Archive for the ‘Upcycling’ Category

Toward The Stars

November 8, 2012

Imogen’s Wardrobe has launched a brand new shop Toward The Stars with empowering gifts for girls.

This unique global market place offers products which encourage girls to reach their full potential and discourage stereotypes, right up our street!

We have included all our favourite designs in the new shop, with the girls pirate t-shirts as one of the main features. We couldn’t resist designing some brand new accessories following the theme of challenging gender stereotypes. These hair bands are sustainably embellished with quirky designs, featuring recycled bottle felt and re-purposed fabrics.

Pirate ship hair band

©Imogen’s Wardrobe Little Pirate Hair Band £5 (£1.50 P&P). Sustainably made featuring recycled bottle felt and linen.

Pirate hair band

©Imogen’s Wardrobe Little Pirate Hair Band. Featuring recycled bottle felt. £5 (£1.50 P&P)

Pirate Hair Band

©Imogen’s Wardrobe Little Pirate Hair Band. £5 (plus £1.50 P&P) Featuring recycled bottle felt and linen.

Fire Engine Hair Band

©Imogen’s Wardrobe Fire Engine Hair Band. £5 (plus 1.50 P&P) Featuring recycled bottle felt.

You can shop for Imogen’s Wardrobe at Toward The Stars and Etsy

Or place an order on our Facebook page.

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Posted in Children's Wear, Girls Accessories, Handmade children's wear, Pirate accessory, Pirate Designs, Sustainable Children's Wear, Uncategorized, Upcycling | Leave a Comment »

The Little Flower Girl

October 3, 2012

Little flower girls do the most important jobs at a weddings, including throwing confetti with squeals of excitement, playing sword fights with posies and hiding under tables with handfuls of wedding cake.

This is why Imogen’s Wardrobe decided to order in some beautiful organic fabrics and design the perfect flower girl dress with big pockets to accommodate, confetti, cameras, posies, favours or any other essential items for the job.

Organic Flower Girl Dress

© Imogen’s Wardrobe Little Flower Girl Dress handmade in organic cotton with vintage embroidered pockets size 4-5 years £42. Sizes 2-3, 3-4 and 5-6 years available made to order.

Imogen’s Wardrobe Little Flower Girl Dress is a different take on the old American vintage style pillowcase dress. This dress is perfect if you are looking for something simple, natural and child friendly.

Handmade from lightweight organic and fair trade cotton, the dresses have deep vintage linen handkerchief pockets and are lined with soft organic cotton. They feature big organza shoulder bows, which can be matched to your colour theme, for dramatic effect at your event.

Organic Flower Girl Dress

© Imogen’s Wardrobe Little Flower Girl Dress organza ribbon shoulder tie.

Organic flower girl dress

© Imogen’s Wardrobe Little Flower Girl Dress rose petal pocket.

The dresses are loose and comfortable with adjustable bow fastenings at the shoulder (the ribbons are sewn into the dress casing for safety), and they are machine washable.

Each Little Flower Girl Dress comes wrapped in tissue, in its own gift box, with a cute flower girl story on the hang tag to make this dress even more special for your little girl when it arrives.

To order an Imogen’s Wardrobe Little Flower Girl Dress, you can leave a comment here, visit our Facebook page or Etsy shop. Or email beth@imogenswardrobe.co.uk

Organic Flower Girl Dress

© Imogen’s Wardrobe Little Flower Girl Dress in organic pink cotton with vintage handkerchief pockets and organza ribbon ties size 4-5 years £42. Also available made to order in sizes 2-3, 3-4 and 5-6 years.

Organic flower girl dress

© Imogen’s Wardrobe Little Flower Girl Dress in pink, bow detail.

Organic Flower Girl Dress

© Imogen’s Wardrobe Little Flower Girl Dress with petal confetti pocket.

Imogen’s Wardrobe Flower Girl Dresses are one offs and limited edition because they feature vintage fabrics. If you like a style and colour that is sold we can re-create it using similar fabrics.

To order an Imogen’s Wardrobe Little Flower Girl Dress, you can leave a comment here, visit our Facebook page or Etsy shop. Or email beth@imogenswardrobe.co.uk

The designs you see on this page are protected by international copyright.

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Posted in Birthday dress, Children's Wear, Ethical children's wear, Flowergirl dress, Girls designer dress, Girls dresses, Handmade children's wear, kids clothes, Organic children's wear, party dress, Sustainable Children's Wear, Uncategorized, Upcycling, wedding day, Weddings | 1 Comment »

What does Dotty Daisy wear in her hair?

April 20, 2011

Dotty Daisy’s dress is proving to be one of the most popular designs amongst IW’s little customers and being knee high in gorgeous fabric off-cuts from orders is satisfying, but IW really needed to find a sustainable way to use them. So we have given Dotty some beautiful clips to match her dress. Handmade from sustainable organic hemp cord and our special guest  fabric of the month by Cath Kidston, they are finished with real Agoya shell buttons or wooden pegs. What little girl wouldn’t want to add these to her accessories collection? If you’d like to order, please leave a comment.

organic hair accessories, pink flower hair clips

Dotty Daisy hair clips £6.99 for two or £3.99 each © Imogen's Wardrobe

organic hair clip

Dotty Daisy Peg clip © Imogen's Wardrobe

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Dotty Daisy flower clip © Imogen's Wardrobe

The hair clips are not suitable for children under 3 years old due to small parts.

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The Little Blue Bird

December 21, 2010

Here is the latest design from the Winter Wonderland collection, the Little Blue Bird Dress. It is made from organic hemp corduroy and upcycled linen applique, finished with real coconut shell buttons. This design is a sustainable tribute to our snowy winter wonderland this year. The tree design was inspired by the East Rose Cottage garden and the little garden bird features on the branch. If you’d like to order one for your little snow princess please leave a comment, it comes in size 6 months to 6 years.

The story is below.

organic hemp cord blue bird dress

Handmade organic hemp cord Little Blue Bird Dress size 3-4 years £60

The story of the little blue bird dress…

The little blue bird landed in a tree, the snow fairy smiled, “Have you come to see me?” “Yes” said the blue bird, shaking snow from his head, “I’ve brought you a coconut button and fine cotton thread.” “Why, thank you.” said the fairy, her cheeks glowing red, “ I will take this fine cotton and make you a bed.” Then the fairy used the button to finish a dress, that was designed especially for a little princess. It was made from soft linen and organic corduroy, stitched with a little blue bird for you to enjoy!

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Posted in Children's Wear, Craft & Design, Handmade children's wear, Little Blue Bird Dress, Organic children's wear, Sustainable Children's Wear, Upcycling | 3 Comments »

Little Girl Pirate Collection Autumn/Winter

September 13, 2010

Imogen’s Wardrobe is pleased to announce its very first collection, based on Imogen’s favourite pirate stories. The Little Girl Pirate Collection Autumn/Winter 2010 is hand made from organic, vintage and repurposed fabrics. Any aspiring little girl pirates will find these dresses a must have in their winter wardrobe…

Organic, sustainable Children's wear

Little Girl Pirate Collection Autumn/Winter 10

The story of the Little Girl Pirate dress…

The little girl pirates came in the night, their chest of treasure, full of delight. They took fine silk from a furniture maker and made a pattern out of strong layout paper. They snipped and they sewed all through the night then hoisted the sails, what a magnificent sight.

“Remember the flag”, shouted the little girl captain, “the one I have here is held on by my hatpin”. So they found a blue button from their treasure chest and attached it with cross bones in fine cotton thread.

When one of the little girl pirates spied land up ahead, “that be a treasure beach!”, she said. The beach was made of the softest cotton cloth and they sailed towards it on a sea of denim and vintage lace froth.

Organic, sustainable, little girl pirate dress

Little girl pirate dress size 3-4 years, organic denim and vintage lace

Not only do these dresses come with a delightful story for your little girl, they are very ocean friendly made in a sustainable way from hand dyed organic hemp/cotton denim, repurposed silk and vintage lace, the fastening buttons are 100% sustainable made from tagua nut.

Sustainable, organic, hand printed, little girl pirate dress

Little girl pirate dress size 2-3 years, organic denim and hand printed cotton

The dress above has a skirt of hand printed, sustainable cotton.

Imogen’s Wardrobe launched its Little Girl Pirate Collection with a photo shoot on Portobello beach. Our little girl pirates had so much fun in the dresses, we had to include more pictures from the shoot. The photos were created by Cocoa Rose boutique photography, the brief was pirates on Porty beach and the difficulty level of capturing these amazing shots of our toddler models was higher than Jack Sparrow’s rigging!

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The pirates are coming!

Shiver me timbers

Now where did I put that parrot

Hoist the sails, we are coming aboard...

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Posted in Children's Wear, Pirate Designs, Pirate Story, Sustainable Children's Wear, Uncategorized, Upcycling | Leave a Comment »

A story behind every garment.

July 21, 2010
sustainable children's wear

Imogen's Wardobe - sustainable top and dress size 2-3 years

Imogen’s Wardrobe designs and makes ethical and organic children’s wear. It is a brand new concept in sustainable children’s wear; a small business growing from the kitchen table at East Rose Cottage. All the garments are handmade from new organic fabric and upcycled, good quality, material creating an individual look for each one off piece.

Here are some pictures of the launch designs inspired by the festival season, the upcycled fabrics and trimmings are hand picked to create an individual look. The stories behind the clothes are also included and they are written so that your little ones can enjoy the story too…

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Sweet Pea Festival Top age 2-3 (Image by Cocoa Rose Boutique Photography)

Once upon a time I was a beautiful cotton skirt. The sewing fairy at East Rose Cottage took me and made me into this wonderful 100% cotton, upcycled top. She added recycled ribbons from her old sewing box for the straps and made sure the cute little embroidered flowers on the bodice were in just the right place and she finished it all off with the comfiest upcycled lining for delicate skin. I was made for the East Rose Cottage Sweet Pea Fairy Princess, she wore it at her harvest festival, but she has given me to you to wear with love.

You can machine wash me at 40 degrees, but 30 degrees is much more garden friendly.

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Festival Pinnie Dress age 2-3 (Image by Cocoa Rose Boutique Photography)

Once upon a time the festival fairy made me from 100% cotton and lace dress fabric, she added beautiful blue buttons from her old tin recycled button box and made straps and pockets out of upcycled denim, being very careful to add two button holes on each strap to fit tiny shoulders. She then added the pocket daisies made from a fine cotton skirt and embroidered with thin cotton thread. I was made for the festival party queen fairy who wore me on opening night, and I’ve been given to you to wear with love. .

You can wash me at 40 degrees, but 30 degrees is much more festival friendly.



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