About us

Our Shops

We have been trading at Panache Kids for over 46 years and look forward to you visiting us.

We sell an exciting selection of babywear, boys and girls clothing for ages Newborn to Teen and various footwear collections - Newborn pram shoes to size 39/UK6 youth. And lots of beautiful accessories.

Brands include our own Panache collection which is Made Exclusively for us in Spain in lots of colours to match our clothing collections and we stock many well known brands such as  A Dee, Mayoral, Bonini, Juicy Couture, Daga, Mitch & Son, Balloon Chic, Monnalisa, Borboleta, UGG, Crocs, Lelli Kelly, Hunter Wellies, IGOR jellies,  BOSS, Deolinda, Mitch JNR,  Sarah Louise, and more!  Collections of both footwear and clothing are rotated weekly, so that we have new styles to show our customers.

Clothing brands include BOSS, Monnalisa, Mayoral, Juicy Couture, Levis, Little A, Tutto Piccolo, Meia Pata, A Dee, Rahigo, Mitch & Son, Carlomagno,  Rochy, Marae, Sarah Louise, Billieblush and many more - we stock over 100 brands for ages newborn to teen. Our baby selection includes baby changing bags, shawls, gift sets and accessories - we also offer a FREE gift wrapping service when required.

Lets not forget our extensive sock and tights collections - every colour you can think of for ages newborn to teen in a variety of styles - Condor, Carlomagno, Meia Pata and individual clothing brands who have socks to match their clothing.

Any item that is showing on our website is also available for immediate collection at our Outlet. Customers can also view the website from our computer to see everything we have available from our extensive stock collection.

Do come visit us! - We are open to customers from 10am to 4pm Monday to Friday, we offer a personal shopping experience with trained staff who are happy help you choose outfits and matching accessories, with new stock arriving regularly as well as lots of bargains in our outlet shop. We have plenty of free parking right outside, lots of room for prams and wheelchair access. There is a playpen so you can let your little one play whilst you browse, and customer toilets.  We look forward to seeing you!

Find us at Unit 1-2 Francis Works, Geddings Road, Hoddedson, Hertfordshire, EN11 0NT with secure parking right outside our shop front

History

Established since 1978.

The first Panache shop was opened at 96 Chapel Market, Islington, North London - selling ladies shoes.

Desperate to offer her customers something different, a teenage Trudi undertook a shoe making course at Cordwainers College in Hackney and learnt how to make shoe patterns so that she could design and make her own range of shoes - this she did in many factories in both Italy and Spain and in time one shop grew to eight shops in various parts of London.

With three young children - Trudi found that it was very difficult to find well fitting, quality children's footwear in the UK, so in 1992 Panache Kids was born selling quality footwear for children made in Italy and Spain to Trudi's designs.

After many requests from customers for matching clothing, Panache for Kids started stocking Children's Clothing in 2005 and now sell many popular children's wear brands including a very large selection of Spanish Traditional clothing with matching socks and shoes - several include designs exclusive to Panache for Kids made in Portugal and Spain in small traditional factories.

Now with her adult children working alongside her in this 100% owned local family business, Trudi uses her experience as a grandmother to Max 18 years, Lily Rose 15 years and Gully 9 years to chose well made, on trend clothing and footwear for her customers - who buy from all over the world on Panache for Kids website.

One of the greatest pleasures Trudi gets from her business are the visits from customers who recount stories of buying shoes from her in one of her London shops all those years ago when she was a teenager and who are now parents and grand parents bringing their children and grand children to shop with her.

Everyone always remembers Trudi for the variety of colours that she would make ladies shoes in and that's how it is with Panache for Kids shoes - our Mary Jane shoe is available in over 20 colours!

Do come and visit us - we'd love to see you!

You can buy online from us with confidence in the knowledge that we are a 100% family owned business based in the UK with strong ethical values who really care about our staff and customers.  We are open Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm for personal shoppers in our Francis Works shops.