Online - October 11, 2007

I Sue London

Sue London’s Infant Ballet Flats

The shoes go on. The baby giggles. The shoes somehow manage to come off in the produce department when your back is turned.

Cute, yes. But not while you’re frantically digging through the grapefruit.

What your playful progeny needs is footwear she actually wants to wear. Like the precious new shoes from Sue London Baby, mini versions of the ballet flats you’ve been wearing for years.

Made of Italian lambskin leather, the easy-to-wear slippers are easy to love. Which means the only reason she’d take them off would be to try out other colors. (Like mother, like daughter.)

But whether she chooses Flip (shimmery mint green), Lud (classic camel), Kiki (soft powder rose), or all of the above, consider this fair warning: Her footwear fanaticism will only grow from here.

It is, after all, a slippery slope.

Available online at suelondon.com.