When did strollers become a status symbol?

[Anonymous]

They weren't in the Yuppie excesses of the 1980s - there were some that were more expensive and some cheaper, but basically a stroller was a stroller. Why are they now? Is it because of Sex in the City?

[Anonymous]

What happened on SATC and strollers?

[Anonymous]

Avid SATC watcher...there wasn't anything about strollers.

[Anonymous]

I thought SATC was about shoes

[Anonymous]

SATC was about SEX. Who had a stroller?!

[Anonymous]

they aren't

[Anonymous]

At least since 2002:

http://www.salon.com/2004/08/09/stroller/

[Anonymous]

I don't think they are anymore. I think there was a few years were they were because the press picked up on the issue, but that has passed.

It's like how BMW's went from a cool car, to the car of douche bags, to a car people stopped talking about.

[Anonymous]

Ever since they were invented, you silly. Affluent people have always been able to afford eye-catching gizmos, and human pettiness and jealousy does the rest.

[Anonymous]

That's not true. In the 80s, Yuppie parents may have bought more expensive strollers but they certainly weren't a status symbol or "cool."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's not true. In the 80s, Yuppie parents may have bought more expensive strollers but they certainly weren't a status symbol or "cool."

As a mother to a kid born in 99, I agree. The "baby product as status symbol" thing started with cribs in the later 90's. Suddenly you had cribs that came in odd shapes, or that had other furniture built in, or that converted to full sized bed. Then carseats became a status thing. Britax came on the market a few months after we bought our convertible and changed everything in the carseat market. Strollers got out of control in around 2003 when the Bugaboo Frog came onto the US market. Before that there were definitely nicer and less nice strollers, but the difference was in things like how easily they pushed or folded. They all looked more or less alike. The Frog changed all that.

[Anonymous]

Whenever the Bugaboo was unveiled.

[Anonymous]

I would guess 2002.

[Anonymous]

I think status strollers are over. People realized their $1000 Bugaboos and Orbit strollers were useless and ended up all buying Bobs anyway.

[Anonymous]

The Bugaboo seems like a really versital stroller.