from the wtf file

[the_siobhan]

I got a ad today from Birks. The spend-two-months-salary-on-a-glittery-rock Birks. I got on their mailing list somehow and cannot figure out how to get off the damn thing.

The ad was for their new Baby Collection.

I checked. They really do mean stuff for babies.

...

I have no words.

Comments

[shinysayyadina.livejournal.com]

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The jewelry reminds me of the Rennaisance or something, where you wore lots of your wealth; I remember that I had a silver cup as a present back in the day, but nothing as luxe as all that.

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

It all looked OK on the first page, the whole silver spoon/christening present/potential heirloom stuff, but OMG! baby diamond rings. Apart from the horrific prices, and other implications of this, what if the little mite swallowed it?

[artistatlarge.livejournal.com]

Word!

[rivka.livejournal.com]

It all looked OK on the first page, the whole silver spoon/christening present/potential heirloom stuff, but OMG! baby diamond rings.

Whoa! It's a good thing you said something, because I just looked at the first page and thought, "yeah, whatever." But... okay, jewelery for a baby at all is a stupid and crazy idea. Expensive jewelery for a baby? I am dumbfounded.

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing "D is for Diamond" and "my first diamond" at a jewellery trade show a couple of years ago and being utterly bewildered by it - so it seems that we did it first over in the UK (thought I'm sure we can blame the US) if that makes Siobhan feel any better.

Pierced ears on babies used to be a sign that their family was 'pikey' or 'council estate' e.g. cheap and trashy. Now it seems its a sign of being rich and stupid.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Here it seems to be a cultural thing. I see baby girls with pierced ears among a lot of South Asians.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

I'm told it's also a "welcome to the world, baby girl" gesture for Cubans and Puerto Ricans.

[missjanette.livejournal.com]

and italians.

i was late, i got mine done at 3. maybe bc i am only 1/4 italian.

(also, my puerto rican coworker told me puerto rican baby girls are born with their ears pierced. it's true. )

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was the rings and pendants that got me.

[intercitykitty.livejournal.com]

holy crap fester hat!!!
ahhhahah!

[mathochist.livejournal.com]

Well if you're going to strangle your baby with a necklace, you might as well do it in style. I guess.

[missjanette.livejournal.com]

dude. I have many 3 year old ppl who show up to school with quite a bit of gold jewelry. hi, your kid is 3. they spear themselves with mashed potatoes and fingerpaint, they certainly don't need to be rocking any gold chains. Also, they chew on the chains & i have to yell about how jewelry is not food.


augh.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

"Jewelery is not food!"

That's right up there with, "We do not sit on our friends."

At least gold is non-toxic. We'd be in trouble if there was social status attached to wearing pewter.

[missjanette.livejournal.com]

I have a long list of phrases I regularly say that I never thought I'd ever need to say. The new ones include "Stop licking your shirt", "any time you touch your body where there's a hole, you need to wash your hands" and "do not make the terrible noise at me, please use your words."

(also, that's "smear", not "spear")

[elusis.livejournal.com]

I was initially really confused because I thought you were using a shortened form of "Birkenstocks," and so I opened the link in another tab, finished going through that page of my friends list, and then ran across your link and was brought up short by a hefty dose of "WTF???"

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Me too!

Augh!

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I did the same as elusis and thought it was Birkenstocks. And, the christening items on the first page made me think "So? Does this mean Canadians don't give Christening gifts like that?" And then I saw the rings. Yes, WTF!