So it's a wash.

It's not about sexualization at all. It's just about ACCESSORIZATION.

If you're wearing a cute outfit, and out with your baby, is there anything wrong with wanting your baby to complement your top?

Baby hair dyes, piercings, and tattoos should be all the rage within the next decade.

(And yes, I know there's a long history on the piercing part.)

Think me blue bow stick in middle of almost bald baby head is just as offense as pink stiletto shoe that no match outfit. Obvious this poor child is plaything for someone who never have doll.

Think me blue bow stick in middle of almost bald baby head is just as offense as pink stiletto shoe that no match outfit. Obvious this poor child is plaything for someone who never have doll.

It's actually not sexualization I see as the problem with those; I really don't think any healthy person would perceive an infant more sexually because she was wearing baby high heels.

The problem I see is the message, which apparently no little girl is too young to be spared from, that high heels and stilettos are normal, expected footwear for females. Close to the top of my list of "last things we need" are more little girls being accustomed, even from their very first steps, to abusing their feet in the name of femininity.

Maybe the babies in YOUR life are all sacks of potatoes, but when the babies in my life were that age, they were pulling up and standing with help - in other words, using their feet. Which did not need spikes on them.

How dumb are people anyway? Answer: always at least one notch dumber than the dumbest you can possibly imagine.

My son is going to LOVE these.

Or somewhere in between? Can't figure which.

I must say that I generally find high heels and/or pointy shoes to be supremely stupid, and that I invariably find myself then judging the woman wearing them accordingly. Just not sexy, sorry. (or as my GF would say with a cruel lisp, 'thexthy')

Hopefully the kid will later think of them as her Minnie Mouse shoes (a critter who to me is definitely satirizing 'thexthy') and not buy into the vast stupidity being sold to her.

Anyway I think she needs the mouse ears to go with those.

Sexualization aside, those are the ugliest baby shoes I've ever seen. Sorry, the adorable baby booties will go to my baby while I will actually wear genuine stiletos.

I don't know what you're seeing, but to me these don't look any sexier on that baby than cowboy boots. It's one thing to put slightly older girls into grown up makeup and dresses and heels - turning them into parodies of sexual grown up fashion models or beauty contests. But this is just silly fun. Now, if they start dressing babies up in make-up and dresses and have the totter along down runways, then we may be onto something, meanwhile how about if we just let parents have fun playing dress up and stop pretending that you can make little babies sexy by just putting funny shoes on them?

... they look like Minnie Mouse shoes.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall of the executive boardroom when that idea gets pitched.

be funny to wrap your kid in one of those, finish them off with a child leash, and you're set. Maybe stick the kid in a handbag so its head just peeks out, kind of like you see women carrying around tiny doggies.

Since these shoes - and for that matter any shoe for an infant - has no practical value for a human that cannot even walk yet, their singular meaning is both aesthetic and symbolic... and both encompass similar messages: women, even baby women, are primarily sexual beings. I think it is fair to say that heels are most likely the first thing you'd notice an infant wearing (just as more often than not, heels are also the only thing you'd notice a woman wearing in many of today's adult videos) so clearly any parent who dons these shoes upon their children relish the reaction that they must get as well as the implications that they are raising little whores. Disgusting.

would look smashing with the black leather pants I saw on sale at BabyGap a couple of years ago! or maybe the cream colored crochet triangle top bikini I saw at BabyGap later that same year, would be fabulous for the trip to south beach Miami.

; )

that you admitted you take in other cases like this (e.g. cowboy booties for infants.) This story is nothing but silliness, and these stilettoes are cutesy jokes. Not my taste or style, but whatever--hardly cause for disgust or outrage. You jumped off the rails when you launched a critique of the "sexualization" of newborns. Honestly, take some deep breaths and pop a Paxil or something. This is an oddity that's worthy of a chuckle, not hyperventilation. Chill out.

Perhaps the shoes are to distract from the blue growth on the baby's head.

If I thought that most of the parents who buy them would be doing it as a joke, that would be different. But mark my words, lots of people will buy them just because they'll think they are "pretty."

Really? Gimme a break. Not for newborns or infants. I'd be willing to bet the farm that the vast majority of these purchases are indeed ironic, cutesy jokes.

Then again, tuxedos for baby boys are pretty awful too.

Awful? Why? If the parents dress them in tuxedoes regularly (??), sure, but if they're wearing them for special events like weddings, what's so awful about them? They're pretty cute actually. I've seen male toddlers in tuxedoes on a number of occasions and they were adorable. Awful was about the last adjective that came to mind.

You strike me as a hypersensitive, easily offended type. Try to relax a little.

High heels for dogs and cats!!