Blogging Baby Size Six: egregious toddler bling
Categories: Babies, Toddlers, Life & style, Baby essentials, Kid decor & style
Known as “baby bling,” mini diamonds,
tennis bracelets, and chains for babies have arrived! And instantly become another cliché. Yesterday Fox 12 News profiled Pimpfants a new line of clothing for lesser monied babies and toddlers, which the creator says “gives today’s generation of parents what they want,” and “fills a niche” in the children’s clothing market. An example: currently featured on the Pimpfants web site is the curiously named “baby beater” top.
The company’s just crying out for attention with its name. Pimpfants might be the grossest new word. Ever. In honor of this etymological feat, we’re rounding up a size six of the most egregiously useless, over-the-top, or wacky baby and toddler bling items, a few of which Blogging Baby has covered before.
1. The Spongebob Squarepants bedazzled juice box holder, $185
2. The lovely, but unsuckable, Swarovski pacifier. A mere $16.18
3. Burberry Cologne
for Babies Who Stink, $38
4. A faux mink sling, so your blingy baby won’t get
pelted by PETA, $153
5. The birth diamond baby necklace, shaped like the Gund bear’s head, but with a
diamond for its face. For $3,950 your baby can suck the ultimately expensive
gummy bear.
6. A Cinderella’s
coach bed, a bargain at just $47,000.
Back over at Pimpfants, the problem isn’t the clothes
– which darn it, are kind of cute – but the fact that the velour toddler tracksuits come without irony.
Does it make any sense to adultify a kid into a role like a pimp (or a stockbroker)? Would a real pimp be caught dead
in these onesies?
Opposite of that, there’s Ellen Degeneres, who gave Britney Spears an irony-laden
gift last May. Perhaps the cutest and most hilarious baby bling of all – an iced out Silver Cross Pram with neon lights,
spinners, and a Sony DVD player, preloaded with the Ellen show.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
P's Mama 3-08-2006 @ 2:18PM
Pimpfants. That is gross. Sure, the stuff is cute, but what is this new trend I'm seeing that's "maturing" babies into mini-adults? Every day, I see inappropriate clothing for little ones that looks more like something I would wear than something I'd put my child in! And this name "Pimpfants" just ties into all that. Gross.
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MelissaS 3-08-2006 @ 10:38PM
I think it's a crime how this country ignores all the babies who stink. There are babies all around us who stink and they can't afford the Burberry cologne. Who protects them? WHO!?
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Ms Sisyphus 3-08-2006 @ 10:58PM
As if those stinky, "powder fresh" babies matter MelissaS. Honestly.
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Bonnie 3-08-2006 @ 11:23PM
Sorry, but I have to confess that I'm still LMAO after saying "pimpfants" out loud. And I do think that it is a completely gross word/concept. But when you actually say it out loud it is hilarious. Go ahead... try it.
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Kristine Wright 3-11-2006 @ 9:40PM
Oh my God, it is the funniest name for clothing line. Since seeing this on Fox morning show, I have inquired at Pimpfants web site, recieved their catalog and since ordered the outfits for my little ones. In the past, I could not find the children clothing like this. The creative style, highest quality fabric and prices unbelievable. For all you that cannot get pass the stigma of PIMP, are missing out on the whole concept and creative idea behind this children line. My little Diva and my newest baby will Bling in new and hip style thanks to Pimpfants.
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