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At Kite Kids we love great design, we love good quality and we also love our planet. So we've poured this passion in to a cool and contemporary range of clothing for children aged 2-11 years.  Made from certified organic cotton, bamboo or recycled polyester, our clothes are not only super-comfy, they are produced without using any harmful chemicals - a big plus for the planet and the people involved in its production. Fit for beach, mountain or sofa Kite is the collection to be seen in.

To celebrate the launch of our new website and to entice you to buy our fab planet-friendly clothes we are offering Free Delivery on all orders.

Having spent our careers buying clothing for high street retailers (and learning too much about the effect of cotton production on both the environment and the farmers) we decided that we needed to set up a business with a conscience. Not only have we grown in experience over the years but we have also had families and become very conscious about the planet that our children will inherit.

We didn’t want to sacrifice either the style or quality of our garments. What we felt particularly strongly about was producing a range of beautiful and contemporary styled childrenswear which compromises nothing by being made from planet-friendly fibres. The result is Kite Kids, an exciting range of childrenswear which is available both directly from our website and from specialist childrenswear retailers in the UK, USA and Europe. We’re based in Poole in Dorset so the range has been inspired by our love of the outdoors – big skies, fantastic beaches and beautiful nature – our collections are created with this as our backdrop. It seems to suit customers near and far. 

Cotton is a soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub native to hot parts of the world such as the Indian Subcontinent, Africa and Turkey. The fibre is most often spun into thread and used to make a soft, breathable fabric and is, in fact, the most widely used natural fibre found in clothing today.

Cotton represents a huge 10% of the world’s total agricultural yield. To grow this amount of cotton farmers use 25% of world pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers. These pesticides cause 20,000 deaths per year worldwide from accidental poisoning. Conventional cotton farming is also responsible for colossal greenhouse gas emissions due to the chemical fertilisers and the long-term contamination of water supplies. In the developing world, where cotton is a very important commercial crop, the farmers are given virtually no information on the dangers of the pesticides that they are sold – many of which are banned in the US and Europe.

Many of the larger retailers would have us believe that they do not use organic cotton because it is too expensive. The bottom line is that organic cotton clothing doesn’t have to be expensive and by wearing it you are pledging your support for protecting our planet and the people that farm it. At Kite Kids we are doing our bit towards improving this situation and hope that, with your support, we can all make a real difference. Let's all do what we can to help save the lives of cotton farmers and protect this beautiful planet we all live on.

Ethically sourced, organic cotton kidswear never looked so good!

We think that bamboo is amazing! Not only is it incredibly soft it’s also absorbent, anti-bacterial, UV resistant, thermo-regulating AND hypoallergenic – quite a remarkable fabric. What’s more it’s completely sustainable – it doesn’t need pesticides or fertilizers to grow and it’s the fastest growing plant on Earth (it grows up to 60cm/24” per day!)

Pure polyester is made from oil, so it’s not the most environmentally friendly fabric in the world. However, it does make beautifully soft and warm fleece, so we were keen to find an alternative that is as planet-friendly as possible. With our recycled polyester we have found a great compromise. It’s made from at least 40% recycled polyester - plastic bottles in fact, which would otherwise end up in landfill and contaminate the soil. Although we’ve not yet found a source of 100% recycled polyester, we’re happy that we’re doing our bit and hope to be able to source 100% recycled polyester in the near future.

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