Bink Tees

"Bink-Tees was born out of necessity. From day one our son was a pacifier fiend. If he didn't have his pacie in his mouth, he was screaming. Of course, keeping track of it and keeping it clean got exhausting. The constant dropping and picking up and running to the sink to rinse and pop it back in before, well, you get the picture!

"WHERE'S THE PACIE!" became the only verbal interaction I had with my husband John. So we did what anyone with limited options does in this situation - we got a clip. That solved the dropping problem but created a host of new ones.

First of all, we had to fumble with the baby's clothes to gather the shirt material together so we'd have a place for the clip to grab. Half the time, the clip would obscure the adorable designer tee that my mother-in-law had just spent a fortune on! To make matters worse, we were constantly poking our poor kid with the plastic clip every time we picked him up. And some clips just plain didn't clip. More often than not, the whole darn thing had been misplaced, so we were back to square one: "WHERE'S THE CLIP!"

Our son loved his pacie so much, we decided he needed clothes that simply made his pacifier part of his outfit rather than an accessory. That's when I created my first Bink-Tee. Every time I'd bring my son to a shower or to the park wearing my new creation, mothers would stop and ask "What's that? I haven't seen that. Where did you get it?!" Bink-Tees started catching on in my neighborhood, and I began to make them for friends and friends of friends. We realized that if we and so many we knew had this need, then lots of others must as well, so we patented the design and set about sharing the love - of binkies!"

Teri

Designer