clothing for girls, inspired, so the story goes, by his own two daughters, are now available at...
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April 17, 2006
Making The Case For Kidscase
One of the great finds from our last trip to Holland was a long-sleeved solid red bodysuit. Long sleeves were hard to find; solid, unembroidered and unscreened and unribboned/unstarred baby gear was hard to find; and non-pastel was findable, but...
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Unidentified Local Man Models Daddy Type T-shirt
The asphalt grey cotton jersey t-shirt from American Apparel is a fine piece of clothing no matter what's printed on the front of it, as this undated photo of an unidentified local man demonstrates. Asphalt grey cotton jersey t-shirt,...
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April 15, 2006
Nice Shirt
Daddytype Originally uploaded by Apxeolog. Good to see not. For a minute, I thought everyone in the world had given up daddytype t-shirts for Lent. apxeolog, via the daddytypes tag at flickr [flickr] Get your own daddytype t-shirt, 20...
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April 10, 2006
His & Her Push Presents? Jewelry With Babies On It
Inspired by the tiny naked baby dolls that are hidden inside New Orleans king cakes [look it up], a Seattle jewelry company called Fancy has come up with a collection of jewelry featuring, what else, tiny naked babies. If your...
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April 3, 2006
Little Animals' Little Line Of Little Organic Tees & Bodysuits
"For little humans." Actually, the parent company's website says it's "for moms, babies and kids," so I guess I shouldn't even be discussing it because all that organic, pesticide-free, sustainable, low-impact save the earth for future generations crap is for...
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March 31, 2006
Big Swingin' D
So I'm doing some dishes while the wife is getting the kid ready for her bath, when I hear this laughter erupting from the living room. "Go show your daddy." I turn around to see my daughter run in and...
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March 30, 2006
c.1974 SD-455 Trans Am Onesie
Meanwhile, this black cotton bodysuit [the label looks like American Apparel] with a gold-printed Screamin' Chicken on it is patterned after the legendary Bandit, the 1976 Pontiac 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Trans Am, which was the first production model to...
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What's This NASCAR I've Heard So Much About?
So I was here on the East Coast, taking a break from the endless debate my old Ivy League chums and I have on the merits of summering--Hamptons vs. Vineyard, helicopter from 34th St vs. NetJets from Teterboro, you know...
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March 28, 2006
Bigfoot Spotted: On A Onesie!
I don't know, I've seen a lot of Bigfoot photos in my day, and I think this one is a hoax. Sure enough, Amy Miller has confessed to fabricating the Bigfoot from scavenged doll parts, then photographing it, then...
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March 27, 2006
Counting Shirt From Magis Me Too Collection
Magis is best known for its futuristic pop plastic furniture. [Futuristic in a retro sense, obviously, because all that polypropylene or whatever is made from the oil that'll bring on the apocalypse. Buy now while supplies last!] Their Me Too!...
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March 25, 2006
Finally, A Takedown Of Club Libby Lu
From the first time I saw it in Tysons Corner Mall--the cheap one, not Tysons II across the street; but hey, what can you do? You go where the Ranch One Chicken is--I swore my daughter will never set foot...
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March 16, 2006
Babywear B-- Wow, All I Can Say Is Wow--Babywear Bouquets From The Flower Stork
After witnessing the sheer and utter awesomeness that is The Flower Stork's selection of Babywear Bouquets--socks, bodysuits, pj's, bibs, and the all-important muslin square [?], all artfully arranged to look like flowers, and reminiscent, perhaps, of the rose you made...
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March 13, 2006
It's Hard Out Here For A Pimpfant
So a skater dad of three in Portland, Jared, wants to help his shorties--and yours--represent, and he launches Pimpfants, a collection of righteous-looking streetwear that doesn't have ducks or bears on it, and the big Corporate Types at AOL/Blogging Baby...
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Why Is There No Martin Margiela For Kids?
Just asking. Because now there are stores and stuff, it'd seem like a good time. maisonmartinmargiela.com...
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March 5, 2006
Other Daddies Typing: Oscar-Avoiding Edition
A list of highlights from other blogging dads out there that's as comprehensive as my knowledge of parenting [*cough cough*]: You can't pick your kids, but you can pick their noses. And you can brush their teeth. Adventuredad has a...
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March 2, 2006
Do Kids Really Rock The Boots OK?
We saw some kid-sized Doc Martens the other day, and it brought back all kinds of painful memories of limping home at the end of the day from school, suffering for what seemed like forever for the boots to get...
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March 1, 2006
Breast Bounce Simulator
Maybe you've noticed someone near you is experiencing enlarged breasts--it's been known to happen during pregnancy and after giving birth, especially if there's breastfeeding involved. Now you can precisely quantify the amount of incremental bounce-age for those new breasts,...
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February 21, 2006
Q: Do Men Buy Baby Clothes?
I've been emailing with Nick, a dad who, with his baby momma, launched Tricky & Titch a very clean and well-done line of baby clothes. They're smile-inducing, but not ROTFLMAO funny, and they've got a very clean, non-fussy design sense....
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February 18, 2006
Nirvana Onesie*
No sooner do I write about how cool these 80's punk bands were, than do I realize that, for all you young whippersnappers care, I might as well be pining for Lawrence Welk Onesies. So for all you MySpace types...
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Arizona Punk Rock Flyers Not Yet Available On Onesies
What are the odds? To what does this amazing collection of early 80's punk rock flyers and ephemera from Tucson owe its very existence? A deeply involved hardcore scenester [like the guitar player in a local band]. Who had...
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February 16, 2006
Dylan Bodysuit: Yet Another Reason For DIY
Holy smokes, Ryan, he of the homebrewed Space Invader bodysuit, also made one with Bob Dylan on it. Awesome. [and congratulations on the kid, too, of course. priorities.] Previously: Where's all the video game baby gear?. Gocco, the Japanese home...
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February 14, 2006
Sugoi! Evisu Kizzu
According to the current issue of Junior Magazine (UK), Evisu is adding some suh-weet little shoes--I saw canvas hi-tops with the Evisu swoop/seagull logo on the side--to their line of children and infant clothing. Wha wha wha?? There's Evisu gear...
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February 8, 2006
Petit Bateau, the Gritty Urban Edition, by Christophe Leroux
Now we love us some Petit Bateau. The kid had these footsie trapdoor pajamas from PB that were just adorable; to change a diaper, the whole bottom half opened from her lower back and hinged upward, like one of those...
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February 3, 2006
"The Slope: How We Roll" T-shirt
A Subaru Outback. A Bugaboo. And Clogs. It was only a matter of time before The Park Slope Lifestyle was available in T-shirt format. Wear'em to the Co-op! Collect'em all! Trade with your friends! Or not, since your friends...
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January 26, 2006
To A Child, There Are No "Strange, New Worlds"
After the Miss USA pageant, the flamers at Fark.com Googled up an old DT post about baby beauty pageants and creeped out, retouched glamour photos of innocent Southern children whose mothers won't face the reality that Designing Women is off...
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January 19, 2006
John Deere Rocker [and Stuff. LOTS of Stuff.]
So far, I haven't seen any of the JD bras or burial urns that John Deere megadealer Run Green mentioned on their site. But they DO have a plain white one-piece with the Deere logo on it, And they...
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January 13, 2006
Open-Source Geek Designs On Trademark Onesies
It was a DIY Christmas around the Woodchick house this year; they're expecting a baby, so [Mrs?] Woodchick embroidered up some Onesie-brand bodysu--dammit, for once, they're really Onesies. for their pending arrival. There's a perl script, "cutie pi" [is...
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January 11, 2006
Hmm. About That Silkscreened Romper
When a story involves infants and oozing, you know it's not gonna be good. A dad in MA posted photos on flickr about how his kid got a big, oozy burn on her stomach after sleeping overnight in an ipodmybaby...
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January 6, 2006
"Tibet Next To China"
The kid got some chunky Tibetan necklaces for Christmas; my father-in-law bought them in Beijing from a Tibetan woman's stand in some giant jewelry market. As she was playing with them this afternoon, I was telling her they're her China...
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The What?? Out Of Holland?
"Ontour, the Storybook-based t-shirt line out of Holland..." Aha. Turns out this season's story--which informs all the t-shirt designs--is about a girl who eats so much pudding, she becomes a jellyfish. Last season was the Bremen Musicians as balloon animals...
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January 5, 2006
Wanted: A Snakes On A Plane Onesie
Snakes On A Plane, man. Snakes On A Plane, coming Aug. 2006 [imdb.com] Snakes On A Plane: the early blog post Snakes On A Plane: and another one Snakes On A Blog: The Fan Blog Snakes On A Plane t-shirts...
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January 2, 2006
Canadian Leather Mally Bibs Conquer Hearts & Minds At Bloggingbaby
Looks like the cutey cute charm, wash-n-wipeable convenience, and ironlike durability of Mally Bibs, Canada's leading brand of leather bibs, has won over at least some of the crew at Blogging Baby. Today some may look askance at babies who...
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Hello Kitty Fans Unite! [With Halo Fans. And Make Onesies.]
The Video Game-Themed Baby Gear Revolution Is Coming! Someday, I'm sure. I know it'll come that much sooner if someone reworked Brad Mrock's awesome Halo Kitty t-shirt design in a size that's iron-on printable for a bodysuit or kid's...
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December 29, 2005
Relax T-shirt From NWA
Nippaz With Attitude has introduced a Frankie-style "Relax" T-shirt for babies. It comes in sizes 0-6 and 6-12 months, but to get the true, 80's oversized-T look, I say go for the big size. Just imagine how peaceful discussions of...
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December 22, 2005
Al-Most. Fashionbeast "8-Bit Clothing" By Malcolm McLaren
I gotta admit, I'm feeling pretty good if I have just about the same idea about clothing as Malcolm McLaren. I mean, the dude invented punk, for Sid's sake. But even after reading about McLaren's new line of video-game inspired...
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December 20, 2005
Be Unique Somehow At Baby Gap Outlet
You know the trouble with Baby Gap; it's the same with Grownup Gap: if you get anything but basics there, you run the risk of running into a hundred people on the street--or at the mall, for you suburban types--wearing...
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JOY Division: Carter's + Target? It Just Don't Add Up
In this time of giving and holiday cheer, it's important to remember the less fortunate, to offer them our love and support, and to share with them of our bounteous blessings. That's why I'm announcing that Daddy Types will give...
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December 18, 2005
Gocco Gonzo
Please do me a favor and don't tell me about anything cool. Especially if it's just going out of production, like the Print Gocco, for example. No sooner did I find out what a Gocco was--an incredibly easy-to-use home silkscreen/printer...
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December 17, 2005
And Yet, I Want To See More John Deere Baby Gear
It's one of the most thoroughly licensed-out brands around these days, but I can't help feeling there ought to be more baby-related stuff from John Deere. According to the official John Deere Gifts online shop, there are two bodysuits...
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December 16, 2005
Hold The Phone, I Just Clicked On A Gmail Ad
Now, I know there are a few people out there who click through the ads that appear on Daddy Types, and I must say, I'm always grateful. I hope they're useful and informative and add to whatever value the...
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December 14, 2005
Now We're Talking: "Please Make A Baby-Sized [Katamari Damacy] Shirt"
The day of sweet video game baby gear may soon be upon us. Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi is no fan of moneygrubbing, Game-Logo-Here merchandise, but when pressed, he approved a handful of t-shirt designs that make oblique or subtle...
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December 12, 2005
Shibori [Ancient Japanese Secret Tie-Dye] Onesie
I found this on flickr while searching for cool homemade Onesies and other one piece baby gear. It's a Japanese technique called shibori, a tie-dye process that's far older and superior to the Deadhead version. I'm not quite sure how...
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December 11, 2005
Ferdinand: Maine's #1 Source For Drum-Playing Squirrel Baby Gear
Locals in both places wear nothing but LL Bean; they talk funny, and there's nowhere to park. It's no wonder people often get Maine and Boston confused. The easiest way to tell them apart: Beacon Hill is in Boston,...
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Where's All The Video Game Baby Gear?
Seriously, there are so many Onesies with heavy metal and "punk" logos on them, but I can't find one single Space Invaders-related baby item, or a Pacman or a Mario or a Grand Theft Auto or Halo or anything. Whatsupwithat?...
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December 6, 2005
Canadian Baby Leather Industrial Complex Expands Into Bib Market
Not content merely with domination of the world market for cartoon-cute elastic booties, Canada's Baby Leather Industrial Complex is now expanding into bibs. Mally Bibs are made by a multinational leather bib megacorporation which goes by the name Nicole Garza...
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December 5, 2005
Star Fleece: Warmplus Favorite By American Widgeon
When the kid wore her new red Warmplus Favorite fleece jacket on the train the other day--a lovely gift from my stepmother [the jacket, not the train, I mean]--a mother nudged her tween daughter and said, "look, honey, she has...
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November 19, 2005
The Whole Foods [Chick] Lifestyle Store
Maybe the Santa Monica Whole Foods Lifestyle store--which, at 1,500sf is twice as big as the new NYC outpost at Columbus Center--filled all its extra space with guy stuff, who knows? But in the NYT, "Commander in Chief" actor Kyle...
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November 17, 2005
Robeez Has A Giant Target On Its Back
[1/6/06 update: Sup? If you're looking for news and gear and stuff for dads who roll with their kids, you're in the right place. If you're looking for news about Daddy Yankee's new shoe deal with Reebok, that's cool, too,...
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November 15, 2005
Little Marc: Marc Jacobs For Kids
Marc Jacobs took over my pants collection years ago, so I, for one, am stoked that he's finally making clothing for children. The collection, called Little Marc, is featured in the premiere issue of Cookie [yeah, I bought it; so...
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November 10, 2005
Mario-Che Mashup T-shirt
You can contact ButtonMashers, the crafty, geeky Montreal couple who made these t-shirts depicting Mario in all his Che Guevara goodness, and see if they're going to make any Onesie-brand bodysuits from Gerber, or maybe some other, less-well-branded bodysuits of...
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November 9, 2005
Katamari Damacy Blanket
It took this woman three months to crochet this Katamari Damacy blanket. If you were to buy it, then, it'd cost like...let's see...$300. OR you can learn how to drop hints to a crocheting grandma-to-be, maybe. OR you can...
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Observer Blacklist: NYC Hipster Baby Stores
The New York City way of life is threatened like never before by purveyors of "edgy" baby gear. How can it be stopped? [Or, alternately, where can I get me some of that edgy?] The New York Observer has dutifully...
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Observer Hates On City's Hipster/Political Baby Outfits
Of course you'll read it--it practically a shopping list of NYC's "flippant," "hipster" baby stores--but Daisy Carrington's NY Observer article about the wrongness of dressing your city kid in shirts with political, punk, and or hipster-related outfits gets a lot...
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November 7, 2005
Chinati Foundation Gear For Your Artworld Kid
Ran into some art world friends whose 2-year-old son I hadn't seen for a while--they grow so fast!--and the kid was wearing an awesome sweatshirt. It was a classic grey hoodie with "Chinati" spelled across the front in red block...
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November 3, 2005
Crotchety CBGB Owner Wants All Those Babywear Profits For Himself
Hilly Kristal, the crazy, old geezer who owns CBGB, is hoping to keep his tired, lame "birthplace of punk" club alive by waging a war of annoyance in the press and the courts. Or by moving to Las Vegas. The...
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November 2, 2005
iPod My Baby Cutest Baby Contest--Remember, No Fatties
With a midnight, Dec. 15 deadline for entries, and winners set to be announced the next day [!!], you don't have enough time to conceive and give birth to the world's cutest baby and enter him in ipodmybaby.com's World's Cutest...
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October 25, 2005
First Comes Wine, Then Comes The Baby
I forgot to post this last week--and judging from the press releases, Whole Foods apparently doesn't want dads to know anything about it--but the Whole Foods at NYC's Columbus Circle has a big sign announcing a Whole Baby store will...
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October 22, 2005
Muji Dork Pajamas
If there's a bigger Muji fan on this continent (hey, Canada!), I haven't met him, but the pajamas we got for the kid in Japan over the summer are the dorkiest dork-jamas in the world. Or at least they're meant...
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October 21, 2005
DIY R2D2 Onesie
I guess this third Star Wars post in a row is where I announce that there will be three sequels, and after all that, when I'm as rich and lazy as Jabba the Hut, three prequels designed to hoover every...
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Star Wars Baby Blanket
Search the message boards of the DIY site Craftster.org for "Star Wars" and approximately 100% of the posts you find will include some variation on the phrase, "Ack! My [husband/bf] would LOVE this!" [emoticons and several dozen exclamation points...
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Yoda Baby Hat? Stop Typing & Start Crocheting
I want to see Yoda hats on every tiny head within spitting distance of this website. Got it? Good. Now get going. Halloween costumes: Star Wars [crafster via bloggingbaby]...
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October 20, 2005
Oilily Sample Sale Today/Tomorrow in NYC
Because I crack up at the idea of a couple hundred guys fighting over a pile of hot pink embroidered, pom-pom-laden vests [and that's just for the boys. ba-dum-bum] and because, when you get right down to it, who doesn't...
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October 18, 2005
Flobberdewotsky: It's Dutch For "Trippy Kid's Clothing"
What is it with Holland, the dark winters? The North Sea? Backlash to that stern Protestant sobriety? Because they sure love their dressing their kids up as expensive ragamuffins with more-is-more, pattern-on-pattern, the-brighter-the-better clothing. [there goes my hyphen quota for...
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October 15, 2005
Cruise: Scary Baby
Did I already pledge to expand the Britney-fetus ban to Tom Cruise? Well, then this just happens to be a post about the Scientological doctrine of 'silent birth,' where the labor, delivery and the baby's first 24 hours are supposed...
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October 14, 2005
Where Are The Mr. Hankey Costumes?
Haven't given a lot of thought to the kid's Halloween plans yet, but one thing's for sure: she's not gonna have some "top ten" costume. One list on Blogging Baby--"Darth Vader, Batman, the Fantastic Four, Harry Potter, and Dora...
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October 12, 2005
Ooh. Camo Cashmere Baby Blanket From Scotland
Used to be when the best cashmere--practically the only cashmere, for that matter--was from Scotland. Well, those days may be coming back, thanks in part to Papa Stour, an online boutique of products by contemporary Scottish artists and artisans. The...
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October 11, 2005
Hilarious And Yet Not: Avian Flu Romper
DT reader Chaz sent this in, from the Avian Flu Blog [who knew? not me, obviously. Not-a-freak Guy emailed to say that he's not Avian Flu Blog Guy. But seriously, with a pandemic breathing down our necks, who has time...
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October 10, 2005
Wodeo Season! Infant Western Wear Season! Wodeo Season!
As PBR returns to the OLN--the 2006 Pro Bull Riding World Cup Final is early this year, Nov. 3-6, tickets go on sale next week--a man's heart turns to dressing his child up like a cowboy. Or at least it...
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October 9, 2005
Sacrifice Tie
Greater love hath no man than this: that he give up his tie for his kid. In Sunday School this morning, I watched as a 5-month-old kid chewed away happily on her young dad's navy silk tie. "I sacrificed it...
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October 7, 2005
Art: Thomas Hirschhorn's Camo "Utopia, Utopia"
ICA Boston is currently hosting an installation by the Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn called "Utopia, Utopia." It's a sprawling overload of videos, objects, images, and texts about camouflage, and it sounds like an awesome visit. Hirschhorn constructs his works largely...
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October 5, 2005
And To Think That I Saw It At Yoyamart
Last weekend, I checked in at Yoyamart, the sweet, sweet kid-centric store in EMePa (East of Meatpacking District). The highlights, some of which are available on Yoyamart's online store, too, are below: - the smurftastic Bugaboo By limited edition stroller...
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October 4, 2005
Baby Legwarmers: Flashdance Or Diaper-Changing Nirvana?
For some of you, legwarmers may be too closely linked to formative teenage memories of Flashdance, water-soaked exotic dancers, and Jennifer Beals' jiggling body doubles to allow you to consider putting your own child in a pair of Baby...
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September 28, 2005
Yoshitomo Nara T-shirt/Romper Conversion
A kid at the park the other day had a t-shirt-like romper with a mean-looking girl by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara on the front. I asked her mom about it, but all she knew was that it was a gift...
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Well It's About Time: Whole Foods Lifestyle Store
As if Whole Foods wasn't lifestyle enough already, the company is now set to open an official lifestyle store (i.e., everything but food) next to an existing Whole Foods market in West Hollywood (at Santa Monica and Fairfax, if you're...
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September 25, 2005
Irreverent Naked Southerner Makes Dad T-Shirts, Bares Ass
Just the type of post to make after coming home from church. I'm sure I'll burn in hell. Steve's Nude Memphis blog is a cross between MTV's Jackass and Wait Till Your Father Finishes Watching The Man Show. And on...
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September 21, 2005
Now That's Friggin' Elegant
Like a little Navin Johnson rifling through the phone book, as a child, I found my place in the world and validation of my existence at gas stations and souvenir shops, where I'd spin through racks of plastic vanity license...
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September 16, 2005
Nano Nano
The iPod my Baby bodysuits are now available in Nano Black. [thanks, kaz] Meanwhile, if you want to iPod yourself, go right ahead. As David Pogue said in the NYT, "If you hope to resist buying the newest, shiniest and...
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September 15, 2005
Other Daddies Typing, Vol. 2
There's so much good stuff out there, I might have to pick up the pace on this daddy blog roundup thing: It's cheating, I know, but I gotta start with a little meta. Metrodad gives Props For The Pops,...
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September 12, 2005
Audioslave Onesie
Audioslave's Chris Cornell shows off his daughter Toni, who's sporting a bit of the band's merchandise, a black Onesie with an Audioslave logo on it. [Uh, that would be a black bodysuit, not a Onesie, Chris. Gerber's lawyers are almost...
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September 4, 2005
Hand-knit Organic Wool Baby Clothes
There's apparently a flock of merino sheep in New Zealand that have been raised and certified organic since 1986. We're talking multigenerational organic here. Anyway, Organic Hand Knits makes baby clothes to order from this here organic wool, including sweaters,...
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September 1, 2005
Signs Of The Coming Apocalypse: Kabbalah Onesies
Set aside for a minute the news, the floods, the hurricanes, the wars and rumors of wars, the destruction at our very doorsteps. If ever there were a sign that our world is ripe to be dealt a hand of...
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They're Coming For Your Che Guevara Onesie
No, not the uber-capitalist trademark enforcers from Gerber, the uber-capitalist trademark enforcers from Marxist revolutionary rebel Che Guevara's relatives. While squabbling with each other over who owns the copyright to the Korda photo of Che that became the world-famous stencil,...
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August 29, 2005
New Skool Graf-related Baby Clothes
You can kick it old skool activist with some Zapata bodysuits, or you can kick it new skool, with, um, New Skool baby clothes, designed by a Bay Area graffiti artist for your "extra hip kid." [those plain, old "hip...
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Baby Store Recommendations In [Your City Name Here]
A while back someone [who missed some good stores on his trip to NYC, I believer[ had the suggestion to get people to put together a list of favorite stores in their home towns. So let's see what we can...
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Vintage Activist Kids Clothing
Ahh, the good old days, when activism meant debating the WTO late into the night at the anarchist bookstore. I'm sure there are all kinds of people who wish that we could turn back the clock to September 10th--or for...
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August 18, 2005
Glamajama Rhinestone Baby Clothes: Your BeDazzling Days Are Over
Finally, someone's thinking of the dads. No more sleepless nights and blistered thumbs. No more combing the Internet for new designs, or driving all over town looking for replacement studs. No more pangs of guilt [I mean, come on. Doesn't...
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August 10, 2005
Dwell Magazine Onesies
First off, I'm sure Gerber wishes baby clothing had the same knockoff purist snobbery as the modern furniture market. Then Dwell magazine would be as careful about calling their new onesies "onesies" as Modernica is about calling their Eames...
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August 8, 2005
Baby Clothes For The Geek Brother Demographic
J!NX, for "Gamers, Geeks & Hackers," has a small selection of very geeky baby creepers aimed, not at geek parents, necessarily, but at geek uncles and friends, people still a looong ways away from any actual spawning activity of their...
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August 4, 2005
The Red Shoes
It's not like she's picking these out herself, mind you. Just that the kid seems to be a magnet for cool red shoes. First, for kickin' it old school, there are these Saltwater Sandals, which come in a million different...
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Taking A Pass On The Sensory Overload Japanese Baby Clothes
So a while back, I posted about the punk, psychedelic, retro, wacko patterned insanity of Japanese baby clothes? Well, forget it. It's not working for me in person. The kid and I took some turns through Harajuku this week and...
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August 3, 2005
It's Now You Realize There's A Pause, But No Mute Button: iPod Onesies*
""iPod" is the property of Apple Computer. iPod My Baby is not affiliated with Apple Computer in any way, except that we love iPods. And babies." I love that they call them "Hanes onesies," which is the baby apparel industry...
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July 30, 2005
Made Love: The Bruce Lee Bodysuit Is Just The Tip Of The Awesome Clothing Iceberg
Che who? Who cares? Get your kid this awesome Bruce Lee tank Onesie. (I mean "a Bruce Lee-like bodysuit." Sorry, counsellor.] This tiny-seeming Spanish company called Made Love has some of the coolest-looking baby clothes I've ever seen, anywhere. A...
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Childish Clothing: Celebrity Baby Dog Chases Own Tail
So Blink 182's Mark Hoppus gets snapped with his kid at some charity event, pictures hit all the wire services, gossip magazines, and blogs, and I wonder what the kid's shirt says...and the trap has been sprung. The shirt turns...
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July 29, 2005
Damn You, Jason Kottke
Gettin' my hopes up like that... previously: Gucci baby carrier...
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July 26, 2005
Muji Eating Smocks
A lot can happen in a year, it seems. Last summer when we were here, the baby and kid-related stuff at Muji was pretty sparse and unremarkable. But this year it's out of control. This here weblog is destined to...
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What's Worse Than A Gymboree Junkie? A Broke Gymboree Junkie.
This is a pathetic, sad story I just can't figure out. A woman spends all her time and all her money and then runs up another $50K in credit card debt shopping for kids' clothes--at Gymboree. Personally, I'd have to...
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July 16, 2005
Track Nerds' Children With RFID Pajamas
A designer, "Lauren Scott of California," has announced a licensing deal with SmartWear Technologies, Inc. to embed the company's nerd-tastic RFID tags in childrens' pajamas. Target has supposedly already placed an order. When used with a network of $500 (+/-)...
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July 7, 2005
Finally Found The Sex Pistols Onesie, er, Romper
Lucky Lil Devil has it (in black only) for $18. They also have "Kid Vicious" and two Ramones designs available as well. [luckylildevil.com] Previously: other punk baby clothes posts on daddytypes...
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July 5, 2005
Tshirthell Baby T-Shirt Contest
T-Shirt Hell is sponsoring a T-Shirt Whore contest, where customers send in pictures wearing the merch. There's a "Future Whores" category for kids. While most are just truck stop funny, "Are you my daddy?" is a classic (although an uncomfortable-hence-unpopular...
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June 25, 2005
God Bless Japan And It's Insanely Patterned Kidswear
Wanting to dress their kids in wild, expensive, pattern-on-pattern clothing ensembles but unable to pronounce Oilily correctly (Hey, neither can I.) Japanese parents have many brand alternatives to turn to. Some of them are so over the top, they make...
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June 2, 2005
FYI: Your 'daddy type' T-shirt Will Be Mailed In A Plain White Envelope
Alex Kuczynski is paid cash money to go to stores and write about them for The New York Times. This makes her the most hated woman among women in the city. She was recently creeped out by the skeevy photos...
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June 1, 2005
What's Up With All The Snaps? McSweeney's and My Mom Want To Know
I got a call a few weeks ago from my mother. She didn't say "hello," she said, "I've got it figured out. There are too many snaps." Umm... She'd just finished changing the kid's cousin's diaper, and she was fed...
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May 30, 2005
American Apparel Organics
Like Levi Strauss was to the California gold rush, American Apparel is to the armies of prospecting new parents who have started hip baby clothes companies in their spare time. You can sit back and wait for your favorite hipster...
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May 23, 2005
Are We Not Messy Eaters? We Are Devo.
Yes, the Little Eater Suit from Hippychick also comes in red, blue, and green, but why would you want anything but yellow? According to the website, here's what the suit says to prospective wearers and buyers: "I protect your clothes...
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May 22, 2005
Baby Daddy Clothing: Free Condom With Purchase!
Most of you, when you first heard about Baby Daddy Clothing and their catchy tagline, "Be Proud Be Involved" from the Atlanta hip-hop sensation Mr. Clutch, probably thought, "This is just another example of a celebrity trying to look good...
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May 21, 2005
The Correction: Dads In Kilts
On the subject of dads and kilts, I stand corrected--and with a cool, comfortable breeze between my legs. Utilikilts apparently mentioned my previous post--"Real men change diapers or wear kilts, but not both?"--in their recent He-man Pants-Hater's Club newsletter. The...
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May 19, 2005
Parker G? How about Ali G?
Every once in a while, I wonder if I shouldn't subscribe to Daily Candy--purely for research purposes, you understand. What if I missed something really good? I should relax. Because when something good like, say, chenille-rimmed sungoggles built into a...
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May 11, 2005
Holy Crap. Little Ruler Baby Skate Gear
Someone emailed about all the clothing posts recently and asked if it was Fashion Week at Daddy Types. Hadn't noticed it, to be honest; maybe it'all the puking. [sick kid > puking > models > fashion week, you with...
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May 10, 2005
Real Men Change Diapers Or They Wear Kilts, But They Don't Do Both?
Until I saw them again on the Nano-Tex site, I'd forgotten completely about Utilikilts, the heavy duty (canvas, twill, denim, leather, or camo) "unbifurcated garment" of choice among Seattle's manliest bikers and construction workers. Utilikilts have deep pockets for holding...
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Fighting Drool With Nano-Tex?
Great, just my luck. A stain- and moisture-repellent fabric technology comes on the market, and I finally have hope that I'll be able to wear my suits, black sweaters, and navy shirts again without worrying about spit up, drool, and...
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New Wave Baby Gear from Angelic Genius
In Los Angeles's increasingly crowded hipster-mom-designed-baby-gear scene, newcomer Angelic Genius stands out by offering T-shirts and one-pieces inspired by a fresh crop of bands you used to like, like, um, I'm sure trademark law forbids me to say who this...
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May 5, 2005
Lucy Sykes Baby: Clothes "for mini-me and mini-he"
Talk about ye random brand extensions. My old Hamptons possemate Euan Rellie has had a baby named after him, a sitcom named after him, and now, a jacket named after him. The first and last are thanks to his wife,...
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May 2, 2005
Celebrity Baby Blog T-Shirts
Looks like blog t-shirts are this year's must-have accessory. Like Ugg boots and messenger bags. And babies, too, I guess. Because Danielle at Celebrity Baby Blog just launched a new line of t-shirts for babies and moms. Just moms? I...
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April 25, 2005
My Pretty Sidepony
With its sparkly pens, iron-on t-shirt designs, and sweet, child-like innocence about intellectual property law, Sidepony shows that at least one girl's sixth grade dream to have her own company some day has come true. So buy an infant-sized bugaboo...
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April 22, 2005
Everyone in Hemp
While it's not jute sack, you can't go much further off the status- and brand-obsessed baby industrial complex grid than hemp. And not just any hemp, but the Louis Vuitton of hemp (sorry, old habits die hard), organic vegan hemp...
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April 21, 2005
Punk Clothes For Babies: But Who Does Canada Blame?
When times have changed, and our kids are getting worse, we in the US can blame Canada. But then who do Canadians blame for "the rise of a generation of parents whose tastes are not only a flat-out rejection of...
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April 19, 2005
Pottymouth T-shirts for Punk(ers') Babies
With slogans like "I'm just here for the welfare checks" and "I started as an orgasm," (and those are the ones you can show Grandma) PottyMouth (don't forget the "") is meant to be an in-your-face alternative to dressing your...
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April 2, 2005
Makie Fleece Kimono For Your Baby Jedi
A little while back, I spotted this cool-looking (actually, it's more warm-looking) fleece kimono on friend of a friend's new baby blog and asked them where it came from. [Yes, this site has given me an overdeveloped sense of entitlement...
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March 24, 2005
Oy Vey. Matzo Baby
image: Lars Klove/NYT This kinda cool-looking matzo print bib is $15 at the Jewish Museum, just in time for Passover. If Elijah makes it to dinner this year, I bet he'd say to take that bowtie off. Tchotchkes for...
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March 15, 2005
NoZone UV-Blocking Sun Suit
Now that the locals are all mad at me for giving a plug to infant surfwear from The Valley, I might as well mention this one from Canada, too. [You can try pointing out that it's certified in Australia, but...
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March 14, 2005
Dogtown And Z Babies
According to the t-shirt, Generation Z is defined as "n. 1. Offspring of Generation X and Y. 2. A group of individuals born after 2000 to 2025. 3. The most adapted and connected generation to recognize, reinvent and rule." OK......
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February 28, 2005
No Added Sugar Camo PJ's
No Added Sugar is a London-based kids clothing company with the usual array of slightly irreverent silkscreened T-shirts and bodysuits. These camo playsuits (if they call them pajamas, they have to meet some flame retardant and non-loose fitting-ness safety requirement,...
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February 14, 2005
Daisy Roots Chrome-Free Leather Shoes for Treehuggers
or FROM Treehuggers, actually. Treehuggers.com, where I saw these Daisy Roots kid shoes. They're made with a chrome-free, vegetable-based tanning process, which'll keep the vegans happy [oh, wait...] and keep your kid from absorbing so many heavy metals through his...
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January 28, 2005
I'm going to be the worst father ever T-Shirt, from The Onion
In an even funnier world, this shirt from The Onion would come with little cards pre-printed with info on the local Social Services hotline, which you would pass out to all your neighbors, relatives, and colleagues, who would proceed...
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Google Onesie
Finally, there's a Google Onesie available at the GoogleStore. It's $11.75, white, and made by Hanes, whose global reputation for high quality childrenswear has made Onesie the bodysuit brand parents ask for by name. What's that, Onesie is a trademark...
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January 18, 2005
Fossil Tries To Drive Us Daddy T-Shirt Salesmen Out Of Business
In a shameless and cruel attempt to corner the market and drive the rest of us Daddy T-shirt salesmen out of business, the giant, evil fashion empire Fossil has cut prices to an INSANE level for these "Who's Your...
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January 13, 2005
Because You Can Never Be Too Rich, Or Your Kids Too Well-Dressed
I'm sure you've all read this already, but I've been kinda busy lately and just came across AnneMarie Iverson's article on classic, well-made kids clothes in the December issue of Departures, the American Express magazine for Platinum and Centurion cardmembers:The...
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December 28, 2004
Re: Onesies ®
A little while back, someone asked me why I was shilling so hard for Gerber Onesies ® on Daddy Types, when there were better brands out there with finer fabric, better fit, etc. Oh, but there aren't, I replied. Gerber...
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December 22, 2004
Japanese One-piece Crotchless Pajamas
Before the kid was born, my wife bought some of these Miki-House side-tie pajama/onesie-like things from Akachan Honpo, the Babies R Us of Japan. It was the interesting shape that caught her eye, I think. They're cut flat in this...
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December 14, 2004
Album di Famiglia at Estella
We'd almost given up ever finding any black baby clothes, then yesterday, we found a whole whole world of them. The kid's godmother had recommended Estella, on 6th Ave at 12th St, to us for months. I have to say,...
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December 6, 2004
Trailer Trash Baby Clothes On The Upper East Side
It's not all Bugaboos and pre-school admissions consultants up there, you know. According to the help at L'il Ricky's, the former drag queen makeup store, plenty of Upper East Side moms [and seriously, do men shot at L'il Ricky's? No....
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November 30, 2004
"A Dingo Ate My Bay-Bay"
What is it with kids and dingos? I mean, only ten people saw A Cry In The Dark in 1988 (and I wasn't one of them). Yet somehow, Meryl Streep's anguished, Australian-accented line, "A dingo ate my baby!" has infiltrated...
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November 24, 2004
First Shoes for Barefoot Urchins
I bought the kid's first pair of shoes a few weeks ago; what a fiasco. They were slippers, really, alpaca crocheted red mary jane-looking things that seemed cool enough. Well, he Peruvian children chained to their knitting machines need to...
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November 19, 2004
Now You Know Who To Blame For Baby Uggs
Do you ever wonder how some patently ridiculous trends--say, diaper cakes, cutesified camo diaper bags, or the worst, Ugg boots (make that second worst. I just remembered baby Uggs)--take hold? Well the Wall Street Journal finally reveals all. They're all...
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October 28, 2004
2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes
bwahahahahahahahahaha The Stranger has some suggestions for DIY costume folks, including Lynndie England, Nancy Reagan, the Abu Ghraib guy... But I'm sorry, the Jenna Bush's Liver costume? That's going too far, bringing someone's daughter into this. 2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes...
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October 27, 2004
Baby Butt. Ja, ja, das is richtig, 'Butt.'
Congratulations to Baby Butt, which is celebrating its 36th year of providing German parents and children with a wide selection of high-quality baby products from the best manufacturers at sensible prices. [And providing lazy English-speaking comics with free jokes.]...
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Lurchi Needs A New Pair Of Shoes
Compared to Lurchi the salamander, even America's oldest corporate cartoon characters are like punk kids (M-I-C, Copyrights are forever... K-E-Y, Why? Because Congress does what we want...) Lurchi's the mascot of the 100-year old Salamander shoe company started in...
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October 26, 2004
But I Thought 'Yale Man' Was An Oxymoron
At least that's what I heard. Just goes to show you, you never know how they'll turn out... [photo: 41's museum, via lowculture] Buy a Yale fleece hoodie/crawler, $24.98 at the Yale bookstore....
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October 25, 2004
Papas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Buckle Bunnies
If you're as conflicted as I am about the effect on your kids of your love of bullriding, you should skip this post. Why? because official PBR [Professional Bull Riders] rompers are on sale. And it's a pretty short hop...
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October 24, 2004
Halloween Costumes For Bald Babies
I don't wanna sound like a hillbilly or nothin', but down the street at the National Zoo today, they had a big Halloween party for zoo members, and I swear, only one kid didn't have a store-bought costume. Back when...
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Manomia Djellabah
Manomia is small French company creates exquisite baby clothes using some of the highest quality fabrics and techniques around. Almost the only Google result for them is a blurb in Departures, the Amex Platinum Card Magazine. Meanwhile, Baby Chic 101...
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October 20, 2004
When Buying Clothing, Especially For A Girl
Check and double check, then triple check for superfluous, ridiculous crap. Because seriously, there is NO way you can understand the sick, twisted minds of baby clothing designers. See, for example, this totally plain mushroom-colored parka by Lili Gaufrette. There...
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October 15, 2004
CBGB Kids Gear
You weren't part of the original CBGB generation; you're barely part of the CBGB t-shirt generation. But don't let that stop you from decking your kid out in official CBGB & OMFUG logo bodysuits, beaters, t-shirts, and stocking caps. Think...
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A Repentant Trend-Chaser Thinks Of The Children
There are too many ponchos in New York City, but that didn't keep me from poking around online for a bit, looking for a poncho for the kid. I have since seen the error of my ways, and this article...
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October 5, 2004
Yoyamart--Like daddytypes: the store
We were walking around Hudson St. Sunday afternoon when we popped into Yoya and Yoyamart, a clothes shop and toy/gizmo/furniture shop, respectively. First, Yoya has an uncommonly cool selection of kids clothes, none of it particularly cheap. Yoyamart, meanwhile, is...
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September 27, 2004
What If Daddy Wants a New President, Too?
Two new options from Lowercase Tee for putting political slogans on your kids: The cute but slightly presumptuous imposition of your opinion on your child's ("I wouldn't vote for Bush if I were you") or the wildly one-sided ("Mommy wants...
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September 24, 2004
Thermal Long-sleeve Bodysuit at Baby Gap
We saw this cool thermal bodysuit in the babygap store on Fifth Ave. this afternoon, but they didn't have the right size. Not being a regular Gap shopper or Banana Republican, I was impressed by their point-of-sale technology that could...
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September 21, 2004
Wry Baby, The Right Amount of Funny
In New Orleans a couple of weeks ago, when we took the kid to her first dive bar (We were told it was a restaurant and... long story. But it was lunchtime...), the bartender's t-shirt told me he probably knew...
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Camo Everything, Let God Sort'em Out
We have few hard and fast rules around the house, but No Headbands makes the cut. [Luckily, the kid had so much hair, we didn't need to get into No Taping A Bow On The Kid's Bald Head.] Besides accentuating...
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September 19, 2004
Hippies Getting Mixed Signals From VW
I'm confused. First, VW introduces a redesigned Microbus on the 2001 autoshow circuit, charmingly reminiscent of the beater your peacenik, no-shaving-allowed parents probably conceived you in. Finally, you say, a minivan you wouldn't be ashamed to drive (all weirdness...
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September 17, 2004
Correction: About Losing Socks
At B+4 weeks, I suggested getting a little mesh bag to put all the kids' socks in when you do laundry. "You'll lose them faster" because they're so damn small, I said. Well, I was wrong. You don't lose them...
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September 7, 2004
Totshop T-shirt, (Psychotherapy Not Included)
Gee, I don't know why I didn't know about this. I mean, I only get about 500 emails on this topic every day. Wah Baby makes some irreverent baby-sized t-shirts, which are available at Totshop.com for $19 each. Besides Sophocles...
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September 4, 2004
Star Trek Baby Names
Any name's fine, as long as it's Jadzia. Also popular: B'elanna, and Seven (of Nine). i.e., all the alien hottie characters. Let me go on record here: any Star Trek name is going to be several circles deeper in taunting...
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September 1, 2004
Old School O.C.: 80's Punk Concert Flyers on Onesies*
Mini Maniacs stands out among the cottage industry sprawl of SoCal parent t-shirt companies. For one thing, they make more than t-shirts, and for another thing, the t-shirts they do make are actually unique. They may bring back troubling memories...
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August 31, 2004
In LA, Everyone's Unique (In The Same Way)
Gee, good thing I added the "parent company" category; it'll give me a place to post the birth announcement of every stylist/graphic designer/publicist/musician/freelancer in Southern California. Apparently, it's the law that when you have a kid in LA, you start...
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August 18, 2004
Pimp & Ho Costumes for Kids
Projecting parental fantasies onto children has its darkside. Jon Benet. Pimp & Ho costumes, on Yahoo shops [via waxy] Related: Pimpin' your kids out to show biz...
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July 30, 2004
Celebrity Baby Endorsement Roundup
I've been holding it in, so to speak, on these two celebrity baby product endorsements. Who needs Us Weekly? Trixie (trixieupdate.com) and Colum (celebratingcolum.org) sporting some nice solid color bucket hats from The Childrens Place. [The're also available in camo....
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July 27, 2004
DadFrat Gear-apalooza
OK, I realize I'm not going to build a daddy gear empire with half a dozen t-shirts. But if I had any delusions of grandeur, or any misplaced sense of accomplishment for coming up with a design (that's basically the...
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July 23, 2004
Wanna Buy A T-Shirt?
I wanted to see what they'd look like, so I made a few t-shirts for myself and a couple of newly dadded up family members. They didn't turn out that badly, I must say. It's an American Apparel jersey...
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July 19, 2004
Baby Massage Pajamas
I found this via Daily Candy, which apparently has a kids posting about twice a year. It's pajamas with little diagrams printed all over to show you where the kid's various accupressure/massage points are. That sounds like a good idea,...
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July 13, 2004
VP-Quote Onesie*
It was only a matter of time. "Go f&%* yourself!/ Vice-President Dick Cheney" Onesie(R)-like garment, $14.99 from Cafepress. [thanks, Gudlyf] * see below...
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June 19, 2004
Camo and Uniforms for Babies
After seeing so much camo for dads, I thought I'd Google camo onesies*; I hit the jackpot. The one-piece bodysuit jackpot, that is. The military clothing site, Out In Style has a wide range of kid clothing, including a camo...
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June 15, 2004
Red, White & Blue Diaper Babies
In the sixties, the John Birch Society outed a bunch of college-age children of Communists who they said were secretly conspiring to foment unrest on campuses around the country. These youngsters were surreptitiously programmed from birth, they said, to destroy...
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June 7, 2004
Sports Team Gear
I stumbled across GatorHaven, which has a shockingly comprehensive collection of University of Florida gear for kids, including this nylon jersey replica Onesie (R)*-shaped bodysuit. Well, one Florida post threatens to open up the floodgates. Turns out I could post...
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Black Onesies?
Being New Yorkers, before we knew the gender of our kid, we knew one thing: it's gonna wear black. Of course, that was before we'd stepped foot into the relentless swamp of pink, light blue, yellow, and cream that clogs...
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June 1, 2004
T-shirts and Creepers for Geeks
If the mere existence of clothing for the children of computer geeks isn't enough to dispel the notion that at least somebody in the IT department's gettin' some, there are pictures. Not, thankfully, of Sysadmins Gone Wild, but of actual...
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May 17, 2004
Rocker Baby T-shirts from Infantile
They grow up so fast. It was only two months ago that a couple of San Francisco rockers started a kiddy clothing line called Infantile, and now they're in the Washington Post. If the baby industry's going to be saved...
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May 14, 2004
Wifebeater Onesies?
Yeah, they're technically for wearing with little sleeveless dresses or whatever, but if you combine these wifebeater Onesies bodysuits* with a pair of baggy black pants and a do-rag, you can turn your kid into a gang-bangin' little cholito....
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April 29, 2004
LOLOL Nippaz With Attitude
Where to start? NWA: Nippaz With Attitude is the UK source for some of the coolest designs around for baby t-shirts, Onesie-like creepers*, skull caps, and bibs. NWA has heavy metal-inspired designs that somehow don't look like trailer trash,...
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April 27, 2004
Clothing Seen on The Street
Some clothes encounters worth noting: Rebel Dad's "Men who change diapers change the world" t-shirt scores so big at the march in DC over the weekend, he put them up for sale. Meanwhile, in the park, Laid-off Dad deftly, hilariously,...
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April 23, 2004
Packing Tip: Take Some Pants
We were out shopping today with the kid, and she had a righteous blowout. The whole outfit and the blanket was knocked out of commission. The diaper bag had only a Onesie in it, no pants, socks, anything; and it...
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March 27, 2004
Doing Kid Laundry
Some tips arising from doing a lot more laundry all of a sudden: We only heard about Dreft, laundry detergent for babies, like two weeks before the kid came. Apparently, it's the combination of tough-stain remover and skin-coddling that does...
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March 17, 2004
Infantwear some people may find inappropriate
It's easier than you think to avoid the pink and blue paradigm. Here are some sources for baby clothing that sends a message. Often a message that someone, somewhere, in a mall near you, will find deeply offensive. Dookiewear.com wants...
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February 21, 2004
if your baby's healthy but blue
There are plenty of health reasons that your new baby may be blue. After you've eliminated these possibilities, in consultation with your qualified health expert, if your baby is still blue, consider the following: 1. Your people may be blue,...
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February 13, 2004
Che Onesies*
The day of our first ultrasound, I went a little crazy at Sam & Seb, the too-cute-for-its-own-good Willamsburg baby store. To take the edge of this excitement- and anxiety-driven consumerist orgy, I bought an olive green onesie with Che...
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