WHAT MAKES OUR SMOCKED AND EMBROIDERED DRESSES SO SPECIAL?

 

 

 

Uniting timeless French style with traditional hand smocked dresses  and embroidery, our dresses are one of a kind. It is the love put into each design and care for details that makes Charlotte sy Dimby so special! As Leonardo da Vinci said “Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”

 

Discover below the secrets behind our dresses!

 

Handmade smocks craftsmanship

LIMITED EDITIONS

To allow each child to feel unique and add a precious feel to your special moments, we have made the choice of creating very limited editions. We create one dress per size only and never restock our designs. Our wish is to offer you exclusive pieces to treasure and cherish. Quality and beauty come very first!

Available in our unique boutique and through our online e-shop only, you can be sure that your little one will not be dressed like all her friends!

*The only designs which we restock are our Born on Fifth collections and iconics. To make dreams come true and for very special events, we can sometimes make custom orders. Handmade French style baby boy clothing.

HANDMADE WITHIN OUR OWN ATELIER

Designed, cut and sewn within our own atelier, each dress is handmade with care. Total control of the whole production process and entire freedom in our creativity enables us to fully express our skills and creativity.

 

Our designer, Monique Ramahay, fondly nicknamed "Queen of Smocks", selects all our fabrics herself and decides on each smocking and embroidery pattern. Her ideas are then brought to life by our passionate team of experts. Small in number but highly dedicated, our team is constantly striving to improve so as to offer the best to your children.

 

Handmade smocks

TRADITIONAL SMOCKING

For more than three decades, the secrets of smocks, which is the art of embroidering  geometrical or figurative shapes on top of tightly pleated panels of fabric have been passed down from one generation to another within our own atelier. It is in the home country of our brand’s founder, Monique, that this craftsmanship is kept alive.

 

Pioneers in marrying nouveau French style with the precious smocking art of Madagascar, we are committed to the safe-keeping of this heritage.

 

Before smocking, our fabrics are manually gathered using a traditional pleater. Through meticulous gestures, we obtain consistency and equal distance between the pleats. Manual smocks pleater - Craftsmanship

 

For striped and checked fabrics, we pleat the fabric entirely by hand so as to put forward one colour. The same goes for velvets. The inside must look as neat as the outside.

 

Handmade smocking

Of all colours, sizes and shapes, smocks offer an infinity of possibilities. Vast playing field, they are renewed every season and enhance our creativity. All are entirely handmade providing a polished and high quality look to our dresses.