Barney Choo, Manolo Boobah, Nine Wiggles, Elmo & Gabbana ... the newest frontier in "cry" fashion.

There is a new emerging fashion trend for babies --high heel crib shoes for girls. That's right: high heels for babies.

Two Seattle mothers, Britta Bacon and Hayden Porter, have created a new look for babies on the "crawlway" ... or should I say the "kittywalk?" These are little baby shoes with a heel that collapses if a baby attempts to stand on them. But, they are shaped like a heel. And they come in six styles: leopard satin, hot pink patent, black satin, zebra satin, black patent, and hot pink satin. Now, even the youngest girls can have a complete outfit. As we all know, no outfit is complete without the right shoes.

Heelarious is the line that makes these shoes. And at $35 a pair, your baby can have them. Many people have been upset by this newest development. They say that this has taken fashion too far. Do I agree? I don't know. Would I put my daughter in them? Hell no!

But taking these shoes out of the context of a baby wearing heels, and all that can imply, let's think about the overall message here. What is this? It is a way to get babies in the early mindset of thinking about looking good. Now, the burdens of beauty are falling at the babies' doorsteps. And why shouldn't it? Maybe heels are not the way to go, rather clothes for babies, in more than Easter colors, wouldn't be too bad of an idea. Baby fashions...... I like the idea.

Who knows ... high fashion for babies could produce the next Diana Vreeland, or Coco Chanel, or Anna Wintour. The game is getting to be for the younger and younger. If you want your child taking over the world, you have to get them on the right track earlier now than you used to. Nowadays, you don't have your teenage years to discover yourself ... who you are. By teenage years you should already know and be making plans for your future. Youth has responsibilities. And putting grown up shoes on a baby is just a subtle implication of that fact. Isn't it funny how fashion is always intertwined with the changing times? Every change in society's development has a fashion to it. Fashion really is everywhere.

I think the best way to wrap up this blog is just to say plainly that regardless of your feelings toward this trend, it is here. It is a reflection of the times we live in. Like it or love it people, babies can now strut the playpens looking better than most of you. The gauntlet has been thrown down. What are you gonna do about it?

Here's to style. Cheers!