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to think Lelly Kelly shoes are awful???

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glaskham · 08/05/2008 08:55

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!!!!

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ElizabethBeresfordSW19 · 08/05/2008 22:28

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

ElizabethBeresfordSW19 · 08/05/2008 22:31

PS it's easy to have a 7 month old or a two year old and to say "I will NEVERrrrrr buy these dreadful overhyped marketed shoes".

Tell me again when your daughters are five, and those are the shoes they really want.

worley · 08/05/2008 22:37

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

rosealbie · 08/05/2008 22:42

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!

RnB · 08/05/2008 22:46

Message withdrawn

mamalovesmojitos · 08/05/2008 22:48

couldn't really afford them but i love them!

can imagine being a small girl and just longing for them if i had seen them.

Troutpout · 08/05/2008 22:48

yanbu
vile indeed

canofworms · 08/05/2008 22:54

yabu

love em love em love em

Just bought my 2 girls a pair and they will last all summer. Bargain.

If they get mucky I can wash them

They dress up to go with dresses, dress down to play out/wear with jeans

Adverts a bit pants I agree but my kids only occasionally catch it

As for the make-up, not entirely happy about it but it lasted in the car on the way home and then forgotten and thrown away.

Can't wait for dd3 to get up and walk and then she'll have a pair too!!

madmuggle · 09/05/2008 10:58

Elizabeth Beresford:

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.

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glaskham · 09/05/2008 10:59

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.

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madmuggle · 09/05/2008 11:00

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

Nemoandthefishes · 09/05/2008 11:02

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..

Pinkjenny · 09/05/2008 11:06

They're awful, but I would have loved them when I was small.

MissusH · 09/05/2008 11:07

vile, vile. vile!!!

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

PTA · 09/05/2008 11:09

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.

Let kids be kids.

IneedacleanerIamalazyslattern · 09/05/2008 11:11

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

SoupDragon · 09/05/2008 11:19

They are utterly foul and hideous.

"Just bought my 2 girls a pair and they will last all summer. Bargain"

No, a bargain is an £18 pair of Doodles which do the same job. In BabyDragon's case a pair of boy's doodles as it happens.

SoupDragon · 09/05/2008 11:23

"PS it's easy to have a 7 month old or a two year old and to say 'I will NEVERrrrrr buy these dreadful overhyped marketed shoes'.

Tell me again when your daughters are five, and those are the shoes they really want. "

I'm the parent in our house, not my daughter. If she wants them she can go get a job and buy them herself.

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glaskham · 09/05/2008 11:24

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!!!!

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WigWamBam · 09/05/2008 11:25

I think they're revolting. It always amazes me how something so expensive can possibly look so cheap.

Luckily, my daughter thinks they are hideous (her exact word) too!

Anchovy · 09/05/2008 11:26

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.

Tortington · 09/05/2008 11:28

fgs

snobs

SoupDragon · 09/05/2008 11:31

How is it snobbish to hate something so garishly hideous?

SoupDragon · 09/05/2008 11:32

And how is it snobbish to prefer a pair of £18 Doodles over £40 worth of fairy vomit?

WigWamBam · 09/05/2008 11:33

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.

I don't think that makes me a snob.

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