Pirate girls are "wenches". Princesses are wearing miniskirts and more makeup than the clowns. Tube tops, fishnets, poses straight out of the lingerie catalog.
Have costume companies gone too far? Are parents letting their children dress too provacatively for trick or treating?
(No I don't have children… just an observation after costume shopping)
The costumes trend I'm seeing is disgusting. I think it's way too far, and I was appalled at my daughter's school event last week, at the clothes these people let their daughters out in.
I can't figure out why they think it's okay – where they got so desensitized that the sexualization of our children no longer shocks them. All I can do is shake my head in confusion, and reinforce common sense and morals in to my child.
Add: I just read some of the other answers – in the catalogs that come to my house, and the stores here, there are sexy witches and skanky cheerleaders and vampires, and half-naked "rockstar" costumes in the kids sizes 6-12. I'm not buying this crap about them marketing to adults. We went round and round in this house for weeks choosing a costume that wasn't too short or too low-cut or too see-through, etc… these were all in a child's size EIGHT.
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yes they ahve gone to far!
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I personally think its wrong. What ever happened to the pumpkin and the ghost. Now we are looking for the slut and the pimp. Its just wrong
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yes! they are kids!!! they just going out to have fun ! not to find a boyfriend or even worst be provocative even to morbid adults (which are a lot out there on Halloween nights) protect your kid.
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I don't like children wearing anything sexy…save it for grown ups
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My kids won't be wearing that crap. They will be dressed as a cheerleader and an angel but neither looks "sexy". But I know what you mean. It's like shopping for toddler clothing and when that toddler gets older and graduates to "girls" clothing, most of them are trashy! GRRR!!
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mom of 2 girls 2 yrs and 4 yrs
I think that it is hard enough to protect children from molesters with normal clothes on.
I cannot stand to see young kids being exposed like this.
What is the point anyway? Let kids be kids.
It is no wonder that girls are now getting pregnant at 11 & 12.
Shame on the parent that allows and buys the customes for the kids.
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I think it's nauseating. We were at my grandmother's house last Halloween, and three "trick-or-treaters" came by, 15-16 yr olds dressed up in costumes that I'm pretty sure had to be purchased from a website that catered to strippers and men with fetishes.
I was mortified for them, and really ticked off that they were going around presenting themselves to houses and families dressed like that.
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Oh please dont bring this up. I have a teen daughter and a preteen daughter arguing with me saying that im bein unreasonable for making them wear tights, flats, and a long sleeve shirt under their costume (french maid for my teen, hippie [loaded with mesh] for my preteen). It isnt reasonable to wear that when you are walking around in most places in the cold.
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the Halloween stores have different section for adults, juniors and children. its not up to the costume companies to decide who can wear what thats strictly up to the parents. so do i think the companies have gone to far the answer to that is no, they market and sell there adult costumes. i personally bought from the adult section and went as a "sexy referee" to the bar this weekend. its up to the parents to supervise there children's costumes, and yes some of them let there kids go to far.
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*shrug* I hate to say it, but this is why I was always REALLY excited that our family knew how to sew.
Every year (but one- it was a horrid Halloween, anyway) we made our costumes. We were most creative, most fun, we could be what we wanted- not what the stores had, and… frankly, we were pretty darned sure that no one else would have our exact costumes.
One year my sister went as Columbo. A trench coat and a pretend cigar and there ya go.
I was an M&M once- Two circles of felt on cardboard with a big white M painted on the front and shoulder straps. Easy! Took less than an hour to make.
Even if you can't sew, you can be creative and make something. How about a big box- spray paint it white and paint a door on the front and put Tinfoil circles on the top. Cut out shoulder/arm holes– you're an oven!!
Think outside the box.
If you're not comfortable with what the stores have to offer your children THEN DON'T BUY FROM THERE!!! Go home, give a list of plausible costumes you can come up with from things around the house. And Make a costume!!! You don't need to be Martha Stewart to have a really cool homemade halloween costume.
And this way parents with "age appropriate" concerns, like yours, don't cave to the pressure of mass marketing.
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We cry out in horror when we read about pedophilia and child porn, yet we dress our children like the adults they aren't. Why is society so bent on taking their childhood away from them so fast? It's not cute or adorable. I think it's sick, and the people that do it are no better than the people who post children in lingerie on the internet. There is a subculture of undesirable people that they are catering to and they don't even know it.
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I've yet to see an actual "child" in a costume of this sort.
Most sights I've seen separate all costumes into groups, child, adult, sexy, etc. It's irresponsible of the parents to purchase these types of costumes. It's not the companies responsibility to refrain from making costumes that are inappropriate for children. Parents should take responsibility for their own actions if they are buying them for their children.
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never, they would not sell them if people were not buying them, like my husbands ex wife it is sickening
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The costumes trend I'm seeing is disgusting. I think it's way too far, and I was appalled at my daughter's school event last week, at the clothes these people let their daughters out in.
I can't figure out why they think it's okay – where they got so desensitized that the sexualization of our children no longer shocks them. All I can do is shake my head in confusion, and reinforce common sense and morals in to my child.
Add: I just read some of the other answers – in the catalogs that come to my house, and the stores here, there are sexy witches and skanky cheerleaders and vampires, and half-naked "rockstar" costumes in the kids sizes 6-12. I'm not buying this crap about them marketing to adults. We went round and round in this house for weeks choosing a costume that wasn't too short or too low-cut or too see-through, etc… these were all in a child's size EIGHT.
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http://www.a2zcostume.com/more/75409645-SWEETIE-VAMP-TODDLER/
Please note that this is a TODDLER costume, for heaven's sake!
I saw it at Walmart.
My husband calls that stuff pedophile bait. I agree.
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