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Gotta Get Suri’s Shirt! Parents Spend Time Trying to Dress Their Kids Like Celebrity Babies
It can be hard enough for juggling parents to shop for themselves and find appropriate styles. But some moms actually spend time finding the latest celebrity fashions for their kids.
According to this WSJ article, the desire for parents to dress to their tots like Shiloh Jolie-Pitt or Suri Cruise has created a cottage industry. The site Celebrity-Babies.com posts photographs of celebrities and their babies, and tells fans what the babies are wearing, with links to stores where the clothes can be purchased.
Who actually does this? Plenty of parents, apparently. Celebrity-Babies.com gets 10 million page views a month. And the owner of the Manhattan baby boutique was mystified last summer when 16 red T-shirts by the brand Harajuku Lovers flew out of her store in a few hours. Turns out customers wanted the shirts - and only in red - because that’s what 3-year-old Zahara Jolie-Pitt was photographed wearing.
I figured parents had to contend only with their tweens and teens badgering them for the latest styles worn by classmates or Hannah Montana. But according to the article, it seems there’s a growing, subtle pressure to deck out toddlers and infants in the latest fashions as well.
Still, some rebel against the trend. Amy Hebert, a 33-year-old human-resources executive from Brooklyn, N.Y., dresses her 2½-year-old daughter, Hailey, either in hand-me-downs or in the latest from Wal-Mart and Kohl’s. “She says she’d rather have a college fund for Hailey than … compete with the more fashion-forward tots in her neighborhood.”
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