My daughter has been obsessed with fashion ever since she was a little girl. At six years old she declared that she was going to be a fashion designer when she grew up. We figured as the years went by she would change her mind a dozen times or more. We were waiting for her to say she wanted to be a teacher, astronaut, scientist, journalist or other careers. That did not happen. At 14 she still wants to be a fashion designer. She already plans on attending F.I.T (Fashion Institute of Technology) when she goes to college.
She has always loved to design clothes. She would create outfits on paper and design her own paper dolls. She would also make outfits for her dolls and Barbies with miscellaneous pieces of fabrics. She would even take her old, outgrown clothing and cut it up to design fashions for her dolls.
Currently she’s taking a Fashion and Design class in school. Fashion is her world. She loves everything about fashion.
When I learned about a website called FashionPlaytes I just knew she had to check it out.
FashionPlaytes is a website where your child can design their own clothing. Whether it’s pants, tank tops, tops, dresses, outerwear, loungewear, doll clothing and even accessories like bags and purses. I knew the moment my daughter saw the site she would have fun with it – and she did!
I asked my daughter to design something that we could review. I’m not kidding when I say it took her for what seemed like forever to narrow down what she wanted. She kept bouncing around between different things.
My daughter had a lot of fun playing around with the designs and fabrics. I have to admit I had fun with it too. I created a few fashion pieces myself online just to see how the system worked.
Creating something on FashionPlaytes is really easy. First you need to figure out what you would like to create. For our review we did a pair of yoga-like pants.
After you decide upon what article of clothing you are making the next step is to figure out specifically what kind. For “Bottoms” FashionPlaytes has skirts (long and short), capris, jeggings and long capris. My daughter picked out capri pants (they look a lot like yoga pants).
The next step is to pick what size you want. My daughter is 14 and they had pants in her size. They range in size from small to extra large.
Your child can pick what color they want. Some articles of clothing have more options then others. The pants have fewer options then the tops do.
FashionPlaytes offers young designers a large assortment of different embellishments to make the piece of clothing truly unique and personal to them. That is where my daughter took the longest time. There were way too many great choices to choose from. She finally settled on a rhinestone heart design.
The possibilities are endless. You can really make something unique and one of a kind which was a huge hit with my daughter. She loved playing around with the different looks to see what she could come up with.
There are plenty of outfits found on the site to give your young designer inspiration. There are also pre-made outfits that you can purchase as well. Although I’m pretty sure most young girls would rather design their own.
FashionPlaytes even allows you to create your own virtual model and lets you save your designs. It’s really a lot of fun for a young girl who is totally into fashion and design.
My daughter was anxious for her pants to arrive. When she did she was excited to try them on. She wears the pants once a week. They have been worn, washed and dried numerous times and they have held up very well. It’s quality clothing that should last a long time. I was concerned that the clothing it’s self would be “cheap” and that you were paying more so for the experience of designing your own clothing, rather then the clothing it’s self. That is not the case at all. You are paying for both the experience and the clothing.
The only “negative” I can think of, which really isn’t that big of a deal, is that the extras (ribbons, rhinestones, designs…) cost extra. It’s very easy for a youn girl to turn a $15 top into a $35 top simply by adding a lot of embellishments. There is nothing wrong with that, especially if it something they truly want. It’s just that if you are working with a budget you have to keep that in mind.
My daughter is probably on the older end of demographics FashionPlaytes is geared towards. I think girls 7-12 are more ideal. Younger children would probably require an adults help.
Overall it was a fun experience for my daughter and she loves to wear the pants that SHE designed.
For more information visit www.FashionPlaytes.com.
FashionPlaytes would like to give a lucky reader a $25.00 gift certificate so that their daughter or granddaughter can create something special for themselves. Thank you FashionPlaytes.
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Kimberly
*We received a free product sample in order to do this review. There was no compensation. The opinions expressed are my own. FashionPlaytes will be providing the prize.
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I would give this to my niece as she adores such hands on creative ideas. She is modest and more on the girly side, so I am sure she will go along those lines of added extras like ribbon or jewels/sparkle designs.
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I’d give this to my niece and I’m sure she’d design a shirt with lots of color! 🙂
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My 9yo daughter loves Fashion Playtes. She has made and bought several items and loves wearing them. She would probably make a dress.
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