While they have their own sec­tions at stores like Wal– Mart, Tar­get and K-Mart, chances are if you’re not specif­i­cally look­ing for baby clothes or gifts you’ve con­sis­tently skipped that sec­tion on the way to elec­tron­ics or bath­room sup­plies. Because of this, you’ve prob­a­bly missed the fact that baby cloth­ing has been get­ting pretty fash­ion­able lately.

Gone are the days of plain col­ors and cookie cut­ter designs, children’s cloth­ing has been get­ting seri­ous atten­tion from some of today’s hottest design­ers. It’s not just for the celebrity mom either, fash­ion­able prints and inter­est­ing color schemes are show­ing up every­where from high-end baby clothes bou­tiques to your favorite mega stores.

This is good news for both new par­ents as well as those look­ing for baby gifts as there are now many more options to match both the a parent’s and child’s per­son­al­ity. By just scan­ning the web­site of a baby spe­cialty store you’ll noticed a large and intrigu­ing selec­tion of cloth­ing for babies. A few of the options include:

- A one­sie fea­tur­ing soft flo­res­cent col­ors with the words “punk rock” on it.
— A one­sie fea­tur­ing a Japan­ese style tiger with a leaf back­ground.
— A full line of fash­ion­able shirts fea­tur­ing such phrases as: “all nat­ural”, “fat and happy” (my per­sonal favorite), “uber snug­gler”, and “peas out” with green peas on it.

Cloth­ing such as sun­dresses and paja­mas have also mod­ern­ized by uti­liz­ing new and excit­ing col­ors and styles while con­tin­u­ing to fea­ture such clas­sic pat­terns as polka dots and straight lines. Col­ors like black and white are now being paired with pinks and pur­ples to make con­trast­ing designs that really stand out from the crowd. One of the more adorable dresses I came across has a repeat­ing pat­tern of pink and green flowers.

On the acces­sory fronts, those look­ing for a new and excit­ing gift have much to choose from. Bibs come in all dif­fer­ent fab­rics and col­ors and many com­pa­nies have coor­di­nated the col­ors and designs of their baby clothes and their bibs. In fact, most com­pa­nies offer match­ing tow­els, hats, bed­ding and even dia­per bags so par­ents can plan a color scheme and stick with it. Even hair clips, paci­fiers and footwear are now designer made and make really won­der­ful gifts for any occa­sion. There really are so many cool ideas when it comes to find­ing baby gifts!

So there you go. If you ever find your­self in a posi­tion to buy a gift of baby clothes or acces­sories you can use your full fash­ion sense for your pur­chase. Next time you find your­self near the baby aisle at your favorite shop­ping cen­ter take a look inside, you might be shocked at what you see.