Stop back throughout this month for reviews and recommendations on 2008 trends for dressing your children this holiday season. For each review, we’ll select a popular style and help you find the best values, designs, and quality.
For our first installment, we review the classic red christmas dress for girls. We checked all the common kids clothing websites and a few extras too.
‘Red is for Resale’ – but what works best? Try these 6 tips for buying the red christmas dress to optimize your resale opportunity:
- Plush fabrics like velvets, silks, and velours
- Fine detailing such as brocade, smocking, elegant buttons or bows, and faux fur
- Designer brand names
- True Christmas color – stay with true reds and cranberry colors
- Lengths:
- Sleeve length – Any
- Babies, Toddlers, all Girls: dress lengths between knee and ankle
- Older Girls: dress lengths above the knee will also sell
- Accessories: Red is a hard color to match. Consider buying the matching accessories with, such as tights. Or, plan to accessorize with classic white, cream, or black.
Here’s our recommendations on this year’s classic red Christmas Dresses. Remember – prices, stock, and promotions can change daily. Please share if you see prices drop by commenting below!
- BUY:
- Hanna Andersson – BEST BUY through today! Hanna Andersson dresses are at the top of our list, as they consistently re-sell well. Buy now during this week’s Dress sale, or possibly get on sale in late November / early December
- Little Red Dress for Babies & Girls: This ever-popular snowflake and fur-trimmed dress is again available this season – Just $29 this week
- Pretty as a Picture Pincord Dress for Babies: Just $19 this week
- Love to Twirls Velour Dress for Babies & Girls: Just $29 this week
- Crewcuts
- City “Tee” dress in Dark Poppy — This is Tee fabric but with stylish detail. Not a “Collection” item, but at ust $38 this dress will re-sell well due to the popularity of the crewcuts brand.
- BabyGap
- Classic Red Corduroy Jumper: $29.50
- Cable Knit Hooded Sweater Dress: $34.50
- Red Velvet Dress: $29.99 (reg. $34.50)
- Polka Dot Shift Dress: $19.99 (reg. $26.50)
- Ruffled Party Dress: $39.50
- Pleated Polka Dot Corduroy Dress: $29.50
- Hooded Drop Waist Dress: $24.50
- GapKids
- Little Pleated Party Dress: $39.50
- Sparkly Pleated Knit Dress: $26.50
- Velour Hood Dress in Russian Red: $26.50
- Gymboree
- Use a 20% off coupon, or buy during upcoming Circle of Friends sale to save an additional 30% on top of these current 25% off sale prices:
- Pleated Velveteen Dress for Girls: $36.99 (reg. $49.50)
- Cabled Sweater Pom Pom Dress for Girls and Baby Girls (Baby girl version has white fur trim): $27.49 (reg. $36.50)
- Hooded Velour Dress for Girls (with white fur trim): $29.50
- Smocked Silk Dress for Babies: $36.99 (reg. $49.50)
- Use a 20% off coupon, or buy during upcoming Circle of Friends sale to save an additional 30% on top of these current 25% off sale prices:
- Janie & Jack
- Metallic Dot Pleated Jumper: $27.99 (reg. $48.00)
- Hand-smocked Bullion Silk Dress: $50.39 (reg. $88)
- Naartjie
- Velour Dress in Cherry (avail. on-line only): Best Buy! Great Style for the price and should re-sell well. $24.47 (Reg. $34.95)
- Strasburg Children – Classic, elegant dresses. Will re-sell well – but buy them before Nov. 14 while they are 40% off on-line. TIP: Buy the matching 18″ doll dress at 40% off too — then plan to re-sell as a pair (if you’re daughter will give it the doll dress!).
- Cranberry Silk: $124.20
- Red Corduroy: $60 – $71.40
- Limited Too
- Glittered Tiered Dress - An above-the-knee length consideration for older girls. May sell well next season after Limited Too brand availability becomes ‘limited’.
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- Glittered Tiered Dress - An above-the-knee length consideration for older girls. May sell well next season after Limited Too brand availability becomes ‘limited’.
- Hanna Andersson – BEST BUY through today! Hanna Andersson dresses are at the top of our list, as they consistently re-sell well. Buy now during this week’s Dress sale, or possibly get on sale in late November / early December
- WAIT:
- American Girl
- American Girl holiday dresses typically resell very well. But to recover most of your cost in resale transaction, buy these AFTER Christmas when they go on sale. We’ll see this at 40- 50% off by summer:
- 2008 Just Like You Scarlett & Snow dress - buy with cardigan ($98)
- 2008 Bitty Baby Berry Brocade dress – ($49)
- American Girl holiday dresses typically resell very well. But to recover most of your cost in resale transaction, buy these AFTER Christmas when they go on sale. We’ll see this at 40- 50% off by summer:
- Lands End
- Girls Velveteen Holiday Dress At $69, we think this is too high to pay for a holiday dress from the Lands End Brand. Wait for the sales and buy it ahead for next season.
- Most Boutiques and High-end Department Store Designers have red dresses too. You’ll find these and more at Nordstrom, Bloomingdales, Nieman Marcus, and Saks 5th Avenue. But wait — they are classic styles and will go on sale. Buy them at the end of this season at 60 – 80% off for next season.
- Biscotti (Shown at Right)
- Ralph Lauren
- Splendid
- Us Angels
- Burberry
- and more!
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- Biscotti (Shown at Right)
- American Girl
- AVOID:
- Crazy8
- Metallic Tie Dress – ($17 – $30) This dress is a cute style, but for resale in the same price range, you will do better with a Naartjie, BabyGap, GapKids, or Hanna Andersson dress (on current dress sale prices)
- Unrecognizable brands from low to mid-range variety and deparment stores such as Target, Kohl’s, Mervyn’s, Lord & Taylor, Marshall Fields, and Macy’s.*
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- Crazy8
- NOT AVAILABLE — We didn’t forget! These popular children’s retailers are not offering an all-red holiday dress this season:
- Garnet Hill
- LL Bean
- Abercrombie Kids
- Mini-Boden
- Justice
- 77 Kids
- Old Navy
- Children’s Place
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