DEAR Fashions Review

Actress Amanda Bynes may be best known for her quirky attitude and "spunkiness" exhibited in movies as, "What a Girl Wants," "She's the Man," and from the Nickelodeon television series (when she was much younger), "The Amanda Show" as well as her TV comedy, "What I Like About You," with co-star Jennie Garth.  Many other actresses have introduced their own fashion, makeup and perfume collections, such as Mary Kate and Ashley, Paris Hilton, and Sarah Jessica Parker.  Given time, we will all be able to wear a fashion designed by a celebrity.

Amanda Bynes DEAR Collection of clothing includes:

• T-shirt
• Dresses
• Pants
• Polo type shirts
• Sweatshirts
• Jeans
• Mini-skirts
• Tops/shirts
• A variety of accessories including purses, jewelry, belts and hair

Features of Amanda Bynes Dear Fashion Collection:

• No item over $19.98
• Easy "mixing and matching"
• One type of fashion item comes in a variety of colors (for example the same shirt in a variety of colors)
• Exclusively at Steve and Barry's

My Viewpoint:

I feel that the shorts and skirts of Amanda Bynes Dear Fashion Collection are a little too short, but the many of the items in the line allow tweens and teens to reflect a great deal of their personality without spending a lot of money.   There are three main themes in this collection: easily mixed and matched clothing, several variations/colors of one clothing items and not too expensive for teen clothing.

Bynes, in an autographed interview in which a few hundred people from Houston, including my daughter and myself, admitted that she like to have lots of one thing, because once she finds something that fits and that she likes, she wants to just be able to keep wearing it, in different colors.  She has accomplished this goal in her fashion wear.

This collection is fashionable, but very comfortably priced.  The name of "Dear" for the collection is derived from Bynes wish that are for "girls to hold ‘dear' for years to come."

All in all, the price is right, the quality appeared to be good, but let's see after a few hundred wash and wears. There was no stand out design or article of clothing that made my daughter jump for joy or beg to own.  One other comment is that the "cut" of the clothing is definitely made for teens and tweens of a specific body type and not very flexible for all girls body types.