What credit crunch?

Who says the days of bling are over? As long as you can buy a dummy that looks like a rapper's favourite tooth, there is still hope for conspicuous consumption. From the end of July godparents, grandparents and friends with a highly developed sense of irony can buy Elodie Detail's gold and silver edition dummies for £24.99.

http://www.elodiedetails.com/english/index.html

Comments

[supermother]

I don't believe in dummies. Dreadful things.

[Gipsy]

I'd say the child is about 18 months? I'm afraid to admit here that son still had his dummy until his third birthday. It wasn't something he had stuck in his mouth all the time. But it was a huge comforter for him. It wasn't something we used for an easy life. He got such a great deal of pleasure out of sucking on something - and he would have found anything to suck on. We decided it was better to use the dummy than have him sucking his thumb. He'd gone without the dummy for all his day time naps, and was only using it for his evening sleeps. We simply stopped replacing them, and when the last one got lost, he had to go without entirely. He's asked for it a few times, mostly when he's been a bit under the weather, but has been OK when we've explained that he doesn't need one anymore.

[j]

She's a bit old for a dummy, so it looks especially stupid. I agree that dummies are great when they are tiny and all they want to do is suck and all you want to do is sleep. I remember the strength of mind it took to chuck them out aged about 1 before they took over my life.

The bling style passes me by completely, I think it looks if anything even more stupid when you know they've paid a fortune to look like that.

[Jarrad]

1. What a horrible, gaudy thing this is. Surely the sort of people who want their children to resemble 50 Cent don't have £25 to throw around?

2. Whilst I appreciate the practical uses of dummies, I've never really liked the idea of them and always think that it's strange to use something to "plug up" a child's mouth, especially when they are learning to speak. Of course, I've never been woken by an infant in the early hours but it's always seemed an odd thing to do to me.

[M]

I think it looks like some cruel medical instrument, with those holes, and the odd idea of metal used on a pacifier. It's not glitzy at all, although I wouldn't want that either for my child.

LOL, J

[j]

Adorable little girl, though

[j]

either it is gold plate or it is crappy gold, for £24.99, it looks like something out of the back of the Argos catalogue. Either buy the gilr some proper jewels, or if you only have £24.99 get her some good books.

Actually the credit crunch is alive and well if £25 is meant to impress us.

[A South African]

What slave labour in South Africa? Working in a gold mine isn't a bundle of laughs I'm sure, but as far as I'm aware, slave labour it's not. South African gold companies have a reputation these days for being fairly progressive in terms of mining staff. Sure 100 years ago it was a disaster, but progress has been made.

I take it you don't have any gold jewellery then?

[lacewing]

man, when i have kids i'm going to spend my money on metals mined by slave labour in south africa with a detrimental effect on the environment rather than on their food, education and perhaps (DEAR GOD NO -SHE'S GOING TO SAY IT...SOMEBODY STOP HER) helping someone less fortumate than myself

dear lord some people are bloody selfish

[Ms Ferozi]

It must be the bling factor. Some parents need to show off no doubt, or maybe it is a souvenir of their child's formative years.
http://ferozi.blogspot.com

[Tara@From Dawn Till Dusk]

Good grief! Do these dummies come complete with a sat nav system built in for finding them, because they're going to end up down the back of the sofa, under the supermarket baked bean display or thrown into the middle of the road like the £2.99 ones you buy from Boots. Maybe you save them for 'best'