The Biz

The 4th of July is just around the corner, but for those of us in the children’s industry, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! With weddings, Thanksgiving gatherings, Christmas and Hanukkah celebrations, and New Year’s parties filling up calendars, your customers are going to need a fabulous selection of formal frocks for their young ladies. The Giggle Guide^® has the details on the frilliest, fanciest, and most elegant styles for tiny tots and teens alike. Us Angels, Calabrese Girl, and Biscotti provide gorgeous dresses, shrugs, gloves, tiaras, hair accessories and more to make sure every girl is pretty as a picture!

Shouts can be sounds of praise or anger. In this edition of “High Five,” picture me standing on my invisible soapbox. High Fives to good work, and fewer digits for retailers’ endless sales. Plus a raised fist for those that don’t consider promotion as important as the light bill. What makes your “High Five” list?

What puts the finishing touch on fashion more than a stylish hat? Every little girl can look like an imp, a diva or a rock star beneath the brim of an oh-so-cool chapeau from Marili Jean Accessories. The hat maker began in 2009 when a Colorado working mother became frustrated with her inability to find practical, comfortable, yet stylish hats for her three young children. Fast forward and now tots to teens sport her charming, chic hats, headbands and other toppers, much of which are made of comfy, one-hundred percent cotton.

Finger-pointing is okay in a child’s world when Hopscotch Kids™ non-toxic fingernail polish lets them crow, “Nailed it!” and point with satisfaction at perfectly colored and manicured nails on ten or twenty digits. Hopscotch Kids has solved the decades-old conflict between a little girl’s penchant for painted nails and her parents’ concern over toxic solvent-based nail polish. They’ve covered fingers and toes without offending the nose! The sister product, polish remover, is also safe and natural; made of water, tall oil fatty acids and alcohols (plant based), non-ionic surfactants, and organic buffers.