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Join now! You might also like. Most popular in Baby. See all in Community. See all in Getting Pregnant. See all in Pregnancy. See all in Life as a Parent. See all in Hindi. See all in Regional languages. See all in Video. Brazil Canada Germany UK. Cheaper prams soon entered the marketplace, enabling working-class parents to buy one, and by the s and 30s, prams had evolved from luxury to necessity.
Though the terms are often used interchangeably — and today many models function as both — broadly speaking, newborns lie prone in prams, and older infants sit in buggies, pushchairs or strollers.
How people moved around their cities and towns had changed — people went further to visit family or friends, or to the shops — and mothers recognised the ease that pushing a child offered. The buggy industry has always responded to wider changes in society. Through the s and 70s, cars became cheaper, and more parents needed a pram that could fit in the boot. It put most of the companies still manufacturing traditional prams out of business.
The next big innovation came in , when a marathon runner invented the first jogging buggy — a three-wheeled design that made it easier to take your baby on a run, capitalising on the 80s jogging craze. By the end of the century, babyhood had undergone an unprecedented commodification: parents had more money to spend on protecting and pampering their children, and there was an increasingly bewildering array of stuff to spend it on.
Many people were also becoming parents later in life, when their incomes had caught up with their tastes; they wanted the nursery to look as sophisticated as the rest of their home. Companies of every sort started focusing more on how a thing looked than solely how cheap it was to make. Design-focused baby gear companies surged into the marketplace, often furnished with similar origin stories: entrepreneurs, most of them new parents, saw baby gear as a wasteland of pink and blue plastic, and wanted better.
More and more women, taking care of children and pursuing careers for the first time, were unsure of how to navigate both work and motherhood, and companies saw an opportunity to sell them stuff that promised to make it easier. Equally transformative was the fact that by the late 90s and early s, significant numbers of men were pushing prams, carrying nappy bags and doing childcare.
Companies believed that this new male buyer expected better stuff — less bland, less infantile — than that which the previous female buyer was willing, or forced, to put up with. Designers, who were still mostly men, began to look anew at the practical and aesthetic challenges presented by the buggy, and realised that making a new model was no less exciting than designing a new car.
I nto this complex, gendered terrain rolled Bugaboo, with the explicit mission to appeal to modern sensibilities — and to the modern dad. Barenbrug, 53, is tall, lanky and energetic, with pale hair and pale eyes behind light-framed glasses. Buggies, he thought, were boring, ugly and impractical.
Fathers were uncomfortable pushing them, and most were too short for Dutch men anyway. According to a study, Dutch men are, on average, the tallest in the world. Even the most basic one needs to work both for the person pushing it and for the person who actually sits in it. Without exception, these passengers are erratic, intemperate and fragile. The buggy needs to offer substantial shock-absorption in order to minimise the risk of rattling the infant brain. It needs to have responsive brakes.
It needs to be difficult to tip over. It needs to have a safety harness that is easy to put on but hard to get out of. Anything in reach of the passenger needs to be non-toxic. In , Maclaren USA recalled 1m buggies after 12 children lost their fingertips in the folding hinge.
The predictable forces are fairly straightforward. Then there are the unexpected situations, like getting stuck in the closing doors of a train, or trying to get off a bus at rush hour with your shopping hanging off the back. But when Barenbrug first set about solving the problem of ugly buggies, none of this crossed his mind.
He asked an assistant to bring it in. The prototype looked unlike any other pushchair then on the market. It had an L-shaped seat with a small footrest, riding on a silver frame of bent metal. It had the ability to attach to a bike — this was the Netherlands, after all — and, with a flip of the handlebar, to switch to two wheels. In this position, you can go into the woods, into the mountains.
As a parent, it made me nervous. The seat was too angular and exposed, and there was no weather cover.
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