Liberty Print Baby Clothes
Liberty print baby clothes are where this collection started, and they’re still the biggest part of it. Smocked dresses, floral rompers, bloomers and all-in-ones, mostly in the small ditsy florals that suit a baby’s scale better than a big bold print would. The Tana Lawn cotton is soft enough next to newborn skin, and the poppers and back openings on the baby pieces are there for a reason, since nobody wants to wrestle a wriggling six-month-old into something that fastens at the front.
Sizing runs from birth through the first couple of years, so a Liberty baby dress bought a size up will usually see a summer and the one after it. If you’re buying for a christening or a first birthday, the smocked styles photograph well and tend to get kept rather than grown out of and passed on. Coordinating bloomers come with a lot of the baby dresses, which saves the hunt for something to go underneath.

Liberty Print Dresses and Girls’ Clothing
For older girls, the Liberty print dresses move into tiered skirts, ruffle dresses and playsuits, with the prints scaled up a little as the sizes grow. Betsy and Lilac Betsy turn up a lot here, along with Carline Rose and the Strawberry Thief, which is one of the older designs and reads as more of a statement. There are matching hair accessories too, the Big Bow Alice Bands and bows, if you want the print to carry through to the top of the head.
These get worn to parties and then kept for the next sibling, mainly because the cotton wears in rather than out. Girls’ Liberty clothes here run up to age eleven, though the toddler and early-school sizes are the ones people search for most. A Liberty print girls’ dress is rarely the cheapest thing on a party invite list, but it’s usually the one that comes back out the following summer.

Liberty Print Gifts and Matching Family Pieces
Liberty print makes for safe gifting, which is most of why this collection sells the way it does at christenings, new babies and first birthdays. A smocked dress or a floral all-in-one lands well even with people who don’t usually buy clothes as presents, and the names on the prints, Betsy, Carline Rose, Ciara, give it a bit more weight than a plain babygrow. Trotters started on the King’s Road in 1990, and the London prints, London Scenes among them, nod to that without shouting about it.
There’s a matching side to the range as well. The Mummy Rosa pyjamas pair with the children’s Rosa set, and the Daddy & Me swimshorts come in the same London Scenes print as the boys’ version, which is the sort of thing that gets photographed on holiday and sent round the family. If you’re after a Liberty London gift for a new arrival rather than a whole outfit, the baby pieces and the smaller hair accessories are the easier place to start.