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Fashionable, stylish and trendy are words that I would never use to describe myself.
So I say that God had quite the sense of humor when he chose to give me not one but three little girls–one of whom is tom-boyish but girly, one of whom is–already at 3 1/2–a fashion queen, and the other, well, she’s not even two yet, but she is already trying to dress herself.
I really do see myself as a “girl mom,” but when it comes to dressing my girls cutely (and even styling their hair!), I need all the help I can get.
I recently had the opportunity to get the inside scoop on the new Carter’s clothing line for fall. Many of the clothes my girls wear are Carter’s brand, and one thing I really like about them is that they keep kids kids.
When you look at some other children’s clothing lines, especially in the 4-7 size range, sometimes they get too grown up too fast. In my opinion, Carter’s keeps things modest and tasteful.
This is especially important to me as a girl mom!
Check out some of these key fall fashion trends for 2014:
Activewear / “Ath Leisure”
- Comfortable to play in
- Fun graphics with positive messages
- Seamlessly add to your existing wardrobe
- Versatile ways to wear these pieces
- Easy to layer for fall
- Includes PJ’s
Camo
- Not just for boys!
- Pattern mixing is a great way to add a new, fun twist to camo pieces for both boys and girls
- For boys – wear bright colors, like red, with camo
- For girls – wear floral patterns with camo
Tomboy Chic
- All about the mix and match – take something very athletic and give it a girly twist (e.g., sweatshirt paired with lace skirt)
- Camo shoes with sparkly pink shoelaces; high tops for girls with pink laces
- Cuffs turned back on sweatshirts
- Military jacket with floral vintage print on the inside
Vintage Prints
- Smaller, sweeter graphics
- Includes graphics like ponies, puppies, floral – things girls love to wear
- Unexpected ways to wear vintage prints are available, like vintage patterned rain boots
Fresh Plaids
- Taking something traditional and twisting it to make it feel fresh and new for fall
- New and fresh colors on the boys’ plaid shirts
New: Sizes 7-12!
I was really excited to hear that Carter’s is now offering sizes 7-12 in 62 of their stores! I hear that this size range is so hard to shop for, and my oldest will be in size 7 next! Carter’s goal is to take age appropriate clothing and makes it available for older kids. I am hopeful that this line will grow.
40% off Sale and Coupon!
The Carter’s fall line is already in stores, and right now, until August 15, Carter’s is holding a 40% off entire store promo! Also, click on the above image of the 20% off coupon, open it in a new tab and print it out and use it on your order!
For more fall fashion trends for kids, you can follow me on the Carter’s Vintage Prints board on Pinterest!
Win a $50 Carter’s gift card!
Comment on this post, letting me know which fall fashion trend appeals to you the most! Each commenter will be entered into a giveaway for a $50 Carter’s gift card! I will choose a winner via random.org on August 2 at midnight, EST!
Which fall fashion trend appeals to you the most?
Disclosure: This conversion is sponsored by Carter’s. All opinions are mine.
rosie m
love the vintage prints so cute for my little girl
Molly Bronson
I LOVE the vintage prints…I have 2 little girls so anything frilly and feminine for us!
lynn
The vintage prints would definitely appeal to my flowery princess four year old!
Sarah Hayes
i love the vintage prints. they are adorable esp on dresses
Claire Rheinheimer
I like the Activewear / “Ath Leisure” collection.
Heidi
The vintage prints seem right up my little girl’s alley!
Sara Garrett
The activewear is adorable !
Louise Johnson
I’m loving the plaids;!
Christine Thingstad
Camo! Great way to match my twins that are a boy and a girl!
Jade
Activewear! Those pants are perfect for “running” just like mommy does!
Amy Stapley
Definitely love the vintage!
dawn r
I love the floral with the camo!
Mari
Vintage prints!
Jennifer
I love the Tomboy Chic look!
Yvette Botello
My grand daughters would live the Tom boy chic!
Julia Greenberg
Since I have a boy I will have to say that the plaid outfit would be my choice. Lol. 🙂
Su
I like the vintage and layers looks. I like that the items are quite mix and match. thx
Jessica Snow
I love the Tomboy Chic Collection. It’s really cute.
Thanks for the giveaway! =)
Lisa
Definitely the vintage prints are my favorite!
caci
Love the vintage prints for my wild ones
Lisa
Fresh plaid for my son 🙂
Carrie Mason
I have two girls and for one I love the vintage and the other I love the camo. All are super cute though. Hopeful our store will be getting the bigger sizes as well.
Machella Goad
Activewear is definitely best for my family!
Christina T.
I love the vintage prints for my girlie girls! The lace skirt is spoon beautiful. With four kids to shop for, Carter’s is my go-to store.
Kerry Burdick
I love the “Fresh Plaids” for my little man!
Amanda Nelson
Love the tomboy chic!
Daisey
I could totally see my girl in the camo outfit
Christina Pesko
The DRESSES! Especially the vintage prints. Love it all for all four of my littles. Boy 5yrs, girl 3yrs, boy 2yrs, and girl 8 months. 🙂
Neely
The vintage prints are adorable! So glad they are extending their line to bigger sizes!
Sue Lessig
I love the Vintage Prints, as would my sweet granddaughter!
Carolyn Stamper
Loving the plaid!
Megan Eckstrom
Tomboy Chic for sure! My little girl has 3 brothers, so with this line she can be her tomboy/girlie girl self all in one!
Megan
Vintage prints are so sweet!
Alicia
Love the vintage prints. My 3 year old loves anything with puppies on it!
Lauren Simms
Tomboy chic is perfect for us!
Amber
I love the vintage prints. I’m also excited about the larger sizes since my son is a 10.
Jennie
My daughter would love the tomboy chic and I do too!
Kimberly R
I’ll have to go for Tomboy Chic! I only have one little girl and she has two older brothers. She likes to try to keep up playing with them, but she still likes the “girly” pretty things too 🙂
Irene frank
Love the vintage print.
Megan M.
I love the girly camo. My oldest daughter would love that!!!
Jackie
I like the plaid trend, and I think it will look really cute on my baby boys!
Laurie
I love the camp for girls!!
Kristy
LOVE the vintage, feminine and modest!
Jodie
I also have 3 girls. I think the vintage trend is cute.
Nichole
Love the girly camo and the new sizes!
Lisa Sullivan
Fresh plaids for me and my boys! So cute!
Amber Martin
I have to say the plaid because I have two boys.
Cat
I have a soft spot for plaids for my boys and long dresses for my girls 🙂
Thes
I love the plaid line for boys. As mom of only boys I have a hard time finding cute clothes but Carter’s never fails 🙂
Julie Roberts
I love the fresh plaid for my baby boy. My older kids will love the camo.
Jenn Reavis
Vintage all the way!!
Ali Nilson
Camo!
CW
I love the vintage prints.
Lesley
The vintage is so cute!
Stephanie H.
LOVE the vintage prints. Looks like I might be in the majority 🙂
Stephanie
Love the vintage prints… Anything floral for my girly girl
carie
I love the vintage prints!!
Amanda H
Tomboy chic for my little mini me! Great for romping around our farm! 🙂
Susan McKenna
I love the vintage prints…super cute.
Alathea
I am very much a jeans and t-shirt girl. My almost 8 and 5 year old girls love all things frilly and girly. 🙂 My 3 year old boy doesn’t tend to care……but if it happens to have a tractor or car on it he loves it.
Laura
Love the plaids!
Megan Swift
I love the vintage prints! We love Carters!
Ginger
I like the active wear, but my more and more opinionated toddler would probably be more likely to wear the vintage prints!
patty
I love the vintage print skirts!
Lanae
If I had a girl I would definitely go for the vintages prints! But alas I have 4 boys so I’d have to say the plaids
Kathrine McKinney
Love the vintage and the camo, I have 2 girls and one loves frilly the other one loves camo,tomboyish clothes
Sarah
I definitely love the fresh plaid! All of the options are adorable though.
Sara
Vintage gets my vote! Always a classy option.
Kerri
I love the vintage prints!!!!! So cute!!
Carrie M.
I love ALL the trends! My twins love Carters brand!
Cyndi
I like the Vintage Prints, but Tomboy Chic is a close second.
Stephanie
The Camo is right up my family’s alley!! My hubby would LOVE more camo additions to our daughter’s wardrobe!
Jennifer
Love the vintage!
Becky B
Carter’s is my favorite kid’s brand of clothing. The girl’s outfits are so cute, but I have a little boy. Jeans and plaid with some tennies are great!
Melissa M
I love camo.
Laurie
Vintage prints for sure, so cute!
KaySue
I like the girls Vintage Prints collection.
livivua
The vintage prints paired with denim for fall.
Brittany
Vintage!
latanya
I like the Camo trend
Elle
I love the plaid long sleeved shirts for boys. They look really cute with jeans and a graphic tee underneath.
Amanda Guardado
I love the fresh plaids!!
Alison
I really like the Vintage Collection! Super cute! 🙂
Autumn
Love the vintage prints! They’re great for dressing up simpler pieces 🙂
Stephanie C
I would love the vintage print on my 3 girls, although my middle daughter would probably prefer the activewear.
Allison Downes
I love the Vintage prints! Thanks for the chance to win this prize.
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Kally Jo Haer
I love the Fresh Plaids for my little cowboy! 🙂
LaraS.
Love the Vintage Chic – I cant totally see my little girl wearing that! 🙂
stevie
I love all things vintage! My li’l one loves flowers. I think we’d definitely agree we’re looking forward to “vintage prints” for fall! Thank you for the chance!
Jessie C.
I like the Vintage Prints.
carissa
Love the little guy vintage trend!
Mami2jcn
The plaid trend is always a classic.
Jen
Love the tomboy chic for my sweet pea!!! 🙂
karebear244
I love the fresh plaid!
Tonyia
For me it’s all about the Fresh Plaids! Loved putting my son in those when he was little. Now I have a grandson and I love to put him in the plaids to match his grandpop!!
Heather Galloway
I LOVE the vintage prints trend. That is right up my 6-year-old’s alley and I could see my 3-year-old loving that too 🙂
Lindsey Roden
Vintage prints!
Ruth
Definitely the girly camp!! 🙂
Ashley Zierott
Love the girly Camo! Appeals to Daddy also!
Theresa Brennan
The plaids for boys 😉
Brandy Rocheleau
Love the fresh plaids!
Ashley C.
I love the camo — both for my son, AND my daughter!
kelly D
The vintage prints appeal to me the most.
Heidi
I love the vintage patterns for girls!! So sweet and girly.
Jenny
I have four year old boy/girl twins. I adore the vintage prints and the plaid.
Kristin DiVito
I love the Vintage Prints look! Fresh and girly!! 🙂
Erica
Love the vintage! !
Nicole
Vintage prints is my favorite. It’s exciting news that Carter’s is expanding their size range because my oldest daughter is just moving out of 6x!
Jess
I love the camo trend!
rachel
camo for girls is super fun!
Shana Trahan
Ath leisure. I Ann definitely not a girly sorry. Haha
Rachel
Vintage prints for my little girl!
Kathryn Himelright
Vintage Prints!!!
Crystal Deskins
I really love the vintage prints (but my baby girl is not here yet – due any day though!), but I love the plaids for my three year old son (I put those on him a lot!). 🙂
Tara S.
My girls would like the Tomboy Chic look!
Sylvia Marie
I have 6 darling granddaughters that would be jumping for joy if their gram won. I adore the vintage prints, the Cammo & the jackets. Red headed little girls would be looking mighty fine!!!!!!!
Marianna
Vintage Print is deinitely my style!
Jessica
The fresh plaids!
Mary Jo
I love the vintage prints.
Joanne Friday
My sweet little one will look adorable in the vintage prints.
Joanne Friday
The sweet little one will look adorable in vintage prints.
Bethany Beck
I adore the vintage prints. It’s so nice to see girl’s clothing that looks sweet and appropriate for my 3-year-old.
Randi
Love the vintage print! My daughter’s will be so adorable! I also love how they have matching for bigger girls and babies!
Stephanie
I love the tomboy chic and vintage prints. Love that they are cute, girly and modest.
Janae R.
I love the vintage prints. My girls are both pretty girly though they are game for anything.
Sheri
I really like the vintage print look. 🙂
Meredith H.
I love love love the plaids!
juli
Love the animal print with Jean jacket and leggings!!
Christi k
Fresh plaids are super cute for boys 🙂 we have two lil guys that would look so cute in them 🙂
Megan Jordan
Vintage Prints!
Amanda P
Tomboy Chic…that’s my 4 year old for sure. 😀 So sweet.
Christy
With four boys in the house (the oldest is 5), a “new and fresh” plaid would be much appreciated. 🙂
Joy Lyn Gutzman
Fresh plaid since I just don’t think the other styles will work on my little boy.
Erica P
Never thought I would say this, but I love the Camo look! I think my Mississippi husband is rubbing off on me!
Erin
Ha! My hubby is from MS as well. We lived in Southaven for 5 years. 🙂
April P
LOVE the vintage for my girls and the fresh plaids are too cute for the boys!!!!
Candi Parent
I love the plaid for my little one. He’d look super adorable in anything plaid!!
Alexis
The plaid would be cute on my son & the vintage prints for my daughter 🙂
Amy Osburn
I prefer the tomboy Chic look; however, my independent minded 4 year old prefers to wear nothing but dresses and the vintage style catches her eye the most.
Candi
Loving the vintage but I think my 2yr old girl would like the camo.:)
Diane S.
My daughter is not going to wear dresses each and every day this year. She is strong-willed, and wears crazy layers and prints–and makes it all look good! She is going into second grade, and we could use a $50.00 gift certificate to shop–I love Carters! Esp. the skirts and leggings and shirts,….my daughter could do many things with these outfits!
Kara
Vintage prints are precious!!
Sarah K
The camo for girls is too cute! I love Carter’s and I agree that they keep things fun and age appropriate. I also love that they have matching outfits for my 5 year old and 3 month old! It is so fun to have them match and my daughter loves to wear the same outfit as her baby sister!
Amy Carter
The tomboy chic and the camo because my girls would love them and look so cute wearing them!
Mary T
My granddaughter is a rough and tumble kind of girl so I am thinking that the Tomboy Chic look is just the one for her! Thx for always sharing great opportunities and info!
Nicole Gallagher
Surprisingly, I love the camo 🙂
Carrie
The Tomboy Chic!
Melissa
Love the vintage prints 🙂
Julie Filiatreau
I love the camo! I bought the leggings for my 2 year old and she wore them last week and thought they had to be her brother’s pants bc they were camo. She always wants to be just like him anyway so she was thrilled when she found out they were hers lol
Bethany
Love the camo and the plaid
Adrianna
I love the tomboy chic outfit. What comes to mind immediately is that it is an outfit that screams, “Look, I dressed myself”! It is well balanced for an active little girl doing what she does best, play!
Gina M
I love the plaid trend for boys this fall.
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Jamie
I love the vintage line. Pretty prints!!!
Michelle Haight
I love both the vintage print and the tomboy chic! So cute. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Kristie
I love the vintage prints with the jean jacket!!
Julie
The vintage prints are so cute. I also like the floral combinations, keeping a strong feminine flair to the tomboy combinations.
Sarah
Vintage prints are always my fav but my 4 & 5 year old girls like a more modern glam style:-/
Zedda Troyer
Love the tomboy chic.
Natalie
I love the tomboy chic!
Brittany
I love the outfit with the camo!
Ashley C
I’m really excited about camo for girl’s. My son has always worn camo but I’ve never been able to find cute girly camo!
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Amy hannus
I love the vintage prints!
Sara
The camo looks great. Would love to have that for my daughters.
Kate
I would love the Vintage Prints for my two girls!
Adele Cole
All about the Activewear for sure! I have two little girls, the older one who’s DEFINITELY a tomboy like her mama. 🙂 We love clothes we can MOVE it and get dirty in!
Kristen L
Love the fresh plaid foe my little man!
Julie G
Tomboy Chic is my favorite – I love the Vintage Prints, too! 🙂
Josie
I can’t decide between the Vintage and the Plaid. They are both so adorable!
Susan
My kiddos are to old to wear Carters anymore, but I am going to buy the boys plaid shirt outfit for my friends son.
Nichole Satterwhite
I have the perfect girl for the tomboy chic!
christina
Love vintage 🙂 also love Carter’s and that they don’t rush children into the teenage years! That will come soon enough!
Laura P.
Wow, such a great selection of clothing! I would love to get the Camo dress set for our granddaughter, since her grandpa is a hunter! Thanks for the giveaway!
Tara E
Vintage prints
Laura Jacobson
Oh my favorite fall trend is their boys Fresh Plaids! So adorable! Oh Carter would be styling for preschool this fall! 🙂
Julie
I love the fresh plaids!
Shannon
My 3, almost 4, year old would totally go for the vintage chic line because of the skirt, neckless and shiny shoes. I wish could get it in my size because I totally dig the comfortable feel of it but the pretty famine look it gives.
tiffany
I love the Activewear / “Ath Leisure”.
Jenna O
I loike the Tomboy chick style!
theresa
Like the vintage a lot!
Rebekah
I like the plaid.
Natalie F
I love the fresh plaids for my boys. Thanks for the coupon. Now that Carters does bigger sizes, we will be hitting them up for back to school!
Amanda Buccieri
I’m loving the camo for fall!!!
Melissa A
The vintage prints are cute!
Kristen
I like the Fresh Plaids.
Christy S
Love the vintage prints. So cute!
shelly peterson
I like he Fresh Plaids trend the best.
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Jutta P.
I love the vintage prints! The Poplin Puppy Print Dress is sooooo cute!
Ashley
Love, love, love the vintage prints! They are so feminine!!! just adorable!
Carolsue
Since I have a son, I like the Cute Camo styles
Ashley H
I like the stretch leggings.
Jillian T
I really like the Plaid All Stars look for boys.
Amy H
I love the vintage prints collection!!
Jenniferanne
I love the Cute Camo styles. So do my kids!
Diane F.
Oh, I love the vintage prints! Perfect for my little girl!
Amanda Sakovitz
I like the Camo trend!
Margy R
I love the vintage prints… so cute. My husband a true outdoorsman I’m sure would appreciate the Camo line:)
Thomas Murphy
I like the camo trend.
christine j
i love the Floral Stretch Twill Jeggings