Should a three year-old girl be wearing high heels?

Playing dress-up in ‘mummy’s’ high heels, three or four sizes too big, and tottering around the bedroom is one thing.

But actually going out in public in your own pair of heels when you’re three years old? Surely that is taking dressing-up a few inches too far, even for a celebrity toddler.

Yet, Suri Cruise, the world’s most famous tot, seems to be making a habit of her heels. The daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, who will be four next April, has twice been spotted on outings with her mother, wearing stack-heeled, T-bar shoes, with peep-toes. I suppose we should be grateful her toe nails weren’t painted bright red!

Katie Holmes has already responded to criticism from parenting groups, by telling Access Hollywood that the heels were not doing Suri any harm.