I currently work at Party City here in Oshkosh. Since Halloween is right around the corner, we are selling a boat load of costumes to young toddlers and children to adult males and females. Halloween is getting to be more sexualized than ever. I was looking at our "picture wall" which is a wall that has all of our costumes pictured. Mens costumes start on the right, then goes left to women, then left to teens, then left to girls, then boys, then toddlers and infants. I hear quite a few little girls ask to be a cop because they see the pictures of the female cop costumes which are VERY revealing! There mothers try to find something that suits their child better but still the costumes are getting more and more skimpy by the year even for the younger girls.
There is this one collection of "Monster High" costumes for girls. The costumes are for the most part sleeveless, short cut, thigh high tights, and low cut. These sorts of costumes are setting our future women to believe that it is alright to dress like this and parade around the streets wearing literally half of their normal wardrobe.
Halloween is supposed to be the time of year to dress up scary, not have your boobs hanging out and your hoohah almost showing. It is very degrading. How is it comfortable? I would be pulling the costume down to cover the downstairs region and trying to keep it up at the same time to cover my boobs. It just isn't right.
Growing up, when I went trick or treating I would obviously wear my costume which was usually an angel, a witch, a football player, or a pirate. Every year I was supposed to wear either a sweatshirt or a winter coat underneath because it is usually chilly out on Halloween night around 4-7 pm. Now there are more and more Halloween parties at schools and churches (atleast that is what my customers have been telling me) and the parents are letting there little girls run around with no winter coat or sweatshirt underneath their already skimpy outfits. This just blows my mind.
Do you think that the Halloween costumes are getting to be more revealing and sexualized for younger girls???
http://www.partycity.com/product/girls+spectra+vondergeist+costume+deluxe+-+monster+high.do?sortby=ourPicks&pp=60&size=all&navSet=110795
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to one of the costumes Party City sells. I think this outfit is not appropriate for young girls around the ages of 7-11. Maybe if it had a shall or cardigan over...
I agree that they have gotten skimpier throughout the years especially for the little ones. Someone needs to draw the line but who? Is it the sellers, parents who buy, or the children? Do these kids have older siblings were they are getting these ideas from. Like you said, it’s WISCONSIN, its cold! Put a jacket on. I just would have never thought to dress like those kids even now being an adult. Degrading!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree! My mom takes my younger sister to the thrift store to buy more appropriate items to make a costume. I would feel really uncomfortable with her wearing a lot of these costumes, especially the ones at Party City. It is super unnecessary.
ReplyDeleteHalloween is supposed to be scary, not sexy. Thankfully, my sister has stuck to that so far. Although I worry when her teen years hit since there is so much pressure to show your body and be sexy in middle and high school.