

Touch your baby’s belly or back of their neck to feel their core temperature. Your thermostat might read much cooler than your baby actually feels, so don’t let it be your only way to monitor their ideal summer sleep temperature. You still have to dress your newborn in something to sleep! Those layers can add warmth, so it’s important to monitor how their body feels by using the touch-test. But just because the thermostat is set at 68°, it doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the temperature your baby feels when sleeping. Where we live in California, our summer months can get very hot (with temps over 100°!), so we have to run our AC a lot in the summer. Tip #1: Don’t Just Rely on the Thermostatĭid you know that the recommended ideal temperature for baby’s room is usually between 68 and 72°? They learned how to do something completely different." With all the contemporary lines that show safe designs for New York fashion week, you couldn't help but applaud that out-of-the-box thinking.Top Tips to Dress a Newborn Baby in Summer for Bedĭressing your baby for sleep in warmer weather doesn’t have to be hard! Here are some tips that will take the guesswork out of it. "I know it's not our usual thing-it's really for a more sophisticated customer-but the best part of it is, our whole design team has been reinvigorated. "We're going to produce a few of the looks for maybe 40 to 50 doors," he said. That didn't seem to bother the company's founder, Manny Mashouf, any.

Overall, the hefty emphasis on sheer white fabrics and the exaggerated tailoring in puff sleeves and corseted waists felt surprisingly fanciful for Bebe.

And the later looks were stronger, such as a damask jacquard cut into a sporty anorak and a gorgeous closing dress with a pintucked bodice and shorter-in-front, floaty hem. It did help that fabrics ran in the high end with lightweight silk and cotton voile, embroidered silk, and stretch linen. With ruffles, lace-up corset detailing, and pinafores-sometimes all in one look-it was tough to see the cool Parisian or New Yorker influence at times. "But applied with a modern Parisian and NYC twist," Benton added. He opted for a frilly Gibson Girls theme, cast in all white and styled with an Edwardian touch. "I was surprised myself how much freedom I had," the Rome native admitted backstage.

Benton's background is in luxury, having cut his teeth at Emanuel Ungaro during the Giambattista Valli days, but rather than being asked to tailor his looks to the typical Bebe customer, he was given free rein. This womenswear retailer has always catered to a youthful customer-one who likes her party dresses tight, bright, and low-cut-so it was an intriguing choice that Bebe brought in Charles Benton as a design consultant.
