Good Questions: Solid Color Onesies and Bedding

Kelly sent us an email: "I know it is early to start thinking about Halloween but I am so excited to dress my baby girl I just had to get started on a costume. I am thinking of dressing her as a flower; very simple and comfy with solid green pants and onesie...the problem? I can't find any solid green baby clothes. In fact, it is hard to find solid, primary colors of anything baby!

I have run in to this problem before with bedding. When I just wanted some solid crib sheets and crib skirt I couldn't find that either! Does anyone know a good resource for solid colored crib bedding and solid (primary) colored baby clothes? Thank you."

Well Kelly, we completely understand your frustration. We had many instances where we thought to ourselves, "This is nice, but what's with the crazy pattern?" It's a shame more designers don't realize that the simple route may be the best for some.

We did find that Hanna Andersson offers organic solid colored turtleneck onesies in red and blue. And Target offers solid colored creepers by Cherokee, for only $5.99.

As far as bedding, we found the Swedish Baby Quilt shop had some selections in solid colors.

Faithful AT readers, do you have any solid-colored bedding and clothing resources you can share with Kelly?

Comments (18)

assuming you have no qualms with their advertising or, let's say, controversial workplace policies - then american apparel is one-stop shopping for all solid color clothes.

posted by karey on September 4th 2007 at 6:09am
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yup, I was going to say American Apparel too...

posted by val299 on September 4th 2007 at 6:29am
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here is a solid green one piece:
http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/20533406/c/3891.html

for bedding, garnet hill has some nice bright solids:
http://www.garnethill.com/jump.jsp?itemID=6850&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1%2C2%2C2773%2C5857%2C7715&iProductID=6850
also lovely polkadotted linens....my favorite!

posted by polkadot on September 4th 2007 at 6:52am
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You can often find solid color one pieces at Kidsurplus; my son has a few made by Kushies.

posted by dot on September 4th 2007 at 6:59am
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a few more to look at:
http://www.gardenkidsclothing.com/home/gk3/page/600/11
http://www.gardenkidsclothing.com/home/gk3/page/408/6
http://www.royalapparel.net/catalogue/?page=shop/browse&category=royal100%organic_infant&
http://www.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=7360&pid=391300&vid=1

posted by polkadot on September 4th 2007 at 7:02am
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If you live near a small embroidery shop, head over there and ask them about bella baby. I happen to work for a privately owned embroidery shop and we're always willing to help people out when they're looking for particular pieces.

If you don't end up finding anything, let me know. I may be able to help you out.

Bella baby, Rabbit Skins and yes, American Apparel are all commonly used places for screen printers and embroiderers for plain clothes ready for customization.

Hope this helps!

posted by Zenbot on September 4th 2007 at 7:23am
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wow...AT readers are the best...Thanks for all the resources

posted by kellybeegee on September 4th 2007 at 7:30am
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LL Bean has lots of solid-color onesies (long and short sleeve).

posted by bundeleh on September 4th 2007 at 7:45am
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Babies R Us has plenty of soft cotton solid color crib sheets (all of mine are from there). Go to the mattress section, not the wall-o-theme-prints. They have very soft cotton green solid color onesies at babystyle.com (and they are the kimono-style, making them easier to get on than the over-the-head variety).

posted by fortytworoads on September 4th 2007 at 8:16am
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Check out "Solid Long Sleeve T-shirts" and "Solid Pants" in the Zutano Baby Basics: http://www.comfykid.com/cgi-bin/ck-shop.cgi?func=show_line&lines_id=2. Moss looks like a good color for a flower stem!

posted by Paris on September 4th 2007 at 8:29am
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ok, so I'm really out of the loop. What is controversial with American Apparrel's workplace? I thought they were supposed to be fair to their workers.

posted by homebody on September 4th 2007 at 9:38am
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Yeah, me too. The American Apparel comment threw me. What's going on?

I do love their baby/toddler pants. However, the adult things I've purchased there have been pretty poorly made.

posted by Melissa Reed on September 4th 2007 at 11:30am
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This sums it up...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Apparel

posted by kellybeegee on September 4th 2007 at 12:07pm
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Here's another article on American Apparel (referenced in the Wikipedia article)
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_26/b3939108_mz017.htm

posted by lb on September 4th 2007 at 3:27pm
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Pottery Barn Kids has crib sheets in a limited number of solid colors...but they are so soft! If you can talk someone else into buying them for you like we did, the $18 price isn't that bad...

posted by alredd on September 5th 2007 at 4:29am
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I've found multi-packs of snapshirts in the "Just One Year" brand at Target, or the "Child of Mine" brand at Walmart (both, I think, by Carter's). The packs have solid, patterned and white snapshirts.

posted by melonkelli on September 5th 2007 at 5:53am
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www.babystyle.com sells SOLID color onsies and solid color bedding..

posted by o0oschatzio0o on September 12th 2007 at 8:03am
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For solid color plain onesies and tee's, long sleeve or short, try cottonseedclothing.com. They have 24 terrific solid colors in the softest cotton ever. They also carry simple pull on pants in about 7 colors. Prices are great! Size fron 0/3 -Toddler 2/3( small). Better quality than Gap and cheaper than hanna anderson. But the best is the color selection.

posted by dozer on January 30th 2008 at 11:02am
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