designer baby shops in london and Rome?
Oct 31st, 2002, 06:51 PM
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Agree with liz. Who spends money on "designer" clothes for a 1-year-old? How crass and American. If you've got that kind of money to burn, send it to refugee children in Afghanistan. People like you make me sick...like your 1-year-old is going to appreciate a "designer" outfit...ugh!
Oct 31st, 2002, 07:44 PM
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With the cost of even one outfit you can partially put your daughter through college. Your daughter won't know the difference whether you bought her clothes from Burberry or WalMart, but you will know. And that way you want others to know you've been to Rome and London and just happened to pick up some designer outfits for your daughter.
Oct 31st, 2002, 08:25 PM
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Gosh, some here don't miss the chance of bashing others.<BR><BR>Dana, you'll find beautiful clothes for your daughter in Italy, and much less in England. There's a shop called La Cigogna ( there's a branch in London, but not as a nice, with a poorer selection selection, and more expensive). It's, if I'm not wrong, in Via Frattina, in the Piazza de Spagna. I have bought some very nice clothes to my grand daughter there, and at another store nearby La Cicogna.<BR><BR>Happy shopping!!!
Nov 1st, 2002, 10:46 AM
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Message to Ditto:<BR>I was born in Bergamo, Italy and moved to the US 15 years ago when I was 15. To say that buying and wearing designer clothes is a crass American custom shows how little you know about the world and its people. European and Asian men and women buy and wear designer clothing. It's not only the Americans that are keeping all those designer clothing shops throughtout Rome, Paris, London, etc. open and thriving! I'd also like to add that all the Americans I know are very kind and generous people who are always willing to help others. Do you know that there is an organization based in California that has been trying to help women and children in Afghanistan? It was established when the Taliban took over which was before 9/11. Or, Voices in the Wind, another US organization that is trying to help lift the sanctions against Iraq? These are just 2 examples, there are many, many more. Unfortunately, Americans are the victims of the stereotypes that were born from a few bad apples, just as in any society in the world.
Nov 1st, 2002, 11:34 AM
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Mariangela- Well Put!<BR>I have been to Europe several times to visit friends and several of them have taken the time to buy their children lovely clothes. Why do you even care?<BR><BR>I do not think it is any persons right to condemn another person for how they want to spend their money. <BR>
Nov 1st, 2002, 11:57 AM
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To xxx: people all over the world indulge themselves in designer clothing and luxury items as a means to reward themselves for their hard work. Sure there are some people who show off, but they live everywhere on the planet. You know these recent posts brought to mind an article that appeared in Newsweek magazine shortly after 9/11. There in brilliant color photos was a family in Kabul who had held what was being called an underground wedding for 2 young family members. They were dressed to the nines in beautiful outfits made from gorgeous fabrics and the food was flowing freely. The women all wore jewelry and make-up and the home where the photographs were taken had nice furnishings. Would this be considered crass behavior since so many of their own people were starving, being murdered, raped or tortured? All things are relative, and usually people (and countries) will act in their own best interests. It's crass to live in palaces and build designer weapons while your own people around you are starving and aren't free to think, say, or feel. My husband is in the techology field and as such we have had the opportunity to travel to many different countries. I never met a woman, or a man for that matter, that didn't want to dress themselves or their children in the finest clothes, live in a beautiful house, or drive the nicest car. It's human nature and it exists all over the world.
Nov 1st, 2002, 12:41 PM
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Excellent remarks from Mariangela and Candace. I live in Narita, Japan right now but I have also lived in Fort Lee, New Jersey when my father was sent to the US for several years. I loved it there. We had friends and family visiting us all the time. Back then no one went home without a suitcase full of designer clothes because they loved wearing them and because they were and still are ridiculously expensive in Japan. Calvin Klein jeans were a favorite. They weren't showoffs. They were so proud and excited! I remember some of the babies in the family wore these little teeny tiny designer jeans and sneakers that were so cute.
Nov 1st, 2002, 12:56 PM
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<BR>([email protected])<BR>([email protected])<BR><BR><BR> If I see this rightly, Dana wants to buy nice clothes for her daughter that will remind the parents of times in London and Rome, and will perhaps draw admiring comment from friends and neighbours. May I suggest clothes from London that re nice, will draw comment, but are not sold at designer prices ? The chain for these in London is Motherwear. They have a central store at 461 Oxford Street, near Marble Arch, and if Dana phones the head office on 01923 241000 she can learn of any store that may be near her hotel in London. Buying there, rather than in designer stores, will save the waste of money and the conspicuous consumption that worries several correspondents here. This is a thought on the helpful lines of Janie ([email protected]).<BR><BR>I agree with Mariangela that conspicuous consumption is not purely American. For example, it is an important trait of tribal chiefs in Nigeria, who have to be very fat, and it is the subject of ?lifestyle? pages of weekend colour supplements of broadsheet newspapers in London.<BR><BR>Now I become less placatory. Kay says she does not think it is any person s right to condemn another person for how they want to spend their money. Clearly she does not stand by that if the other wants to buy Thai children for prostitution, or to set up cock fights. She may well think that no one may condemn another who wants to spend money within the law. I agree: not condemn. But express sorrow and disagreement, surely. If another person spends money in a way that I find self-centred and wasteful I am entitled to say what I think. And vice-versa: those who thinks all cyclists should quit the road are entitled to tell me so, with due courtesy.<BR><BR>May the debate roll on.<BR><BR>Ben Haines, London<BR>
Nov 2nd, 2002, 07:21 AM
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Just because some of you can't afford designer clothing for your children doesn't mean you should bash those who can.<BR><BR>Everyone in my family wears only Baby Dior as a child. It is not that my mother and her mother wanted us to wear expensive clothes or clothes that demonstrated our wealth. It is simply that the stores they felt most comfortable shopping in basically only sold Baby Dior. So get over it!
