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Baby clothes - what size is the right size?
It is always an amazing thing to welcome a new member in to your household. More so, if it is a child - your newborn baby. But sometimes, shopping for clothes for children can be slightly problematic....
Read more about baby clothes sizes. . .

Interesting Baby Facts ... Strange but True
* A baby is born every seven seconds.
Read more about Interesting Baby facts. . .

The human body is a fascinating subject to study. You may be surprised by the following facts.
* Women blink twice as many times as men do.
Read more about the Human Body facts. . .

Spoilt for choice
Mothers are spending more on designer clothes for their young children than themselves. Has celeb culture reached the toddler market?
Read more about the Mothers spending habits. . .

Children's Clothing - A New Trend in Modern Society
Modern society revolves around concepts such as beauty and originality, ideals that have been embraced and implemented by fashion designers worldwide.
Read more about A New Trend in Modern Society. . .

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Baby clothes - what size is the right size?

It is always an amazing thing to welcome a new member in to your household. More so, if it is a child - your newborn baby. But sometimes, shopping for clothes for children can be slightly problematic. In the sense that, babies seem to grow too fast; so fast that sometimes you don't even get a chance to model all those new baby clothes you bought. Simply because they just won't fit! So what do you do to make sure you don't face this dilemma?

Simple. Just make sure you buy the right-size clothes for your adorable darlings. No doubt that you want to buy all the latest fashion in children wear for your kid, but keep in mind that babies grow and trends change too soon, too fast. The only solution is you don't buy in bulk and stock up on clothes you want your baby to wear in winter, when its only summer. What is most likely to happen, is when wintertime comes around, your baby just won't fit into those clothes.

It is very unnerving for a baby to be pushed and prodded into clothes that aren't right for it. It might lead to breathing problems and severe discomfort. Choosing the right size of clothes is very important, therefore. The best thing to do is ensure you carry your child with you when shopping for example, baby dresses. That way, you can try clothes on her, see if they fit well and look good and then buy it.

In the case where the baby is too small or cannot be taken to a store for trials, you should buy just one size larger than what you think will fit him or her. Why, you ask? Well, if the clothes are a little too big, the baby will definitely not feel mortified. In fact, it'll allow him more breathing room, the airflow will be better and you can hang on to those clothes for longer. Enough benefits, I believe.

Another problem is gifting baby clothes to new parents. The norm is to go to a store that stocks infant / children clothing and ask for a size corresponding to the age of the baby. Most of the times things go wrong for the following reasons:

- People just assume that children will definitely fit into clothes that match their age. Which means, by normal standards, a dress that says on the label "for ages 2-3" will be just right for a girl who just turned 2. Wrong! Many children are plumper, smaller, taller, shorter for their age. In that case, the dress, in most probability, will never see the light of the day, because it won't fit her anyway.

- For gifting purposes, people tend to buy gorgeous fantasies in georgette, lace or velvet or similar materials. What they forget is that a child is not interested in looking like a princess out of a storybook. Yes, it is an added bonus, but the child also needs to be comfortable. Natural fibers like cotton suit the soft skin and don't force the body to look like confetti. Also they are more durable and fall into the natural body shape of the child.

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Interesting Baby Facts ... Strange but True

* A baby is born every seven seconds.
* Babies are born with very poor vision but can recognize their mothers almost right away.
* Babies are always born with blue eyes, within a few moments of delivery their eye color can change.
* Babies are born with swimming abilities and can naturally hold their breath. However, they shortly lose this instinct.
* Newborns usually double their weight by six months.
* Playing classical music will increase a baby's intelligence.
* Reading to your child at ANY age will increase their knowledge.
* Babies and toddlers are, pound for pound, stronger than oxen. This is especially true of their legs.
* Babies are born without kneecaps.

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The human body is a fascinating study to subject. You may be surprised by the following facts.

* Women blink twice as many times as men do.
* Eyes are the most active muscles in the whole body.
* There are about 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
* The life span of a tastebud is 10 days.
* Humans have almost 10,000 taste buds.
* The colder the room you sleep in, the more likely that you will have a bad dream.
* The human body is better suited for two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
* The jawbone is the hardest bone in the human body.
* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
* You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.... talk about a lot of celebrating.
* The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan".

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Spoilt for choice

Mothers are spending more on designer clothes for their young children than themselves. Has celeb culture reached the toddler market?

Greater love hath no woman than to lay down her credit card for someone else's wardrobe.

But the ultimate sacrifice is being made by mothers who are now spending more on dressing their young children than themselves.

While mothers are kitting themselves out from the bargain bins in Matalan and Primark, they're dressing their offspring in expensive designer gear, according to a survey from financial services company, Mint.

This research found that the average spending on toddlers' outfits is now £406 per year - and that 68% of mothers are now spending more on their children's clothes than their own.

A third of parents are buying designer clothes for toddlers; Norma Gerrard, head of Mint credit cards, says it's all part of the "obsession" with celebrity.

Junior celebs

This has grown in tandem with celebrity culture. Parents see pictures of celebrities with their perfect-looking children in designer outfits and they want their own children to look like that.

The Beckhams are role models for designer-friendly parents.

"It's a desire to look the part - and when parents meet up there's also an element of competitiveness creeping in."

So if you can't afford to dress like Posh and Becks, then at least your children can get the spray-on glitz treatment.

And that's not a random example, because the survey found that for parental trend-setting, David and Victoria Beckham were the most-admired role models.

Twice as many of the mothers surveyed aspired to have children in the mould of Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz rather than the tweedy values of the Royal Family.

And it isn't cheap. Take a look at Selfridges. In their children's section, the current must-have is a D&G white leather motorcycle jacket costing £205.

As reported by By Sean Coughlan of the BBC News Magazine - Tuesday, 13 June 2006
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Children's Clothing - A New Trend in Modern Society

Modern society revolves around concepts such as beauty and originality, ideals that have been embraced and implemented by fashion designers worldwide. Undoubtedly, fashion has always been a powerful means of expression, as the way we dress reflects our cultural provenience, mentality, personality, and even our feelings. In addition, fashion has the great merit of combining practicality with aesthetics, and could be perceived as "a pragmatic form of art". Being influenced by many different cultural and social factors and permanently adapting to the needs and requirements of a continuously developing society, fashion has suffered a lot of radical changes over the course of time. During its ongoing process of evolution, it has generated many different styles and trends, revealing traits characteristic to each distinctive generation.

Despite the fact that it has created many tendencies and has evolved continuously in conformity with the society's ideals and needs, fashion has only recently begun to pay equal attention to all categories of age. Although they were generally neglected in the past by clothing manufacturers, children nowadays form an important segment of clients in the fashion industry, enjoying an extensive and varied range of clothing appropriate for their age. The children's clothing industry has only recently begun to achieve a good exposure and popularity, gaining a lot of ground over the past few years.

As the children's clothing industry was growing in popularity, more and more fashion designers decided to focus their work exclusively on designing clothes for young children and babies. Soon, the offer became more and more diversified, children's clothes gaining a lot in aspect and originality. Supermarkets and clothing stores began to fill up with ingenious and colorful clothing articles for children, lots of shops even specializing in exclusively selling children's clothes. In contrast to yesterday's children's clothes - poorly designed and, let's face it, quite dull - today's children's clothes are ingenious and appealing, stimulating their imagination and building their sense of aesthetics and beauty. Ranging from little boys' suits and little girls' accessorized dresses to cartoon-character costumes and even superhero outfits, children's clothes are nowadays created to adequately satisfy the needs and desires of the very young.

Visibly enjoying "the attention" granted to them by the fashion industry, lots of children nowadays spend more and more time looking for the most interesting and imaginative clothing items they can find. Mesmerized by so many clothing models, designs and colors, many children can hardly decide upon a single item in particular! As soon as they step inside children's clothing stores, children are immersed in a colorful and magnificent world, similar to the world created by toy stores. Funnily, lots of today's children equally enjoy paying visits to both children's clothing stores and toy stores - fact that reveals the young generations' interest towards clothes, and thus their inclination towards originality, aesthetics and sense of beauty.

Seen through the perspective of their prices in general, children's clothes have lately become increasingly more affordable. While a few years ago parents had to spend a small fortune to offer their children good-quality articles of clothing, nowadays they can buy appropriate clothes for considerably smaller sums of money. Several major factors that have led to the reduction of children's clothing prices are: substantial clothes imports, the appearance of many discount-shops on the market and the equal distribution of the merchandise between supermarkets and clothing stores.

Online stores have also had a great contribution to the depreciation of children's clothing prices, offering customers high-quality yet cheaper clothing articles. Children's clothing online stores have become very popular, as they provide customers with cost-effective alternatives to similar, shop-purchased products. Online stores offer clients the possibility to choose among hundreds of different clothing items such as boys' suits, boys' shirts and trousers, girls' dresses, girls' trousers, girls' capes, unisex clothing items, as well as various accessories such as ties, bows, shoes and booties - all categorized according to size and age. Apart from having affordable prices and an extensive offer, children's clothing online stores also allow customers to purchase their desired products online, thus helping them save time and effort. An additional benefit includes "shop till you drop" as most internet stores do not close at 5pm like most shops do.

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