Babies in Stilettos? It’s Heelarious!
“Put on your high-heel sneakers, child/ Wear your wig-hat on your head/ Ya know you’re looking mighty fine, baby/ I’m pretty sure you’re gonna knock ’em dead.”
Tommy Tucker’s hit song resonated with fashion-conscious teenie boppers across America in 1964, but these days the height of infantile madness is “Heelarious.”
It’s high heels for babies. And in the two weeks since they hit the market, the shoes are selling like “wildfire” in 22 US states and overseas, according to co-creators Britta Bacon and Hayden Porter.
The soft shoe is actually a bootie that comes in five styles, each with a name: “Brooke” is a leopard print, “Elle” is pink, “Kate” is black satin, “Kayla” is zebra satin, “She’s a Little Lady” is black patent leather and “Sophie” is hot pink satin.
“They’re not for any other reason in the whole world than for the child you don’t know what to give to,” said Helen Wright, owner of Pitti Bimi, one of her three high-end children’s stores in Deal, N.J.
“It’s for the cool, trendier mom, the city mom,” she told ABCNEWS.com. “It’s not pedestrian
