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Halloween costumes for girls continue to be inappropriate: Would you let your child wear these?
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Noah Cyrus at the 16th Annual Dream Halloween
It happens every year, and this Halloween is no exception. Browse through costumes and you can't help but notice a disturbing trend when it comes to many of the choices girls have: The Halloween costumes are simply too revealing for young girls to wear! To bare skin or not to bare skin, that appears to be the question to consider when deciding what to dress up as. From Tinker Bell to Goldilocks, costumes for girls, tweens, and teens are nearly as sexy as costumes for grown women!
Halloween is the one day a year when kids, and adults, get to dress up and indulge themselves in fantasy. It's a tradition that we as parents participated in during our own childhood and our fond memories help fuel our desire to pass the experience on to our own children. When they're babies and toddlers, we have more control over their costumes. One year, your kiddo is a pumpkin, the next year she's a princess. The worry over whether her costume is sexualizing her doesn't begin to take effect until she's maybe seven or eight.
Suddenly, very few costumes are safe. Take a peek through the slideshow and see for yourself. There are costumes for witches, pirates, police officers, and fairies. Perhaps of the collected assortment, the most disturbing are the Goldilocks and police costumes, which are not only revealing but blatantly sexual. As a parent, would you feel comfortable sending your tween or teen out into the night wearing an outfit like that? Oh, and did you happen to notice the Pimp Daddy costume on the young boy? Sadly, it did not come with a matching prostitute outfit for the young girl in his life.
It doesn't help when young celebrities wear racy costumes to Hollywood Halloween events. Take Noah Cyrus, for instance. Miley's nine-year-old sister recently attended the 16th Annual Dream Halloween hosted by the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation. No, young Noah did not dress up like her big sister's alter ego, Hannah Montana. Instead, she donned some ridiculously short dress and knee high boots in an unrecognizable costume of some sort. Joining her at the event were Disney actresses Brittany Curran and Deana Texeira, who also wore barely there dresses in an attempt to look older and sexy. It's hard to argue against sexier costumes when their role models are out in force wearing them with obvious glee.
Of course with a few alterations many of these costumes can be made much more age-appropriate. Switch in a longer skirt, wear a long-sleeved shirt or t-shirt underneath, and use regular tights as opposed to fishnet stockings. That's not the point, though. We wouldn't encourage girls to be so scantily clad any other day, so why is it ok on Halloween?
Yes, it's a losing battle but nonetheless it shouldn't go unnoticed. Costume makers will continue to sell costumes that definitely don't need to be so risque (That means you, Alice in Wonderland!). Parents ultimately have control over what costume their child wears, and as long as mom and dad are happy with what walks out the door, that's all that matters.
What do you think about the tendency for kids' Halloween costumes to be so revealing and sexy? Does it bother you or do you think people need to stop being so uptight?
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