To think, No, i don't have to let them try on my expensive shoes?

[ClothEaredBint]

I have a collection of expensive shoes, Irregular choice, they're upward of £80 a pair and most of them are sparkly as i like the glitter.

Obviously kids tend to gravitate to the glitter, and as i have them on display in my house, when i have a couple of friends over, the little girls like to ask to look and try them on.

I always say no, but my friend told me i'm being a bit mean, because "they're only shoes."

AIBU to think that not toys and they aren't going to like it if their kid manages to damage them and i ask them to replace them if they get scuffed or scratched? ITs not like it can be polished out or hidden, it'd spoil the look of the shoe.

I don't even let my own 8yo put them on as she'd fall flat on her face.

I used to have vintage typewriters and magazines on display. It didn't say anything about the tastes of all women

I quilt and have lots of the ones I have made on display or in use around my home. Am I reinforcing the stereotype that all women like sewing?

If I had enough IC shoes to warrant a display case, I'd have one too

Doesn't 'on display' just mean that they are visible, rather than in a shoe cupboard with doors you can't see through. I didn't take it to mean like an ornament display.

Either way though, you've said no and that's good enough. I know 'entitled' is sn overused word but it's accurate for people who think it's okay to apply their own house rules in other people's homes.

Converse are just plimsoles though

How dare you! My collection of about 30 pairs is a work of art.

My DS displays his many pairs of shoes all over the hall floor.

They are displayed for maximum trip hazard potential.

diana thank you! I am on pair 20 and growing... from glow in the dark to batman ones. They are my true babies and they will have their own display soon enough

Bragging no, bemused that someone would put factory made shoes in a display cabinet

Oh Crumbs. Forgive the pun, but you've shoehorned so much into your posts. Graduation Laboutins, school shoes that cost £80. I love it when posters try oh-so-nonchantly to do that. I'm sure most have us are guilty of it at some point in our MN lives.

But, really, as much as you want to let everyone know that your entire family are so well-shod, there's really no need to try to put other people down, is there?

As for the OP, I love a nice shoe but I also don't give two hoots if a child wants to dress up in them. I kind of like to see my DD's dressing up in my fancier pairs. Each to their own though, so on that basis, YANBU.

Ugh, am remembering a bad memory of when the very entitled small niece of an ex came to visit. I'd just taken off a lovely pair of LK Bennett boots, and she wouldn't stop screaming until she tried them on. I let her, she leaned back and snapped the heel off. Niece was fine, boots couldn't be repaired.

I got married in Pastrys. Sugar rush in white...

just enjoying taking about shoes

Yanbu. And I don't even like shoes. But I'd get the rage if a child wanted to try out my Japanese stationery collection.

I'm not putting others down but bemused why one would display shoes anywhere but a shoe shop. The cost is irrelevant but was mentioned by the author. I can't see that £80 for shoes is 'high end' Clarkes are usually around £60.

Because she likes them? Why is it hard to understand?

Clarks shoes do not need to be on display because they are ugly.

No, children are NOT entitled to try on anything they like the look off!

If you left them lying around on the floor, you'd have little right to complain if they were accidentally damaged. But you have every right to display what you want to, and your friend is being rude.

I have delicate glass candlesticks, original artwork, and other family heirlooms on display in my home. They're out of reach of little hands for a good reason - there's no way I'd let a child play with them. And your shoes aren't toys any more than my artwork.

YANBU

I used to have my pretty shoes on display on a tall bookcase 😍 They are stored away now but I still have my wedding shoes out.

Crumbs1, it's about surrounding yourself with objects that you love and make you happy, in this case for the OP, it's shoes.

I hate clutter and the pointless (from my POV, 'stuff') that people fill their houses with. But filling your house with things that spark joy, then that, I get.

I remember looking at some lovely dolls as a child in the house of a friend of my parents. I always wanted to touch/play with them but they were adult collector's dolls, not toys.

Children can definitely understand that and parents should respect it. I don't see why it's any different for shoes.

I'm surprised some people can't imangine people displaying a collection or even have the brain power to imagine it.

lol, its nothing special, its actually just a book case I had painted/upcycled. But no, i'm not putting a picture of the inside of my house up, sorry! I don't trust the Fail.

I don't have any of the mad one's or character heels, my collection is the fairly average looking ones. I'm not brave enough to go for the character heels, I've only just really started wearing high heels again, those are too high for me!

I've got 2 pairs of Nick of Time, some Red Ban Joe, the white Lazy Rivers, red Cherry Dazzles, the black Tick Tocks from the Alice collection and a pair of Poetic License, End of Story, which are currently on my feet :)

Crumbs1, my husband displays his Lego models, how are shoes any different.
And fwiw, my last pair of shoes cost me £8 from sainsbury's (during the 25% off, so I actually spent £6) trust me, if I had a beautiful £80 pair of shoes they'd be on display, not shoved in a box!!

Here, these are some of the ones I have :)

I see why they are on display. Continue to display them and scream no at children til they stop asking

Those are ok. Not too lairy.

Just keep saying no to the kids. No need for any screaming

I can't walk in don't do interesting shows or heels.

But is it really wrong I want some and a display cabinet after this thread - just because

Is it just me or does the idea of having a display cabinet for shoes endorse the stereotype that all women are obsessed by shoes.

It's just you.