Our Gender-Neutral Baby & Toddler Clothing Line

In a world that's rapidly evolving, so are the ways we celebrate our little ones. With a KidOneder on, every child is free to explore, express, and grow without limitations — starting with the dressed-up clothes they wear.

That’s why we’ve created a thoughtfully designed, beautifully tailored,  gender-neutral baby and toddler clothing line. Our collection moves beyond traditional pinks and blues, offering a fresh, modern approach to dressing your child with comfort, quality, and individuality in mind.

Still Made in the USA — With Love for Every Child

At a time when so much is outsourced, we’re proud to say our baby and toddler clothing line isstill made in the USA. Every piece is thoughtfully designed and carefully crafted right here at home, ensuring the highest standards of safety, comfort, and quality for your little ones.

Our gender-neutral designs celebrate childhood in all its beautiful forms — simple, timeless, and free from stereotypes. Our clothes are made to let kids be kids.

By keeping production local, we’re also supporting American workers, reducing our environmental footprint, and maintaining ethical manufacturing practices.

Because your child deserves the very best — and so does the world they’ll grow up in.

Still made in the USA. Always made with care.

Stars have aligned

We’ve been working on designs for our Kidoneders for nearly 15 years now and finally got it right.  After at least five design edits, and even more seamstresses, we landed on a great fit.  After much searching, we also discovered dobby fabric, which makes our kidoneders both beautiful and soft to the touch.  We’re so excited that the stars have aligned!

Now we partly attribute the time constraints to our own status as mothers (and now grandmothers) rather than as clothing designers or even sewers.  We’ve always known what we wanted, but it was turning the vision into reality that took such a long time.   In the end, we’ve been caught in the “no one is making anything in the US anymore” phenomenon.  And that’s ironic since we grew up in Allentown PA, a textile town.  Not all that long ago, Allentown had been the home to more than 140 silk and textile factories, the hub for Mack Trucks, and was just next door to Bethlehem Steel.  But the factories are all gone now.

The sewers are around, but factories have closed, and the sewing and snap machines have disappeared along with the work.  After internet searches, telephone calls, craiglist ads, and investigative visits, we found someone we called sewer extraordinaire (at the time), the former owner of a now shuttered 100 something person textile factory, who sewed out of a portable storage shed in her backyard. We found another sewer renting space in a former textile factory building, who’s business and health suffered during COVID.  We even visited factories in Viet Nam and checked out sites in Costa Rica, but quickly realized our small size prevented us from going down that path. In between we found a consultant in NYC and a small factory in the city’s garment district.  We’re pleased to report that we’re now happily working with a sewer who rents space in the very same building in New York’s garment district.

The lesson: starting a small garment business can take a really long time.  Passion for our KidOneders and ONEder ties and the fun in working together as sisters has kept us going.

We’re pleased to report that the stars have aligned: great designs, beautiful fabric, talented sewers, made in the USA. 

A really good idea

Once upon a time two sisters had an idea to improve the way their sons dressed.  It was a really good idea.  No one had thought of this idea before.  They talked about the idea for a long time, and finally the sisters said, “let’s do it!  Let’s make this idea a reality”.  They found a seamstress disguised as a pre-K teacher and she sewed sample 1 of the idea.  It was good, but not quite right.

They took sample 1 to a seamstress in another state, a ‘hip’ seamstress with a business of her own.  The sisters explained their idea.  Sample 2 was designed.  It was good, but not quite right.  They took sample 2 to yet another seamstress who worked in an old factory that the sisters knew from their childhood.  This seamstress made sample 3.  It was almost good, but still not quite right.  After searching and searching, the sisters found yet another seamstress, a well seasoned used-to-be factory owner, who now sewed in a shed in her rural back yard.  Her sample 4 was the best yet, and the sisters moved ahead.   

The two sisters had an idea.  The idea needed a company.  The two sisters became a limited liability corporation.  The idea and the company needed names.  Sample 4 became the first KidONEder.  It became part of Tucked In Dressed Up llc.

Two sisters now had an idea, sample 4 with name, and a company with name.  The idea name had to be copyrighted.  It needed a marketing plan.  It needed a manufacturer.  It needed to become a reality.  The sisters bought bolts of fabric from the big city, and began. 

This was the beginning.  Follow along.  It is our journey, two sisters with an idea.  A really good idea.

Our first professional photo shoot

We just finished our first professional photo shoot.  This is the first time we hired a photographer, Don Carrick, to photograph the kids.  We found Don on Craigslist; we advertised for a photographer that would take pictures of our KidONEders for $200 and Don responded.  He’s done two sets of product photographs for us but those were smaller less complicated jobs.

We’ve taken photos of kids in our KidONEders before.  Kids whose mom responded to our craigslist ad, kids from Carla’s church, all with one of those small digital Nikons, and of course with our cell phones.  We met in the church or at the kids houses.  It was hit or miss, with most of the shots blurry and unusable.  Not to mention those kids who wouldn’t take the pacifiers out of their mouths.

The difference with Don was astounding.  Don had stand up lights and light shades.  Light meters.  A white backdrop that pulled down like butcher block.  He scoped out the church, organized and orchestrated the shoot, coddled and played with the kids, pulled up their pants, “hey buddy, come here and let me fix your pants” he told them, without a bit of creepiness.   

Don was down on the ground for most of the shoot.  We had three boys, Lathan is 17 mos., August is 2 years, and Jack is 3 years.   Lathan and August were shy at first.   As Don confirmed, “models are always tough.”   Jack, on the other hand, is a ham (to quote his mom).  “Hello, I’m Jack,” he told us when we greeted him outside.  Without a beat, there was a costume change into a white KidONEder and pop art ONEder tie, (“I like orange:,” Jack told us) and Jack proceeded to sit, stand, play with a rocket his mom bought ahead of time (with the $20 we promisedfor the shoot).   Carla and the moms warmed up the two little ones with bribes and toys, and after their equally swift costume change in to the first of two kidONEders and ONEder ties, they tossed a football, looked at books, and played with Fisher Price villages.  

Don’s photos are great: the kids are melt your heart gorgeous, so cute they could sell anything, and we’ll have plenty of visuals for the website and a booth at Children’s Club in NYC in August.   We're finding out that it pays to hire a professional.