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You have got to be kidding - OMG.  I just clicked the Bratz link and about vomited.  Thank god my girl came after the boys.  She gets to wear hand-me-down fireman/pirate/dinosaur costumes for the next several years.  When she has an opinion of her own I'll pray that she wants to do cool girl costumes like fortune teller, scary witch, Alice-in-Wonderland (but not whorish A-in-W, which I'm sure exists out there somewhere...)  Thanks for starting my day on the web with a jolt.  

In Sunday's paper was a flyer from Pary Town or similar, and my husband and I were appalled at the choices they had for young girls and teens.  The part that's even more upsetting is that they wouldn't keep making these outfits if parents weren't buying them.  What is up with parents?  I mean...

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This has been my dilemma for years, and it's one reason I save all my sewing angst for crafting the annual costume.  Fortunately my daughter has always wanted to be an animal, though this year she made her own costume as a Jedi knight (she's 7).  But the selections one can purchase make me want to simultaneously throw up and hug all those little girls who wear them.

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I just got back from one of those costume stores, and I was horrified to discover that there is actually a line of costumes called "Wicked Innocence," that seems to primarily sell slutty little-girl costumes. They all have super-short skirts, heavy makeup, and thigh-high stockings or boots. In size 10-12 and 12-14. Disgusting.

Amen! I was looking online for a cow costume for my almost-three-year-old, and saw just ridiculously sexualized girl costumes.  Fishnets, short skirts, etc. WHo buys these? Disgusting.

Sing it Sista!! Check out Hannah Montana...tho, they left her stripper pole in this picture, ay yi yi:

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Ok, the worst that I have ever seen is actually for a man....called Evil Gynecologist!! What a horrible and sick costume.

THANK YOU.  My daughter is 12 and it is just...horrifying.  She decided to be a "blinged out cowgirl" LOL So we bought a straw hat--she's going to decorate it with gems, and wear a horse tshirt and jeans.

She doesn't like those trashy costumes anyway.  I *might* let her do Goth if she were so inclined (she's not) but that's just because I think some of them are cool.

It just makes you wonder about the kind of parents who would buy this trash.

And that Hannah Montanna costume?  AWFUL! And not like HM at all.

maybe you hags should just accept that its a different generation

Rigid, controlling Mommy (me) has a rule that daughter can only be something from nature. As in some sort of animal. Last year a squirrel, this year an owl. The bigger question is how we have let Halloween become the new Christmas with it's endless products, decorations, special clothes, etc. It is a coup of marketing genius, but ruins what used to be a pretty innocent little minor holiday that actually required creativity...because way back when (the 70's) we made our costumes. And if it were a sheet for a ghost, so be it. Yes, I made the squirrel costume,  but bless Ebay for the Pottery Barn owl. And Atlas? If "different generation" means a generation of acetate-wearing tramps...then I'll fight it every year.

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This is why my girls are not even exposed to stores that sell costumes.  I find it all very disturbing and I think I'd have to gouge out any male's eyes looking at those costumes.  And are there moms who really think those things are acceptable?

I just wrote a similar type post on my site this morning. I have three kids (two girls and a boy). I make their costumes each year so as not to have to deal with innapropriate choices. My youngest (2) is going as a witch, and her costume consists of a black tutu over a pair of leggings with a long-sleeved shirt. My oldest (8) wants to be a snow princess - she's getting a white tutu over a pair of pink sweatpants and a jeweled long-sleeve shirt (with fairy wings and a crown). Aside from the sluttiness of those costumes pictured, they are impractical for cold Halloween nights in NY. My son wants to be a vampire - he only cares about the fake teeth.

I am so wiht you on this and agree with Melissa. Here in Ontario, Canada we do not always have the warmest Halloweens and when we went shopping for my 4 year-old daughter I was shocked at the pirate outfits where the shirt was hanging off the shoulers...It does not help either that my 4 year-old needs a larger size because she is so tall for her age and costumes are made so small...and I have found since we had to go to kid sizes the options were drastically reduced in what they can be...Thankfully there are some creative people out there who have tons have homemade alternatives and are willingly to share their ideas

i *hate* shopping (including regular clothes shopping) for my little girl - the clothes are too "sexy" for a 7 yo.  skirts (within reason) and shirts/blouses are okay, but the mid-driff tops and short mini skirts are a no-no.

if parents would stop buying it, then the manufacturers (sp?) would have to think twice about they clothes they peddle . . .

Atlas,

I'm sure this is what you were looking for by making that comment so here it is:

"You're an Idiot!"

Dude, it's no secret that Halloween has become (W)hore-o-ween for some time now (see "Mean Girls" movie, when they're referencing it in Disney-esce movies it's way mainstream) but to imply that the under girls the age of 7 have already decided to "slut it up" is beyond lame.  For starters it's their parents who are encouraging it; and the parents of kids in who are that young, generally range in age from Gen Xers to the slackers who are got knocked up in high school 7 years ago, so that would make them around say 25. Let's say ages 25-40, even 50.  You tell me, what generation do they all fit into?  

Don't get me wrong, if you want to slut it up and you're an adult go for it.  Well, go for it if you can pull it off, otherwise no one wants to see that.  But to call us "hags" or "out of touch" or whatever term you want to use because we think it's inappropriate for children to dress in a "sexy" manner?  I believe that makes you a very short step away from a having to registar as a sex offender. Honestly dude, you gross me out.

Even women's costumes are this way. What happened to Halloween being about fun, scary stuff? Now it's all about sexuality & men dressing like perverts. I went through a local seasonal halloween costume shop the other day and it was all slutty costumes for women (and girls) and bad gyno/proctologist/plastic surgeon joke costumes for guys. Really depressing and horribly unimaginative.

That about sums up the week here at the SD. You know you&#39;ve had the best. week. ever. when you take on all those ridiculous, stupid parents who dress their kids like door-to-door baby sluts and then, to top it all off, you find the most delicious

My little girl isn't allowed to play with Bratz.  I'm sick of the whore dolls and costumes, and even regular clothes meant for little girls, even little-little ones, like my 4yr old.

We went to Disney last month, and I could have puked.  Itty bitty girls in their VERY bare-midriffed Ariel costumes.  Preteen girls with their buttcheeks hanging out of their Daisy Dukes.  I even saw one girl wearing what looked like spandex hotpants.  These children were with their parents.  WTF?  

I was at a local arts and crafts fair a few weeks ago, and there was a dance competition on stage.  There were these girls, ages 10-16, dressed in those same hotpants (they look like hipster panties) and cut-off shirts.  Apparently, some of the girls were allowed to cut their own shirt, b/c some were cut clear up to "there".  I was shocked..  and grossed out.  Can you guess who was the most interested in this dance competition?  Older men.  There were all these men standing around watching this thing.  I wanted to puke.

Atlas is obviously offended because he/she dresses their daughter inappropriately to keep up with the whore-y times.

I work in a store that does HUGE business in Halloween, and all of us who work there are shocked by some of the costumes. We don't have Bratz or Hannah Montana, but the Barbie costumes for little girls are too slutty for me. And there's a line being marketed to tweens/ teens that is SO SLUTTY (impossibly short skirts, fishnets, major cleavage)... and they complain that "it's not sexy enough", and their parents just go along with it.

I was actually glad to find out that I'm having another boy because I won't have to deal with the sexification of little girls- we just have to teach them to respect women in a world that clearly doesn't.

Posted by Aaron Burgess Don&#39;t know about you, but in my family, trick-or-treating with the babies has always been a ploy to score extra candy for the rest of us, and with costumes like these, it&#39;s nice to know we no longer have to be subtle about

Personally, I find this entire article very disturbing. The skirts you are talking about are not too short- the Bratz costume skirt was at the knee, which is fine! You people must be oversheltering your kids- they will be exposed to this stuff anyway, and you dont seem to trust their sense of maturity at all! I feel very embarrassed for the young girl who is modeling the witch ballet costume- how would you feel, at THAT AGE, if someone called your costume SLUTTY? I'd be CRYING!! Do you people see what you're doing to these kids? These girls dont understand what their wearing, and how it is wrong- how dare you have such a perverted look on those costumes!!" Preteen girls with their buttcheeks hanging out of their Daisy Dukes.  I even saw one girl wearing what looked like spandex hotpants." Why were you looking at those parts of their costumes, anyway?  

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Amen brother!

I wrote about this exact same thing last year when getting a costume for my daughter. I literally wanted to throw-up seeing the crap costumes the sell for girls.

And it's WORSE for the tween and teenage set!!!

I wonder what kind of parents allow this? Moms DO NOT let your daughter's dress like that. You obviously do not understand how a teenage boys' mind works (it's 150% penis brainpower)

And those Dads allowing their daughter to dress like this should be arrested.

I agree.  I saw tiny padded bras in the elementary school size section at Kohls today.  That's just wrong.  

as a teenager myself, i think you're all overreacting.

halloween is the ONLY night, where a girl can be as skanky as she wants without people talking about them,

let your kids be a slut for one day,

it doesn't hurt them to feel sexy once in a while.

get some balls,

let her live a little,

you old hags.

In honor of the men and women who have managed to beat back the fires, rescue homes and many lives during the raging infernos that burned down here in Southern California this week – and also in honor of an impending evening of out-of-control children

Hey Samantha -- check back here in ten or fifteen years when you're an "old hag" yourself, and let us know if you want your thirteen-year-old daughter going out dressed like a skanky ho. Seriously.

In the meantime, have a skank-o-licious Halloween, parading around in your slutfit!

Apparently, lots of parents (and wicked hags?) are worried about this trend.  We've been getting a lot of traffic recently from Google searches with search words like "feminist Halloween outfits kids" and the like.  So I tried to think of some good outfits that people could pull together themselves (because, really, for me half the Halloween fun is robbed if I can't go through the creative process of inventing my costume from scratch).  I came up with Hermione, Marie Curie, Amelia Earhart, Billie Holiday, and Janis Joplin.  I feel like I need to come up with some more ideas, though.  

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O.K. I don't think that Samantha put it the correct framing, but I agree with her sentiment--it's a COSTUME folks.  First, probably if parents helped their kids make their costumes and quit buying this stuff, it would go away 'cause there would be no $$ in making and marketing it.  Second, I doubt if any kid is going to be permanently warped if they go out Trick-or-Treating dressed as a Bratz character--my son dressed up as a girl one year and it didn't wreck him. Third (and, to me, most important) don't forget that if boys' brains are "150% penis brainpower" then the parents of said boys have a responsibility to teach their sons that dress is not an indication of a girls moral inclinations, any more than athletic shorts and no shirt are an indication of a boys.