Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Finding Unique Children's Clothing In Northern California

By Clinton Arnhold


If you're like many people, you're tired of the run-of-the-mill children's clothing in Northern California. You've learned that buying cheap clothing is often disappointing. The clothes shrink after one washing, or their colors bleed and ruin all the other clothes around them. They're badly sewn, come apart at the seams, and make you vow to never buy mediocre, badly-constructed clothing for your kids ever again.

Luckily, the area also has several companies that offers apparel for the young ones that is worthy of serious consideration. They have a multiple admirable qualities like:

- Kids love the feel of fine quality, hand-loomed cotton in cute hand-block prints. Parents like that the products are ethically manufactured by skilled artisans using top rate natural dyes.

- Stylish but casual children's clothing wears well and lasts a long time, and can become cherished hand-me-downs for younger children

- They are designed with original prints, available in either muted or vibrant hues.

- Heritage textiles that have naturally hypoallergenic qualities are used for these handmade apparel items. Natural cottons, fine silks, and top wool, worked by skilled artisans, are some of the materials utilized in their construction.

Kalamkari is an exceptionally wonderful heritage textile that is painstakingly decorated with a pen known as a kalam. It has 17 unique steps in the complicated fabric decorating process. It originated in 13th century India, and is still manufactured in the Southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh, where the traditional craft has been passed through generations of artisans and weavers.

The dyes in this clothing are all natural, and are made from flowers, stems, leaves, bark, naturally occurring metals, and minerals. Each item of clothing is washed after each color is applied, and can be washed 20 times before the fabric is ready to be sold.

- Much of the apparel is decorated using the more than 250 year old Indian tradition of hand-block printing. Wooden blocks with an imprinted relief design are loaded with the desired color and then pressed firmly against the taut cloth. This is a painstaking, labor intensive and slow process that generates some amazingly artistic unique patterns.

- Few things feel better against the skin than 100% fair trade t-shirts made with certified organic materials. The cotton is grown without the use of genetically modified (GMO) seeds, synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. Healthy growing soil helps maintain a fine balance of only beneficial insect influence, and any weeds are removed as soon as they appear in the fields.

The World Trade Organization's definition of fair trade is a business partnership based in open dialog, mutual respect and full transparency, in order to promote better equality in the practices of international trading. Buyers pay an amount that is adequate enough that the artisans and cotton producers can sustain an acceptable livelihood. In exchange, consumers get quality products while encouraging positive social change.

Unique children's clothing is now available in Northern California!




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