Reviewed: Blade and Rose leggings for toddlers

My wardrobe: skinny jeans in muted colours and stripy tops. Minnie’s wardrobe: a riot of colours, patterns and fun. I do actually covet my two-year-old’s wardrobe at times, although I suspect I could no longer carry most of it off.

Forget those traditional, wannabe Victoriana baby clothes. We’ve had strawberry print trousers from the US (so cute I regret not buying multiple sizes), bright stripes, prints including parrots, cats (many), dogs, giraffes, elephants, lions… you get the picture.

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So leggings with a ladybird on the bum? I am at the front of that queue. I’d never come across the Blade & Rose brand until last month but even just the Blade and Rose leggings concept – bright, soft, cosy, woolly leggings with a design on the bottom – sounded fabulous.

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For ages 0 to 4, we were sent a pair to review and I’ve been impatiently waiting for weather to be cool enough for Minnie to wear hers, a rather fab red and purple pair with hearts on the legs and the aforementioned ladybird design.

They’re almost like footless woolly tights, so perfect for winter when ordinary leggings are going to feel a bit thin.

And they’re eye-catching enough that two separate mums asked where they’d come from while she was busy in the sandpit at our park’s playground.

I am only regretting the fact that I didn’t know about them when she was crawling, because frankly the idea of a crawling baby, bottom wriggling away with a mouse/whale/rocket/monster/zebra on is delicious.

There are also Christmas and Halloween-themed versions for some very easy fancy dress, and for mums of boys, these are great if you don’t fancy tights but do want something warm but soft.

And after buying slightly too many two to three-year-old trousers which are ludicrously long or have a waistband that would fit two of her, I like the fact this has a proper size chart so I could work out what we needed.

So what about the test subject? She loved the ladybird for starters, and ran around clutching the leggings until I prised them off her at bath time.

When Minnie finally got to wear them, she also enjoyed herself hugely deciding that the ladybird was ‘hiding’ – and I got the entertainment factor of her turning around trying to spot her own bottom, in the manner of a cat chasing its tail.

Admittedly this could backfire a bit with toddlers when they realise that’s impossible, but the hide and seek factor definitely won her over.

With my practical hat on, they wash well even after a few afternoons with all nursery could throw at them, they are lovely and soft and they look pretty hard-wearing.

And at £10, they don’t have the kind of eye-watering price tag that some more fun children’s brands have.

There are even matching socks and some rather fun crochet hats with animals on in the range. In the meantime, I’m eyeing up the stripy strawberry version to make up for those trousers I didn’t buy…

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Disclosure: I was given these Blade and Rose leggings for the purposes of review. All opinions, including the two mums in the park, are our own.

Images: main image courtesy of Blade & Rose, all other images copyright MummyTravels

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