Baby Girl - Octavia Liberty Fabric Smocked Dress

The Octavia is the kind of dress that makes a little girl feel like she is floating.

The Yellow Buds Liberty print is a soft, continuous scatter of tiny pink, yellow and lavender buds on white, so fine and so evenly distributed that the fabric seems to exist in a perpetual state of early spring. It is one of those prints that reads as almost plain from a distance and reveals itself completely only when you are close: dozens of small, perfectly formed flowers, each one distinct, each one worth finding.

The smocking is worked as a yoke, manually executed using traditional artisanal techniques in a continuous gathered panel that sweeps from shoulder to shoulder and down across the chest, following the curve of the neckline. Across it, small blue roses have been hand-embroidered in two rows, dotted through the gathered fabric to frame her face. The raglan frill sleeves fall from the edges of this yoke, each one finished with white crochet lace inserted into the frill. At Cashmirino, true luxury lives in the details — and the details are never ignored.

The A-line skirt falls from the yoke in a long, generous sweep, midi-length and full, the kind that moves with her.

Inside the lining, in light blue thread, our skilled artisans left her a message: "This hand embroidered dress is unique and special, just like you." Being mothers and grandmothers themselves, they know that a little girl should always be reminded.

The hem has been cut generously so that when the time comes, it can be let down and worn a little longer. A dress this easy to love tends to stay.

The Octavia is for the little girl whose earliest moments are filled with beauty and wonder. A dress made to be treasured from the very beginning.