stripes

On babies, that is. Baby clothes - and it doesn't matter much where they're from or what baby they're on - can really bring on the baby lust. I've done a fair amount of new baby gift shopping over the last decade or so, for my niece and nephew and for one of my first friends to have a baby a little over a year ago, and I just love buying baby clothes. It didn't really make me want to have a baby when I shopped for my nephew, who was born when I was just 19 years old, but with the newer babies in my life, I'm guaranteed a long bout of baby lust every time I go on a baby clothes shopping spree.

Anyway, I guess I haven't been shopping much lately, because I'm just now thinking to write about this, but Gap's recent holiday classics advertising campaign did me in today when I received their catalog in the mail (they even boast a striped Vespa, which of course does little for the baby lust, but still). I mean, everyone knows how irresistible a bundled-up winter-time baby can be, but who knew babies in stripes could be so adorable? Striped sweaters and pants, little pointy hats with pom-poms at the end...Amanda Peet's baby, in particular, is just too much.