Suri Cruise sporting a matching gold bag and high heels. Photograph: Reuters

FASHION DILEMMA

Is it OK to dress your child as a mini-me?

Fashion Statement found itself queueing behind a young lady in a high street fashion store the other day. This young lady was carrying a full basket of stylish attire, was dressed very fashionably in leggings and a boyfriend blazer, and was clutching a wallet full of £20 notes. She was also about seven years old. Fashion Statement reeled. When FS was seven, the height of fashion in her wardrobe was a purple velour Dash tracksuit.

According to a recent survey from Debenhams, parents spend more than £700 a year on their children’s wardrobes. The Daily Mail is blaming single asylum-seek … no, sorry, wrong article, the Daily Mail is blaming Suri Cruise and her ever-expanding designer wardrobe – apparently we all want our kids to look like her. Now Fashion Statement has a daughter, and over our dead body is she ever dressing in heels a la Suri until she’s at LEAST 25.

In our opinion, spending too much money on your children’s wardrobe has nothing to do with Suri Cruise and more to do with the fact that clothes in small sizes are just too cute to resist. Have you visitedwelovefrugi.com or been in BabyGap recently? We defy you not to coo. FS purchased BabyStatement the perfect spring denim smock dress in BabyGap this week, complete with adorable daisy embroidery on the hem. If adult clothes were that cute, we’d all be overspending and bringing about a huge recession. What? Oh… Continue reading