Are costumes for kids too revealing?

[binny]

Inspired by the Today show this morning.

They had a segment on whether or not store bought costumes for little kids are much too revealing.

their examples were a french maid outfit for a 4 year old and a witch with high heels and skimpy clothes for an 8 year old. outfits like these :

This comes in X Small so size 4-6

(this one comes in small which fits girls about age 6)







Given these examples I would say yes. Kids can dres up and have fun at Halloween but there is no way in heck my little girls are going out looking like THAT!


So what do you think?

Are some kids costumes too revealing?

 

[MushyMushy]

It only gets worse when they get into adolescence.

Maybe I'm old, but I remember when costumes came in a box with a plastic face mask and a plasticky one-piece outfit that tied around the neck.

 

[luvmy3]

Yes, definitley too revealing. My dd wanted to be a pirate (not the one pictured). She picked out a costume it is sleeveless, laced up at the chest and has fish net gloves and stockings. The skirt part comes just below her behind. She was allowed to get it, but not allowed to wear the fishnet stuff. I got her a long sleev black shirt and black leggings and that is what she is wearing under it.

 

[binny]

I remember those too, so if youre old we'll go down that road together.



I just cant believe that its ok to dress LITTLE girls in this sort of thing.

The last year I dressed up was in Jr High. I went as my homeroom teacher who was, shall we say, a little risque in her normal everyday dress. I put on way too much make up and wore fishnets. Hindsight being 20/20 it was very disrepectful but she didnt exactly inspire loyalty.

Even that wasnt too bad though I had a longer skirt than she normally wore and no heels.

 

[Tinkermommy]

Yes! I just went with my DD7 to pick hers out. I vetoed about 10 of them that were too revealing/trampy.

They had devil costumes that had bare midriffs, french maids, and "bad" or dark angels. Much too revealing and provocative for little girls.

She wanted to be Wednsday Addams, but I couldn't find one in stores and online they were all sold out, so she's a Spider Queen with a nice floor length, long-sleeved black dress!

 

[Robmom]

I was looking with my DD for a costume for her. All of the costumes are revealing for teens. She picked one costume, and she has to wear a shirt and leggings underneath it. She wanted to wear those thigh high stockings, and I said, NO WAY!!!

 

[mamamary]

It only gets worse when they get into adolescence.

Maybe I'm old, but I remember when costumes came in a box with a plastic face mask and a plasticky one-piece outfit that tied around the neck.

Too funny. I can recall that by the mouth there was only a little tiny slit. It was so hard to breath.

 

[binny]

Too funny. I can recall that by the mouth there was only a little tiny slit. It was so hard to breath.

oh yeah! I went as Casper once and my face got all sweaty yuck!

 

[allison443]

From the time my girls were little, I was a mean mom who never allowed a French maid costume-really, I just felt the whole concept of a French maid to be a sexualized one....sorry to any French domestic employees out there!
I did allow Jasmine with a long sleeve shirt covering the sleeves and stomach!!

At my dd's high school they allow the kids to dress up. No ethnic costumes, no cross-dressing, and no french maids allowed! Of course after last year they will have to add no alice in wonderland, no little bo peep, etc (some of those costumes were shocking)

I also didn't allow my dd to dress as a "gangsta" one year when some of her friends did

The kids costumes posted in the OP look like what they sell for teenagers! I think it's sad actually.

 

[allison443]

Maybe I'm old, but I remember when costumes came in a box with a plastic face mask and a plasticky one-piece outfit that tied around the neck.

Oh yeah, we thought those were the greatest!! Those plastic masks with the elastic around the head!

 

[robb01]

It certainly was difficult shopping with my daughter for a costume this year; I why they have to be so revealing, they are YOUNG girls after all

 

[VirtuallyMe]

This year the costumes do seem to be a little worse than they have in the past-

Luckily- my 4yo son wants to be a garbage man so he is just wearing whatever he has

My 10yo is wearing a poodle skirt we've had for several years-

My 16yo is wearing her own close with cat ears- (instant cat costume)- we did shop once and I kept telling her no, no, no- to several of the costumes she looked at- a few I might have allowed- as although they were going toward "sexy" they weren't trampy- except for the words written on them which made them really inappropriate.

Growing up- I was always jealous of the store bought costumes- we never got those plastic mask/plastic tie on costumes lol- mom wouldn't allow it- so we had to make our own.

Does anyone remember the ones that had the inflatable alien heads that you wore like a hat = the face was supposed to be painted green or whatever and was supposed to be safer than the masks.

 

[live4christp1]

We went to Boo in the Zoo weekend before last and they have a little costume contest for the kids. There were kids in DD's age group (5-6) dressed like that. I asked DH why would you want to dress your little girl like that?


Every year I ask DD what she wants to be for Halloween, she always says, "Cinderella"

 

[Laurabearz]

And shockingly the "smaller" the costume is the more it costs.

We are done buying costumes... Home Made All the way..

 

[All American]

It only gets worse when they get into adolescence.

Maybe I'm old, but I remember when costumes came in a box with a plastic face mask and a plasticky one-piece outfit that tied around the neck.

And we bought them at the grocery store. A whole aisle would have costumes and candy.

As for the costumes pictured, yeah. Those are pretty bad for kids. Lucky for me, my 4-year-old daughter is a tomboy and wants to be Robin from "Teen Titans" for Halloween. No thigh high boots there.

 

[binny]

I bought a Step 2 bench one year at a yard sale for $5. got it home and found that it was stuffed with costumes! many homemade and to last for years. There was a brides dress (gorgeous and homemade!), a spider witch, a homemade Aurora dress complete with beaded bodice, and many more. Until they outgrow those they know they get to choose anything out of the bench!

It must stink to be my kid I am too cheap and too modest to let them buy most of the costumes out there.

they seem quite content with these anyway.

 

[Stacerita]

I think costumes these days are way to skimy and revealing. Its shocking to see what parents allow their children to wear out in public. Too much showing is just too much.

Lucky for me, DD is very creative and always wants to make her own costume.

 

[TanyaLovesPooh]

We took our 10 yr. old DD to get a costume before we cruised so she could dress for pirate night. Of the 5 different pirate costumes for little girls we could only pick one (had to make modifications to it), the others were absolutely disgusting.

She wanted to be a pirate not a ..... well nevermind.

 

[It's A Happy Day]

It doesn't help when the parents are letting their kids wear these costumes either!

This was the costume on a 12-13yo girl this weekend at our local zoo and yes, I just HAD to take a picture because there were people I spoke to that wouldn't have believed it had I not had "proof"

 

[KirstenB]

Ugghh....our 10 yr old dd was that kid!!! I bought her costume at Target, and she didn't try it on until she got dressed for Trunk or Treat Saturday night. She wanted to be a girl vampire. Dh and I joked between ourselves that she was the "trampire"!! The costume was floor length in the back, but the front had a short skirt. It didn't look that short at the store, but ick, when she put it on!! I've bought her some tights to wear with it for Halloween. She's small for her age, so it was the size 8 costume. Lesson learned for next year, she'll be dressing like a nun!