What is the age limit for dressing up? Can an 11 year old girl wear a princess dress

[mattsdragon]

You aren't the only one... My older DD had the same reaction. I'm a bad DISer, I'm just going to fudge her age and pretend she's young enough if need be because this is something she's been talking about ever since the u/s revealed our youngest to be a girl. Older DD got a makeover at BBB for her 6th birthday trip and wants to take younger DD to do the same for her Disney (Land rather than World, because even I'm not crazy enough to do WDW in July) birthday, but older DD will be 13 then.

This is completely off topic, but it is a lesson in not just scanning, but actually reading for context.

I saw u/s and thought Universal Studios. Then I got confused when you started going on about how it revealed the sex of your younger daughter.

u/s = Ultra Sound in this context. Roger.

Back to your irregularly scheduled thread.

 

[fae]

Is it wrong that this has me upset? She is going to be devastated. She has been talking since her baby sis was born about going to the BBB together when she turned 3. She may be 15 but she just loves this kind of stuff.

Sorry back to the original topic.

My wonderful travel agent let me know that the Grand Floridian will do an updo with fairy dust/a tiara/any hair accessory you could want for adults. She suggested that upon learning that my best friend and I (22 and 21, respectively) are planning to do as many princess meals as possible during our trip.

EDIT: Also, older girls/women/men/anyone who would like to dress in a character-inspired way should check out disneybound.tumblr.com

 

[aznshents]

There are RULES and there are rules... it all comes down to the the interpretation of any given CM.

The RULE is that Guests 10 and over (aka an Adult ticket) shouldn't be in costume...

The rule was quoted earlier in this thread:
Adult costumes or clothing that can be viewed as representative of an actual Disney character.

In reality - if a Guest can be intertpretted as a Disney character (in costume & in looks) then they will be asked to change. Ultimately, Disney does not want Guests to stop and take photos or get autographs from other Guests. This invites interpretation that said Guest is employeed by Disney and then Disney becomes reposible for their words/actions.

The ironic thing with Tink is that she made it through half a day at Studios and no one said anything, it took someone at DAK to stop her. Back to the whole, Cast Member interpretation.

And technically this applies to non-Disney characters as well, just look at the Santa example from yesterday. If would just have declined taking photos and signing autographs he would have been fine.

This is absolutely correct. The way it works is that this policy exists so that Disney can use it IF things get out of control. If they have a situation where someone is dressed like Peter Pan but adamantly stating that they are not Peter Pan and refusing all autographs and pictures, they don't need to exercise the policy (Before anyone tries to debate me on this one, my friend has been through this situation personally and managers have physically confirmed to me that he didn't need to be addressed because it wasn't a problem). Can Disney have told him he needed to change? Yes. Did they need to? No. So they chose not to. It's the same principle for the new rule that it's against policy for big groups to chant loudly anymore (COUGH, BGTs) - sure, it's the POLICY, but Disney uses their discretion in exercising it if they need to IF it becomes a problem.

(However, mileage may vary. I was down at MNSSHP last year dressed as Quailman. For those of you unfamiliar with Quailman, he wears his underwear (tightie whities) over his pants, and it's a signature part of his outfit. I passed by a coordinator whom I used to work under and we did not like at all, and she stopped me and told me I needed to change, because [VERBATIM.] 'Your costume will cause little children to ask questions about sex.'

......................

She then directed me to the nearest bathroom. As someone who had just recently been a Cast Member, I had to call into question this coordinator's judgement, looped around to where the bathrooms were, passed a bathroom, and went back to Main Street looking for a leader/manager. I found one, asked him if he thought my costume was offensive and needed to be removed, and he adamantly insisted no. After all, Doug used to be owned by Disney, he said, this is a completely appropriate costume. When shared what the coordinator said to me he asked me her name and where she was when she told me that.... )

 

[mom2rtk]

You aren't the only one... My older DD had the same reaction. I'm a bad DISer, I'm just going to fudge her age and pretend she's young enough if need be because this is something she's been talking about ever since the u/s revealed our youngest to be a girl. Older DD got a makeover at BBB for her 6th birthday trip and wants to take younger DD to do the same for her Disney (Land rather than World, because even I'm not crazy enough to do WDW in July) birthday, but older DD will be 13 then.

I hope she has an awesome time. She's close enough to 6 I'm sure they won't even bat an eye.