"I'm appalled," said Stacey Swiecicki, a Croton, N.Y., mother, who has a 1-year-old daughter. "It's one thing to buy Disney princess shoes, but never in a million years would I put my daughter in those shoes."
"You hear about all the back problems women have wearing heels, besides the sexual innuendo and not to mention JonBenet," said Swiecicki, a part-time fragrance representative.
But its creators say that misses the point.
"When you compare a baby shoe to an unsolved murder, when you are talking about kids in pageants, it's insulting to parents and insulting to us," said Bacon, whose clients are "men, women, teen-age girls, grandparents and uncles who buy them for layette gifts."
Besides, she claims, high heels get a bad rap and are "not just for strippers