Tween costumes are scary for parents at least
Liz Atwood talks Halloween costumes this Tween Tuesday:
I love Halloween, but it seems like every year there’s an issue about the costumes.
My boys have always preferred the gruesome ones, so there’s always been the debate over how much blood and gore is acceptable. In addition, the 8-year-old is fascinated by weaponry, even though he knows fake guns and knives are not allowed in school. This year, he’s going as a Star Wars character for at least the third time because he’s permitted to carry a light saber.
Parents of girls might have it even worse given some of the raunchy costumes that are on the market. Party City’s ad for the Born Bad costume proclaims: “Naughty never looked so nice!” Or there’s the Miss Behaved costume complete with pink handcuffs.
As the New York Daily News reports, these sleezy costumes for tween girls are scary at least to the parents. While most of the boy costumes are more along the lines of action heroes and zombies, there is a Mac Daddy pimp costume for boys.
Are you and your tween battling over what costume is tasteful and appropriate this week?
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We went shopping for my daughter's costume this weekend at Party City. All of the female costumes looked like variations of stripper costumes. Most of them were way too revealing. Hooter girls uniforms cover more than these costumes.
Posted by: Joe | October 27, 2009 12:27 PM
ha! I noticed this a couple of years ago when as a petite twenty-something I bought a tween modelled/marketed police officer costume to wear. It centers around a very short police dress (that I wore bike shorts under), so I actually told people I was dressed as a 12-yr-old-dressed-as-a-sexy-cop. When my mother shops for regular clothes for grand-neices (~9 yrs old), she feels she has a hard time finding something that doesn't look "too mature."
Posted by: Heather | October 28, 2009 3:55 PM
I hear you - I took my kids to Party City the other night, and I couldn't believe the costumes for the tweens. Thankfully it was crowded, and we were only looking for accessories, so I used that as my excuse to move on. I saw a picture the other day of Miley Cyrus' 9 year old sister dressed up for Halloween - shocking!
Posted by: Chris | October 29, 2009 8:40 AM