Girls' Halloween Costumes, Then And Now

[vampsterdam]

www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/sexy-halloween-costumes-for-girls_n_2011943.html#slide=1644285


I don't have kids, so I don't know if they just found the most ridiculous costumes possible to make a point, but I still found it interesting.

[BillyJoelLover]

I've been saying clothing in general, but including costumes are becoming more and more skanky. I was flamed for 10 pages over it.

[wrathofkuus]

I was just looking for a Halloween costume a week ago for the first time in a good 20 years, and I was shocked and appalled at what was available for women, let alone girls. Adult Mart would be ashamed to sell outfits that tasteless.

[Deleted]

Baaaaaaarf.

I want to wrap DD up in a blanket of 1945.

I cannot stand how every cheap little girl's costume now has a fake corset top.

[dowagercountess]

Eh. The other side of that is that the costumes look a lot different in home pics than in styled front of package pics.

[angelaa73]

I have been to a zillion fall festivals this month and nobody dresses their kids up that hoesome

All the costumes here are super tame and cute. Not a jonbenet getup in sight

[peppermint08]

It is not only costumes it is clothes in general. Over the summer I had to find a dress for my 13 year old. It was hard to find a dress that didn't show boob crack or her behind when she bent over.

Everytime I take her shopping I am mortified with how much a prude I have turned into.

[papie]

The whorish costumes are what you find in the stores. We usually try to find the ones that cover the most, and add a winter jacket and pants underneath, which kills the skanky factor pretty quick.

The difference in the 80s is that most moms made the costumes. Now, except for a few super awesome moms like frkls, who has time for that shit? My mom would have bought the whorish premade costumes too if they existed then. Instead the premade costumes consisted of a plastic bag and a plastic mask, so she made them. (Who remembers those??? lol)

[Deleted]

I'm more horrified by the link on that page:

www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/the-most-inappropriate-kids-halloween-costumes-photos_n_1967382.html?utm_hp_ref=parents&ir=Parents#slide=more254023

[gozf]

Boob crack?!?! Really?

[vampsterdam]

Oct 26, 2012 15:10:27 GMT -5 papie said:

The difference in the 80s is that most moms made the costumes. Now, except for a few super awesome moms like frkls, who has time for that shit? My mom would have bought the whorish premade costumes too if they existed then. Instead the premade costumes consisted of a plastic bag and a plastic mask, so she made them. (Who remembers those??? lol)

Yes! I was just talking about this with a co-worker! It would be a Barbie costume, with a logo on the smock. Then you add the super scary plastic mask. Hah.

[vampsterdam]

Oct 26, 2012 15:16:55 GMT -5 papiercherri said:

I'm more horrified by the link on that page:

www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/the-most-inappropriate-kids-halloween-costumes-photos_n_1967382.html?utm_hp_ref=parents&ir=Parents#slide=more254023

Omg. I can't pip, but the BABY as a hooters girl with fake boobs! Whyyyy.

[pirate]

Oct 26, 2012 15:10:27 GMT -5 papie said:

The difference in the 80s is that most moms made the costumes. Now, except for a few super awesome moms like frkls, who has time for that shit? My mom would have bought the whorish premade costumes too if they existed then. Instead the premade costumes consisted of a plastic bag and a plastic mask, so she made them. (Who remembers those??? lol)

Oooh I do! I was an awful looking my little pony when I was 4, lol. (side note, I'm also a my little pony this year, haha)

[jaylea]

L wanted to be a devil this year. Then we looked at the costumes. Now, I know I can make her one, but the ones in the store were so inappropriate she opted to be a vampire instead. Awful!

[Deleted]

Oct 26, 2012 15:16:55 GMT -5 papiercherri said:

I'm more horrified by the link on that page:

www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/the-most-inappropriate-kids-halloween-costumes-photos_n_1967382.html?utm_hp_ref=parents&ir=Parents#slide=more254023

OMG I literally LOLed at the Mister T costume.

[peppermint08]

Oct 26, 2012 15:19:21 GMT -5 gozf said:

Boob crack?!?! Really?

That is what I heard it called once & it stuck with me.

I actually thought it was kinda funny.

[Deleted]

Speaking of inappropriate, wtf is up with this ad?

[gretchenindisguise]

I think they purposely found the most demure 80s pics and the most whore-ish 2012 pics they could find. We've also been out a bit and haven't seen anything scandalous yet.

[gretchenindisguise]

I can see her cleavage panicfoot!!

[housegeek]

That one makes me laugh Panic. The baby stripper made me

[speckledfrog]

Oct 26, 2012 15:53:50 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

I can see her cleavage panicfoot!!

Not to mention the cock and balls on her forehead.

[birdistheword]

I'm confused about what the "balls" on that elephant costume are actually supposed to be...

[angelaa73]

Omg I busted out laughing at your post panicfoot

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[julesf84]

The cheerleader one was the worst!!! WTF! I'm going to have nightmares of that kid.

[EloiseWeenie]

Oct 26, 2012 15:10:27 GMT -5 papie said:

The difference in the 80s is that most moms made the costumes. Now, except for a few super awesome moms like frkls, who has time for that shit? Instead the premade costumes consisted of a plastic bag and a plastic mask, so she made them. (Who remembers those??? lol)

My mom and I were just talking about those crappy bag/mask 80s costumes this week! My son begged me to be a bat, so I made his costume, and mom said how she used to love making ours, and never wanted us to wear those icky plastic masks. Then she told me that her grandmother used to tell her that store-bought costumes were for poor people People born in the 1880s said some crazy stuff.