Whimiscal looks bow at New York Home Fashions Market
Bright colors make a splash on youth bedding
By Carole Sloan -- Kids Today, 4/1/2007
A more sophisticated approach to kids furnishings was evident in both bed and bath merchandise introduced at the New York Home Fashions Market recently.
While licensed product still dominates the youth textile category, there were a number of innovations such as stylish jacquards for towels, prints designed to amuse and wow and ultra-luxurious including cashmere blankets for infants.
In the sheet category, an important trend is the upgrading of constructions with more introductions moving to 200 thread counts in either all cotton or cotton/polyester blends, a marked departure from the previous prevalence of muslin or lower count constructions.
Atomic Rock, a new print bed from Lawrence Home Fashions, lets kids explore the solar system with colors that glow in the dark and coordinate with polyester/cotton 200 count sheets.
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Komboze by Little Missmatched expands its reach with Zany Stripes, a room in a bag where nothing matches and one room offers 348 combinations at WestPoint Home. |
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JLA Home's Dinosaurland offers playful, prehistoric fun. The bedding is inhabited with colorful, roaming dinosaurs, volcanoes, flowing lava and footprints. The collection is 100% cotton with 200 thread count sheets. The comforters are outline quilted on the dinosaurs and the shams and dec pillows are soft plush with embroidery details. |
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Christy USA mixes hot pink and yellow on Feeties, a playful jacquard towel with a multi-stripe end hem. |
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Aussino USA features Happy Farm, a cheerful cotton print with over-scaled flowers and animals in a bright multi-color combination. |
