Petite Luxe: French for What Recession?

La vie really is pretty rose-y if you're looking at it from the pov of new online shop Petit Luxe . If you've got a francophile in you yearning to breathe free - or just super picky taste in baby gifts and gear, you're going to fall in l…

Petite Luxe: French for What Recession?

La vie really is pretty rose-y if you're looking at it from the pov of new online shop Petit Luxe. If you've got a francophile in you yearning to breathe free - or just super picky taste in baby gifts and gear, you're going to fall in love like a newlywed couple sipping Montrachet in the honeymoon suite of the Georges V.

There's the most goooorgeous selection of fancy frocks and dapper threads at this mom-run shop from the likes of Flora and HenriBaby CZ and Dagmar Daley (shown). The Eliza Gran sundresses are to die for. But for the truly indulgent gift for which Euros are no object, I'm loving the fancy schmancy pjs and nighties from Paris label Maloup, which US mamas can only get here without paying overseas shipping. If that plum eyelet nightdress isn't the stuff sweet French dreams are made of, then I don't know what is. -Liz

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