When did Halloween costumes for teens become so completely inappropriate?
I’ve just been online looking for a Halloween costume for my teenaged daughter. I have a question for Moms everywhere. When did it become an awesome idea to dress your teen so inappropriately?
Every single tacky rayon costume that I came across is perfect– if you want to send your teen into the night as a harlot, trollop, vamp or hooker.
Don’t believe me? Try this. Google “Halloween costume teen girl”.
What comes up in the search will singe your hair. Pages and pages of website with costumes fit for a porn star. Everything from pizza to Pokemon characters are “sexy”.
Little Red Riding Hood in thigh boots?
Minnie Mouse looking like a high end call girl?
A “bad” cop with a night stick and thigh high stockings?
When did we decide that Halloween costumes for teen girls should be sexy?
Back in the day. Halloween costumes were easy. And harmless. You took one of your Dad’s old shirts, tied a red bandana to a stick, blacked out a tooth; voila! You were a Hobo! Every costume wasn’t sexualized. You colored a cardboard box, put in on and you were a TV. It was homemade. And get this. You could still look like a child.
I get it. Times have changed. But really people, are you going to send your daughter out trick or treating in a vinyl mini? Are you comfortable with your teen showing cleavage while searching for Skittles?
I’m not going to be all preachy, uptight mom. But even the Disney Princess costumes for teens look a wee bit tarty. I’m not a prude, but what the hell happened to hems that fell below the knee and didn’t require matching underwear?
I remember the costumes for little kids that we used to buy. Adorable kittens with black noses. Teeny tiny pirates. Onesies that looked like lions. Those days are gone. Long gone.
If you have boys, your choices are better. Every costume is covered in fake zombie blood but at least they don’t look like extras in a Ron Jeremy video.
I don’t know what costume I’m finally going to buy for my daughter. I’m hopeful that with enough searching I can find an outfit that isn’t made for a tarty, harlot, sexy, vampy, trollopy anything. Fingers crossed. That costume just might be out there. If not, we’re going hobo.
So please parents, be responsible. Be a parent. Enough with the Porn Star Halloween Costumes.
Are you horrified with the costumes for teens? What will your teen be wearing on Halloween?
xoxo-Rosie