Devil Grrl Child Costume
Halloween is a great time for kids to dress up and live out their fantasies and lately girls have been able to live out their dream of being really hot and sexy and naughty...Wha? Wha??!! Halloween costumes have gotten out of hand. Gather any group of parents and you'll quickly hear about how the choices of costumes have gone from witch and princess to sexy witch and pouty porn princess.
Outfits that are too short, too low-cut and too risque are being marketed to tween and teen girls at an alarming rate. Tween and teen girls still look to their parents to set the example on what is acceptable to wear and it's our responsibility to let them know that they can have fun and be accepted without channeling their non-existent inner sex kitten.
I mean let's face it, the sexing up of tween and teen girls has been happening for a while now and the fighting between parents and daughters about skirt lengths can only intensify when on Friday it was okay to look like a sexy wench but on Monday it's back to respectable school girl.
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Many of these costumes are no different than the adult version as seen here in the "Mad Hatter Tea Party Tween Costume" and the adult version.
Lucky Leprechaun Child Costume
Look to easy and cute make at home costumes like a witch, pop star, storybook character, etc. Making the costume together is a great way to spend quality time and give you peace of mind. One way to send a message to merchandisers about these unacceptable costumes, like the Lucky Leprechaun Child Costume to the left, is to leave them wear they belong - on the shelf.
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Yes, I have been looking for a medieval costume for my kids play and I am probably going to have to make one myself, they are all either Goth or revealing.
I really like the costumes i think that they are really cute
great story. i do like the leprechaun costume though i have to admit.
These costumes are awsome i am bying the devil one lol....
Here's the real Halloween Horror Show...I'm scared, very scared!
It definitely gets scary out there! My daughter is 4, and I've already to issue a flat-out ban on anything to do with the Bratz dolls, toss a hand-me-down cheerleader outfit that creeped me right out into the trash, and enforce a no-mini-skirts without pants underneath rule. Thanks for the article, Terreece!
gives new meaning to "trick or treat"
Julie - Ha!
Colin & Karen - right? I don't like this scary movie.
Terreece, I totally agree. Our culture has been sliding toward hyper-sexualizing young women and even little girls waaaaaay too early. Maybe some people think it's more about "equality" of the sexes, but I think the message is that's all that women are good for. Girls are encouraged to fantasize about being a tart, rather than a scientist or astronaut or explorer. Children should look like children, not like hookers.
What's wrong with a good old skeleton costume these days?
Again the call: Why can't we let the girls (and boys) be kids? Childhood is a really, really short time. The habits we create for them now, will last their lives, for most of them. Being pretty and sexy is very powerful, but it lasts a very short time in a girls'/woman's life. By that time she needs to have found her inner, lasting source of power. The sex comes naturally and too easily; they don't really need help perfecting this. The other power--wisdom, skills, and smarts--is hard to come by and needs parental nurturing to grow.
I think it is really funny and ironic that you are pointing out that these costumes are inappropriate, and you are advocating making the costume together as a path to quality time and peace of mind...yet you've included links so that people can click on any of the pictures to buy the costumes! LOL!
Good god, did you read my mind? I decided to be a pirate this year (I am from Somalia!), and went shopping for a costume. I went to 6 costume shops so far, and everything in the adult section was beyond "risqué"! I am a short 26 year old, so I decided maybe the kids section will work better. And what did I find there? a miniature version of the women's outfits. I have no kids, but for god’s sake who is buying this stuff? They wouldn’t be making them if there wasn't a demand. Just remember "risqué" clothes= risky behavior…so don’t complain when your 13 yearold comes home pregnant!
Ew. Just... ew...
What prudes! The only thing sexualized with these costumes is that the girls have make up. And what, short skirts are porn? All little girl outfits are now too hot because they show too much leg? You people are perverts.
So yes, the Tea party girl with the stockings is maybe a bit much, but I'm not sure how a devil girl is that much different than a ballet costume. It's not like the Pirate wench is showing any skin here. No, these girls maybe shouldn't have make up caked on, but parents can fix that. Little girls should't have to wear a sack on Halloween just because our culture is nervewracked about the hypersexualization of little girls. They shouldn't have to wear ankle length skirts until they're 20; let these girls wear their cute costumes; make your kid wear shorts or leggings under their costume if you're that concerned.
thats ridicolous how these kids dress like little whores, i can't believe there parents let them dress lyk dat!!!
Wow....
im shocked how parents let these little kids dress like this!! i agree with sabrina alot...
2 WORDS!!
SLUTTY COSTUMES!!!
Brian: I don't know if you have children (I'm guessing no), but I have a school-age daughter and I do not feel like a prude in saying that this trend--and it is a trend, a direction in which things are going--scares the hell out of me.
Sell whatever you want to adults, I say. Heroin junkie costumes complete with syringes, a dime bag, and a rape kit. I don't care. Adults are adults, able to make their own informed decisions. But let's not market sexual objectification to our children.
At the very least, those of us who are parents can take this author's advice and not be a part of this disturbing trend. Most parents will. I just wish all parents had their children's best interests in mind.
Brian: I don't know if you have children (I'm guessing no), but I have a school-age daughter and I do not feel like a prude in saying that this trend--and it is a trend, a direction in which things are going--scares the hell out of me.
Sell whatever you want to adults, I say. Heroin junkie costumes complete with syringes, a dime bag, and a rape kit. I don't care. Adults are adults, able to make their own informed decisions. But let's not market sexual objectification to our children.
At the very least, those of us who are parents can take this author's advice and not be a part of this disturbing trend. Most parents will. I just wish all parents had their children's best interests in mind.
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I had a neighbor in my old neighborhood who would have done this. In fact, the first day of kindergarten her daughter wore a skirt that almost showed her undies and knee high black boots with high heels. In kindergarten! There are parents out there who think these things are cool on their little girls. I think it is disgusting.
I completely agree! I just went through this with my daughter! I am shocked by what some of her friends are wearing as well!
The preoccupation with sex in the state of Oklahoma is unnatural. For us, who's mind isn't in the gutter, these are just costumes. Nothing more.
The preoccupation with sex in the state of Oklahoma is unnatural. For us, who's mind isn't in the gutter, these are just costumes. Nothing more.
Little girls will always like to dress up sexy and wear thier mommys make up, it's what they all like to do, and halloween is the one day out of the whole year they can dress up however they want and not get yelled at and now you're telling us to take that away from them?
this is so funny NOT
I still think Charlie Brown's "potato" costume is the most versatile, and least threatening, I've ever seen. Not sure why, as a culture, we need to put so much emphasis on that threat factor, however.It tends to breed more paranoia, in my opinion.
And yet, in favor of the potato,and with the way the economy is going, potatoes stand a pretty good chance of becoming pretty popular in the near future!
Thanks for posting this article. I hope that parents will take it seriously and remember that Halloween was intended as a time for fun and not fantasy.
http://happyhealthyhip.blogspot.com/2008/10/sexy-halloween-costumes.html
I saw on TV that the Playboy bunny costume is one of top 5 Halloween searches for pre-teen girls! this is true for the last 3 years - how sad is that?
Hey ellen,
this is your costume up there.
I agree 100% and am appalled that a site would do that. I have bought my kids costumes online for 4 years in a row from www.halloweenexpress.com and have never ran into anything inappropriate!
wow i cant belive that they would sell these costumes
I love them!! I wish i could have them! But hey i am only 10!
I think there fine and im 12 these hollowen 2009 im whereing a sexy rasberry girl and you know whut im going whit my frineds! and you know live like to the fullest! SO GO HAVE YOUR FRIST KISS I HAVENT BUT I WILL!
I DONT REALLY UNDERSTAND THE SEXY PART AND WHY WOULD PEOPLE WANT THERE KIDS 2 BE SEXY
The ones acting so self rightious here, are most likely having their kids showing a lot more skin then what these costumes do. They're just putting on a show/act, for oh, God forbid should someone even think that they would have their kids dress that way, even though they are. For it's got to be kept a secret you know. What a Joke you hypacrits are.
I think it is better when schools institute rules about not dressing up for Halloween. I have been at schools where they have a Halloween parade, and the kids walk all around the school in their costumes. Halloween becomes one big day of distraction and such. I think it would be best to just make rules where kids do not get to wear their costumes there. If they want to that is their choice.
As for the young girls wearing risque costumes, that has been going on since I was a kid in the late 1980's, so I am not surprised at all. Thankfully my parents never restricted what I read or watched, which helped me learn what the world was about, but not really wanting to act older than my age.
I saw kids dress up as hookers, and I did not even really understand what one was until a few months later. If your child wants to wear these costumes then be the parent and stop having a fight with them. What ever happened to making your own costumes? My mom did that, and if you as the parent start doing this when they are young, there will be no fights over the sexy costume thing.
I personally could care less if people wear those by the way, but if you set the standard in your house of making the costumes then there will never be a fight about this. If you do not like to sew than go to the thrift store and buy several costumes in advance. Give them to your young children and let them know these are your choices. You are the parent and have control here, and it does not have to be a negotiation process unless you want it to be.
My other point was if schools do not allow kids to wear costumes at Halloween than some of the excitement about the costume itself will simmer down. I think the costumes should be an after school thing, not a day time thing.
your grammar is terrible, and the message is misconstrued
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