Jul
28
First things first: this is a sponsored post. I didn’t get paid for what I’m about to share with you, but I did receive a gift certificate to purchase some clothes for my kids. Now, hopefully you know me well enough to believe that I wouldn’t recommend a business to you if I didn’t sincerely like them, but just so everything’s understood: I got some free shit. Well, the boys did. As if they appreciate it, the jelly-smearing ingrates.
So, have you heard of Tea? They seem like a very cool little company with a unique approach to children’s wear. Apparently each year their designers visit a different part of the world to find inspiration for a particular collection, so they end up creating kids’ clothes that evoke things like street graffiti in Barcelona and vintage Mexican coffee bags. In fact, everyone at Tea receives an annual allowance to use toward international travel, which is a little factoid that makes me like them even more and may or may not have caused me to eyeball their Careers page. (Damn you, lack of marketable skills!)
Tea sounds like a groovy workplace and all that, but what I really like is their clothes. I suspect parents of girls have a much easier time finding attractive outfits for their kids than I do, because I sure notice a lot of cute girl stuff when I’m poking around Target or Old Navy or wherever, but I swear that once your boy is out of the young toddler stage clothes really start to suck. Hard. I mean, okay, Riley loves all those awful merchandising tie-in shirts festooned with LEGO Star Wars Spiderman Looney Tunes Etc, and both my kids are perfectly fine with the ugly-colored sports-themed crap, but sometimes I just want to dress them in something that doesn’t make them look like that scene from Pulp Fiction. You know the one.
“Dorks. They look like a couple of dorks.”
Which is why I kind of fell in love with the Tea Collection boys clothes. Their girls’ outfits are quite nice as well, but can I get an amen for boyswear that not only isn’t hideous, it’s downright awesome? Plus, the prices are very decent—most of the shirts I picked out were around $13.00 or so.
Here’s Riley modeling a few of his new shirts:
I think his favorite is the orange diving tee, but mine is definitely the blue hoodie.
Dylan was less interested in being photographed, but here he’s sporting his new HORSE! shirt.
Hello, could this be more perfect for him? (I also got him this layered tee, because BULLSHIRT!)
Cute designs, seem like good quality, shipped in a timely manner, arrived in a nice package, placing a phone order was super easy and unusually pleasant, customer service was top notch. I am totally a new fan of Tea, and if you have kids to clothe I think you might like them too.
Tea would like to offer one of you lucky ducks a $75 gift certificate, so if you’d like a chance at the giveaway, go ahead and leave a comment (any comment is fine, just be sure and include your email address so I can get in touch if the random number thingamajigger picks you). I’ll post the winner . . . oh, let’s say by Monday morning, okay? The only bummer is that Tea doesn’t yet ship internationally (which is a bit ironic, don’t you think, Alanis?), so unfortunately this is limited to the U.S. for now.
Thanks for enduring all my clothing-related blather! I hope you have a great weekend coming up.
**Comments are now closed, and I’ll announce the winner in a separate post. Thanks for participating!**
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I’ll take mine with milk and honey, please.
Love the Pulp Fiction reference!
Awesome clothes – you can never go wrong with gray and orange!
I SO hear you on the boys clothes. With a 6 year old and a 1 year old to dress, I run into this problem all the time. This looks like some fabulous stuff! Thanks for the recommendation…
I prefer my tea with lemon, no sugar. But whatevs…
Cute boy clothes ARE hard to come by, that’s for sure — and I love the bullshirt! (But it’s really easy to forget to type the r, I just discovered…)
Love tea clothing. adorable for my little boy!
yay for cute boy clothes! i hate how after you move out of baby sizes, most boys clothes are obnoxious.nice change!
Yes – so nice to see boys clothes that aren’t all about sports!
Man, I would *love* to get some of those shirts for my kid! Thanks for the giveaway!
Oh, I’m definitely going to check them out- love the horse shirt!
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Cute clothes… cuter boys!
I have gotten their catalog for awhile now, but never ordered anything. My son is also leaving the toddler years behind and I’m just noticing that his clothing options have suddenly become very limited!
OK, so I can’t enter this (damn international delivery hassles – why do US firms never do international?) but I thought you might be interested in this link: it’s for a British company which bizarrely does deliver to Australia, Canada and a whole slew of other places, doesn’t deliver to the US (I swear this isn’t just to piss you off…!) but which does do adorable, fun boys’ clothes (I only have girls and have many things from this place, but have bought stuff for gifts for boys). If you were really interested, we could probably come to an arrangement for me to send you stuff… http://www.boden.co.uk/en-GB/Boys-Tops-T-shirts.html#nav
Right there with ya on the frustration over the lack of decent little boys wear. I don’t want my kids to look like they’ve had more than their fair share of concussions at 3 and 5, nor do I want them to look like a bunch of preppy tight wads. Dressing girls is ironically and seemingly so much less of a task.
I love Tea! Like them on FB and you can hear about their deals and chances to win gift certificates!
Hi hear you, boys clothes are so hard to find. I mostly shop mini-boden off season for great boy clothes. I loved tea when he was smaller but haven’t checked out their older boys stuff. Yet.
I love Tea! My son is transitioning out of toddlerhood & I am having a hard time finding anything cute for him!
I adore Tea. I have girls, so it is pretty easy to find cute stuff, but the unique, international styles like those from Tea are not so easy to find. Not to mention my tween may actually wear one of their dresses.
So cute. Love the Super Tacos shirt.
I have two boys, almost the same age as yours, so I very much appreciate your blog. (Also, pick me, oh great and powerful thingamajigger)
Just in time for back-to-school. :)
Oh, I love Tea. My daughter had the cutest tunic and legging set (I’m guessing inspired by a trip to Japan) when she was learning to walk. I had forgotten about them — great reminder!
your boys should be Tea’s next models. SO cute!
1)Don’t even get me started on how there are still cute clothes on the girl’s SALES rack and not even any clothes for boys.. sigh.
2) I was hoping for further irony, thinking you’d mentioned a TEA party here (https://www.sundrymourning.com/page/9/?s=barf), but no, it was a cocktail party… still.. “So.. HORSE?” Makes me laugh every time I think of it.
I am loving the HORSE! shirt and the one with the ship on it is pretty cool too. I will definitely check out their site! :)
Holy wow, I’m the 475th comment? Lots of good publicity for a great company that makes really cool clothes for kids……
Have been reading your blog for a long time! Thanks for sharing about Tea, I really love the Blue pull over.
I just picked up two cute Tea dresses during the Nordstrom sale (they’re already well-priced, but especially so during the Half-Yearly – boo yah!). I’d love a few more… :>
I love Tea clothing but have only bought girl stuff for my niece from them. I love the boy things! Perfect for my 4-yr-old!
Well that’s just bullshirt, is what that is… But seriously, these seem like great clothes and I’m all about supporting a company with a strong ethic behind it. Nice find!
Love these clothes! Thank goodness for boys’ clothes that aren’t obnoxious!
I, also, loved the blue hoodie on your son!
I do find it interesting that I am much more able to tolerate (with eye rolling) the princess/fairy/hellokitty constant branding on my daughter, over the spongebob/footballlogo/dumptruck branding on my son. I’m not sure why. Is it that the girl stuff is cuter? Or that I believe that someday my daughter will realize that she does not want to be a fairy when she grows up and that most of the disney princess stories are filled with shallow people with poor decision making skills? Whereas my son: he may very well emulate spongebob/football players for life.
I love the way they find their inspiration… are foreigners who have a US shipping address eligible? ;)
What a great concept with world collections. My son loves the shark and turtle shirts. I agree with the other viewers about the crappy Disney Princess/Buzz Lightyear/Spongebob items. Thanks for the recommendation!
Their girl cloths are really cute too.
I agree with having a hard time finding cool clothes for boys. Tea looks like they have some great stuff- thanks for the tip. You might want to check out shirt woot; a new shirt each day and only $10. My son loves the shirts from there.
I feel your pain about boys clothes! When they are 3, all the construction truck tees are fine, but once they are in grade school, non-sucky shirts are HARD to find!
Cute clothes. My sister-in-law actually gave me a few of their clothes that her daughter had outgrown.
I didn’t know they had such a selection.
Love Tea for both girls and boys.
loved that pulp fiction pic- completely know what you mean. go TEA! :)
I have two boys and its very hard to find cute clothes. I would love a gift certificate!
Thanks!
My super with-it coworker got me 2 outfits from tea when my son was born. Sadly, he’s grown out of them at 10 months, but I’ll be looking for more for him soon!
I’ve been a big fan of Tea Collection since Elbow was a tiny baby. Their clothes last forever and they are some of the cutest boy options out there.
Awesome clothes! I had never made the connection with the Pulp Fiction outfits, but it’s absolutely perfect. Hope the random number thingie goes up this high.
Adorable!!! I will check them out!
Cute boy clothes is so hard to find. Glad to hear about Tea. I’m going to check them out.
Love the “pirata” shirt!
Cute stuff! I had never heard of them before. Thanks!
It’s nice finding boy clothes outside the standard ‘sports/dinosaurs/cars’ theme. My son doesn’t really give a hoot about any of those things.
I’m going to have to send over one of my colleagues to get them set up with international shipping – ’cause everyone with boys all over the world should not have them have to wear Buzz Lightyear t-shirts.
Love Tea! It is my all time favorite. It lasts forever and is so darn cute.