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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My little nephew would love some new clothes!!
Yikes there are a lot of posts here. How are you going to pick a winner? I’m going to make my “entry” a haiku in hopes of standing out.
threadbare stains cast off
flying in ill-fit feathers
third wild boy revealed
Great post, and thanks for offering the giveaway! My little girl would love some new clothes and I’d really like to check out Tea.
I had never heard of Tea but am going to check out their website right now.
I’ve admired the Tea website for a while now, but I’ve never tried them. It definitely looks like I will be soon!
Terrific. Count me in.
Tea keeps popping up in my life in weird ways, so I think that’s the universe telling the random number generator to PICK ME.
Oh, count us in, great designs! We’re under the tyranny of pink here, and could use a change!
I’ve been following you practically since I started tweeting. I never post here, but since I’m in love with Tea’s little girl clothes and could never hope to afford them, COUNT ME IN!
Thanks for the chance. Also, thanks for the laughs.
Love Tea clothing – so durable and attractive.
As the mother of 3 boys 5 and under, I’d love to win this!
my grandchildren aren’t allowed to wear licensed merchandise- hello kitty is the one exception. it hard to buy them clothes. tea has some cute clothes- not to mention your adorable male models!
Cute! I like Tea!
LOVE Tea clothes!
So nice to finally see cute boys clothes. I do know exactly what you mean!
cute clothes! I love a giveaway.
Cute clothes! I love to dress my little girl up and will tell my boy mom friends about this too.
You get a huge AMEN from me! I have a 16 year old and a 7 year old son’s and have always had a hard time finding nice, cute boy clothes. I’ll be looking at Tea’s website – thanks for the recommendation!
I would love to win this gift certificate for my 3 year-old boy/girl twins!
One of the reasons I most love Tea is they give as much attention to making cute boys’ clothes as they do girls’.
Cute clothes for boys- I’m sold!
I love me some Tea!
These are adorable! Horse!
Super cute!
ME ME ME! I LOVE the bullshirt!
Love!
Love tea stuff. Received some for a baby gift and would love some more. Thanks!
Great post, and adorable pics!! I love tea, very unique and great quality.
Very nice I must say. In two weeks, I’ll not only have a fiesty 2 year old girl on my hands but also a brand spankin’, shiney, new baby boy to adorn with cute clothes. Thanks for the tip!
I love Tea.
Count me in!
We love pirates, my son would love that shirt!!
Love that Pirata shirt!
I love tea, but find some of the girls dresses, etc a bit too pricey for everyday buying. I am excited when I find it on sale, though!
Even though I’d love to win, I’m still going to check out their shop. I have a boy (after two girls) and I hate the choices for boys at my usual places. Thanks for the tip!
I am loving that Tea employees get an allowance towards international travel!!!
My mom occasionally buys my daughter awesome outfits from Tea- boy clothes are usually so much less fun. Love the horse shirt, though.
That pirate tee will so be purchased, like, today. This post made me laugh my ass off. It’s so true about boys clothes. They down-right suck a toe, man. The Pulp Fiction pic had me in tears with laughter. Thanks for the laugh.
Those are very adorable clothes. Your kids are also ridiculously cute and clearly so active.
Love me some team collection!
Pick me! Pick me! My goddaughter arrives in the world in about a month! :)
I have two boys just about your boys’ ages. The clothing – SO FRUSTRATING!! THe clothes look cute. THanks for the opportunity :)
Yay – no…BIG YAY…for cute boy’s clothes. With a 15 month old boy and another boy due in October, I’d love to win this and buy some cute boy clothes.
Awesome boy clothes? Just in time for my son to (sniff!) start kindergarten? Yes, please!
I love Tea! Looks great on my bald baby!
Ooh – would love this! My son is 4 and it’s getting harder to find cute stuff!! My daughter is 1, so still not having any problems with finding her clothes :)
Thank you!
I would love to be your random number generated winner. My son also has a limited wardrobe consisting of jeans and fugly Lego shirts. Thanks!!
These are cute! But….I think your boys would be cute in a potato sack. :) Thanks Linda!!
Cute picks! I’d love a chance to win.
Wow, those shirts are cute, AND it sounds like an awesome place to work! I’m off to go peruse their site…