Personalized Christmas Stockings 2011
What are the latest trends for personalized Christmas stockings for 2011 season? We see the largest demand in unique and unusual Christmas stockings. The market in USA mostly consists of relatively wide range offering of personalized Christmas stockings from categories such as:
- Personalized Red and White Christmas stockings from various materials, such as red plush, red velvet, red felt with applique designs. Those stockings can be also classified as Classic Christmas stockings for their typical red and white color scheme
- Knitted Christmas Stockings, although those are quite difficult to find personalized. Knit Christmas Stockings tend to be from different colors and knit materials.
- Kid’s Christmas stockings : those are almost a must personalized they they are available in wide variety of presentations, Santa, Snowman and Rudolph character stockings as well as sports, such as fishing stockings or a football Christmas stockings as well as licensed stockings with multitude of popular TV and Movie characters, such as Shrek Christmas Stocking.
- Baby’s First Christmas stockings personalized with baby’s name usually available in baby pink and baby blue with touch of other pastel colors available in variety of materials, baby fleece seems to be the favorite.
- Pet Christmas stockings available for Dogs and Cats can also be very elaborate, all the way down to a Christmas stocking available for a specific dog or cat breed. One interesting observation might be that personalized dog Christmas stockings sell in larger quantity compared to cat Christmas stockings. Does that mean that dog owners spend more on their pet dogs compared to cat owners? Or could it be that cat owners might have multiple cats and this makes it more difficult for an average cat owner to purchase a personalized stocking for every cat in their household?
- Sports Christmas stockings with general sports theme or in the specific color and logo of a favorite sports team are also a very popular item.
- High end personalized stockings that are available in gorgeous materials such as velvet, tapestry, chenille, organza are another quite popular item for families with older children where decorating for Christmas into specific color schemes and fabrics might be a joyous tradition.
- Home crafted Christmas stockings know no boundaries. Those cam be made from old sweaters, tapestry pillowcases or drapes, knitted, sewn or glued.
Stockings are mainly embroidered with name by commercial or home embroidery machines but can also be personalized using glue and glitter, iron on letters, applique letters or alphabet beads. There are so many possibilities to choose from. When you plan for 2011 season you may want to consider the following factors:
- Are you adding on just one or two stockings to already made collection of personalized stockings?
- Do you have young kids who want nice big stockings which will not really fit with any other decor?
- Are your kids grown and you are now purchasing high end Christmas decor to color coordinate and plan to keep as a family heirloom for many years to come?
These factors may help you decide if to choose just a “disposable” stocking set that will be replaced as the kids grow or to purchase highest quality high end heirloom set for many seasons to come.
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