Cost Dilemma's

I thought it would be helpful to do a little explaining, for those of you who have purchased a Bathing Beauty Swim Suit for your Little Ladies, with Arrayed et Adorned in the past.

For those of you who are new, this is a little history of Arrayed et Adorned for you.


Over the past few years, I have been working away at the Bathing Beauty Swim Wear line.  I have made everything, from pattern to suit, in my home with my hands.
This has been a difficult and rewarding process, with the goal of one day, turning the work of sewing over to a more able crew.


Last year I began the process of working with a production/manufacturing team, to get these suits to market this year.  As you can imagine, this is an expensive endeavor.  But the real cost comes to play, when I have others make my suits.


When I made the suits, your cost paid for all the items I had to buy to make the suit.  And there was usually about $10 left for me when I was done.  This, to me, is good business, when first starting out, and working to show people, that you have a product worth buying.  Not to mention, a lot of mistakes are made at first, and you all should not have to pay the big bucks to be guinea pigs.


So, the moral of the story is, I could get away with not paying myself to make suits for our lovely little ladies, but, of course, others won't have it.  They need to be paid.  : )


So I pay others to do a lot of work now, to free me to provide more suits, to more of you.    As each year passes, I hope I will be able to provide for many different ranges of life.  And if you can't afford a Bathing Beauty from Arrayed et Adorned, you might be inspired to make one of your own.


The price of the Bathing Beauty may fluctuate a little each season, depending on what I am charged.  As the market fluctuates, so does everything else.


 I will also have discounted suits for sale, which are suits, that, for what ever reason, did not get sewn up to the proper Arrayed et Adorned standard, or it is a practice suit for an upcoming line.   I will have such suits for sale every so often, as I do right now at the Arrayed et Adorned store on Etsy .


I am working on a suit the is one sided, which will cost a bit less.  It will be for sizes 2/3-6/7.  I may have some of these ready later in the summer.  If not, look for them next season.
And I will also be working on the suits for our teenage girls.  These are all fun things to look out for.  Not to mention the ever so fun sale events, which will come up here and there.


So thank you for your love of the Bathing Beauty.  I hope that Arrayed et Adorned will be a help to those of you wanting to teach your girls about the beauty of modesty.


Your humble worker,
Crystal

Hop on over to the Arrayed et Adorned store on Etsy 

to shop from the 

Bathing Beauty Swim Wear Sample Sale.

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Random sizes will be available this week from Arrayed et Adorned.

Some of the suits are samples that are off in measurements just a bit, so they are discounted for your convience.

Enjoy,
Crystal

Bring On Summer~Modest Swim Wear Is Here

We are in full swing here at Bathing Beauty Swim Wear. 

Our first batch of suits has arrived.

They are fantastic!

And two more print sets are on the way in just a couple weeks.

For now, feast your eyes!

These swim suits pictured will be available for sale next week, 

but there are only a few left from this batch.  

So if you are wanting on, contact me @ arrayedandadorned@yahoo.com right away.   

Let me know the size you need and I will let you know if one is available.

But don't you worry if you don't get one from this batch, 

for more are a commin.

The adorable, modest, and reversible Bathing Beauty.  

Swim suits just don't get better than this.    

Yours Truly,
Crystal

Bad News & Good News

First I will give you the bad news.
We are completely sold out of every Bathing Beauty Swim Suit for little ladies.

But the good news is so much better.  We are in the process of making a whole new line of suits.  These suits will have all new prints for the Spring/Summer Season of 2012.

Some additional good news is that the Bathing Beauty Swim line is no longer sewn by yours truly.  This is good for you and for me.  You will get a very well made suit, and I will have more time for other fun things.  I have passed the job of sewing these suits off to a truly gifted production company in Downtown Seattle called Atelier Verdigris.

So keep yours eyes open for the announcement of the new line of Bathing Beauty Swim Wear for your little ladies, all brought to you by Arrayed et Adorned.

Cheers,
Crystal

Time Off is OVER

We are back in full swing here at the Bathing Beauty Modest Swim Wear zone.

I am working vigorously with some West Coast companies on perfecting the design of the suits style, in order to get your little girls beautifully decked out for summer 2011.

Keep up with us and look for the Bathing Beauty for Little Ladies to go on sale this spring.

I might even have an early orders discount sale if you are very, very good.

Happy splashing!

Time Off

We are due to have a baby soon and I will be taking time off work.

You can still purchase items from Arrayed et Adorned on Etsy. Look there for ready made Bathing Beauty Swim Wear as summer continues.

Blessings,

Crystal

For All the Grown Up Bathing Beauties

This is a custom order I just finished for a customer.

This is an womens Bathing Beauty swim suit.

The Bathing Beauty for women

is also reversible with a skirt that has the

sewn in briefs. This suit is also fitted with

an elastic neckline that allows the suit to be

used during those nursing years.

Pretty snazzy if I do say so myself.

I only do custom orders on women's suits for those who live close enough to Seattle to come for fittings. BUT......this is the future of Arrayed et Adorned. So keep those hopes up and eyes open because that day will come.

Swim on in style ladies,

Crystal