Clothes — by Guest Mom Rebecca Bingham

Let’s kick off this week with fashion, shall we?

I don’t pretend to be the height of fashion. I am not wearing Mom Jeans or anything like that, but I am not exactly the poster child for Anthropologie either. I also have curves. Big ones. It can be a challenge to find clothes that will stand up to the numerous washings, flatter my body type and help me look fashionable and hip but also age appropriate. They also can’t cost eleventy million dollars. Otherwise when my son paints them with Easter Egg dye, I will cry. I am pretty sure that I am not the only Design Mom reader with the same challenge. Am I?

Enter Boden. Have you discovered this yet? This was a happy accident. I am a huge fan of catalogues. I love, love, love them. Apparently, when you order things from catalogues you get put on a list and then you get MORE catalogues. Mostly they are things that I would never buy and they go in the pile for Lulu to cut up and make artwork out of. Occasionally you get a gem. One special day, the Boden book showed up at my door. It only took about three pages to know that I had a new best friend.

Doesn’t every woman want the perfect shirt?


This dress?


Or this coat?


Don’t forget this


This,


Or this.


And I didn’t even get to the shoes and handbags yet. I don’t know who this Johnny Boden is or why he makes such awesome clothes, but I want to invite him over for dinner and offer to baby-sit his perfectly dressed kids. Does any one else have catalogue that you love? Any other secret gems out there?