My daughter wants to be yet another
Disney princess this Halloween.
I am not thrilled about it (she is a
bit obsessed with princesses), but it could be worse. For one thing,
I have a rather large collection of princess costumes given to me by
various family members and friends, so I neither had to pay for nor
make a costume. So YEAH! Also, the princess costumes we own pretty
much covers her from head to toe. Double YEAH!
Nevertheless, I am still starting to
worry about the age appropriateness of costumes, so much so, that I
am starting to dread Halloween (or sometimes wish I had a boy around
this time of year). Every year as I look down the aisles of
Halloween costumes, all I see are hemlines going up and necklines
going down (I also realize that I am becoming a prude). It almost
seems that children costumes go from fully covered and 'cute' for the
six and younger crowd and then jump right to skirts that barely cover
their thighs for the seven plus crowds – almost like for every
year, the skirt gets shorten by an inch. I understand that Halloween
is a time for dress up and to pretend to be someone or something you
are not, but I really do not want my five year old to play dress up
as some little lolita.
Even if I ignore the fact that I find a
lot of these costumes not age appropriate, these costumes, with
minimal amount of material, is highly impractical... most kids still
trick or treat. And where I live, it is bloody cold at the end of
October; who the hell wants to stop getting free candy to go home
because you are freezing your ass off? And, what is the point of
wearing a costume if you have to cover the entire thing up with a ski
jacket or risk hypothermia?
Yes, you can argue that I can always
make a more age appropriate costumes for my little one, and allow her
to help and to use her imagination. But I do not always have the
time, have no crafting skills whatsoever, and frankly, I am lazy...
So dear retailers and costume makers, I
am willing to give you my hard earned cash, but please have something
available that I would want to buy my little girl – something that
will allow her to still look like a little girl and not some tiny
twenty year old.
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