There’s something about puppies, isn’t there?–that just begs you to dress them up in cute little puppy clothes! A few years ago, I would have laughed at the notion. But now I’m a puppy fashion convert: I dress all of my little doggies up in the latest puppy couture and my foster puppies in their little puppy dresses and coats for dogs, and the whole bit. It’s a bit of a puppy clothing circus in my house these days, but there’s nothing like having fashionable puppies running around by your feet that you know are more comfortable and warm during these winter months! And even when it’s warmer out, young dogs are always cuter when they’re sporing a little pet haute couture, aren’t they?!

I’ve been shopping around, looking for the best puppy clothes that I can find for my little dogs for a while now, and some of my favorite places to find them include GlamourDog.com, the Posh Puppy Boutique, PamperedPuppy.com, the Yuppy Puppy Boutique, G.W. Little, and our very own Chihuahua Shop. All of these places have some great clothes for puppy dogs, and they all have quality service, in my experience.

The most popular clothes for puppies definitely fall into into one of two categories: the fashion category; or the practical, warm one. The flashy, glamour puppy clothes like the dresses for pups and the fashion t-shirts that you can customize and personalize in stores like Chihuahua Shop have always been a hit with puppy lovers. As you’ve probably noticed, small dog owners seem to really love pampering their pooches by dressing them up and making them super adorable for all their friends to see!

And the other type of puppy clothing–the puppy coats and jackets and sweaters for these younger dogs–are also big with new dog owners. Puppies tend to get cold more easily than older dogs that are bigger and that have more developed immune systems and thicker coats of fur, and so puppy owners tend to dress up their puppies in these warm clothes to keep them warm and more comfortable, as a kind of weather protection for them.

Dog owners do sometimes also fall for those ultra adorable puppy costumes for smaller pet dogs, but those are mostly seasonal and confined to the holidays: you don’t see a lot of puppies walking around outside with costumes on, unless you have really fun friends who like to play around with their pup’s fashion and get a laugh out of people with some unusual and creative clothing for their puppies!

In my opinion, the best puppy clothes are found in the online dog clothing boutiques. The above mentioned dog clothing stores are great places to start. Of course, you can always check out your local pet stores and see what puppy outfits they carry. The advantage with that is that you’ll usually be able to bring your pup in with you to actually try the clothes out on, right there in the store! But you might find the selection rather limited compared to the variety of clothes for puppies you’ll find on the internet once you start searching. So have a look around, find those perfect puppy clothes for your young little doggy, and, of course, have fun with this cool dog fashion!

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I’ve been to a lot of puppy boutique shops lately that sell puppy clothes and puppy supplies, but don’t really have a strong focus on any kind of puppy accessories in particular. There are chihuahua puppy boutique stores that sell chihuahua clothes and these other shops that bill themselves as puppy dog boutiques that carry costumes of many different kinds: some cheap, some that are quality, but I have yet to see a puppy store other than the Chihuahua Shop that really hones in on any particular type of puppy clothing.

When I set up the Chihuahua Shop puppy boutique, I knew I wanted it to focus on quality chihuahua clothes for puppies and toy breed dogs. I wanted a puppy boutique where you could come and find fabulous puppy clothing and puppy collars and puppy accessories, to dress up your puppy and make her look like the latest canine fashion diva dog. I wanted to create a store that I would want to come to, were I looking for a great chihuahua puppy boutique to shop.

And so that’s what I did: I found the best chihuahua clothing I could, that wasn’t exorbitantly priced, and brought it to the new puppies boutique that we now call the Chihuahua Shop puppy store. Today, this little puppy boutique carries the newest puppy collars and puppy accessories and clothing you’ll find anywhere, no matter what puppy shop or puppy boutique you walk into, in the real world, or that you shop at online.

The other chihuahua puppy boutiques I see online seem to have lost their focus: in the same puppy boutique, I have seen individual chihuahua clothes being marketed as perfect for dog agility training, for fashionable doggy cocktail parties (lol), and for keeping your dogs warm. There’s no focus.

How The Top Puppy Boutique Shops Are Different

The best puppy boutiques only stock high quality puppy accessories and puppy outfits, and these best outfits only serve one purpose, typically. Some of the puppy boutique clothes will be designed specifically for keeping your little Fido warm, and other chihuahua boutique clothing will be created for the purpose of adorning your dog in a fashion fit for a fairy tale princess or the latest fashionista super diva dog, who’s ready to strut her paws on the runway and walk like an Egyptian!

Puppy Boutique Clothes: Where Do You Find Them?

You can find these two different types of puppy clothes at the Chihuahua Shop. What you won’t find at this puppy boutique are clothes that have an identity crisis, that promise to help your dog train better for agility or in obedience classes while also making her look gorgeous and fabulous and adorable at the same time. The chihuahua puppy clothes sold at the Chihuahua Shop puppy boutique are much more focused and specific than that, I think you’ll like them, so visit the shop and see for yourself at the link, below.

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Small dog apparel: it lets you dress up your dog in cute designer dog clothes, it’s fun, it helps your chihuahua stay warm on cool nights by wrapping her in a layer of chihuahua clothes, and it makes stalkers out of perfect strangers at the grocery store.

Let me explain.

As a pet fashion enthusiast, I collect a lot of pet apparel for my little chihuahuas. Sometimes it’s a cute dog fashion coat from the Chihuahua Shop here; other times, it’s something from the luxury dog clothes for small dogs line of another online boutique. But either way, when my chihuahuas leave the house, they are well dressed!!

Well when I leave the house with my dogs, they’re usually dressed up in some of their best dog clothing. And, as it happens, when I go grocery shopping, I like to sneak my chihuahua Namaste into the store with me, to do a little spontaneous and covert K-9 grocery shopping! I usually slip her into my backpack after we step out of the car and we’re walking through the parking lot to get to the store, walk in, and then place her in that little top shelf of the buggy cart, on top of the backpack and using it as a pillow while I wheel her around and do my thing, usually without any store employees noticing (important).

So yesterday, we’re walking through the parking lot, she has her adorable chihuahua clothes on, and as I pick her up to put her in the backpack so I can sneak her in past through the door guard person here at the local “Mega” here in Puerto Vallarta, down here in Mexico, this rather large woman in pink sweat pants and a huge leopard-print visor comes charging from around this parked minivan and starts gushing about how cute Namaste is and how she has small dogs of her own, and how she loves to dress them up in yorkie clothes, and this and that and the entire kitchen sink of a conversation! I couldn’t get a word in as she walked beside me and I stuck Namaste into my backpack.

“Are you going to sneak her in?!” she announced to the entire neighborhood in her screechy voice. “I hope so,” I smiled back, now nearing the door and about to walk through. She had this look of excitement like she was going to explode or something: what is it about the mixture of chihuahuas and pet clothes that makes people loose it like this? I could see if she had never seen puppy clothes on a little dog before, but this is a person who lives with yorkies, who dresses them up in their dog coats and dog sweaters frequently, I presume. So what’s the deal with her squeal? Lol, I have to have fun with it: I’m only joking because this woman was super over the top with her adoration for Namaste and the small dog apparel she was wearing.

Anyways, I get into the store and I’m shopping around, the woman has left do to her shopping, and the usual mixture of kids and assorted other shoppers are noticing and coming up to pet the fashionable and increasingly famous chihuahua, Namaste. I’m walking through the pet supplies isle, looking to see what they have in the way of small dog collars and if they have any pet couture collars like the last grocery store I visited did (I couldn’t believe it!), when the woman sees me again and start billowing out about how cute she looks atop my grocery cart. This is not good. Now everybody is looking and staring, including the store staff.

I quicken my pace and give this jovial woman another quick smile and a knod, trying to break away, but she seems to keep following me around the store from isle to isle! She goes on and on, talking about the beds for smaller dogs and the pet furniture she found at the dog store the other day, and how she likes to use small dog harnesses on her yorkies instead of a leash. She starts talking about her shopper’s appetite for petite dog clothes–something I can relate to–so I stop my shopping for a minute to talk with her about chihuahua clothes and the Chihuahua Shop I run here, and as it turns out, she’s actually a cool person who takes good care of her dogs.

Unfortunately, it’s at this point when I spot the grocery store floor manager over the shoulder of my new, round, pink, small dog fashion enthusiast friend, and he’s walking toward us, and he doesn’t look very happy. It turns out that bringing your little dog into the store, even when she stays inside the little seat in the push cart and no matter how cute she looks in clothes for little dogs, is in violation of store policy, and I would have to take her out. And so I did …after a series of zig-zags through a few isles and a quick stop through the checkout line

Perhaps that’s one of the better parts of shopping for small dog apparel online: you don’t have to deal with “store policy” like this and you can have your chihuahua right there with you, browsing through the small dog clothing to your heart’s content. If you’re looking for clothes for your small dog, check them out at the Chihuahua Store, and I’ll speak to you again really soon, probably with another weird story involving sneaking my chihuahuas into places where you’re not supposed to have them! -Mikey

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