Clearance Rack Deals at Hanna Andersson

If you're not familiar with Hanna Andersson, check them out if you like:

• soft organic (I know, like we need more things to worry about, right?) fabrics
• fun patterns
• clothes that fit and wash well
• baggier styles that last for multiple seasons

Hanna's full-priced items are expensive and their online sales are not that hot, but you can totally make out like a bandit if you go to the store and stick to the clearance rack.

To get the extreme (more than 50%) discounts, you really have to shop mid-season. It's fun to add a few new items to the mix, and for shirts and dresses you can always roll the sleeves and get two seasons out of them, or just buy a size bigger for next year.

Mimi Fashionista (grandma to the Minis and the queen of bargain hunting) uncovered the most fabulous deals at the Burlington, MA store this week. Mimi reports that there was only one rack of clearance clothes, but it was stuffed with good deals. The entire rack was "take an additional 20% off" and the items were already marked down 20-60%. Here's a sampling of the goods:

• Sweater Dress: Full Price: $60, Sale Price: $12
• Funky Knit Tights: Full Prices: $22.50, Sale Price: $4

• Ultra Soft Moose Fleece: Full Price: $30, Sale Price: $10

Hai-ya! Kungfu Freshy

• Jersey Dress Top: Full Price $37.50, Sale Price $18
• Stripey Comfy Pants: Full Price $21.50, Sale Price $8
  


• Long Sleeve Golf Shirts: Full Price $29.50, Sale Price $17
  


• Best Jeans for Minis, Ever: Full Price (??--missing tag, but around $30-35), Sale Price $16

I am so appreciative that my mother found these jeans for Chicky. They are soft and they have a normal-height waist (no more bumby exposure when she bends over, yeah)!

Speaking of low rise jeans--why do they even make them for little ones? They are not comfortable or flattering, but actually, they're not flattering on many people (including me and my muffin top...but, who wants to wear Mom jeans? And thank GOODNESS the painted on 80's jeans are not back in their original form). That leaves me with one final thought...

Dear God,

Please do not let skinny jeans become the only fashionable option in 2009.

Forever Grateful,

Mommy Fashionista (& anyone who might potentially bear witness to such a horrendous sight)