Convention Crashing

Check out Brendan Buhler: Consider the baby. Consider it as a fashion accessory.



An accessory infant has several advantages over nonbaby fashion items.



First, although it's considered rude or at least vapid to go up to people and demand they admire your purse or shoes, this is perfectly acceptable with a baby. Not only do people tolerate a proffered tot, they often welcome it. Indeed, total strangers will come up to you and admire your child.



Second, babies are not smart or strong enough to object to being dressed up. You can dress them in whatever silly sailor suit or born-tobe- bad T-shirt you want. Their only recourse is to spit up on it, and they were going to do that anyway.…