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To want to vomit everytime i see a "Leli Kelly" shoe advert??

109 replies

lottiejenkins · 15/03/2008 14:58

God they are the most most vomit inducing advert...... offering a make up case and mobile phone case with their shoes!! I'm glad ive got a boy!!!

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nelliesmum · 15/03/2008 21:14

I loathe all adverts aimed at little girls on principle. They always have some smug -faced little moppet (generally blonde) parading some hideous plastic monstrosity; with a second, less pretty child over her shoulder mouthing "wow"....

frecklyspeckly · 15/03/2008 21:15

Advert works - my dd (3) proudly announced before bed she wants 'dose shooos and mobile phone for my burffday'. I haven't spent 32 quid on shoes for myself for years, so it aint gonna happen honey!!

Lulumama · 15/03/2008 21:22

DD can teach them how to fight dirty !

lilybubble · 15/03/2008 21:25

I agree that it's an awful advert. Dd (4) has cottoned on that I don't like it, and so now shrieks with delight every time it's on, and tries to sing along. Don't like the shoes either, but actually wouldn't buy them on principle, given the terrible advert, and the awful ploy of make-up - for pre-schoolers?! I really don't agree with it.

fondant4000 · 15/03/2008 21:26

I have always been agin the whole Lelli kelli advertising, pimp my plimsolls style.

Then they had them on sale for £19 in John Lewis, and they fitted really well, and ..... I caved I am now officially the chavviest mum in the playground.....

dontwanttogetoutofbed · 15/03/2008 21:30

i have never ever seen an ad for these....

i bought my dd a pair once and she refused to ever wear them!....

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lottiejenkins · 15/03/2008 21:39

Am glad so many of you agree with me!!

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chirpycherrycake · 15/03/2008 21:40

Where are they made? Please don't say China with price tags like that...

lucyellensmum · 15/03/2008 21:50

not only is it nauseating but, have you noticed how these things are only advertised on childrens channel? I pay a fair whack for DDs shoes, on account of the fact i am sucked in by the whole clarks/startright bullshit. But those shoes are not fitted, they are hideous and hideously expensive. It is just the sort of cynical marketing that makes me want to puke, to turn such inappropriate, expensive, plimpsoles into a playground must have is outrageous. I think these sort of adverts propogate the whole paris hilton wannabe, shallow consumerism that i would have hoped most of us would have wanted to avoid for our children. £42 for a pair of plimsoles

SoupDragon · 15/03/2008 21:51

I will cut BabyDragon's feet off before I allow a pair of those so much as touch her toes.

Lulumama · 15/03/2008 21:56

i am bringing my children up with morals and values and lelly kelly;s thank you !

dizzychixies · 15/03/2008 22:01

good grief, all this uproar over a pair of farking shoes. they are infact 'fitted' I get the girls measured at an independent shoe store which is much better than our local clarks. they have fantastic breathable soles to keep the girls feet from getting sweaty AND they're wide enough and allow for my girls' high insteps

its not like lulumama and I are teaching our dd's to smoke/drink/sleep around and take drugs because we're buying them sparkly pretty girls shoes

ffs behave yourselves lol

dizzychixies · 15/03/2008 22:03

and just for your info, I'd never even seen the sodding adverts before I got her a pair last year in dublin, we went shoe shopping, she saw them, she liked them, we bought them and the woman then gave her a free gift with them

if you don't like the advert may I suggest you change channel to one which doesn't endorse them?

soapbox · 15/03/2008 22:05

The shoes are barftastic - and the ad is just a reflection of that!

As for the accessories - wouldn't be out of place in an American Children's beauty pageant!

dizzychixies · 15/03/2008 22:07

the only thing we got was a wee plastic phone with lip gloss in it? don't see the harm in that personally

nkf · 15/03/2008 22:25

Dear oh dear. They're not just a pair of plimsolls. They're a pair of shiny, glittery, pink plimsolls all covered with sequins. Surely you can see the difference.

dizzychixies · 15/03/2008 22:31

nkf no sitting on the fence here on such a serious subject thats causing many poor mners to be physically sick and affected

are you for or against?!?

Lulumama · 15/03/2008 22:34

c'mon dizzy, let;s go and wait for the crack and shoe shop to open ,so we can get our girls ready for their tearaway lifestyles..

they are just shooooooooooooooes!

nkf · 15/03/2008 22:34

I think they are fantastic.

Can you imagine being four and having a pair? You'd be insanely happy. Actually, I'm not sure if my daughter likes them. I do hope I won't have to bribe her to wear them.

Free gift too! Even better.

dizzychixies · 15/03/2008 22:38

no need lulu, dd1 (4.5yrs) is already well known to local pimps and dealers, will get her to go and hotwire a car and nip out for some

welcome NKF nice to have you on board - tis apparently a very serious debate lol

Lulumama · 15/03/2008 22:39

they can go ramraiding together for the new collection !

nkf · 15/03/2008 22:40

You must post some shoe links links so I can drool.

paddingtonbear1 · 15/03/2008 22:41

I really hate the ad too. This morning on Nick Jnr and Boomerang it seemed to be on every other minute!! argh. dd has taken no notice so far though and has not asked for the shoes - I am not sure about them, they look sparkly but do they last very long? I have visions of dd wrecking them within a week.
Her pink 'crocs' from Sainsburys cost a fiver and are still going strong!

Lulumama · 15/03/2008 22:41

really?

nkf · 15/03/2008 22:41

I must try to catch the ad tomorrow. When is it on? I'd hate to miss it.