Original Round | Flexible Polarized Sunglasses | Bubble Gum
A child's face is not a small adult face, and sunglasses scaled down from an adult pair sit wrong on it. The Original Round is drawn to children's ...
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Pieces Of Everyday Magic ~ A Childhood, Not A Season
Pieces Of Everyday Magic
Same palette every year, prints shared across spring, summer, autumn and winter, that pair perfectly no matter the age, gender or weather.
A child's face is not a small adult face, and sunglasses scaled down from an adult pair sit wrong on it. The Original Round is drawn to children's ...
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Sunglasses are not only a July item. Low winter light through bare trees and bright overcast afternoons both put glare straight in a child's eyes, ...
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One size here covers 18 months to 10 years, which means a pair bought for a toddler is very often still the pair in use at school age. Eyewear that...
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A pair of children's sunglasses gets taken off and put back on more times in a day than almost anything else a child owns ~ into a hand, into a poc...
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Polarized lenses do one particular thing ~ they cut the glare that reflects back up off water, wet sand and pavement, which is the light a child lo...
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One frame size here covers 18 months through 10 years, which is a long stretch of childhood for a single pair of sunglasses to sit across.The GRECH...
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Laguna is one of the colors GRECH & CO. keeps returning to, which is what lets a pair of sunglasses land next to things a child already wears r...
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Some frames commit to one color. This one does not ~ solid Laguna and tortoiseshell share the same frame, so it coordinates in two directions inste...
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Eyewear is one of the few things that can move from one child to the next without being resized ~ one frame, one fit, 18 months through 10 years.Th...
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Two things decide whether a pair of children's sunglasses is worth having: what the lens actually does, and how the frame behaves once a child is h...
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Frame width is what decides whether sunglasses sit properly on a small face, and this one measures approximately 12.5 cm across the front with 12.9...
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The shape stays the same across every Original Round. What changes is what is on the frame, and here it is Scandi Floral.The GRECH & CO. Origin...
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Sunglasses only do anything for a child on the days they actually stay on a face, which is the whole argument for a frame that can be handled rough...
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The reason to put sunglasses on a child is the light itself: the flat glare coming up off water, sand and pale pavement on a clear day. Polarized l...
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Bent back into shape more times than anyone has counted ~ which is the whole reason the frame bends. Children's eyewear has to withstand being hand...
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One frame shape carrying a child from the toddler years into the school ones is a quiet sort of usefulness: they grow into the Original Round rathe...
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Choosing a first pair is simpler when the frame does not have to be matched to anything. Tortoise sits with prints and solids equally, and the Orig...
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By the middle of the warm months, one pair of sandals is doing nearly all the work: breakfast, the park, the walk home, back out again after dinner...
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Three parts, each with a job: a neoprene outer, an elastic cloth lining against the foot, and a flexible EVA sole underneath.That is the whole of G...
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Sizes 23 through 29 is a wide stretch of childhood for one shoe to cover, and that is the point: the same sandal and the same Laguna all the way up...
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Putting your own shoes on is one of the first things a child manages without help, and a strap small hands can work themselves is what makes that p...
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Warm-weather shoes get worn most days they can be, which is the argument for building a sandal plainly and letting a child fasten it themselves.The...
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A shoe that goes through the washing machine changes what a child is allowed to do in it. The rest of the day does not have to be arranged around k...
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Children change direction constantly, and a sole that bends where the foot bends moves with them instead of against them.The Play Shoes in Clay are...
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Some days turn out to include water without planning to, and a shoe that can be worn in it is simpler than one that has to come off first.GRECH &am...
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Mesh is an honest material for a children's shoe. It breathes, it washes, and it does not need much looking after.The Play Shoes in Fern are childr...
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Choosing children's shoes is easier when the color already agrees with everything else in the drawer.Fog is the gray in the GRECH & CO. palette...
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The size run here starts at 22 and ends at 35, which means the same shoe in the same color can be on two different children in one family at the sa...
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In Bloom is the printed colorway of the Play Shoe ~ the same shoe and the same construction as the solid colors, with a print in place of a single ...
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There is a stretch of most warm days that happens half in the water and half out of it: the shallow end, the stream at the bottom of the field, the...
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A canvas shoe holds water. Mesh lets it straight through, which is the whole reason these are built the way they are.Play Shoes in Sand are childre...
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Most children's water shoes look like scaled-down sports equipment. This one leads with the print instead: Sienna Gingham, the same check that appe...
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Children do not stop to change footwear between the grass, the poolside and the shallow end. These are made to be the one pair that covers all thre...
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Umbrellas get turned inside out. This one has a fiberglass frame, so it can be pushed back into shape and carried on with.The GRECH & CO. UV Um...
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An umbrella a child carries themselves turns wet weather from something to wait out into something to walk through.The GRECH & CO. UV Umbrella,...
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Rain and strong sun send a family looking for the same object, and this canopy answers both: waterproof, and UV protective.GRECH & CO.'s UV Umb...
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What decides how long an umbrella lasts is the frame, not the canopy. That is the difference between one a child keeps and one that manages a singl...
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Rain pants are what turn a wet afternoon into an outdoor one. These pull on over the clothes a child is already wearing, which is the reason they g...
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Rain rarely changes what a child wants to do outside. It only changes what they need to have on to do it.GRECH & CO.'s Rain Pants are children'...
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A rain layer earns its place by being unremarkable: on at the door, worn over whatever they already have on, off again at the other end of the afte...
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Sunset is one of the colors that keeps returning across the GRECH & CO. range, which is the quiet reason rainwear here does not read as a separ...
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Ribbon straps get retied at the edge of the pool, usually by the child wearing them. It is a small thing, and it is also the difference between a s...
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Half of a two piece can come off without the other half. For a child who is starting to manage the changing room on their own, that is most of the ...
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Swimwear for an older child is harder to find than it should be ~ the sizes tend to run out right around the age they start choosing for themselves...
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Most swimwear gets bought for one week of the year and quietly retired at the end of it. Scandi Floral is not drawn on that clock ~ it is a GRECH &...
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A swimsuit rarely goes anywhere on its own. It goes with the hat, the towel, the rashguard and whatever is already in the bag ~ which is the case f...
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Worn on both shoulders the first week, then one ~ as it goes. A backpack is carried every day, and it becomes one of the first things a child think...
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A school bag is one of the rare things that does not need swapping out partway through the year. The child grows; the bag stays the size it was.GRE...
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Still damp from yesterday and on again this morning ~ which is roughly how swim works with young children.The GRECH & CO. Short Sleeve Rashguar...
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Still damp from yesterday and on again this morning ~ which is roughly how swim works around here.GRECH & CO.'s Short Sleeve Rashguard Swimsuit...
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Swimming is rarely one clean session ~ in, out, dry off, back in, and the suit stays on through all of it.The Short Sleeve Rashguard Swimsuit in th...
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Pool steps, a sprinkler, the shallow end of a lake ~ the same suit does all of it.GRECH & CO.'s Short Sleeve Rashguard Swimsuit in the Pegasus ...
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A swimsuit earns its place by how many times it goes back on, not by how it looks the first day out.The Short Sleeve Rashguard Swimsuit in Scandi F...
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Lining a gingham up edge to edge across a seam takes more than one attempt ~ the kind of detail that only registers on a suit worn several times a ...
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Some meals are practice and some are just dinner. A silicone bib covers both ~ on quickly, off cleanly, ready again for the next one.The GRECH &...
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A bib earns its place by how often it is actually used. This one is built for the ordinary run of the day, breakfast through to whatever happens at...
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Scandi Floral turns up in more than one place at GRECH & CO., which means a family can pick the material that suits the stage rather than the p...
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Children drink differently depending on where they are and what they are doing. A straw suits a child on the move; the pour spout suits a longer dr...
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Opening a bottle, drinking from it and closing it again is a small piece of independence a child practices ten times a day. The Sip + Chug lid hold...
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Cold water in July and something warm in November, out of the same bottle. A thermo bottle in 304 stainless steel takes both, which means the drink...
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Most days this bottle spends more time in a bag than in a hand: sideways under a sweater, upright next to a book, out again at the playground. A le...
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Sunset Meadow appears across more than one category here, which is the whole point of designing a print that way. A bottle bought now still belongs...
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From Janet
We believe in designing Pieces Of Everyday Magic that will travel through childhood over time. Pieces that will collect stories and share adventures with children and families around the world.
Everyday essentials that live calmly in each room of the home, where each print carries its footprint cohesively from the entryway to the kitchen table to the closet ~ a universe that blends the aesthetic preferences of a child and an adult.
We look forward to sharing more of our plans on how we want to grow our community together, and how we will continue to share our movement and purpose through A Childhood, Not A Season. I hope you join us and share in Pieces Of Everyday Magic ~ The Movement.
Most Warmly,
Janet Grech
Founder + Full-Time Mama of Four
GRECH & CO. | Pieces Of Everyday Magic