€17k for baby ‘marked’ by elastic on designer pants

A 10-week-old child, whose thighs were allegedly scarred because of overly thick elastic in a baby pants, has been awarded more than €17,000 damages against designer label Ralph Lauren.

Fiona Crawford, counsel for five-year-old Amelia Duhy, told the Circuit Civil Court the pants were bought by a friend in Brown Thomas’s Dublin store for Amelia following her birth in April 2010.

It was while on holidays 10 weeks later with parents Julie and Robert Duhy, she was dressed in the new pink dress and pants combination — in which she became very agitated after several hours.