We got a fabulous email from a Flip friend that wanted to tell us about Alayna’s commitment to being active!

Please see attached for photos of my daughter in her Flipwear.  She is not a dancer or a gymnast.  Alayna  plays hockey and is a competitive swimmer, shown in the picture is Alayna at bootcamp.  Alayna goes with her Mom to boot camp where she does light strength training, cardio training, and core strength training. 

Clothes from Triple Flip are all I can get this kid to wear.  In the picture she is wearing pants, shirt, sweater, and pony holder .

Thank you, Marina

We just love hearing about Flip Girls staying healthy and happy! Thanks for sharing your inspiring story and telling us all about how Flipwear fits in with your active lives!

Fridays are so much fun in Flip world, especially when we get amazing emails like this one!

Thanks so much for making bodysuits!
They look soooooo fabulous and will be perfect
for dance. You guys make being active way more
fun because we can look good doing it!
Cant wait to see what is next.

Lorraye

THANK YOU for taking the time to write to us Lorraye, it made our day! We love it!

And to check out the flattering new styles of Triple Flip bodysuits, click here to shop online!

To Triple Flip with love!

We love getting mail! Check out these fabulous words of love from our Flip Friend Voula! Thanks for sending us the love, right back at ya!

Looking Flip in Scuba and Gogo outfits!

Thanks to these gorgeous sisters for sending in their pics of their favorite Triple Flip outfits. We’re told they LIVE in their Flipwear! Looking fly ladies!

Love that chocolate Minky Dimples!

Making that Essential Jacket look good!

Figure Skater and new Flip Girl Madison shows us her moves!

My daughter Madison and I had our first Triple Flip visit a couple of weeks ago in South Common.  We had a BALL, it was really nice when my daughter wanted to try on the clothes!!!  

Madison figureskates and I was wondering if you do team uniforms? I love the quality of the clothes and they wash very nice.  Everyone would love that for uniforms!!!

Carolyn

Thank you both for the enthusiastic email, and for sharing these very fun pictures of Madison in her Flipwear! She looks gorgeous, and the clothes fit so well! We were thrilled to hear about the great time shopping at South Edmonton Common - our team there is amazing, and it makes their day to help a girl find just the right Flipwear outfit! Or in this case, outfits! 

We do indeed provide teamwear, and have dressed many teams across Canada! Our terrific Triple Flip Teamwear Division can do everything from basics to customized colors and logo’d team uniforms: jackets, tops, shorts or pants, you name it! Triple Flip has worked with all kinds of different groups to help them them look their best – and feel fabulous! To see some samples, please visit our website Teamwear page on tripleflip.ca.

Thanks again, and keep representing your Flip!

“thanks for the websites i like your new minky sweaters” 
Haley

Short and sweet, but we love hearing it all the same. Thanks Haley!

A fab Flip Girl's design inspired a new Triple Flip Top, the Split Corset Top!

My name’s Jeanine, and I’m 13 years old. I love Triple Flip! I’m interested in fashion design, and I thought I’d take a whack at design some Flipwear myself. Attached is something I came up with while I was simply doodling in MS Paint. I’ve done a few different colour ideas using the colours found on the Triple Flip website. Anyways, It would be so cool if I could see this design come to life, because I know I’d totally buy it. I’ve also shown it to my friends, and they love it too. Let me know what you think!  

Thanks,

Jeanine

We really loved Jeanine’s design!  While we weren’t able to implement it exactly as drawn, for some technical reasons, this design was the inspiration for a new style that we created and put into production at Triple Flip, the Split Corset Top, being modelled here!

The inspired Split Corset Top

If you’ve got a great design idea, send it to us! We consider all original designs submitted. Please note that anything sent into Triple Flip cannot be returned, and becomes the property of Triple Flip. If we use your original design and put it into production, we’ll give you a complementary garment of your design!

Smashing synchronized swimmers in their Triple Flip Teamwear!

Thanks to these spirited sweethearts from the Sea Sprites Swim Club – 50 strong! – for sending us this sweet picture of the girls in their Triple Flip Teamwear!

Triple Flip is thrilled to be able to support the team as they host the Wildrose Provincial Synchronized Swim Meet. Check out all the action, as swimmers from across Alberta compete in this prestigious event, the weekend of April 24-26 at the U of C!

Best of luck to all the competing athletes – wishing you a personal best!

Owners Linda and Mona Rae got a wonderful email from Elizabeth, who was doing a school project on some of Canada’s famous people. We were very flattered that she decided to do Canadian fashion entrepreneurs, and chose Triple Flip! She asked some very thoughtful questions, we just had to share some of them!

When will you open a new store? 
Triple Flip opened its first store in Calgary in October 2005. Store #2 was in Saskatoon in March 2008.  Store #3 was in Edmonton in November 2008. And Store #4 will begin construction this March, for a May 2009 opening in West Edmonton Mall. New opportunities are always in the works!

Do you manufacture your own clothes? 
Triple Flip designs all of the clothes, and chooses and purchases all of the fabric. The actual sewing is contracted out to manufacturers who cut the fabric and sew it into garments, based on our patterns. Most of our sewing is done in Calgary. Recently, because Calgary does not have enough sewers to keep up with the demand of our new stores, we have sent some of the sewing to be done in Los Angeles, California. 

What are your goals for the future? 
Our goal is to become the national brand of choice for girls in Canada, making clothes that they love and feel good in. 

How did you start Triple Flip?  
Why did you start Triple Flip?
Where did you get the idea for Triple Flip? 
The idea for Triple Flip came from Linda’s 9 year old daughter. Linda and her daughter struggled to find clothes that fit her well. It seemed like everything they tried either was too big in the waist, or not long enough in the legs. The choices in stores were very limited and unexciting. She suggested we start their own store, and the idea was born! They knew that so many other girls around this age must also need and want good clothes, so it seemed like a really good business idea that would also make a lot of girls happy. They started out by looking for fabric that would feel really good and be comfortable to wear, and also look great wash after wash, as they knew how disappointing it was to buy something new, only to have it not look the same after the first wash. These clothes had to be made with something of really high quality. Once they found the best fabric, they started producing designs just in black and white, based on what their daughters and their friends told them they wanted to wear. They took this first line of designs and made up samples. They then invited four focus groups of 20 girls each to come to a party to see the styles and tell them what they thought.  Their opinions were so important, because whatever they said, we were going to put into production and into our very first store! They rated each piece as Love it, Lose it, Fix It, or OMIGOSH I have to have it! What these girls thought was really important in what Triple Flip produced.  We still ask girls everyday what they want to wear, what we should make, and what colors we should make it in.  Girls are encouraged to send in their own unique designs as well. Triple Flip always wants to make sure that we give our customers just what they are looking for in their clothes.

What is your best selling outfit? 
Our #1 selling piece is our Minky Dimples Jacket. We have sold more than 10,000 of these jackets since we opened.  They are loved for their incredible softness and coziness that is absolutely irresistible.  After that, our next most popular piece is our pants. Pants are so hard to find that fit well. We know so many girls that have NEVER found pants to fit them except at Triple Flip. This makes us very happy to know that we are making something that makes girls so happy.

First time at Triple Flip!

Thanks to the fresh Minky Dimples article in mid-march’s Swerve Magazine (Calgary’s very stylish entertainment magazine!), this family stopped by our fab Triple Flip Calgary store for the first time! And they had so much fun being outfitted by our staff! These two cuties are Kaya and Jules, and yes, they are twins… They came from Okotoks with their mom, Andrea, and had to come in and check out the store after reading the article. They could not get enough Minky Dimples, and went home with one for each of the girls in the family!

It was a great experience of shopping and picture taking!

Kaya and Jules love their cuddly new Minky Dimples jackets!