How old is too old to dress as a princess at WDW?

[JUJU814]

How old is too old to dress as a princess? When we were there a couple weeks ago, we saw 5 teenagers (two different days) all dressed up BBB, princess gown..the whole shebang. They had to have been at LEAST 13 on the first day..and the three we saw at the Norway lunch, I swear were even older. These were definitely adult size gowns.

My daughter thought one of them was Cinderella! LOL

I thought Disney had a policy about teens/adults dressed as the Princesses?

I hope the girls were having fun...it just seemed a little odd.

 

[3_disprincesses]

I agree - it does seem odd. I think girls that age having their hair and makeup done and even wearing a crown would be cute but all out gowns, that's too much.

 

[kevschickee]

13 or 14 doesn't seem too old to dress up I prob would even go to 16. Its all in good fun and hey they are at disney so why not?

 

[JackJack08]

Never too old.....

 

[taylor3297]

Never too old.....

I agree, please let them be kids!

 

[chrisw127]

It's sweet. Better that than going around acting and dressing 10 years older than they are.

 

[Mrs. Charming]

It's sweet. Better that than going around acting and dressing 10 years older than they are.

Agreed! I'd rather see teens dressed like Princess rather than hookers!

Yikes... I'm getting old!! I sound like a crotchety old lady... and I'm not even 30!

 

[AnastasiaTremaine]

Is this a serious question? Are you familiar with the idea (& the characters) of Disney World?!

Ditto to the last few posters; I think it's awesome that there are girls in their teens who are still into dressing up like princesses! How fun and sweet and of all the places in the world to get away with such unquestionably childish -and also completely harmless! - behavior, that's the place! More power to 'em - I can honestly say it would make me very happy to see other people, of any age, having such a good time.

When in rome...!!

 

[mickeymaker2003]

I believe the official Disney policy is kids under 10 can dress up in full costume.

 

[scottish mum]

It's sweet. Better that than going around acting and dressing 10 years older than they are.

couldn't agree more

 

[happymommy]

That does sound sweet. My DD never wanted to dress up there, and is a total tomboy. But what a memory for a young teen to do that, get all done up and dress up.

We adults wear our silly matching tee shirts and things - stuff we don't wear at home! It's fun to do things like that at Disney that you won't do anywhere else.

If they were too old according to Disney, I guess BBB wouldn't have done them up.

 

[JUJU814]

Agreed! I'd rather see teens dressed like Princess rather than hookers!

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good point!

 

[JUJU814]

Is this a serious question? Are you familiar with the idea (& the characters) of Disney World?!

Ditto to the last few posters; I think it's awesome that there are girls in their teens who are still into dressing up like princesses! How fun and sweet and of all the places in the world to get away with such unquestionably childish -and also completely harmless! - behavior, that's the place! More power to 'em - I can honestly say it would make me very happy to see other people, of any age, having such a good time.

When in rome...!!

yes, it is a serious question. Totally familiar with the idea of Disney!

It's just that when you have a bunch of adult looking girls (they can't help it, they're bodies are just grown up) going around in princess dresses, it can confuse the little little ones...hence Disney's policy.

I'm all for teens staying young and innocent, but I still think this is over the top.

 

[kevschickee]

yes, it is a serious question. Totally familiar with the idea of Disney!

It's just that when you have a bunch of adult looking girls (they can't help it, they're bodies are just grown up) going around in princess dresses, it can confuse the little little ones...hence Disney's policy.

I'm all for teens staying young and innocent, but I still think this is over the top.

I think you are taking it too far. They are kids not adults let them be

 

[polkadotsuitcase]

Disney really has a policy re: age limits and dressing up? I didn't know that! I didn't know you could really enforce something like that?

(Of course, I have no dog in this fight -- got little dudes, not princesses, and I'm not exactly the princess type myself! I just had never heard there was an official stance on non-little-kids dressing up.)

 

[kevschickee]

I say let the CMs worry about it and we stay out of it

 

[Sgt Mickey]

I think it is great. I can understand dinsey's policy but I would say it would be person to person I know when I was 17 I still looked like a 12 year old

 

[MrsSpratt]

Disney has a HUGE stance about non-children dressing up. Something along the lines of: If an adult has hair/make-up resembling a character, the adult cannot have on clothing resembling the characters; the only time non-children are ALLOWED to dress up is Pirate & Princess and MNSSHP - which is why I'll be going during MNSSHP! (Not this year.....sigh.)

The policies make sense: they are protecting their characters. There are VERY SPECIFIC guidelines in place for CM behavior while in costume, and Disney cannot control a 'characters" behavior if they are not a CM -make sense? AND they don't want there to be confusion as to who is a CM and who isn't, kwim?

OP: I would have been BEGGING my mother for BBB even at 12 or 13...and if there was a dress that fit, you could be sure I'd try to wear it!

As an adult, as much as I would love to run around the parks as a Princess, I understand it can be confusing to little ones, so I will find "princessey" sundresses when I go.

 

[princessmom29]

this policy is in place not only to protect characters, but to protect children as well. It would be sooo easy for someone to dress up as some disney character and convince a child to go with them, ect..Sad but true

 

[kevschickee]

Disney has a HUGE stance about non-children dressing up. Something along the lines of: If an adult has hair/make-up resembling a character, the adult cannot have on clothing resembling the characters; the only time non-children are ALLOWED to dress up is Pirate & Princess and MNSSHP - which is why I'll be going during MNSSHP! (Not this year.....sigh.)

The policies make sense: they are protecting their characters. There are VERY SPECIFIC guidelines in place for CM behavior while in costume, and Disney cannot control a 'characters" behavior if they are not a CM -make sense? AND they don't want there to be confusion as to who is a CM and who isn't, kwim?

OP: I would have been BEGGING my mother for BBB even at 12 or 13...and if there was a dress that fit, you could be sure I'd try to wear it!

As an adult, as much as I would love to run around the parks as a Princess, I understand it can be confusing to little ones, so I will find "princessey" sundresses when I go.

I agree with the adults not dressing up but 13 year olds IMO is just fine