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Ok....maybe a bit too far, but dd is 2 yo, she's singing along with the lelly kelly advert, and ds (3yo) comes and says to me, 'dd wants some lelly kelly shoes so she can ahve a mobile holder and that make-up'....and dd is stood looking at me with a big grin saying 'peeeease mummy'
make-up!!!! OMG- i'm gonna tear my hair out...she's 2FFS, has seen the advert only a handful of times and already knows some of the song for it!!!!
glad i'm not the only one to hate some shoes so much!! I so want her to be a little princess, and she wears pink almost every day, and is so much of a girly girl....but these things take the biscuit!!!
aaaaargh that advert. that awful lisping song. i rather thoughtlessly said 'yuck' (as you do when spending a lot of time with small child) and now ds runs round house screaming yuuuuuuuuuck and laughing wildly whenever it appears.
I am embarassed to say that my mother (only in her mid 50s! still apparently sane!) saw a Lelly Kelly ad in a magazine (featuring the pinkest, sparkliest pair), and asked me if I liked them, and did I think she should get a pair for herself?
They are dreadful. DD is only seven months old but there's no way I'm ever buying her shoes like that, regardless of how much of a girly girl she might turn into.
My dd2 (not yet 3 at the time) kept telling people that her name was Lelly Kelly after seeing that advert.
A while ago a mnetter posted that she had glued sequins onto some plain white trainers, given them to her dd and the dd believed her when told that they were Lelly Kelly shoes. Respect!
YABU some are grim but some are fantabulous. AND they go in the washing machine. DD wore hers nearly every day for the whole of last summer and she still has them ( taken the insole out and they still fit. The trainers are grim though. The mary janes and the sandals are the nicest. And she LOVVVESSS them - as do all her friends.
I hate them because they make all the other perfectly nice shoes look boring in comparision and I end up feeling guilty for not letting DD1 have the pinkest, sparkliest ones. To compensate I coloured in the cut out hearts with plain leather underneath on her latest pair of shoes with a pink sparkly pen. She's happy.
But they are so fab!!! They are one of the very few things that make me think that having a girl would be lovely but I just enjoy them on my nieces instead.
There is a lot to be said for not allowing commercial television in the house
They are HIDEOUS! If your DD is insisting on some super-girly shoes, Mothercare have some pretty canvas mary-jane plimsoles at the moment with pink rose buds printed on them.
Quite LK, but without all the nutty sequins/beads/make-up nonsense.
DD loves them....and guess what!!!, she loves bratz, barbie and all the other tinhgs she isnt supposed to like either (according to some mnetters)......but the thing is, i give her the choice, i dont teach her to say yeuch at the telly
Well my daughter is five and she likes them. Through five year old eyes they are really gorgeous. Pink, glittery, shiny, exciting ........... and expensive enough so not that not ALL the other girls have them.
But lucily, I a mumsnetter is posting me a pair!! ha ha
i looked at them longingly as my eldest ds picked his geox trainers. but i couldnt persuade him to get some!! i would love to have a little girl just for these shoes!! but alas i have boys
I love them and so does my dd. I got a pair for her on Ebay, used but without a mark on them, must have been worn once or twice. Hers are the white ones and yes they get dirty but they machine wash and you really don't notice the dirt amongst all the sequins and other sparkly bits
Can't believe shoes can spark such a strong rection!
My daughter is five, and I never buy that sort of thing
Seriously. They're over-hyped and over-priced. Damned ugly too. My daughter gets her sparkle quotient in hairgrips and bobbles. Cheaper and more versatile than a pair of vile shoes.
I get my dd shoes from clarks and/or next and i have bought some gorgeous sparkley pretty girly shoes...and dd seems over the moon with them. fair enough she's only 2, but i hate the fact that these shoes come from a toddler size 6 and come with make-up...and the ad annoys the crap out of me!! the shoes themselves aren't too bad, but i doubt i'll buy any.
For got to add, she really really wanted them too. We were in a small indie shop last weekend and she begged, wept, wailed and attempted to bribe me too. I paid for the dress were had gone in for and we left. Muchos pissishness from the small female, but she got over it
DD1 is desperate for some of these and is goaded on by ds who does the same as op in DD1 really really really wants these mummy and shes like I love them blah blah. I am sorry but £40 is too much for one pair of shoes even if they could then be donated to dd2..
Dd (5)liked them at first but I explained that they were a lot of money and that the way she treats shoes (bit of a tomboy at times), the sparkles would fall off within a week. Also said that for the cost of 1 pair of lelli kellis she could have 2 (or more) pairs of cheaper shoes. That swung it for her - dd really likes her shoes
Now she sings along with the ad but has put her own words in "lelli kelli the duffest shoes, oh no..." etc etc
Shoes are not to my taste but the thing that I find really annoying is the advert with the make-up. I'm not against make up, I wear it every day but didn't start experimenting with it until 12 or 13, not 2 or 3.
They look like a fairy has vomited on them. DD is on her 3rd pair and I am not taking these ones back. Her ones wouldn't stand a trip in the washing machine all the beads would fall off. She is on her 3rd pair because they don't withstand being purchased and a walk around the garden centre before the beads fall off, they are full of loose threads, hate them, hate them. DH bought them for her
My DD's sandals from next are lovely and have sequins on and i got them in the sale for £4!!! and DS's next sandals cost £5.50 in the sale and he had the same sort last year from there and they lasted all summer!! THAT'S A BARGAIN!!!!
I bumped into the mother of one of DS's classmates in the shoe shop who said - v accurately I thought - that she was gobsmacked as to the double whammy of how they managed to look so cheap and cost so much!
I'm sure DD - 4.6 - would love a pair. As others say, I am the parent and the answer is "no".
We too do some glittery hair bobbles and try and draw a line there.
Actually don't get me started on the subject of the princessification of small girls and the collusion in it by grown women.
I don't think I'm a snob for not liking tacky shoes, Custy.
For me it's about a personal preference that doesn't include garish, sparkly shoes, a dislike of manipulative marketing, and not wanting to turn my child into a teenager just yet with make-up and mobile phones.
How is it snobbish to express our dislike in shoes that think they'll get more sales by throing in some make-up with their shoes that can be for as young as a 2 year old!! Would anyone seriously let their 2/3year old use make-up?....
Hmm - pay £40 for the pleasure of my daughter having the glittery sequinned feet of a showgirl. Erm, no thanks.
Draw the line at tinsel/sparkle/glitter/fairy wings as part of normal day to day wear? Oh, that doesn't make me a refusenik to the insidious slide towards prettification/differentiation of girls - no, it makes me a snob.
Actually, DD isn't dressed head to toe in Boden or indeed hand-dyed, hand woven hessian sacks - usually just the less garish end of whatever H&M have to offer!
My DD can have as many pairs of these shoes as will fit her princess feet......<<so that would be one pair>>
And she will wear tham to death all summer, and I guarantee there will be no arguements about putting her shoes on as she absolutely loves them so £40 well spent in my books.
but then if we didnt allow some requests to be me then our kids would become down trodden and never express their opinions. Each to their own, Im sure there are things that I would say no to that others would say yes to <<desperately tries to think of something>>
DD is a very girly girl atm, and if you ever met me I am nothing like that, but I love the fact that she isnt afraid to say what she likes even if it contradicts what I would think is right, it means to me that she will always have an opinion and question what she thinks is debatable.
I am a snob at times. However my dislike of these ain't snobbishnes, it's just that I think they look foul, are over-priced and to be frank look as though they'll not last five minutes
oh my, I have to confess, I bought a pair for dd who is 5. I bought them in the states and they don't give a gift with the shoes there. I think they are bright and sparkly and fun.
i don;t get the colluding in the princessification of little girls argument
DD has many pairs of kellies. DH buys them for her, as he loves them and wants her to have lovely things. she wears jeans most of the time, not like i put her in the shoes, with a tutu and tiara the make up goes in the bin straight away.
don;t try to intimate that buying these somehow makes you a bad or lesser parent
Are these the things that look like doodles covered in sequins and beads? My 6yo dd would love a pair (not that she knows they exist) but don't all the bits come off with a bit of rough wear?
DDs last pair have lasted two summers and autumns... would have kept going but her feet have grown.. they go in the washing machine and come out like new... the sequins seem to be fairly invincible.
if you don;t like them, don;t buy them ! no need to be so at parents who do !
My dd1 and dd2 would adore some of these, they looked at them lovingly and dd2 stroked each and every pair that were on display in our local Jones. We couldn't justify them though, they wouldn't be everyday shoes for our three as they are real mudlovers and dirtfinders. I would love to be able to get them a pair for parties though.
Mine have crocs for everyday use in the Summer and corkbed sandals for more smart things.
HOw are they cheap tat....their shape is exactly the same as other sandles/ shoes...like lulu says dont belittle them just because you dont like/agree with them
I would rather see a 4 year old in these than sporting a HSM t-shirt to be honest. i think theat lelli kellys are quite a sensible shape aren't they? same as doodles?
Blimey, I don't think there has been any intimation that buying Lelli Kelli shoes makes you a "bad or lesser parent". Most peeople who dislike them seem to be saying they wouldn't buy them - large'ist reason cited being cost/value, lesser reason being not liking sparkles.
They do seem to evoke quite strong reactions, that's for sure - there have been a few threads on them before which have usually divided along these lines.
I've not seen the advert/mobile/lipstick tie in thing, so for me it is just the sparkle point. But I think it takes a lot more than buying your DD a pair of LK's to make a "bad" parent!
DD (4) got a pair at the weekend - absolutely loves them and loves the lipgloss stuff that came with them. I don't see the problem at all - she got a pair of shoes that fit her well, that she likes, that I can machine wash . She also went to the park in her nurses outfit with them on. If you can't wear sparkly shoes and a nurses outfit when you are 4 when can you???
Just followed the link. Had never seen them before. Cute! Lurvveee the wellies (want a pair for me!).
Have a DS so (probably) not an issue. I thought little girls were genetically wired to love pink and sparkly? So let 'em go for it FGS. (would ditch the make-up though).
DD would probably like them, but I don't like the marketing and I think they are hugely overpriced. We do compromise on sparkly though, I wanted to get her a pair of plain black trainers (goes with everything that pink doodles and pastel trainers doesn't!) but I relented and got her black sparkley ones instead - still goes but satisfies that strange 4YO craving for glitter
£39.95 for what is basically a pair of plimsolls with sequins.
I bought my neice a pair of plain white plimsolls from JoJo maman bebe for £8 and a packet of fabric pens from John Lewis for £4 and she produced a pair of shoes that look absolutely brilliant.
FGS they are sparkly trainers not fishnet stockings and heels As have said we dont have the money for £40 a pair even though DD1[and yes she is only 2 n half] would love them I dont have an issue with them as shoes and from what I have seen they seem to last..save a tenner and buy them new on ebay
soupy am sitting here wondering if babydragon has the doodles with the jungle animals and the ants? those are the one twiglette has
as for lelly kelly .. I'm ashamed to say I really like them and really wish I could bring myself to buy them .. and tbh if I could find similar without the Lelly Kelly branding on I'd probably buy them .. BUT I won't because I feel the marketing of the brand is disgustingly vulgar which makes the shoes rather vulgar too
ive found aa pair of acceptable and quite pretty pair of lelly kelly sandles which my dd has been promised this weekend...they are white with pinky/white sparkly bits on(as opposed to bright gaudy colours) although its the price that has me reeling!
I will admit to being horribly snobbish over the Lelly Kelly brand though .. so agree with Custy on this one .. although am fairly certain I shouldn't admit to this
Have a look at the Mothercare ones. Honestly, they are lovely, LK-ish, but only rose print, not sequins etc, and much much cheaper. Annoyingly, not on the website, so I can't link to them
my dd1 4 is obbsessed with them and is engrossed whenever the ad comes on have finally relented and said i will take for some of the sandalsd next time my mum is off as will have to drive out of town to get some
i dont mind the shoe its the constant advertisng i hate! some ppl cannot afford them and will constantly have kids whinging for them and eventually like me be guilted into getting them, although after she is done with them i will give them to my niece and if they are still in decent condition dd2 will have them after, i am determined to get good wear out of them
I can see me buying them for DD in a few years but at 20m her feet are growing so fast I will not pay £40 for them to be trashed at Nursery. I was annoyed enough when she took the toes out of a pair of Hush Puppies the first day
6yo DD loves them and I am happy to buy them fr her. Our local indenendent shoe shop makes sure they fit before they will sll them us, and for DD having the leather inners and uppers is very beneficial as she has very hot feet. Have had them the last couple fo years and they have been very hard wearing, and DD just loves the girly OTT type look. They are no dearer than other comparable brands IME.
SA2 - can you keep Ms old ones for me as J would love a pair (but am on a budget until she goes to school and I get a job!)..
I hate the advert - but think that my DD would look fab in a pair of sparkley shoes with the biggist grin on her face as she would be sooo chuffed to own a pair.
Lulu - can you keep the gifts next time, as J would also love that!..
Looking forward to next Local meetup - LK shoes and gifts coming my way (hopefully)
Having looked at the link that was posted about i dont mind the plain leather metalic ones, they actually look like nice sensible shoes... Its the gareish sparkley things that are advertised on the tv that make me cringe!!!....i never knew till looking there that they did 'normal' looking shoes!!
i believe from others posts on this thread they are actually very hardwearing and can be machine washed.... bonuses yes, but IMHO i'd be scared to wash for fear of melting them or the sequins/beads falling off...
but yes i do agree the marketing/advertising is too much and on too much. but that is up to nick jr and the other channels to control, not for lelly kelly's advertising team to stop! they seem to be doing a very good job by all accounts....
dn has some. They are lovely and look really comfortable and much more supportive than doodles.
I know they are seen as very chav by some superior individuals. Personally I think they are too expensive for what they are and the adverts are revolting (but effective), but dn loves them a stupid amount and if dd wants some I will probably cave in.
My dds think they are pretty. Not mad on them myself. Sort of thing I would spend £10 in woolies but not £40 as that is what I have to spend on school shoes.
I believe they are q good quality, but too pricey for me.
Not keen on the snob arguement - pretty plimsols rather than heeled sandals are fine in my book.
As for the make up, surely it is just pretend like every other form of dress up.
Nothing snobbish in my dislike of them. As someone else said, they look like fairy vomit (my fave new phrase )
Couldn't give a stuff if someone wants to buy them for their child but they won't be touching BabyDragon's feet unless she buys them herself.
Twig, she has the neutral coloured ones with a small picture of a crab on them . They go with her whole wardrobe (which includes enough sparkle and fairy dust and other lovely girl things that aren't pink). She also has a pair of plain brown boys sandals from Next as the nice sand coloured flowery girl's ones weren't available in her size. Again, they go with everything she has as she's not a fluffy frilly girl, she's a 3rd born with 2 older brothers. those infernal LK things would not go with anything she has and would not match her mud-pie-warfare-and-climbing lifestyle.
i WOULD Not want the words Lelli Kelli in massive writing on my dd's shoes anymore than I want NEXT emblazoned on her chest or bottom. I HATE kids as walking billboards.
Each to his own though, buy Lelli Kelli by all means if you want to, but OP asked if people like them or not, lots of adults don't is the answer.
You can buy them for your kids if you like 'em and they like 'em and good luck to you. But you can't make everyone else like 'em just by calling them snobs
DS1 is very boyish hates everything pink or girly normally. However, he did admit the other day that if he were a girl these are the shoes he would want. Pesky advertising!
they are all the things i hate about having girls. that people think girls want pretty sparkly things. they dont. not always.
dd1 wants to climb trees. so have trainers or converse boots (admittingly her converse are bright-in-yer-face pink becauser they were on sale). dd2 scooters everywhere, those sequins would go flying off if she decides to use her foot as a brake (which she does, despite much groaning from me)
and dd3 is a pirate, cars loving 3 year old. who loves playing in mud puddles.
I don't think it's snobbish to find £40 canvas shoes that have a half-life of 500 years they glow so brightly, horrible, custy
I try and spend much less than that on dd's shoes, and usually succeed
They do seem to be quite well-made, and attaching a full kilo of beads per shoe must up the manufacturing costs, but luckily dd is not that aware of them so I have got away with fairly plain sandals and some lurex party pumps for £10 from M & S
Sure dd likes frills and froufrou but her favourite shoes this summer are her £5 butch Regatta hiking boots from TK Maxx
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Divorce would be nearing!! 
