Dear Layetteians, need help find a birthday dress for Leela.

[ddmarsh]

I love the tradtional dresses made by Sarah Louise. I also love the Victoria Kids birthday dress which has a little cake and candle on it. You can see both of these at www.bestdressedchild.com and the Victoria Kids dress occasionally comes up on Ebay NWT.

Happy shopping!

[papal]

LOL! You are SO reading my mind!!! My mom and me are sitting here going through the Baby Lulu website right now!! Love everything they have.. some things have only 9 mos size onwards.. eeks..that might be too big.. I love both dresses.. actually i love pretty much everything LULU! I like the first one best!!

Panic! I just checked.. that first dress does start at 9mos!! Does Lulu run small anyone??? As a comparison, Leela fits into Hanna 60s but they are a tad bit big for her!

[khakismom]

House of Hatten sounds like what you might want. Check out their new fall line here:

http://www.houseofhatten.com/DocsPDFs/Fallctlg.pdf

There are quite a few smocked dresses in deep colors with no animals on them. HTH!

[momtoemma]

Rashmi,

I've only had a few pieces of Baby Lulu, and I think that it does run small. I hope it fits Leela because Baby Lulu dresses are darling! Just be sure to buy it from somewhere that you could return it to if it doesn't fit.

Happy shopping!

[miki]

We have a 9M outfit that I put on DD when she was 7M and about 50% for weight and it was so tight the shirt rode up and DD's belly hung out. So I think they are small.

[parkersmama]

What about this dress from Orient Expressed?

http://www.orientexpressed.com/assets/images/2-954.jpg

It's a pretty pinkish/peach in the catalog, not quite so pale.

[ast96]

oneofakindkid.com has beautiful things -- you should check it out.

They have smocked items and a lot of things that are simple but beautiful, and very traditional.

Allison
DS 06/02
DS 03/04

[kelly ann]

I found that first dress I posted at Trenditikes and they have a lot of accessories.

http://www.trenditikes.com/baluspda.html

ETA: It sounds like the 9M may just be the right size for Leela. You can find that size at this store as well http://www.forgetmenotkids.com/pd_spring_daisy.cfm

[jbowman]

That's what I was going to suggest, Rashmi. That's where we got Ellie's baptism dress--short-sleeved, tie in back, no embellishments, full skirt!

Good luck!

[jec2]

i was just goingt to suggest the baby lulu dresses but thought I better read to see if anyone else had. These are cute and they also have this one:

too cute (I saw this one at www.kidstockmontana.com/salebabylulu.html)

http://www.windsorpeak.com/dc/user_files/11230.jpg