Sneak Preview of the Dallas Apparel & Accessories Market

The Dallas Market is coming up fast and furious with a complete wholesale market featuring permanent showrooms as well as product lines from every category. With new products and brands at every turn, we’re getting ready for an exciting show! This is just a sampling to whet your appetite of what is to come during the show — for the full plate, you’ll have to be there! The show runs October 22nd-25th, 2009. For more information, visit http://dallasmarketcenter.com

Here are some finds from two great showrooms at the Dallas Market Center, Summer Place II and Katwalkkids.

Summer Place II Showroom — The Place for Buys

From diaper cakes to Mom and Me jewelry, permanent showroom representative, Summer Place II Booth 8880-WTC, offers everything for mother and child. Here are some finds:

Janice McGowan invented The Preppy Peanut so everyone could easily see, ‘It’s a Girl!” She is the mother of two girls who were blessed with beautiful blonde hair. Unfortunately, her girls’ golden locks did not come in until they were about two-years old. Because of their bald little heads, Janice says she would get comments like “Ah, what a beautiful boy!” You could say that her products were made out of necessity – wanting her girls to be seen for what they were, adorable little princesses! For more information, visit http://thepreppypeanut.com/

Janice had looked and looked but was unable to find accessories that she liked in the colors she wanted . . . so she made them. Before she knew it, her line grew to include Elastic Headbands, Sun Hats, Crochet Hats, Cotton Beanie Hats, Clippies, and Military Style Hats for Tweens, Monogrammed Pony Cuffs and Monogrammed Pony Tail O’s.

Diaper-Scrunchie™ is a fancy diaper holder that’s functional and fashionable to keep diapers neat. It keeps 2-6 diapers with your wipes and lets you have easy access to your wipe dispenser. This is a great tool for dads too who don’t like carrying bags. Designer and Mom B. Jane has taken her love of sewing and design and turned it into a business. There are several different prints to choose from, all of them fun and lively. For more information, visit http://diaperscrunchie.com/

Dapper Snapper, desinged by a mom, helps keep little one’s pants from drooping. They offer a simple elastic band that attaches to the rear waistband of a child’s pants to keep them from falling down. It stretches with them and still keeps their pants in place, unlike a regular belt that can be tight around the middle and hurt a little tummy. For more information, visit http://www.dappersnappers.com

JP Lizzy, designed by a fashion- forward Mom, thrust into the world of motherhood with preemie twins who found herself unable to find a diaper bag that expressed her sense of style. She created a popular brand that is fun, flirty and sophisticated, but perhaps most importantly, functional! For more information, visit http://www.jplizzy.com

Piggy Paint@, is a non-toxic, odorless and totally kid friendly nail polish. It’s specially formulated from natural ingredients and dries to a hard, durable finish. There are no toxic chemicals; it’s free of formaldehyde, toluene, phthalates, biphenyl A, ethyl acetate and acetone.” For more information, visit http://www.piggypaint.com

Katwalkkids Showroom — Featuring Mothers of Innovation

Katwalkkids showroom is at the Dallas Market, Booth 8315-WTC. They offer some innovative items like the Itzbeen. Designed by a new Mom and Dad who found themselves sleep-deprived and needing to remember baby care details, such as when their baby last ate or napped. It’s easy to forget when your baby’s last feeding was or when diapers were changed last – well now it will be easy to remember. For more information, visit http://itzbeen.com

MD Moms is a skincare line developed by two pediatrician moms who know what is good for babies as Doctors and what works for their children as Moms. Their products are made with pure, high-quality ingredients like marine silk, Vitamins E and B5, aloe, shea butter and licorice extract. They are not made with additives like lanolin, petroleum, mineral oil an known skin irritants. For more information, visit http://www.mdmoms.com/

Let us know what you find at Dallas Market Center — please comment below!