and while the models are adults, this page pops up for Teen Halloween Costumes
http://www.zoogstercostumes.com/landing/teenhalloween.php
Posted on 10/30/2007 12:23:43 PM PDT by Huntress
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."
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The article even stated that the girl attends a Catholic school.
Your consistency is admirable. Although if you celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25th, you are also paying homage to the pagan winter festivals too. It all depends on how far you want to go with it.
I couldnt believe some of the stuff I saw last year....maybe I should take pictures of the trollops this year....I walk the hood with my lil nephews.
My favorite costume as a kid was being a ghost. Take an old sheet, cut holes for two eyes, nose and mouth and voila. Costume originale.
LOL
The picture of “Gabby” (at the linked story) looks adorable in her “Lady Juliette” costume. She also looks like she’s ready to say “Uh-uh! You ain’t making me go out lookin like this!”
Fortunately my kids were content with ghosts, goblins, and an occasional Disney character...
I agree.
Well, there is the rub... Many things we do today come from questionable roots. Who cares? What matters is what we do now, and where our hearts are now. If my daughter sees this as a chance to dress up like Alice in Wonderland and run around the neighborhood getting a bag of candy, then so be it. Just because it's Halloween doesn't mean we're in the back yard sacrificing an animal to some pagan god.
Next I'll get slammed for letting her dress as Alice, who was obviously contrived during an especially strange acid episode. Therefor, she is obviously promoting illegal drug use.
Now, as far as dressing like a little whore, that ain't gonna happen. That's in the here and now.
The prosti-tots are not paying for these things in their own money, so it is the parents’ job to monitor what their kids wear, and take the time to make a dang costume. What kind of brain-dead idiots can’t make a hobo outfit? Some of my kids best outfits were put together from thriftshop stuff, for gosh sake!
My in laws do, hubby and I don't.
You’re not the only one. The mystery to me is that so many who wear those outfits are more than a little overweight.
Actually, Thanksgiving IS Christian.
I'm from South Texas, and I do know why there is a hole in the top of Texas Stadium...
Ummm, I respectfully disagree. History and roots DO matter. You can't santize it away.
and while the models are adults, this page pops up for Teen Halloween Costumes
http://www.zoogstercostumes.com/landing/teenhalloween.php
******I’ve heard of that trend, too. Why the objection to Halloween per se?
Because, IMO, there’s nothing Christian about it.*******
You’re right. There’s nothing “Christian” about putting on a costume, using one’s creativity and imagination, acting silly and having fun together as a family with our friends and neighbors. That is for devil-worshipers.
1) Agreed. That's why we don't "celebrate" Halloween...my kids just dress like Disney characters or something, and get candy. We're not going to be the kind of parents that lock the shutters tight and make our kids be pariahs that don't Trick or Treat.
2) We use it as a chance to minister. I wrote up 8-1/2 x 11 fold up that I slip into the bag of any kid dressed scary or horrific that tells them that at my house they DID get candy, and also that God loves them for who they are and that they should aim higher than playing at evil. They may throw it out, but they may read it...and they know I didn't stiff them for candy, which would let them dismiss Christianity as being nose-in-the-air "I'm better than you."
3) Since my kids actually mix with other sinners (because, aren't we all?) they may have the chance to witness to others about "dark" costumes and a loving God who loves them. Everybody wins.
We used to dress in black and charcoal our faces and go as “the kid who just broke your window and now you’re having a heart attack trying to catch.”
Christmas trees aren’t pagan - they are, in fact, an anti-pagan tradition.
I guess you're right, guess I'll just have to go back to hating the Japanese and Germans like my grandparents did. I just can't sanitize it away...
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