petit vogue: fashion sharing community preview

Is it bad luck to show a work in-progress?  We’re not sure, but we knew we couldn’t wait any longer before showing off a bit of what we’ve been working on lately.  As you know, we’ve been working hard on our fashion sharing site.  Basically a social network of sorts for people to gather, share, and discuss their kids’ outfits with other style-minded parents.  With so many people posting photos of their kids’ outfits on their blogs or on twitter we thought, hey, what if we could all come together and do this in one place?  And so petit vogue was born!

How about a quick tour?

The site right now revolves around posting outfits, and creating collections of outfits.  Think of an outfit like a photo, and a collection as an album.  Create collections of your own outfits, for example, organize them by year and season, or create a collection of other user’s outfits, like “My best of 2009 list”, and share that with the community.  Other users can comment and “like” your outfits and collections (similar to facebook), and you can follow other user’s updates as well.

Keep on reading for a quick tour of some of the site, but remember, it’s still in the early development stage, we’re still tweaking the design and interface!

Browsing Outfits

This is pretty much where you’ll start out after you’re first signed up, looking at the most recently posted outfits.  You’ll be able to filter them by the brand of clothing in them, gender, season, age, and tags to help narrow down what kind of outfits you’re looking for.  When you’re logged in you’ll notice the user bar along the bottom of the screen there, that’ll have links to your outfits, your collections, your dashboard, as well as a quick link to create a new outfit or collection.

Browsing Collections

Just like with outfits, in this area you’ll be browsing through the most recently added collections. If you really like the taste in clothing that a particular user has, you might want to follow their updates, and keep an eye on their collections for fashion inspiration!

A closer look at one of your outfits

When you’re viewing one of the outfits you’ve posted, it looks a lot like what you see when you look at another user’s outfit, with a couple of important differences.  When you’re looking at your own outfits you can add and remove clothing tags from the outfit.  For example say the centerpiece of the outfit was an adorable checkered dress from Hula Mula with a well-matched pair of black leggings.  You’d add them here and that way other users can see just where it is you find such excellent clothing.

Notifications and Activity

See what the people you follow are up to with the notifications and recent activity tabs in your dashboard. See who started following you recently, who commented on your collections and outfits, who likes them, and more!

Find friends

It’s easy to find friends on petit vogue, either by searching for them or check out featured users!

So when will we be able to join?!

We’re burning the candle from both ends to get the site ready for everyone, but we don’t have a firm date yet for launch.  The first launch will be by invitation only, specifically to those who pre-registered for it.  You can do that here.  Shortly following that we’ll be distributing a certain number of invites to various blogs that we’re working with for the launch. Follow us on twitter, we’ll be tweeting more about that when the time comes!

Thanks for reading! Let us know what you think on Twitter!

-ian