The Popstar Academy Line

My Favorite outfit from Popstar Academy Line

I am so thrilled to say, I love the Popstar Academy Line at Gymboree. I did not purchase one item from the Preppy Poodle and New York Girl lines. I just wasn't that into either of those lines. Even if they go on sale I will not purchase. I am just not that desperate. I am a super fan of Gymboree but they can and do go wrong with lines. They happened to figure out Hannah Montana was a huge money maker right now and decided to create a line modeled around her. When somebody says Popstar today you automatically think Hannah Montana. Gymboree knows this and they are going to bank big on this line.

I went into my Gymboree store on July 27th, 2009 and had a field day shopping for my two girls. My girls are age 4 and 7. I don't always dress my 7 year old in Gymboree but sometimes I find something that is just sporty enough that fits her personality. I usually shop the Gap for her. My 4 year old on the other hand is a Gymboree girl through and through. I can pick up anything in a dress or skirt and know she will love it and where it proudly. She loves the matching hair bows and she is a shoe horse as well. The girls loved the Popstar Academy line and they can't wait to wear their new clothes! I have to say the guitar tiered skirt is a total hit with the hot pink top with the guitars on it! I got the popstar girl knee socks to go with the outfit. It is going to be so darling on. I am on the search for the hot pink boots in a size 1 for my 7 year old. They didn't have them in the store. Booo! I'm thinking I should get the tiered guitar skirt and shirt for Reese as well. I originally just got it for Maria but it is so darling.

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Gymboree needs to rework the design and quality of their jeans. My girls wear jeans from the Gap and they are awesome. Gymboree needs to get more with the program. The jeans they offer in the store swallow my girls whole. They do not offer slim sizes...what a crock! Also, when you see a pair of jeans with stitching and embroidery on them at the Gap they just look awesome...not so much at Gymboree...they need to work on that. For now, I do not purchase jeans from Gymboree. I mainly purchase skirts and dresses, some shorts and some pants. The jeans just aren't appealing. The Popstar Academy jeans were no different. They just looked really cheap to me!

Is anybody feeling those thick ridge corduroy pants? Yuck...I'm just not into them at all. They look really cute on the website but when you look at them in the store you really see what they are all about. I am not into corduroy at all. For a small toddler boy or girl, I guess they are fine, but not for a bigger girl. I think it looks to old fashioned for my girls to wear. Now, if it was the thin corduroy like the Gap always offers...I am so down for those. Those are thin line corduroy that just provide enough interest and texture to be appealing. Don't give me no thick line corduroy! Gymboree, Please offer a thinner ridge corduroy. I will buy them if you do this!

Is anybody down with the orange? A little bit of orange goes a long way, but when they start coloring the whole shirt or skirt in orange it just looks ugly. They could have left that orange corduroy skirt on the designing room floor that is for sure. If the skirt was in that cute charcoal gray like the sweater dress in a thin ridge corduroy instead of that thicker ridge I would have bought it. Orange really doesn't look good on clothes. Get a clue! Somebody post a pic of their girl in this skirt and prove me wrong please! My guess is nobody is buying this skirt or that ugly blue jean one with the ruffle and argyle belt. That is another one that should have been scrapped. Ugly! Some of the shirts weren't working for me either. The shirt with four colums of print just looks cheap. They couldve saved that one. I wouldn't buy it.

Accessories: I only recommend purchasing the hair bows. The purses are very cute and so are the bracelets and necklaces but those get lost and they tend to be very expensive. You can get another piece of clothing or two for the price you would pay for the accessories. I don't care if they are buy one get one 50% off! I stick to the hairbows! Now, if you have the money and you don't care if the accessories get lost, by all means, get them.

Visit Gymbocritic.com for Gymboree items that I would purchase and recommend from current and upcoming lines. Don't get stuck purchasing something over the internet not knowing what it really looks like. I visit the store and can give you the truth about the garment. See what I am dressing my girls in and how the clothes are fitting based on my girls weight and height and the size I buy for them.

If you are looking to purchase past lines of Gymboree you can visit me on ebay. My id is cuteclothes4u2.