Preteens Trading Fairy Wands for Fishnets

by Brian A Kennedy | October 30, 2007 at 08:06 am
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Ick! Modern society. And Ick! I feel bad just reading this -- a Washington Post article (of questionable news value and taste) about how preteens are turning more and more to "sexy" Halloween costumes.

Actually, come to think of it, I'm getting tired of the whole porny angle for Halloween costumes in general. The next time somebody tells me "I'm going to be a sexy cat!!!!" for All Hallow's Eve I'm going to give up on the holiday entirely.

Gabby Cirenza wanted to be a referee for Halloween. The outfit she liked had a micro-mini black skirt and a form-fitting black and white-striped spandex top held together with black laces running up the flesh-exposing sides. She looked admiringly at the thigh-high black go-go boots that could be bought as an accessory. And she thought the little bunny on the chest was cute.

"Absolutely not," said her mother, Cheryl. "That is so not happening."
   
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Gabby Cirenza, 11, of Alexandria wound up as Lady Juliette after her mother vetoed several racier costumes.

Gabby is 11.

And the Playboy Racy Referee costume was only the latest that her mother had vetoed one pre-Halloween-crazed afternoon at Party City in Baileys Crossroads as too skimpy, too revealing, too suggestive .

Bawdy Halloween costumes, however, have become the season's hottest sellers in recent years. Not just for women, but for girls, too. And parents such as Cirenza don't like it.

Gabby eyed the Sexy Super Girl but decided against it. A friend at her Catholic school had worn that costume for a Halloween parade and pulled the already short miniskirt way up to cover her tummy. "That didn't look very good." But Gabby did like the Aqua Fairy, a vampy get-up with a black ripped-up skirt, black fishnet tights and blue bustier that comes in medium, large and preteen. A medium fits a child of 8.

No.

How about the Funky Punk Pirate Pre-Teen, with an off-the-shoulder blouse and bare midriff?

No.

Gabby pointed to the Fairy-Licious Purrrfect Kitty Pre-Teen, which, according to the package, includes a "pink and black dress with lace front bodice and sassy jagged skirt with tail. . . . Wings require some assembly."

Cheryl Cirenza shook her head in exasperated disbelief. "This is all so inappropriate. It's really disturbing," she said, eyeing a wall of such girl and preteen costumes as Major Flirt in army green, the bellybutton-baring Devilicious and a sassy, miniskirted French Maid, pink feather duster included. She'd just turned down her 13-year-old daughter's request for a Sexy Cop outfit. "When I was their age, I was a bunch of grapes."

But that was back in the days when Halloween was still a homemade kind of holiday, when an old sheet with eyeholes was a perfectly acceptable ghost and clumsily carved pumpkins on the front porch were about as elaborate as the decorations got. Now, Halloween is big business. Americans are expected to spend upwards of $5 billion this year on candy, ghoulish decorations and costumes. And the hottest trend in costumes, retailers say, is sexy. And young.
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at 09:47 on October 30th, 2007

Brian GOOD STUFF.  Thanks for bringing this up...it's important for parents to read.  Just read my latest Halloween horror and you'll see it is like a wildfire of herpes among today's youth.  I just had a taste of it myself and I was pretty humiliated. 

http://www.nowpublic.com/life/my-real-halloween-nightmare
 

I remember when I was a "pre-teen" at 11 and I went as a PUNK ROCKER, then at 12 as a "Cheerleader"...and an 80's one...not a slutty one.  I EVEN had a SWEATER!  OMG! 

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