Rylee Faith Designs Review: Smocked Christmas Dresses, Baby Rompers and Bows

Last updated: November 2026

The short answer: Rylee Faith Designs is a real, California-based children's boutique label that makes smocked and embroidered holiday dresses for girls in sizes 2 to 7 and baby rompers and bloomer sets in 3M to 18M, with most pieces priced between $19.99 and $34.99. If you want a hand-smocked Christmas dress or a nativity-embroidered romper for photos and church without paying heirloom-boutique prices, this is the brand to look at first.

The honest caveats: most of the printed pieces are a polyester-spandex knit rather than cotton, the popular Christmas prints sell down to one or two sizes by mid-November, and the listings give you the fabric content but not a measurement chart or washing instructions. This Rylee Faith Designs review walks through every line the brand sells this season, which sizes each one actually comes in, what the fabric labels really say, and who should buy somewhere else.

Rylee Faith Christmas dresses for girls (sizes 2 to 7)

Christmas is where Rylee Faith Designs does its best work: gingerbread, candy cane, plaid wreath, Christmas tree, Santa and nativity designs, most of them with a smocked or embroidered bodice and a bow at the chest or hip. Dresses run $19.99 to $34.99 in numeric sizes 2 through 7, and the three constructions behave differently on a child.

The embroidered plaid dresses are the signature look. The Christmas Vintage-style Plaid Dress With Embroidered Gingerbread And Bows ($23.39, sizes 2, 3, 4, 5) stitches gingerbread men and bows across a smocked panel on a tan plaid, with pink side bows; the Christmas Tree Embroidered Plaid Girls Ruffle Collar Dress ($34.99, sizes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) is the one piece in this group listed as 100% cotton, with an oversized ruffle collar and front buttons. The Red Christmas Plaid Wreath Embroidered Girl Dress ($29.99) puts the embroidery on a petal collar instead of the chest, which photographs well from the front but is the first to sell out in small sizes: today it shows sizes 4, 5, 6 only.

The smocked dresses have the gathered, stretchy panel that older boutique brands charge $60 and up for. The Christmas Smocking Embroidered Girls Dress With Green Plaid Bow ($25.99, sizes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) is a solid red long-sleeve with a smocked tree-and-Santa panel and a green plaid bow, listed as 97% cotton and 3% spandex; the Christmas Embroidery Smocking Bow Plaid Girls Dress ($23.39) is the same idea on a green plaid. Both are full-length sleeve, which matters for a December church service.

The printed knit dresses cost $19.99 and are the ones a toddler will actually tolerate for a full day: the Winter Christmas Nativity Print Girls Long Sleeve Dress (sizes 2, 5, 7 today) and the Girls Christmas Bow Print Dress ($19.99, sizes 3, 4, 6) are soft polyester-spandex knits that stretch, twirl and survive the car seat. If you are choosing between the three, buy smocked or embroidered for the photo and printed knit for the party.

For Christmas dresses from other brands at every price, the girls' Christmas and holiday dresses guide compares twirl, smocked, plaid and velvet styles, and the full Christmas dresses for toddlers collection puts Rylee Faith next to Abby & Evie, Mila & Rose and Tesa Babe.

Christmas baby rompers and bloomer sets (3M to 18M)

For a baby under two, the Christmas pieces are rompers, bubbles and two-piece bloomer sets in 3M, 6M, 9M, 12M and 18M, priced $18.50 to $29.99. Every one of them has snaps at the bottom, which is the detail that matters at a diaper change in a church pew.

The Navy Blue Nativity Smocking Embroidered Baby Girls Christmas Romper ($24.99, sizes 3M, 6M, 9M, 12M, 18M) is the piece to buy if you want one Christmas outfit that is not red or plaid: navy cotton with the nativity scene smocked in white across the chest, and a boys' version in the same print for a sibling photo. The Navy Red Christmas Plaid Wreath Baby Girl Bubble Romper ($27.99) has the embroidered wreath petal collar from the girls' dress on a bubble romper, and the Christmas Tree Plaid Girls Romper Petals Collar Ruffle ($26.99) is the red-and-green plaid version with a tree embroidered on a white bib panel.

The two-piece sets are the better value for a baby who is crawling: a top and separate bloomers let you change the bloomers without undressing the whole outfit. The Christmas Mint Green Smocked Santa Baby Girl Bloomer Set ($18.50, sizes 3M, 6M, 9M, 18M) is a mint-green smocked top with Santa faces and bows, puff sleeves and lace trim; the Christmas Red Floral Baby Girl Outfit Set Embroidery Bloomer Set ($26.34) pairs a cream floral top with candy cane embroidery over solid red bloomers. For a sleep-and-play option, the Christmas Tree Wreath Print Long Sleeve Zip Baby Girls Romper ($22.94) is a full-zip long-sleeve romper with ruffles across the back, the only Christmas piece here with a zipper instead of snaps.

Matching a baby and a toddler? The nativity romper, the plaid wreath bubble and the plaid smocked bloomer set each have a girls' dress in the same print, and our baby matching sets and rompers guide covers what to look for in a two-piece set.

Twirl dresses: the $19.99 everyday line

Outside the holidays, the piece most parents buy again is the twirl dress: a long- or short-sleeve knit dress with a full circle skirt, priced $19.99 across almost every print, in sizes 2 through 7 (a few prints run to 8/9 and 10/12). The fabric is a 95% polyester, 5% spandex knit, which is why it costs $19.99 and why it comes out of the dryer without ironing.

Prints are seasonal and rotate fast. This month the Fall Lavender Floral Print Girls Long Sleeve Twirl Dress ($19.99, sizes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), the Fall Farm Chicken Print Girls Ruffle Hem Twirl Dress ($19.99) and the western prints (horse and bow, horse patchwork, pink horse) are the full-size runs; the Christmas Girls Winter Ski & Pine Tree Print Twirl Dress ($19.99) is the one Christmas twirl dress still in every size from 2 to 7, and it is a print rather than an embroidery, so it is the twirl dress for the school party rather than the card.

A twirl dress is also the piece to size up in. The skirt is cut full and the bodice is fitted, so a child between sizes gets a longer skirt and a season more wear from the larger size, with no change to how it hangs.

Smocked and embroidered baby rompers

The smocked romper is the piece that made the brand's name, and it is where the construction actually changes how the garment fits. Smocking is a gathered panel across the chest, stitched in rows so it stretches like elastic; a smocked romper slips over a baby's head without a back zipper and gives about an inch of growing room at the chest. Prices run $19.99 to $28.99 in 3M to 18M.

The Baby Girls Strawberry Plaid Smocked Romper ($19.99, sizes 3M, 6M, 18M) is the year-round classic: pink gingham, strawberries smocked at the neckline, flutter sleeves. The Burgundy Floral Smocked Baby Girl Bubble Romper Peter Pan Collar ($28.99, sizes 3M, 6M, 9M, 12M, 18M) adds a white Peter Pan collar and lace-trimmed puff sleeves to a bubble shape, and the Christmas Burgundy Velvet Baby Girl Smocked Pearl Romper ($28.99) does the same in velvet with pearls stitched into the smocking, for the Christmas portrait. The listing for the strawberry romper does not state the fiber content; the burgundy floral and velvet are 95% polyester, 5% spandex.

Read the sizes before you decide. Smocked rompers are made in smaller runs than the twirl dresses, and several (the strawberry at 3 of 4 sizes today, the velvet at 3 of 5) are already missing the middle sizes.

Rylee Faith for boys: rompers and Jon Jons

Rylee Faith Designs makes boys' clothes, but the boys' line is about one piece in ten and almost all of it is baby sized. Expect smocked rompers, Jon Jons (the sleeveless button-shoulder romper) and a handful of shirt-and-short sets in 3M to 18M, priced $21.99 to $28.99, and very little for a boy past 18 months.

The holiday pieces are the strongest. The Christmas Navy Blue Nativity Smocking Embroidered Baby Boy Romper ($23.99, sizes 3M, 6M, 9M, 12M, 18M) is a navy cotton Jon Jon with the nativity smocked in white across the chest, the exact match for the girls' nativity romper. The Christmas Tree Plaid Boys Romper Peter Pan Collar Smocked ($28.99, sizes 3M, 6M, 9M, 12M, 18M) is a red-and-green plaid short-sleeve bubble with a white Peter Pan collar and smocked trees, and the Christmas Santa Embroidered Boys Jon Jon Peter Pan Collar ($27.99) puts three smocked Santa faces on a blue gingham Jon Jon with red piping. For a non-holiday option, the Camo Duck Smocking Embroidery Baby Boy Romper ($21.99, sizes 3M, 18M) smocks a row of ducks across a camo Jon Jon.

If you need a boys' outfit above 18M, the Fall Halloween & Thanksgiving Applique Plaid Boys Bloomers Romper Set ($27.99) runs 3M to 18M as well, so for a three- or four-year-old boy you will be shopping another brand; our best baby and kids' clothing brands guide lists the labels that size boys to 7 and beyond.

Peter Pan collar dresses and rompers

A Peter Pan collar is a flat, rounded white collar that lies on the shoulders, and it is the detail that turns a $25 knit dress into something that reads as classic in a photo. Rylee Faith puts it on girls' dresses, baby bubbles, boys' rompers and bloomer sets, usually with contrast stitching around the edge, in both holiday and everyday prints at $24.99 to $31.99.

The standout is the Christmas Girls Pink Candy Cane Embroidered Peter Pan Collar Dress ($29.99, sizes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6): pale pink with candy canes embroidered all over, a white collar edged in red zigzag stitching and a scalloped hem, and listed as 100% cotton in the body, which is rare at this price. The Christmas Girls Gingerbread Peter Pan Collar Dress ($35.99) hangs embroidered gingerbread men from ribbon tabs at the hip of a pale pink check, and the Girls Christmas Pink Bow & Christmas Tree Peter Pan Collar Dress ($29.99) uses the same hip-tab idea with Christmas trees.

For babies, the Baby Girls Emerald Green Velvet Peter Pan Collar Christmas Romper ($24.99, sizes 3M, 6M, 9M, 12M, 18M) is a long-sleeve emerald velvet bubble with a lace-edged collar, the most formal piece the brand makes under $25; the Christmas Baby Girls Santa Bow Peter Pan Collar Romper ($28.99) is a pink polka-dot bubble with oversized Santa-embroidered bows, and the Christmas Santa Embroidery Girls Bloomer Set Peter Pan Collar ($31.99) is a royal blue top with red bloomers and a Santa-embroidered white collar.

Long-sleeve dresses, sweaters and cardigans

For December weather, the long-sleeve knit dresses and the knit sweaters are the practical half of the brand. The long-sleeve dresses cost $19.99 to $33.99: the Christmas Tree Print Long Sleeve Dress ($19.99, sizes 2, 3, 4, 5, 7) is a soft knit with pink, red and green trees; the Western Horse Print Long Sleeve Dress ($23.99, sizes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8/9) is the non-holiday staple that runs to 8/9; the Purple Floral Girls Dress Velvet Collar Bow Long Sleeve Dress ($27.99) adds a purple velvet collar and bow to a lavender floral; and the Christmas Santa Embroidered Girls Denim Dress ($33.99, sizes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) is a tiered blue denim dress with small embroidered Santas, the brand's most expensive Christmas dress and the one that layers over a turtleneck.

The knit sweaters are a newer line and run bigger in price: $39.99 for the Winter Christmas Girls Pullover Sweater (a cream pullover with a chain-stitched green tree and pink bow, listed as 100% cotton, sizes 2, 7 only today), $40.99 for the green Girls Christmas Jolly Candy Cane Bow Knit Sweater, and $45.99 for the Christmas Tree Knit Cardigan Kids Holiday Sweater Button Front, an oatmeal button-front cardigan with a tree embroidered on each side in sizes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. A cardigan over a twirl dress is the easiest way to make a $19.99 dress look dressed for church.

Two dated notes. The Thanksgiving pieces (turkey applique plaid long-sleeve dress, $19.49, sizes 2, 3, 4, 5) are useful for exactly two more weeks. And the brand's sleepwear this season is mostly Halloween prints; the Bow Girls Pajama Set With Furry Trim ($35.99, sizes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) in pink with red faux-fur cuffs is the one everyday-to-holiday pajama set, listed as 95% polyester. For a bamboo or cotton Christmas pajama, see the Holy Pals pajamas review or the Zumbamboo review instead.

One matching-family note: the brand sells a few "Mommy and Me" sets, such as the Mommy and Me Christmas Santa print pajama set ($39.99 to $50.99) in child and adult sizes. They exist if you want them, but the child sizes left are thin and this review sticks to what the children wear.

Matching bows and hair clips

Almost every Rylee Faith dress has a matching bow, and the bows are priced to add to the cart without thinking: $8.99 to $9.99 for the large ones, $2.99 for the small 1.8-inch Christmas clips. Two things are worth knowing before you buy.

First, the size in the title is the bow's width. The Girls' Christmas Santa Embroidered 6.25" Hair Bow – White/pink ($9.99, in White, Pink) is a 6.25-inch bow, which on a two-year-old is a statement piece and on a six-year-old sits right; the Christmas Red Lace Green Layered Bow Hair Clip 6.3 Inches ($8.99) is 6.3 inches of layered green grosgrain and red lace on an alligator clip. The 1.8-inch clips are the right scale for a baby with fine hair. Second, all of these are alligator clips rather than elastics, so for a baby under one you want the headband versions.

For headbands, bows and clips across every brand we carry, the kids' headbands and hair accessories guide compares sizes and clip types.

Which Rylee Faith piece to buy: the comparison table

Prices and sizes below are as listed on EasyTot in November 2026 and change as sizes sell through; construction and closure are as the product title and type describe them.

How does Rylee Faith sizing run?

Rylee Faith uses two size systems, and the product title tells you which one you are in. Girls' dresses, twirl dresses, sweaters and jeans run in numeric sizes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, with a few printed knits reaching 8/9 and 10/12. Baby rompers, bubbles, Jon Jons and bloomer sets run 3M, 6M, 9M, 12M and 18M. There is no 24M and no 2T; a toddler who has outgrown 18M moves to a size 2 dress or, for boys, out of the brand.

The listings do not carry a garment-measurement chart, so size by your child's current ready-to-wear size. The knit pieces (twirl dresses, printed long-sleeve dresses, the zip romper) have enough stretch to size true; the woven smocked and embroidered pieces (plaid dresses, Jon Jons, velvet) have no give in the skirt or shorts, so a child between sizes should take the larger one and let the smocked panel do the fitting.

The bigger sizing issue is availability. Christmas pieces are made in one run per print, and by the second week of November several of the dresses in this review were down to one or two sizes: the Navy Red Christmas Plaid Wreath Embroidered Girl Dress shows sizes 5, 6 only, the Red Christmas Plaid Wreath Embroidered Girl Dress 4, 5, 6, and the Winter Christmas Girls Pullover Sweater 2, 7. If the size you need shows, buy it; it will not be back before Christmas.

Fabric and care: what the listings say

Read the bullet list on each product page, because the fabric changes piece to piece and the price does not tell you. Across the pieces in this review, the pattern is consistent: the printed knits (twirl dresses, printed long-sleeve dresses, the zip romper, the pajamas, the bow-print dress) are listed as 95% polyester and 5% spandex. Several of the smocked and embroidered pieces are listed as cotton: the navy nativity rompers for girls and boys (100% cotton), the tree-embroidered plaid ruffle collar dress (100% cotton), the candy cane Peter Pan collar dress (100% cotton body), the red smocked dress with the green plaid bow (97% cotton, 3% spandex) and the cream pullover sweater (100% cotton). Most of the rest of the smocked pieces, including the gingerbread plaid dress and romper, the plaid wreath pieces and the velvet, list a 95% polyester, 5% spandex body with a cotton or cotton-spandex trim.

What that means on a child: the polyester knits are the ones that twirl, stretch and dry fast, and they will pill under a car-seat strap sooner than cotton. The cotton smocked pieces hold a press and feel like a traditional boutique dress, and they wrinkle in the car. A few listings, such as the strawberry smocked romper and the mint Santa bloomer set, give no fiber content at all; for those, go by the sewn-in label when the piece arrives.

Care instructions are not on the EasyTot listings, so follow the garment label. The safe default for anything smocked or embroidered is a gentle cycle inside out and a line or low-heat dry; the embroidered gingerbread men and the pearls on the velvet romper are the parts a hot dryer damages first.

Is Rylee Faith Designs legit, and where is it based?

Yes. Rylee Faith Designs is a real children's boutique label with its own website at ryleefaithdesigns.com and active Instagram, Pinterest and TikTok accounts, and it has been a regular vendor on EasyTot since well before this review. The brand describes itself as a Christian-based children's boutique, which is why nativity scenes and Bible-verse branding sit next to the gingerbread and candy canes; the clothes themselves are not religious unless the print is.

On EasyTot, orders from the Rylee Faith Designs boutique ship from the brand's base in Anaheim, California, with about three days in transit, so a dress ordered on a Monday is usually on the porch before the weekend. That is the practical answer to "is it legit": it is a US label shipping from a US warehouse, at mid-boutique prices, with the fabric content stated on each listing.

What EasyTot cannot show you yet is a bank of verified buyer reviews on these pages; the brand's own site and social accounts carry its customer photos. Everything in this review comes from the live listings, the brand's own descriptions, and the sizes and prices on the day of writing.

The honest complaints

Most of it is polyester, and the photos do not tell you. The smocked-and-bowed styling reads as heirloom cotton, and about two pieces in three are a 95% polyester, 5% spandex knit. That is why a smocked dress costs $23 here and $65 at a traditional smocking house; it is not a flaw, but a parent buying "smocked" expecting cotton will be surprised.

Sizes sell through early and do not come back. Every Christmas print is one run. By the second week of November several dresses in this review were down to one or two sizes, and a size that sells out in November is gone for the season. Buy the dress first and the accessories later.

No measurement chart, no care instructions. The listings give fabric content and a bullet list of features but not garment measurements or washing directions. For a woven smocked dress on a child between sizes, that means guessing up.

The boys' line stops at 18 months. Boys get smocked rompers and Jon Jons in 3M to 18M and very little else. A family wanting matching siblings with a boy over two will need another brand for him.

Sleepwear is thin this season. The pajama sets are mostly Halloween prints, the one everyday set is polyester, and the only Christmas pajama is the Mommy and Me set. If Christmas pajamas are the goal, this is not the brand.

Titles are long and prints have near-duplicates. "Red Christmas Plaid Wreath" and "Navy Red Christmas Plaid Wreath" are different dresses with different sizes left; read the whole title and the size list before you add to cart.

How Rylee Faith compares

Against the other girls' boutique labels EasyTot carries, Rylee Faith is the holiday-print specialist at the low end of boutique pricing. Lovely Littles (our review) is the closest match on price at $12 to $36, but it is a print-led cotton jersey line sized newborn to 10 with coordinating bonnets and leggings, not smocking; choose it for everyday coordinated outfits and Rylee Faith for the holiday dress. Cottier (review) sits at $38 to $118 in sizes 2 to 16 with pleated corduroy jumpers and wool pinafores: tailored rather than cute, and the brand to pick for a school-age girl who has outgrown bows.

KIPP Collection (review) runs $21 to $172 in newborn through 16 with wool jumpers and velour footie sets; it is the heirloom-price alternative when the budget allows. Luna + Luca (review) is a newborn-to-18-month organic cotton knit line at $12 to $141, the brand for a coming-home outfit rather than a Christmas one. Within the Christmas dresses for toddlers collection itself, Abby & Evie hand-smocked dresses run $62.99 to $67.99 and Mila & Rose Christmas twirl dresses are $28 in 6-12 months through 11/12, which brackets Rylee Faith neatly: Rylee Faith smocked dresses cost about a third of Abby & Evie, and its twirl dresses undercut Mila & Rose by $8 while starting at size 2 instead of 6-12 months.

Who should buy Rylee Faith, and who should skip it

Buy it if you want a smocked or embroidered Christmas dress or baby romper for photos and church at $19.99 to $34.99; you have a girl in sizes 2 to 7 or a baby in 3M to 18M; you want a matching boy romper for a baby brother; or you want a $19.99 twirl dress your toddler will wear every day. The Rylee Faith Designs boutique is also the easy answer for a grandparent's Christmas gift under $35; for other ideas at that price, see our best Christmas gifts for a baby guide.

Skip it if you want 100% cotton on every piece (check each listing, and expect polyester on the printed knits); you need boys' sizes past 18 months; you want Christmas pajamas; or you are shopping in December for a popular print in a middle size, which will likely be gone.

Bottom line: Rylee Faith Designs is the brand that makes the boutique Christmas look affordable. Buy the smocked and embroidered pieces for the card, the printed knits for the party, read the fabric line before you assume cotton, and buy in November.

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