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Pegeen Launches it’s first Crowdfunding Campaign!

Pegeen Launches it’s first Crowdfunding Campaign!

We Proudly Launch our Fairytale Collection for Flower Girls at a special price for our Indiegogo Supporters!

Pegeen Fairytale Wedding Collection

Pegeen.com Designer Childrenswear announces the launch of their Fairytale Collection through a Crowd Funding campaign.  What exactly is crowd funding?  The easiest way to describe it is this:

 

  • Crowd funding is when a Business (like ours) posts a project available for funding on a crowd-funding site (in our case indiegogo.com) to help get backers interested in our products and company.
  • In return for backing a project, our customers receive different rewards depending on the amount of funding they commit (from levels of $5 through $500) and also with a very special opportunity, that is to collaborate with Pegeen and help design, name and receive    the dress you designed along with our ensuring someone who is less fortunate or has a very special wish to receive a dress so they can be a princess too!
  • Interested backers donate during the project, sharing our campaign over their social networks with their friends and contacts
  • What we receive in exchange for your support is the ability to expand greatly our advertising and marketing budget as we grow our company to an even higher level
  • What you will receive are various rewards, the opportunity to be able to say that you helped our company realize our dream of growing our business to the next level, and someday even, to fulfill our dream of being able to open a store (s) in the Downtown Disney area and beyond.
  • Moreover, Pegeen has arranged with a few organizations to be sure that we can provide to someone in need a princess dress of their very own through some really great charities like Give Kids a World.  We are reaching out to Wounded Warriors and Make a Wish foundation as well.

Everyone can participate even at the smallest of levels and know that Pegeen is one company who will REFUSE to outsource to other countries the manufacturing of our goods.  In addition, you will help with building within our community the opportunity to share our really beautiful dresses with some really sick and needy kids so that they can become princesses too!
We hope that you will listen to our pitch and pass it on to friends as well!

We Proudly Launch our Fairytale Collection for Flower Girls at a special price for our Indiegogo Supporters!

For details click the link above for the video.
What your contribution to our campaign would mean to us:

We at Pegeen know that we create exquisite and well made products, not just for girls, but for boys as well. We are really proud of what we have accomplished in 33 years started by the talents of Marg Hyland. Behind the scenes are still the husband and wife team of Marg and Jim whose union formed just four years into the company’s origin and who steadfastly believe that answering the phone, producing in the US and dedication continue to help steer the company’s mission: to create beautiful clothing for children to remain looking like children. Joining the couple are some very dedicated seamstresses and one heck of a talented web developer.

Pegeen is always anxious to grow. Moreover, it’s a personal endeavor. “When I see the garbage that is coming in from China as counterfeit goods, I am mortified. I realize everyone has financial constraints but our job at Pegeen is to price our dresses so that a reasonable amount of people will make sure that their children wear heirloom quality goods. By offering our garments on the internet we actually can offer our creations without the markup of a retailer. We will continue to do so while improving the way our customers can purchase our goods.”

We really want to thank Addie Brie Hays for her wonderful participation in this project, Bill Frank for his guitar accompaniment and Rob Fong for an unbelievable new website and our now famous Pegeen Dress Dreamer!

For more information on our campaign and info on how you can help make a little girl feel like a princess, click the link below.

FAIRYTALES COME TRUE: Pegeen Childrenswear

Perhaps the Prettiest Flower Girl Wreath, EVER! – Silk Flower Girl Dresses Style 388 by Pegeen Classics

 

I loved these photos when they came in from my bride, held in Sonoma County near Healdsburg.  Photography was by Tia and Claire from Tia and Claire Studios.  I particularly loved the flower girl wreath made of fresh flowers (sweet peas and roses).  The bride chose flower girl dress Pegeen Classic Style 388 in Antique White, Grape and Cranberry.

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Deep grape and Cranberry Silk Flower Girl Dresses Style 388 by Pegeen Classics

Deep grape and Cranberry Silk Flower Girl Dresses Style 388 by Pegeen Classics

New Photos from one of our Clara characters from The Nutcracker Ballet

In September, mothers and dance directors alike start calling us to place their orders for their upcoming performance of the Nutcracker Ballet held around Christmas Time.  Like our Wedding of the Year Flower Girl Dress that we featured in our full page advertisements in bridal publications, these dresses are going to be featured in our ads for various dance publications including Dance Magazine.

Baltic Sea Silk Dress for Nutcracker Party Scene Dress for Clara by Pegeen Style 397

Baltic Sea Silk Dress for Nutcracker Party Scene Dress for Clara by Pegeen Style 397

Baltic Sea Silk Dress for Nutcracker Party Scene Dress for Clara by Pegeen Style 397

Time to think “Nutcracker Dresses for Clara” for all our dancers!

I know it’s still the summer but we have had a few calls about our Nutcracker Collection.  My three time ballet school sent these over a little bit ago and I just loved them! In about 45 days or so we start to get very busy with our Ballet schools and soon followed by the mom’s who find out that their little ballerina got chosen for the part of Clara in the Nutcracker Ballet.

Some dresses from Pegeen's Nutcracker Collection!

Some dresses from Pegeen’s Nutcracker Collection!

I loved it though last year when a young “Clara” herself called me and we worked on her dress.  She was adorable sounding and I was so proud that she made the initiative call, designed her dress with me and soon after the ballet was concluded contacted me on Facebook so excited about the performance.  About a week later – we received

Raspberry and Rose Nutcracker Party Scene Dress Style 703 by Pegeen

Raspberry and Rose Nutcracker Party Scene Dress Style 703 by Pegeen

her professional portrait (just above).  I bet 1000$ that her parents don’t have to help her with her college essays!  Mandy, that girl is going somewhere someday!

 

For a beautiful young girl’s Bat Mitzvah in Jerusalem

I am very fortunate in the business in that many of our customers have become our friends.  Not just those whom we meet along the way but those who are sweet and caring and this young lady is one of them.  She choose Pegeen Style 930 from our Pegeen Tween Collection.  To see details: click

When Pamela called me two months ago, she put me on the phone with her daughter who wanted to purchase another dress for us, this time for her Bat Mizvah and they were going to Israel for the event!  I was as excited to hear the plans as she was and even though they were leaving in less than three weeks both Sophie and I agreed on a look and style as did Mom.  We will be sharing more photos as we get the originals but here are just a few,  at Robinson’s Arch in Jerusalem – taken by Sigala Photography.  Imagine, the Temple Mount (where Robinson’s Arch is) was built in the 1st century BCE!  My parents were able to visit a number of times and told me (and of course saw the slides) of their visit to Jerusalem a number of times.  It brought tears to my eyes today opening this email to see these images knowing my parents also stood here many years ago.  Miss you mom and dad.

From the Pegeen Tween Collection, Sophie models our style 930 with aloncon lace at her Bat Miztvah

From the Pegeen Tween Collection, Sophie models our style 930 with aloncon lace at her Bat Mitzvah portraits & ceremony held at Robinson’s Arch, Jerusalem

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