i have no words to describe how disturbing i find this – high-heeled crib shoes:

i think i am doubly disturbed because before coming across that site, i was perusing the latest in tendon-atrophying, back-swaying, toe-pinching torture devices from christian louboutin. taken in isolation, i find the louboutin shoes visually interesting – the colors and shapes are striking, and there’s an obvious attention to both design detail and craftsmanship. but they’re essentially fetish wear.

louboutin’s shoes are the most sexualized examples of high heels – a very sexualized item of clothing to begin with – that i’ve seen in a long while. and that’s fine: if adult women want to strap into these and conjure up thoughts of everything from sexual prey to sexual dominants in the eyes of their beholders, so be it. and it’s not just louboutin’s shoes – most high heeled shoes do this, to greater or lesser degrees. but why on earth would we want to transfer those connotations to infants? that’s not “heelarious,” that’s pathological.