Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Since Halloween is fast approaching my daughter and I have been pouring over magazines and internet sites trying to find the perfect costume. When looking at the costumes for girls, I'd say age ten and above, I've found a disturbing trend. Nearly all of them have skirts super short or low cut tops or have stomachs sticking out, etc. When you look at the teen girls costumes and women's they are ALL cleavage showing, underwear glimpsing costumes, what the heck!? That's offensive and annoying to me as a woman and a mother! Anyone else notice this?
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Look at these for a TEEN <a href="http://www.costumeexpress.com/Under-My-Spell-Child-Teen-Costume/38270/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.costumeexpress.com/...ail.aspx</a> <a href="http://www.costumeexpress.com/The-Cheshire-Cat-Child-Teen-Costume/60728/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.costumeexpress.com/...ail.aspx</a> <a href="http://www.costumeexpress.com/Skull-Fairy-Teen-Adult-Costume/31814/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.costumeexpress.com/...ail.aspx</a> <a href="http://www.costumeexpress.com/Angelicious-Light-up-Teen-Costume/68848/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.costumeexpress.com/...ail.aspx</a> I don't get it. Who is buying this stuff for their kids???
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance And these are just wrong... For PRE TEENS or younger <a href="http://www.costumeexpress.com/Dark-Angel-Pre-Teen-Teen-Costume/33891/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.costumeexpress.com/...ail.aspx</a> <a href="http://www.costumeexpress.com/Gothic-Ballerina-Child-Costume/70606/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.costumeexpress.com/...ail.aspx</a> <a href="http://www.costumeexpress.com/Born-Bad-Child-Teen-Costume/60672/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.costumeexpress.com/...ail.aspx</a> <a href="http://www.costumeexpress.com/Cheerless-Leader-Child-Costume/18594/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.costumeexpress.com/...ail.aspx</a> <a href="http://www.costumeexpress.com/Monster-Girl-Child-Costume/18595/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.costumeexpress.com/...ail.aspx</a>
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance OMG <a href="http://www.halloweenexpress.com/witch-teen-costume-p-2558.html" target="_blank">http://www.halloweenexpress.co...558.html</a>
Originally Posted By LadyKluck See, this is the main reason why I started making my own costumes the last couple of years. Especially since having kids. I certainly don't have the body for the skimpy costumes, and it's so dang expensive for such a small amount of fabric! LOL! I also think someone forgot to tell the costume manufacturers that Halloween is in OCTOBER not July! Oh and don't get me started on how much all these new costumes lack in creativity. I could do any of those costumes WAY better with stuff you can find at the thrift store! Those pre-teen costumes are just alllll kinds of wrong in my book! (Except maybe the Gothic ballerina - I want that for myself though! LOL!)
Originally Posted By LuLu Wait til you have to start buying teen/preteen CLOTHING! (I assume your kids are younger.) About 10 years ago I found myself objecting to lacy camisoles as appropriate daywear for teens and preteens. I mean, they look like underwear! But now it's ubiquitous. Good luck my dear!
Originally Posted By LuLu Oh yeah - those outfits just look like a sparklier version of what passes for school wear here. My latest objection is underwire bras for the preteen set. I mean, REALLY!?!
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance I know, it's usually so cold when they go out trick or treating that they need something underneath the costumes.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance What I find odd, is that there are almost quite literally ZERO costumes for teens that aren't trashy in some way. WHO IS BUYING THESE?!
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS Oh, it gets worse. I am a plus size gal. Those sexy (for lack of a better word) costumes are also all that's available for us plus size gals if we want to walk into a costume store to purchase instead of making our own costumes. Oh sure, they have Roman Goddess and Nun, but come on. Really? Who in their right mind, who is a size 18 or 20, is going to want to show their parts in those types of costumes? And who is going to want to see it? Not me, that's for sure! There has to be a middle ground out there for all ages and body types. That is why I always make my own costume.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance I was at Target yesterday and looked at their adult costumes, they probably had 20-30 of them, ONE or two of them was a non "sexy" costume.
Originally Posted By LuLu Sorry to inform you, CC, these costumes aren't for trick-or-treating. They're for attending indoor parties - and you don't even want to know what happens THERE! And it is strange that, as people get larger, clothing styles get smaller...
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance I was just thinking of that LuLu. Teens don't trick or treat, they party
Originally Posted By disney pete I have to agree with you ladies,i wear more clothes on the beach than some of these Teenagers where when they are out n about
Originally Posted By Labuda <a href="http://www.buycostumes.com/Gothic-Mummy-Child-Teen-Costume/38431/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.buycostumes.com/Got...ail.aspx</a> <a href="http://www.buycostumes.com/Skittles-Tank-Dress-Tween-Teen-Costume/69770/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.buycostumes.com/Ski...ail.aspx</a> <a href="http://www.buycostumes.com/Harlow-Quinn-Child-Teen-Costume/62788/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.buycostumes.com/Har...ail.aspx</a> <a href="http://www.buycostumes.com/Lil-Miss-Red-Teen-Costume/68866/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.buycostumes.com/Lil...ail.aspx</a> <a href="http://www.buycostumes.com/Emerald-Witch-Teen-Costume/62252/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.buycostumes.com/Eme...ail.aspx</a> <a href="http://www.buycostumes.com/Disney-Cruella-De-Vil-Teen-Costume/32940/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.buycostumes.com/Dis...ail.aspx</a> <a href="http://www.buycostumes.com/Spider-Girl-Child-Teen-Costume/60718/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.buycostumes.com/Spi...ail.aspx</a>
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Here is a neat costume for plus sized women <a href="http://www.mycheapcostume.com/pages-productinfo-product-1055/maleficent-witch-plus-adult-costume.html" target="_blank">http://www.mycheapcostume.com/...ume.html</a>
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 "Oh god, Underwire bras!? " Not just underwire but padded too. My stepdaughter brought home a bra her mom bought her and it is more padded than my bras. She is 10. I fail to see why a 10 year old should be trying to enhance assets she barely has. We have a constant struggle finding her age appropriate clothes. She is really tall (5') for her age so she has to buy size 1 in juniors and all I can say is that my mom would have killed me if I had tried to wear some of the clothes available for kids her age today. They also have thong underwear available in children's sizes...don't ask me why because no little girl I know is worried about panty lines.
