🍎❤️ Apple of My Eye Dress ❤️🍎
Ready to Ship • Ships in Approximately 2 Weeks
An Exclusive Original Bambalina Clothing Design
The Apple of My Eye Dress was created to capture the magic of childhood—the apple-picking afternoons, freshly baked apple pies, back-to-school portraits, graduation celebrations, family photos, and all the little moments you'll want to remember forever. 🍎🍂
Designed exclusively by Bambalina Clothing, this is an heirloom dress made to be photographed, cherished, and passed down.
Every dress is hand-cut and individually handmade in our own atelier, never mass-produced in a factory.
🍎 Why You'll Love It
✨ Adjustable Design That Grows With Your Child
One of the most special features of the Apple of My Eye Dress is its beautifully designed back.
The suspenders loop through the back and function as adjustable corset ties, while the elastic portion of the waist measures approximately 4–8 cm high, depending on the size.
This unique construction provides flexibility and allows the dress to accommodate approximately three consecutive sizes, depending on your child's measurements and desired fit.
For example, a Size 5 dress may comfortably fit a child wearing approximately Size 4, 5, or 6.
It is designed to grow with your little one rather than being worn for only one season. ❤️
✨ Features
🍎 Original Bambalina Clothing design
🪡 Individually hand-cut and handmade in our own atelier
🤍 Beautiful premium 100% cotton linen and cotton fabrics
🎀 Delicate 100% cotton lace details
✨ Full 100% cotton lining on the bodice and skirt
🌸 Soft tulle for the signature full silhouette
🎀 Adjustable corset-style back suspenders
🤍 Elastic back waistband for flexibility and room to grow
👗 Available with your choice of skirt silhouette
Comes with matching bloomers
🎀 Matching bloomers available
Every dress is individually handcrafted, so slight variations in fabric pattern placement, lace placement, and hand-finished details are natural and make each Bambalina piece beautifully unique.
🎀 Choose Your Skirt
✨ Full Puffy Skirt with Sewn-In Petticoat
For Bambalina's signature dramatic silhouette, the dress comes with the sewn-in petticoat.
Layers of soft tulle are sewn between the outer fabric and the full 100% cotton lining to create beautiful fullness and movement.
📦 READY TO SHIP
🍎 Your Apple of My Eye Dress Is Already Here!
This listing is for Ready to Ship dresses.
Important: Please allow approximately TWO WEEKS for processing before your order ships.
As a small family atelier, I personally inspect, carefully prepare, package, and ship every order myself.
Each dress receives individual attention before it leaves our atelier because I want your Bambalina heirloom to arrive safely and beautifully prepared.
Thank you for your patience while I personally handle each package with care. 🤍
Shipping transit time begins after your order has shipped and is determined by the postal carrier.
Please do not schedule professional photography, birthdays, graduations, vacations, or special events until your dress has safely arrived.
📏 Available Sizes
The Apple of My Eye Dress is available from:
12 Months through 14 Years
Because of the adjustable back construction, this design offers additional flexibility compared with a traditional fixed-waist dress.
For the best fit, please measure your child before ordering and compare the measurements with our chart below.
📏 Girls Size Chart
Measurements are approximate and may vary slightly because every dress is individually handmade.
| Size | Chest | Finished Dress Length |
|---|---|---|
| 6–12 Months | 50 cm (19.7") | 42 cm (16.5") |
| 12–18 Months | 52 cm (20.5") | 44 cm (17.3") |
| 18–24 Months | 54 cm (21.3") | 46 cm (18.1") |
| 2 Years | 56 cm (22") | 48 cm (18.9") |
| 3 Years | 58 cm (22.8") | 50 cm (19.7") |
| 4 Years | 60 cm (23.6") | 54 cm (21.3") |
| 5 Years | 62 cm (24.4") | 58 cm (22.8") |
| 6 Years | 64 cm (25.2") | 61 cm (24") |
| 7 Years | 66 cm (26") | 66 cm (26") |
| 8 Years | 68 cm (26.8") | 70 cm (27.6") |
| 9 Years | 70 cm (27.6") | 74 cm (29.1") |
| 10 Years | 72 cm (28.3") | 78 cm (30.7") |
| 11 Years | 74 cm (29.1") | 81 cm (31.9") |
| 12 Years | 76 cm (29.9") | 84 cm (33.1") |
| 14 Years | 78 cm (30.7") | 88 cm (34.6") |
| 16 Years | 82 cm (32.3") | 92 cm (36.2") |
Please note: The Apple of My Eye Dress is available from 12 Months through 12 Years.
Please see the sizing chart before ordering.
🧵 Fabric & Pattern Information
The Apple of My Eye Dress is made with beautiful natural cotton and linen fabrics, cotton lace, soft tulle, and a full 100% cotton lining.
Because the fabric is individually hand-cut for each dress, pattern and print placement will vary depending on the size and the individual piece of fabric used.
The finished dress may therefore look slightly different from the photographs.
Colors may also appear slightly different depending on lighting, photography, screen settings, and fabric batches.
These variations are a natural part of handmade clothing and make every Bambalina dress uniquely yours.
🧵 Care Instructions
To preserve your Bambalina heirloom:
• Dry clean or spot clean whenever possible.
• If hand washing is absolutely necessary, use cold water and wash separately from other clothing.
• Handle gently and lay flat to dry away from direct sunlight.
• Do not machine wash.
• Do not tumble dry.
• Steam gently if needed.
Proper care will help preserve the fabric, lace, tulle, and handcrafted details for years to come.
🚚 Shipping & Processing
READY TO SHIP
Please allow approximately 2 weeks for processing before shipment.
Every Bambalina order is carefully prepared and shipped from New Jersey, USA.
Important: Bambalina Clothing is a small family atelier. I personally handle the packaging and shipping of every order with great care.
Once your package has shipped, delivery time is determined by the carrier and is outside of our control.
Please do not schedule a photoshoot, birthday, graduation, vacation, holiday, or special event until your order has safely arrived.
↩️ Returns & Exchanges
Because Bambalina dresses are handcrafted in your selected size and options, we do not accept returns, exchanges, or cancellations once an order has entered production or preparation.
Please review the size chart carefully before ordering. This release is very limited, we'll not be able to exchange the dresses for you after the order is placed.
⚠️ Important Safety Information
The Apple of My Eye Dress is a decorative heirloom garment and is not a toy.
• Adult supervision is required while the dress is being worn.
• Long corset ties, suspenders, buttons, and other small components may present an entanglement or choking hazard.
• Remove before sleeping or napping.
• Keep away from infants and young children when not in use.
• Store the dress where children cannot reach it when it is not being worn.
❤️ Perfect For
🍎 Apple Picking
🥧 Apple Pie Baking
🍂 Fall Family Photos
📸 Fine Art Photography
🎒 Back-to-School Portraits
🎓 Graduation Photos
🌻 Autumn Adventures
🤎 Heirloom Portraits
🎂 Birthday Portraits
👧 Sister & Sibling Photos
🍁 Family Gatherings
✨ Magical Childhood Memories
🤎 The Bambalina Difference
Bambalina Clothing is a small family atelier dedicated to original, heirloom-quality children's clothing.
We believe children's clothing can be more than something worn once.
Every Bambalina design is thoughtfully created, every piece is individually hand-cut and sewn, and every detail is finished with the intention of creating something worthy of your family's photographs, memories, and traditions.
We embrace slow fashion, limited production, and timeless design rather than mass production.
When you purchase Bambalina, you're supporting a small atelier and the talented artisans who bring each original design to life. 🪡🤎
🍎✨ Thank You
Thank you for choosing Bambalina Clothing and for allowing our designs to become part of your family's most treasured memories.
We hope the Apple of My Eye Dress becomes the dress your little one remembers—the one from the apple orchard, the family photographs, the autumn afternoons, and all those beautiful childhood moments that pass far too quickly.
Limited quantities available. Once these Ready to Ship dresses are gone, restocks are not guaranteed.
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