by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
It’s only the beginning of February in the Deep South and I’ve already had it with the cold. But then I was introduced to Kaching Design’s new shirts and I realized that maybe I could live with the chilly temps a little longer.San...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
These days, you can’t throw a virtual stone without hitting a new environmentally conscious boutique. As we can attest, not all are created equal. Note to boutique owners: Just because it’s got hemp in it doesn’t mean I want my kid wearing it. On the...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
I used to think baby clothes with snaps were the best solution for a wiry, wiggly baby. And then my brute of a son came along, and it was like wrestling a greased squealing pig into pajamas.So take my advice ye mothers-to-be, and invest in a few kimono tops, like the...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Editors Best of the Year, Kid Style
Baby clothes Kristen: Maybe it’s because my husband and I are both avid guitar players, or because it’s one of the most amazing shirts I’ve ever seen. But either way, Damestarbaby’s handsewn guitar tee has won my heart. Liz: The cozy...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
Maybe it was all those bad seasonal sweaters we grew up wearing in the 70s and 80s that somehow infiltrated our consciousness, but sometimes we just can’t help ourselves – we must must have a snowman-emblazoned onesie for the kid this winter. The limited...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
It’s been said that babies are a marketer’s dream – if only they could make purchases themselves. Which is why I’m quietly chuckling over the new New! onesies from new mom/pop run shop, Huddy Buddy. It’s the newness trifecta. Of course...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
We parents often have no problem sticking our kids in clothes that proclaim cutie or sweetie-pie or (gak) future model. But when it comes to proclaiming their obvious genetically-determined intellectual superiority, for some reason we stop short.No longer. The...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
If there’s one lesson that I’ve learned about being a mom in 2007 it’s that I have layette options. Lots of them. Just ask baby bearers from the good old nineties about trying to find a Vivenne Westwood-style onesie or socks that didn’t have...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
So we swore we weren’t covering any cutesie Christmas onesies this year. No Baby’s First Christmas shirts, no Jingle Bells jingly caps, no Bwing Me Pwesents Santa bib. (Eek.)And then we found this clever little holiday design snapsuit from My Rock Star...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
Handknit baby stuff, as we’ve seen, runs on a remarkably broad continuum from scratchy grandma styles to painfully amateur designs that seems sized for dolls. With three legs. And then there are the few amazing rock star knitters who totally dominate with the...