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Babyboo Fashion

Babyboo Fashion

Babyboo Fashion, written BABYBOO by the company, is an online women's fashion label founded in 2013 that sells occasion dresses first and swimwear and intimates second. By its own account it began as a small project in the founder's parents' home, designs its collections in Europe and has them hand-crafted in Australia, and its web store prices in Australian dollars by default while shipping worldwide. The museum's archive holds 12 Babyboo products. Most of what follows comes from the brand's own pages, because independent coverage of the company could not be found.

Babyboo Fashion began as a dress label

The center of the Babyboo business is the dress for an event. Its site is organized around bridal gowns, bridesmaid dresses, wedding guest dresses, evening dresses and party dresses, with suiting, everyday pieces and accessories filling in around them. The company describes this as occasionwear and statement silhouettes for life's big moments, and the description is accurate: the range is built around the photograph at the wedding, the formal or the birthday dinner.

That matters for anyone reading this page in a lingerie encyclopedia. Babyboo's swim and intimates lines are add-ons to a dress business, not its foundation, and they follow the dress customer's needs. Someone buying a backless or plunging gown also needs underwear that will not show under it, and a beach holiday or bachelorette weekend calls for swimwear in the same mood as the dresses.

The founding story, as the brand tells it

Babyboo gives 2013 as its founding year and says the business started small, at home, with a single purpose of making occasionwear for women. Its founder is quoted on the site with a line that sums up the company's tone: "our clothes won't change the world but the women who wear them will." The company does not publish a city of founding or a company registration on the pages checked, and it gives only a first name for its founder.

The production claim is specific and slightly unusual. Designed in Europe and hand-crafted in Australia reverses the usual direction of fast-moving online fashion, which tends to design locally and manufacture in Asia. It could not be checked against any outside source, so it is reported here as the brand's statement.

Babyboo swim and resort wear

The swim line sits under the heading Babyboo Swim and is split into bikinis, one-piece swimsuits, cover-ups and resort wear. The brand's own summary is "statement one-pieces meet effortless separates," which places it in the dressier end of swimwear: suits meant to be worn to a beach club or a pool party as much as into the water. A bikini bottom and top sold as separates let customers buy different sizes for each half, a practical choice that dress-led brands often borrow from specialist swim labels.

Intimates in SoftForm fabric

Babyboo's intimates are a short range of bras and of thongs and briefs. The company describes them as made in its "signature SoftForm fabric," aimed at a softer, lighter feel for everyday wear. The fiber content of SoftForm is not stated on the collection page, so it cannot be compared fairly with named fabrics such as microfiber or cotton jersey. What can be said is that the line favors smooth, low-bulk pieces, the thong most of all, which is what a customer wearing a bodycon or satin dress actually needs.

How Babyboo sells

Everything goes through the company's own online store and a mobile app. The store offers a selector with more than 200 countries and regions, which suggests the company sells far beyond Australia, though the default currency remains the Australian dollar. There is no physical store listed on the pages checked.

What the record still lacks

Several basic facts remain unconfirmed: the founder's full name, the city where the business began, the company's legal name and the size of the operation. The museum's earlier record held none of those either, only the brand name and a product count.

Where Babyboo sits in lingerie

Babyboo is a dress label that also sells the pieces worn underneath and beside its dresses. Its 12 products in the archive are a small window on a large modern category, the online occasionwear brand, in which intimates exist to make the main garment work.

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Sources

  1. babyboofashion.com
  2. babyboofashion.com: about us
  3. babyboofashion.com: intimates
  4. babyboofashion.com: babyboo swim

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