Walker’s need for her daughter inspires SnugSuit pajamas
She found one — and that led to a business, SnugSuit, which she started in her garage in early June, designing pajamas that have cuffs to go over the hands and feet.
“I have kids, and my daughter always would scratch her face,” Walker said.
“On the newborn (pajamas), to 3 months, you’d always find the cuffs or the mittens, but they weren’t on the larger ones,” she added.
“I wanted something in the bigger sizes that would allow you to have the mittens. So, that was always the idea. I wanted something that would cover her hands, that wasn’t a mitten or a sock, that was just going to fall off.”
Walker showed how the cuffs on the pajamas simply fold over on the child’s hands.
The sizes are newborn to 3 months, 3 to 6 months, 6 to 12 months, 12 to 18 months, 2 Toddler and 3 Toddler.
“The other thing that is wonderful about them is that they have a double zipper … they are more accessible,” she said.
If the baby is sleeping “you can get to the diaper, do a diaper change pretty much without waking the baby up,” Walker added. “I like the functionality of that.”
The garment also has a “zipper garage,” a piece of fabric by the neck that folds over on the zipper so it does not catch the baby’s neck.
“I’ve done a lot of research on the fabric,” a cotton-spandex blend, she said, “It’s very durable, very soft. It will shrink that first wash, just like any cotton material, but it pretty much stays very true to size after that. It doesn’t fade. Just regular wash and dry.”
While Walker started the documentation in October, she got her inventory in late May.
She has been looking for a place to manufacture her SnugSuits in the United States, but she noted, “the zipper is hard to replicate here.”
For more information, visit Walker’s website at shelly@thesnugsuit.com or call 612-799-9066.
