Posted on 09/29/2006 9:02:31 AM PDT by Pokey78
It's never too long before the latest craze to sweep America makes its way to the UK but most would wish this one really hadn't.
Celebrity wigs designed for babies up to nine months old and are set to hit the market, to the outrage of children's charities.
There's a Bob Marley style dreadlock wig, a Samuel L Jackson afro as seen in movie Pulp Fiction and a Donald Trump comb-over - perhaps for that mature look.
For the girls there's flowing pink locks based on singer Lil' Kim.
But Michelle Elliott of Kidscape said as well as unnecessary the wigs could be dangerous.
"This is ridiculous. Any parent who buys one of these wigs for their child needs their head examining."
Wigs are incredibly uncomfortable for a start. Babies are wonderful but dirty little things and the last thing they need is a wig."
The wigs are manufactured by California-based firm BabyToupee and cost £14.
The firm's website says its aim to "show that while parenting can be a great responsibility, it can also be a source of endless amusement."
Founder Graham Farrar said: "Having a baby doesn't mean you have to stop having fun or do everything by the book. We don' take ourselves or our products too seriously."
We've got a set of those fake dreds at my house.
More proof that too many people have too much much (that they earned) and not enough brains (to invest it).
Aren't these wigs very flammable?
That was my immediate thought also. Those Vanity Fair pictures did look like she was wearing a wig
I've never seen that in America, honey!
I have never seen a baby wearing a 'baby wig'. I will be sure to watch for one on Halloween...
What was with that?
Probably a stylish way of keeping their heads warm. Half the people who signed the Declaration of Independence wore wigs or little fur hats. There was no central heating remember!
Heating in July ???? With the doors secured it was said to be like an oven in the room where the Declaration of Independence was signed. Much of the time over 100 degrees.
BS. I've never seen a baby wearing such a thing -- not even babies of people who dress their pets in those stupid-looking sweaters.
Why would anybody need heating, central or otherwise, in JULY??
The poor Founders were probably roasting under those wigs.
I remember reading that lice was almost impossible to avoid, so those who could afford wigs would shave their heads to make it easier to get rid of.
What adorable faces those babies have.
This is just plain stupid and I would vocally laugh at dumb parents who did this to their child.
>>>When my daughter was a baby we put the Rastafarian wig on her and took photo's for our own amusement and her later embarrassment.....hee hee.>>>
Works FABULOUS as pre-teen blackmail.
>>>It's never too long before the latest craze to sweep America makes its way to the UK but most would wish this one really hadn't. >>>
What irks me is that they are claiming this is an AMERICAN CRAZE and I have never ever heard of it. Is this a pathetic attempt to make American people look stupid to the British people?
>>>That was my immediate thought also. Those Vanity Fair pictures did look like she was wearing a wig>>>
I thought that too!! I wondered if it bothered Tom Cruise that his child isn't perfect and added hair.
LOL!!!
(My theory is that, on some level, they realize that their ancestors were wolves and humans did this to them.)
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