Strollerderby : burberry

How Do You Spell 'Burberry'?

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:30:00 GMT

It’s so much fun to hear language be manhandled by kids who are highly verbal but still preliterate. Their untrained ears find hilarious and creative sounds in words that we adults have memorized too well to really hear anymore.

When I was little, I used to think that the word “reconnoiter” was actually a phrase: wreck and order. Whenever my mom suggested that we reconnoiter a beach or a park, I thought we were going to trash the joint and then clean up after ourselves—which is, actually, pretty much what we did.

A four-year-old featured on today’s Kids Say the Cutest Things had a very sophisticated linguistic misunderstanding about her stuffed animal. Here’s how her mom or dad explained it: “My daughter has a bear that has a Burberry pattern scarf. The lady at the portrait studio asked what her bear was called and my 4 year old responded, ‘His name is BurBear, but I don't know what his last name is. It's starts with an E.’”

It makes so much sense that a four-year-old heard the “bear” in Burberry, while we adults only hear the cha-ching of the cash register.

Photo: http://myviewsmyideas-rubal.blogspot.com

Is Neiman Marcus "Just Kidding" - Or Are Those Prices For Real?

SunnyChanel — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:27:00 GMT

When I was kid, the designer names I knew and wore with pride were Carter’s, Garanimals and if I was feeling particularly stylish, Dittos. But these days kids are being plastered with adult designer labels at a very early age (case in point - Juicy Couture pacifiers). Babies are coming straight out of the womb and are going directly into the dressing room.

First I should confess that I find needless excess totally fascinating. (If you’re feeling randy, check out my posts about the most expensive kid’s , shoes, onesies, dresses and a $47,000 bed for Droolicious here, here, here and also here). Recent studies are reflecting that the rich are indeed getting richer. While the rest of the populous spent their back to school shopping budget on items from the sale rack at Target, Ross Dress for Less or hand-me-downs from a local thrift store, those who opt to light their cigars with $100 bills are spending $328 on a Juicy Couture faux fur jacket, $312 on Little Marc Jacobs boots and $545 for a Burberry rain coat, all available from the Neiman Marcus kid’s catalog “Just Kidding”. Yeah, and sadly they’re not kidding about those prices. They are very very real.

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Pussycat Dolls-Inspired Baby Wear

Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:35:00 GMT

Parenting is all about choices, choices about how we feed our kids, how we discipline our kids, and, of course, what our kids wear.

We can choose to dress our kids in 100% organic cotton clothing. We can choose baby designer duds from Burberry or Baby Phat. We can choose to scour thrift stores for treasures, or we can choose to adorn our children in clothing which calls to mind a group of pouty, fishnet-stocking-clad burlesque dancers. Dancers whose business managers decided could make gobs more money if they could parlay their "talents" into a hit single. A hit single containing an uplifting message for all women entitled "Dont Ya Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me?"

How better to expand their franchise than to tap into the Pussycat Mommy market and create a line of baby clothing inspired by the gartered group. (Or, inspire others to do it as the case may be here.) Yes, there are parents out there who will make the choice to put their kids in the clothing pictured. But that's okay. The world always needs more strippers and bartenders.