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To think that if your feet are small enough to wear these shoes you are too young for high heels?

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unrulysun · 12/05/2014 21:10

I saw these shoes in a branch of Monsoon today. I see plenty of things for little girls which make me roll my eyes but these actually made me stop and stare and then a few minutes later go back into the shop to talk to someone.

The heel on these is a good inch high. My DD is 3 and her feet are size 9. The ones I saw were in a size 7 which I think DD last had when she was 2. She’s not particularly enormous for her age so I think these shoes are definitely for 2 – 3 year olds. I don’t know what size they go down to. AIBU to think that a 2 or 3 year old shouldn’t be walking around in high heels? This isn’t wearing your mum’s high heels this is ‘these are your new shoes’. Sad

And yy I know ‘you don’t need to buy them if you don’t want to’ and I won’t buy them. But I care about the little girls who they are bought for. I don’t think any little girl should be put into shoes like this. Frankly I’d be worried DD would twist an ankle in heels this high. She certainly wouldn’t be able to run or play. And I’m sad that these are on sale for little girls. Not in some weird online place but in a high street shop.

I’m going to complain to Monsoon. I would have liked to have given them the feedback instore today but the sales assistant shrugged and said ‘I’m just a sales assistant’ and the manager was ‘too busy’ to talk to –annoying people who think girls should be allowed to be children-- me.

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MyFeetAreCold · 14/05/2014 21:31

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cardibach · 14/05/2014 21:34

Having an issue with your words does not mean she is stupid Confused
Not following your argument, sorry.

MyFeetAreCold · 14/05/2014 21:40

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cardibach · 14/05/2014 21:46

"Sorry I used bug words" doesn't imply she is stupid? Nope, sorry, don't believe you. What comment did she make about your language use? I forget and I can't go back and check. Can't have been as offensive as yours.

Catmint · 14/05/2014 21:55

They look very, "sit still and be on your best behaviour" shoes to me & that makes me feel a bit uneasy.

I can't walk in heels so my experience is that I feel hobbled and vulnerable in them. So I'd stay away from buying DD the shoes on the OP because they look like they aspire to be a type of shoe that I experience as limiting and I don't want that for my daughter.

We are going to a wedding soon, she'll be wearing a floaty dress and tie dye purple & orange hi top converse. I'll be in fitflop kys.

I don't think I wear ugly shoes btw, that is very subjective.

MyFeetAreCold · 14/05/2014 21:56

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grocklebox · 14/05/2014 22:55

ok, so you dont want them for your kid, so you dont want them to exist for anyone to able to choose.
A bit facist extreme, don't you think?I'll say it again, IF this was about high heels for little girls, youd have a very valid point. But these arenot they.
Good argument, very bad footing, as it were. Fail, Im afraid.

PurplyBlue · 14/05/2014 22:56

The assumption that not thinking that heels are right for small children = not liking pretty clothes is a bit of a leap, surely?

FWIW I'm sitting here wearing a pink flowery dress and pink flip flops.

PurplyBlue · 14/05/2014 22:59

Saying WTF and expressing an opinion about, er, things that you have an opinion about is what you do in a democracy, surely?

No one is going around ripping them off small children's feet and jailing their parents.

MyFeetAreCold · 14/05/2014 23:02

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PerpendicularVincenzo · 15/05/2014 07:54

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Catmint · 15/05/2014 08:08

I can remember shouting " high heels are a firm of social control! " at a boyf who wanted me to wear them. I still think this. I think you can have lovely shoes that still enable you to stay balanced and able and not fuck up your feet for an ideal of beauty that I utterly reject.

And on the subject of Feet, isn't she saying that it is what the shoes represent that she doesn't want to exist ( see above).

I think it is unacceptable to say that Feet is fascist, grocklebox, even if you have crossed it out you have put it there for everyone to see. Dreadful.

Catmint · 15/05/2014 08:10

Ps I think they are a model of high heels, actually.

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