Summer Means Maxi Dresses are Out and About!

Summer means many things to different people.  To kids, it's no school or homework.  This has been replaced by camp, barbecues, swimming, sleep overs, camping, and backyard fun!  We live in a cold weather state, so for our girls it's a chance to break out the warm weather clothing.  Dresses that have been hanging tantalizingly in their closets can finally be brought out and warn.  My nine year old girl has a one dress in particular that she could not wait to wear around town: this maxi dress seen here.  Maxi dresses are a fun and popular fashion from the 1970s, and fortunately for out sake, they are back in vogue.

My daughter absolutely adores how she feels in her maxi dress for girls.  She spins and twirls and struts with renewed confidence.  She says it makes her feel sophisticated and unique, and makes her channel her inner Farrah Fawcett, even though she doesn't really know who that is.  She first fell in love with maxis when she was looking at old photos of me in my younger days.  The child's dad says I was quite the stunner back in my day, to which I say, "Hey, I still am!"  So when my child saw that dress on me, she insisted that she get one for herself.  Easier said than done.  But thanks to the internet, there really isn't anything you can't find these days.  So we did a Google search for "Girls maxi dress" and came up with a bunch of sites.  But one really caught our eye.  It's called TwirlyGirl, and they have a great selection of dresses that are all made right here in the USA.  How rare is that these days?  You can't even find Apple Pie made in America, it seems!

So we toured their website and my girl was immediately faced with a huge problem:  she went on there to buy a maxi dress, but fell in love with a bunch of other styles and now she didn't know how to choose.  Seriously, this became a source of great anxiety for the girl.  Oh, to have the problems of a 9 yr old!  But I made it easy for her.  I told the kid we would buy a maxi dress for girls for this summer, so that she could wear it and enjoy it immediately.  And we would return to buy some other dresses when the birthday rolled around, and even for Christmas.  This worked out in my favor because I noticed that TwirlyGirl has a "birthday club" that you can enjoy for free.  You just put your name on a mailing list, and when your girl's special day rolls around, they send you a coupon for 10% off.  Boom!  I'm already saving money.

Go check out TwirlyGirl's website.  They really are a great source for maxi dresses as well as skirts, tops, pants, and leggings.  It's a great clothing line for kids.  Just press this and you'll directed to their online store.

Mysterious Girls Capri Leggings Found Under the Couch

File this one under "Mysteries, Unsolved."  Yesterday, my daughter found an old pair of capri leggings like these crumpled in a ball, tucked away behind the couch.  When she unfurled them, we couldn't figure out who they belonged to.  She's the only girl in the house, and certainly I'm too big to fit into these leggings.  I asked her if they could've belonged to one of her friends.  After racking our brains, we couldn't figure out who.  It couldn't be a cousin, or a neighbor.  We really couldn't guess at all.  The style was very funky.  It had mismatched legs, and the fabric was very soft.  Whoever these capris belonged to was certainly missing them because they could not have been cuter!  There was a tag inside, so just to play detective for a few minutes, we decided to do a little more legwork, as it were.  The tag directed us to a website called TwirlyGirl.

Once we visited their website, we had a new problem on our hands.  We checked out their page devoted to girls capri leggings, and although we couldn't find a perfect match for them, we found others very similar.  This made my girl want to buy some.  And when she checked out some of the other dresses and clothes they offered, she wanted to buy them too.  All of their styles were super cute.  The colors and patterns were so vibrant and alive, it made me wish I were still a little girl.  Boy have clothes changed since I was a kid.  Thanks to the internet, you can find whatever you want, as long as you know where to look.  Having a background in marketing, I was also very impressed with the way their marketed their clothes.  All of their dresses and leggings came with a little story or poem describing them.  Sort of a backstory in how it originated.  Of course, it was all made up to be fantastical and whimsical, which made me want to check out their other offerings just to read the creative story behind them!  We were hooked, and to be honest, we wanted to be!  In the end, we never found out who was the original owner of these capri leggings for girls.  But that's ok.  The investigation was fun while it lasted, and we became fans of a great new product.  I'm including a link to their website if you want to check them out for yourself.  Maybe you know a girl who is having a birthday coming up.  A really funky pair of capri leggings might make a cool and unique gift.  They also have a free podcast of original short stories for children, which we found really delightful.  The stories were written by a professional Hollywood screenwriter.  I'm telling you, TwirlyGirl really knows how to make a great first impression.  I dig companies like that!  So here's a link to their store.  Even if you're not in the market for for capri leggings for girls.  You'll admire what they're doing there.