{"title":"Children (3–10)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSomething about clothing for this age is unselfconscious in a way adult clothing rarely manages, colour chosen for pleasure rather than flattery. It's a relief to handle, honestly. Each piece is looked after carefully, then packed and sent from Melbourne.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"00s-fred-bare-patchwork-childs-skirt","title":"Patchwork Summers · Fred Bare Rose Skirt, Girls, 2000s, AU 5","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCotton drill patchwork · cabbage rose, ticking and paisley · lace-up side with brass eyelets · \u003cem\u003eFred Bare\u003c\/em\u003e · Australian · late 1990s to 2000s · AU size 5, approx 5 years\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSix gored panels of cotton drill, each one cut from a different print: cabbage rose, ticking stripe, faded paisley. Joined at the seams and cut to swing out to a near-circular hem, the kind that catches air when you spin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFred Bare\u003c\/em\u003e, the Sydney children's label, late 1990s to 2000s. Fred Bare built a devoted following by making children's clothes that were genuinely beautiful: considered fabric combinations, proper construction, pieces that photographed well and wore better. The lace-up side fastening through antique-brass eyelets on a fabric tie makes the waist adjustable, which means this skirt grows with a child for longer than most. The cloth has real body; the skirt holds its shape without stiffening it. Gentle signs of wear throughout, as this cloth should show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePatchwork that rewards looking closely. 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Soft cotton jersey, ribbed at the neck and cuffs, a script logo small at the hem. \u003cem\u003eThe Gap \u003c\/em\u003eat its most quietly confident in its children's line: start with a simple garment and give it one thing worth looking at. This butterfly has been given that position and earned it. The tee appears unworn, which means the details are exactly as bright as the day they were stitched on, and you are the beneficiary of an occasion that never came.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44084036173958,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_2488.jpg?v=1782098292"},{"product_id":"castelbajac-kids-sport-striped-hoodie","title":"Menagerie · Castelbajac Kids Hooded Top, Japan, 1990s, AU 3–4","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStriped soft knit · embroidered teddy, parrot and bee · drawstring hood · \u003cem\u003eCastelbajac Kids Sport\u003c\/em\u003e · made in Japan · 1990s to 2000s · AU size 3-4, approx 3-4 years\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA striped knit hooded top with an embroidered teddy at the chest, a parrot on one sleeve, and a bee on the hood. Each creature is stitched slightly raised against the stripe, catching the light differently depending on the angle, and a child wearing this will spend considerable time examining the bee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJC de Castelbajac Kids Sport\u003c\/em\u003e, made in Japan, 1990s to 2000s. \u003cem\u003eCastelbajac \u003c\/em\u003ewas the French designer who made a coat entirely from teddy bears, who put cartoon characters on adult runway clothes at a time when that was genuinely radical, and who believed that wit was a form of elegance. His children's work carries the same spirit, only warmer. The striped knit is soft in faded blue and marled grey, the hood closing with a knotted cord. A collector's piece in a very wearable form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe knit has the loved-in softness of something that has been worn and washed and remained exactly itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44084060520582,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_2537.jpg?v=1782107132"},{"product_id":"vintage-hand-knitted-fair-isle-baby-cardigan-cream-1980s-90s","title":"Smiling Buttons · 1980s Hand-Knitted Fair Isle Baby Cardigan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWool yarn · hand-knitted Fair Isle colourwork · cream ground · smiley-face buttons · handmade, no label · 1980s to 1990s · AU size 4-5, approx 4-5 years\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCream wool banded with fine Fair Isle colourwork in red, pink, green, and blue, fastened up the front with smiley-face buttons. Fair Isle is one of the more technically demanding hand-knitting traditions: you carry multiple colours across each row, the unused threads running along the back, which means you are always managing several strands at once and must keep an even tension across all of them or the finished fabric pulls and distorts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo label, 1980s to 1990s. To do Fair Isle well at the small scale of a child's cardigan takes a real knitter. This person was a real knitter: the colourwork is even and bright throughout, no distortion, no loose threads at the back. The smiley buttons are the detail that makes this completely loveable, a warm, funny choice that dates this happily to the late twentieth century and is impossible to resist. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA piece that will be remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44084112392326,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_2723.jpg?v=1782129581"},{"product_id":"collette-dinnigan-young-hearts-red-floral-cotton-dress-smocked-bodice-girls","title":"Little Red · Collette Dinnigan Young Hearts Dress, 2010s, AU 4","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrinted cotton · hand-smocked bodice · ruffle hem · \u003cem\u003eCollette Dinnigan Young Hearts\u003c\/em\u003e · Aldi 2015 to 2016 · AU size 4, approx 4 years\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRed scrolling all over white, a print that reads like a block stamp, pulled tight across a hand-smocked bodice and then let loose into a deep gathered ruffle hem. The smocking is worked in navy running stitch across the front yoke, giving it weight and contrast that lifts the whole piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCollette Dinnigan Young Hearts\u003c\/em\u003e, the couture designer's brief children's collaboration with Aldi in 2015 and 2016. Dinnigan had built one of Australia's most internationally celebrated fashion houses on exquisite handwork and romantic construction, and even in a supermarket collaboration, the eye for detail held. A real designer's hand at a price point that let you actually buy it, which is why these pieces are collected now. A lined body, a back zip, a hem that swings when you move.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44084129005702,"sku":null,"price":130.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_2743.jpg?v=1782172961"},{"product_id":"hand-smocked-floral-girls-dress-peter-pan-collar-grey-and-coral-jam-amp-jeremy-size-3","title":"Small Ceremony · Hand-Smocked Dress, Jam \u0026 Jeremy, AU 3","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine cotton lawn · hand-smocked bodice · contrast Peter Pan collar · full skirt over sewn-in petticoat ·\u003cem\u003e Jam and Jeremy \u003c\/em\u003e· AU 3, approx 3 years\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFine cotton lawn in grey scattered with coral flowers, pulled in at the bodice by hand-smocking and finished at the throat with a contrast Peter Pan collar. When you ease it over the shoulders and the smocking gives and springs back, that is what you are feeling: the accumulated patience of however many hours it took someone to make this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJam and Jeremy\u003c\/em\u003e, a children's label whose smocked pieces turn up rarely and are always worth finding. The smocking here is the slow, devotional kind: each pleat gathered and held by a row of embroidery, each row worked by hand, the whole bodice assembled one counted stitch at a time. The print is dense and small-floral in the manner that reads close to Liberty. The skirt falls full and soft over a sewn-in white petticoat, and the contrast collar sits flat and bright against the grey ground. 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