A bit tricky to match up to the latest line in babygrows, though... They are especially for babies up to six months old.

An inappropriate product , inappropriately named; I don't find anything funny about them.

Dressing a baby up in a pair of tiny stilettos isn't dinky - it's borderline kinky.

Why would you want to turn the very picture of innocence into a mini Pussycat Doll?

They were dreamed up by American "mom" Britta Bacon. She hit upon while walking to her daughter Kayla's fourth birthday party.

"I thought it would have been hilarious if I could have brought Kayla to a party in high heels when she was a baby," she trills.

Britta is exactly the type of woman who would think it amusing to deck a baby out in sexy shoes.

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I imagine that, between sales of her vulgar, high-heeled bootees, she's busy back-combing little Kayla's hair to the nines, slathering her in fake tan and entering her in a string of beauty pageants.

She's the US equivalent of EastEnders' chavvy mum Dawn. In fact, she'd be first in the queue for a pair; perfect for Summer, the baby with a face now resembling a pack of streaky bacon.

Heelarious - "her first high heels and only $35 a pair" -caused a worldwide outcry when they went on sale last week. Here in Britain, the NSPCC branded them "part of a worrying trend of inappropriate clothing being marketed at young children."

And if you think that's teetering on exaggeration, think on this: only three months ago Tesco was criticised for selling padded "bust-booster" bras for girls as young as seven next to a nice line in vests.

And two years ago, the supermarket had to take a pole-dancing kit for kids off the shelves after being accused of "destroying children's innocence".

The Peekaboo Pole-Dancing kit came complete with fake dollars to tuck inside a garter and the blurb: "Unleash the sex kitten inside... simply extend the Peekaboo pole inside the tube, slip on the sexy tunes and away you go!"

Asda recently got into trouble for selling black lacy underwear for nine-year-old girls. And other high street stores have had to stop selling G-strings and T-shirts emblazoned with rude logos designed to be worn by little girls.

In most of those cases, sensible, sane, outraged parents complained so loudly, the stores had to halt sales.

But tragically, there are plenty more naive parents who don't stop to think that sexy, pint-sized replicas of things originally designed for adults could be bad for their kids.

Dr Jean Kilbourne, the co-author of a forthcoming book So Sexy, So Soon: The Sexualisation Of Childhood, says: "You see these clothes everywhere, tight T-shirts for little girls saying 'So many boys, so little time', that sort of thing.

She's damned right.The marketing men are making monkeys as well as money out of parents. And only time will tell what they are also doing to our children.
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