To hate the lights in Clarks shoes...

[CharlyH]

Please help me fellow mumsnetters...

I find it really hard to find girls shoes I like and am gutted to pay £30 for the pleasure of buying shoes I don't like!

I eventually bought a pair of Clarks in sale online without realising they had lights in them. Is there any way of turning them off? They are style: Ella Shine Fst www.clarks.co.uk/p/20349677.

Thanks for your help.

Something else to add to the banned list then, along with tunics, twigs in a vase, ankle boots, mid height boots, knee high boots, over the knee boots, leggings, Greggs sausage rolls, Fruit Shoots and a million other things I can't quite think of at the moment.

How on earth did I know what was allowed before I joined MN? It's y'know, literally saved my life .

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What is so awful about the lights?

I had Clarks Magic Step shoes with a key in them when I was little . However it never made up for the fact that I didn't have a Mr Frosty .

I recently complained to my mother about her refusal to get me a mr frosty, so she brought me one from amazon. Try it you never know your mum may to

Oh well said Nigel

My 3 year old just got some Clarks trainers with lights in - I even bought them online, what a terrible parent I am (I did get him measured instore last week though, so am I a slightly better parent?) He loves them and wouldn't take them off today. Don't any of you miseries remember the fun of things like that?

The lights in my DC shoes never died.
I put training shoes that DS had grown out of, through the washing machine.
The lights were randomley twinkling away

DD had some shoes with a wand that you touched the side with an they made a sparkley, twinkley sound .
Then they got possessed .
And worked without the wand...

Eventually the batteries wore out.

My mum still wouldn't let me have a telly in my room when I was 27 :(

DD now has Moon Sand. It is CRAP but she loves it. I now understand why I was never allowed it. She is allowed to play with it c three times a year

Bed time for me

Poor Dita :(

Really, really I fail to see how lights or dinosaur holograms can cause so much disruption.

Children love them, they're decent shoes (I know people like to moan, but I only had one issue with Clarks in 12 yrs, and that was rapidly put right) and although not cheap, they're less dear than some other brands.

SockPixie - I never had a Mr Frosty OR a SodaStream I have asked DH to buy me a SodaStream for Christmas .I had the princess shoes with a key though - my mum said no so my granny bought then for me instead. I can still remember the advert too! A little girl climbing up some kind of cliff, she was wearing the cream shoes in the advert.

I had the key shoes and a Mr Frosty (it never actually worked properly you know ).

I don't like the lights shoes because when I child actually wears them, they can't see them anyway. They are pointless. And people saying about their chidlren being seen out in the dark, my 22 month old DD will not be outside walking in the dark where I need lights to see her. Lights in shoes for children that age are completely pointless. Wouldn't bother me so much for DS who is older but I still think they are pointless as the child can't see them.

We have the dinosaur shoes, they are fab, DS loves the eye on the side.

They turn off. Look for a little circle of stitching near the back on the inside. Or ask someone in Clarks.

The first thing I got myself with my first grown up wages was a soda stream

I don't even remember the key shoes but I do have a mr frosty sat next to me and a really really old pair of LA lights trainers in the bottom of a cupboard

I didn't know shoes that squeeked existed - I could have made a worse purchase then!

KittyFane1 - yes thanks, I did buy them in the sale (£20 is still a lot but better than £30) andLovelyladuree, thanks for your 'concern' I already had her measured in the shop which was how I was able to order online....

There is definately a gap in the market for reasonably priced shoes, that are good for little ones feet that are nice looking too - dragons den?!

I got ds3 (6) flashing lights in Clarks sale on Saturday. Although they are not cheap his last pair still look fine and are 8 months old. Sadly he has outgrown them. I do think Clarks last well.