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Momversation Monday is back! Dana Loesch of Mamalogues.com ask have Halloween Costumes crossed the line.
I believe so.
Well look through your local Wal-Mart or stores, if you have a daughter your costumes choices are going to include: short skirts, fishnets, skimpy tops and tons of make-up.
Don't know why girls costume are so sexy looking.
If you look at the boys costumes they look like, well, costumes! Transformers, Superman, all of them consists of jumpsuits and masks.
When it comes to gory costumes, they make sense for Halloween. It's a holiday meant to blend into the spirits who come to haunt the living, that was how it started.Now I'm surprised some people do shove dollar bills in the girls costumes! Quit making our kids too sexy already!
No one should be wearing those costumes except for college size zero chicks who do keg stands at a fraternity party.
For my kids and living in Canada a good rule for them and myself is this:
If you can't put your costume over your winter gear, don't bother showing me! I'm just happy I can pick out their costumes for a little while longer!
Give me old fashioned costumes any day!
8 witnessing the mayhem:
Wow!
I don't have children..so I had NO idea!
Umm. nope. Would not want my daughter wearing that.
My husband would flip out!
I hear ya! Those girl costumes are awful! But then again if you see some of the regular clothes out there for that age then it comes as no surprise. Let our children be children, they grow up fast enough as it is!
I completely agree! While I do kind of boycott Halloween I have seen some of these. I find it kind of ironic that people allow their daughters to wear these kind of costumes (and similar clothes on a daily basis) and then dared to be SHOCKED when they come home pregnant at 16.
Things should change.
Great pot!
Boy look up to hero figures like Batman or Spiderman... Girls look up to Hannah Montana and Selena Gomez. These girls are teens and we have 7 year olds thinking they are Heros. I don't know but these girls need a better model to look up to. Kids are so hard on themselves these days. It really is sad!!! Someone can be a hero because they have a tv show and can sing. When I was a kid my hero was my Mom and my Grampie.
I think the second one is slutty, sure. But the first one's not inappropriate (that child has waay too much makeup on though) and I can't imagine an elementary-level child in the third but it's not like it's really short or anything so I could definitely see a preteen in it. It doesn't help that the stores always cake the girls in makeup too. I think costumes that look one way on the displays often actually fit much different when it comes down to it. I'll probably never sew a costume. I pretty much hate sewing, it's the one "womanly" trade I never had an interest in mastering... but, I think moms can find plenty of appropriate costumes to buy out there, you just have to be a little more choosy and if you think it's slutty, don't put your kid in it. :)
my husband and i always say when the girls get that age, they will not be wearing those "hooka clothes"
right now they have cute stuff that is still below the knee for their halloween costumes, so that is good.
save those outfits for adults...not kids, they did take this too far i think.
I was that college girl wearing those costumes and doing keg stands, and lemme tell ya, they shouldn't be wearing them either!
There is so much pressure on everyone to be beautiful, to be sexy--even young girls. And costumes like these are doing nothing to discourage that. Its very upsetting.
All I gotta say is, let my daughter try... oooh. Hell no. I was that girl, my daughter wont be.
This is shocking, yet it is comforting that good parents are outraged about this and want this to stop! I think the solution begins with fathers who should teach their daughters love and respect has nothing to do with being provocative.
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