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Trick-or-treating -- or turning tricks?
Trashy Halloween kiddie costumes -- from a slutty thigh- and chest- baring "French maid" [!] number to a skin- tight, mid- thigh "Major Trouble" skirt-and- shirt fatigues set -- have parents fuming.
"If girls get used to dressing like this,
they might want to become a whore after Halloween," howled Harlem mom Malinda Martinez, 33, who has a 6-year-old girl.
"They're far too grown up for kids."
The
marketing message is even more blatantly sexual. "The Navy ships won't want to leave the dock unless
this cute sailor girl is on board," reads one catalog entry for a teeny-weeny sailor costume in sizes that can fit a 4-year-old and sold by West 14th Street store Party City.
* A Goldilocks get-up suitable for a Penthouse party: clingy gingham lace-up peasant dress with a white petticoat "that's all grown up, and you can have your porridge and more."
* A pirate costume dubbed the "
High Seas Hottie" -- made in sizes to fit an 8-year-old.
* A
women-in-chains fantasy costume called "Convict Cutie" that features a
spandex dress and lace-up bodice.
* A "Devil Grrrl" costume for 10- to 14-year-olds that in cludes a flaming-red dress and tail, skanky fishnet hose and gloves and a tiny pitchfork. "This grrrl devil likes to get things heating up!" the packaging boasts.
(wenn's denn stimmt, und Reporter das nicht erfunden hat.)
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manh ... igdQRAOsyL
Und die Los Angeles Times berichtet in...
Sexy Halloween costumes . . . for little girls?
Little girls and their big sisters are being encouraged to get dressed up, in many cases,
like child prostitutes. Then, they wander the night judging and being judged by their friends as to how well they meet the provocative standard and begging for candy from strangers.
It can be very hard for parents to find an alternative to letting them do it, short of having a war in the family or making their kids miserable.
What's the most outlandish example out there that you've seen in this or recent years?
The sexy princess costumes,
sexy witch costumes seem to be most
ubiquitous and most dramatic. For girls 8 and up, the skirt will have
a big slit on one side. By the time girls are 12, the costumes are low cut. This year, the wigs and boots and makeup and all kinds of stuff to be grown up and sexy seem to have become part of every costume.
But kids are drawn to try out new personas, and Halloween has always been about imagining yourself transformed in some edgy, scary way. Is this any different?
...
Kids are trying to figure out from an early age, "
What does it mean to be a girl, or to be a boy?" They look at the most dramatic examples they can find to figure that out. Marketers are making it the most extreme they possibly can for that reason. Sexy is part of that marketing to girls -- just as macho and violent has become the way to market things to boys.
...
Say you go to a store with your 8-year-old and she's trying to get a sexy costume and you're insisting on something more wholesome. It's becoming a battle. You need to stop and ask, "What do you like about that costume?" She may say, "Jenny and Susie all have something like that and they'll think I'm a dork if I don't."
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/27 ... /he-sexy27
Na, also an dem, was ich finden kann, ist wohl nicht viel Sex dran:
http://www.buycostumes.com/Aladdin-Jasm ... etail.aspx#
was ist denn da schon dran:
http://collegecandy.com/2008/10/15/hall ... ever-wear/