I walked by with my mother and told her that Carmen’s, the new Seventh Avenue children’s stores, has handmade dresses with smocking. I used to wear hand made dresses with smocking when I was a girl.

At this shop, which is in the dripping cyclops/octopus building owned by Mark Ravitz Art and Design, you can buy seersucker shorts for a young boy in this store and all manner of formal looking clothing your grandmother would have loved. I know my grandmother bought me underwear at Best and Co. on Fifth Avenue

It’s the storefront that used to be Seventh Avenue Books (or was it Park Slope Books).

If variety is the spice of life: this kind of shop is a refreshing antidote to Lolli and Area if you like the sort of styles they feature.

Carmen’s Exclusives for Children on Seventh Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Streets, has clothing for children birth to five years old. Go this week while they still have cookies and beverages.