Adventures of the Dread Pirate Emmeline May

I can't wait til I have a 3 month old so I can sexualise her too.

What larks!

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crazymeandave.livejournal.com

better that you do it than some sick paedo.

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What the fucking fuck, dude. Get those girls used to their patriarchy-approved Western Beauty Paradigm before they can even walk or talk!

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BUT IT'S JUST FOR FUN

apparently.

Britta Bacon & Hayden Porter are childhood friends turned business
partners. While Hayden was completely obsessed with high heels,
Britta wasn't even sure if she owned a pair. On her way to her daughter
Kayla's 4th birthday party, Britta was reminiscing about when Kayla
was a baby and Hayden's shoe obsession crossed her mind.
She thought to herself "That would have been hilarious if I could have
brought Kayla to a party in high heels when she was a baby".
It was at that moment that ·heelarious® was born.

May these shoes bring as many smiles and
as much laughter to your life as they have to ours.
We hope you enjoy ·heelarious® as much as we do.

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OH GOD THEY'VE BRED

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as opposed to matriarchy-approved Eastern ideas ;-)

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Well, yes, you know what I mean :)

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yup yup!

and also bad taste
they could have come up with better designs!

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Let's hope nobody gives them any decent design tips, though. These ridiculous women don't need any encouragement.

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i dunno!
maybe if some big designer label jumped on, then sales would skyrocket
and pretty soon everyone would see an increase in those train-wreck child pageants, while the ages of the contestants decreased!

gaahhhhh !

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Oh, urgh, child pageants are bad enough as it is! >_

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shewho.livejournal.com

jesus. h. christ. does not compute.

~~they aren't even pretty shoes~~

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I've spotted a gap in the market! Suspenders and stockings for the under fives!

HOW FUNNY! WE'LL BE LAUGHING FOR HOURS!

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ephemera.livejournal.com

one of the student art projects in the St Martin's windows a couple of weeks ago was a clothing rail of almost exactly that, in sizes 0-18 months. Which was intended as *art* and *social commentary* and not being sold to people who think it's funny to sex-up their baby's party dress!

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*words fail*

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shewho.livejournal.com

why don't we give 'em boob jobs while we're at it? WOT LARKS!

ugh ugh ugh.

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PUSH UP BRAS!

What every toddler needs. Buy one, get free botox!

You've got to start these girls young, it's never too early to learn that a woman's place in life is to look sexy at the expense of comfort.

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They've already got padded bras for 8 year olds...

http://jezebel.com/379355/unmentionables

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shewho.livejournal.com

aye, i think i saw that linked to before. can't we let kids be kids, dammnit?

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But children are just tiny adults, right?

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obsessive-katy.livejournal.com

I once saw this hideous scene...at a Rocky Horror weekend. I was very close to having a talk with the mother, as it was an inappropriate place for her child to be anyway.

That said, stockings weren't always sexualised...

xx

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I still remember the minipops.

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Oh, I saw that the other day. I think it's revolting.

A friend of a friend bought skinny jeans for her baby girl. Maybe someone should market bras for newborns next.

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I actually feel a bit sick looking at the pictures. Euw.

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ephemera.livejournal.com

one of the student art projects in the St Martin's windows a couple of weeks ago was a clothing rail of almost exactly that - bra tops and stocking-and-cut-out-bra stle onzies, and the like, in sizes 0-18 months. Which was intended as *art* and *social commentary* and not being sold to people who think it's funny to sex-up their baby's party dress!

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I can't really see a big problem with this. They're hardly intended to make the baby look sexy, are they? They're just funny shoes for babies too young to walk anyway.

Sprogs too young to have preferences for Thomas the Tank Engine or whatever clothes are frequently dressed pretty much as fashion accessories for the parents, it's quite funny and does no harm. I don't hear anyone complaining that baby-sized alternative/goth t-shirts "alienate baby from the mainstream" or whatever.

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Little girls are trained from and ever increasing young age to aspire to be beautiful and to be thin and to be sexy. High heels are there to make adult women look sexier. I do understand your point, but goth t-shirts do not have the same connotations with regards small children as high heels do to little girls.

There are plenty of ways to dress up your baby without choosing such adult items, IMHO.

ETA: T-shirts are legitimate items of baby clothes anyway. I also think that adding a slogan of the parents choosing that reflects their interest isn't the same as adding an entirely unnecessary item.

Edited Date: 2008-06-12 03:54 pm (UTC)

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I just don't buy into the argument that "baby high heels" are an adult item, or that dressing a sprog in them forms part of that training you mention (which I agree exists, and is harmful).

After all that the point of high heels is to change the way the leg looks, and there's no attempt on the part of the designers of this product to acheive that.

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High heels represent a lot more than 'a type of shoe that changes your leg', and to ignore that is a bit naive.

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After all that the point of high heels is to change the way the leg looks, and there's no attempt on the part of the designers of this product to acheive that.
Using your argument, bras for babies would be OK too and bras in the context of ones manufactured for infants wouldn't be adult items. Is that what you're saying?

Bearing in mind that most babies don't need shoes until they're over a year old.

Edited Date: 2008-06-12 04:16 pm (UTC)

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But dressing them in shoes is not unusual. And yes, I do think a baby bra would be crossing way over the line, art exhibitions excepted.

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I do understand what you're saying, but I still think it is about what they represent. The slogan of the site is "Her first high heels" too, which I just find quite ick. To me, it's no different from putting a little bra on a small child.

I do forget that people put shoes on babies. Current advice is that babies should only ever have very soft shoes until they're walking. Even if I didn't find the concept wrong, I would never put these particular shoes on a baby because, just like the grown-up version, they could actually cause problems for a baby's feet bones if worn for too long.

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i wish they offered better styles

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kathbad

All the way from Wrongness Road, Wrongville, Wrongstate, USA.

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i dont like the styles

i wouldnt go out of my way to order them, but if i had the extra cash, and i happened by a shop that sold them, i'd probably pick up a pair just so i could. maybe another pair to give to a high heel loving friend that's totally not into having kids (yes i have one in mind). i would also tell her she needs to write a complete addition to her book on high heel fetishism ... UGH!

i'm curious tho... would these have any impact on the mental growth of an infant? i remember when i first started having a thing for high heels. but i don't remember much about my infancy tho. besides having a foot in a shoe, the other sensations (physically walking in them) and other things such as learned/ingrained conceptions of what high heels can/may represent are absent.

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miss_squiddy

I honestly think that this would be a lot worse if they were heels for toddlers and designed to be worn actually as shoes, instead of foot warmers.

I just don't see *when* anyone who thought that they actually were hilarious would want to put their child in them anyway. I just think that they're funny and a bit stupid and useless.

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cyberlite.livejournal.com

They're pretty ugly, and just go further and sooner in moulding a child into a stereotype.
Look at an Argos catalogue for example - the boys get football, Bob the Builder and Action Man, and the girls get pink stuff, dolls and fake babies and plastic cookery sets. And everyone gets 'educational' technology that means the parents don't actually have to interact with the child but can leave it on its own.

And if the child gets fake high heels? What happens when they're only a bit older and walking and want a functional pair with non-collapsable heel?!

None of this seems very helpful to gender equality later in life. Women want equal rights to men, and yet are brought up to have totally different values. It's a good to look nice, but to be brought up expected to like pink, babies and heels? Hmmm.
I can fix my own car and have to fix £10k lights at work, and cut my own hedges and do successful DIY. Yes I like to try to look good on nights out, and preferably not like a train wreck the rest of the time, but would any of this be the same if I'd had dolls and fake heels instead of lego and wooden animals?
My first best friend had makeup from age 7, and had dolls and a fake keeping-house set. She now has 5 kids, with the first when aged 19. She seems happy with it, but has it all stemmed from the upbringing?

Sorry, had to comment. I just feel so strongly about this, especially everytime I talk to a girl who can't change a plug or won't do something in case it breaks a nail or might be a bit heavy. And we're starting to get them like that trying to be local crew at gigs, and yet they look at me in horror when I ask them to do the same work as the men.

Haven't seen you for ages! Hope you're well, and I've been fascinated by your roller derby posts :)

Edit: Oh shit, I've written an essay. Sorry >_<

Edited Date: 2008-06-12 09:22 pm (UTC)

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sera-squeak.livejournal.com

Brilliant comment.

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Essay away, it was very interesting!

Are you going to have a go at skating then? ;)

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