Aibu inappropriate Halloween costumes

[Lemonllama]

Am I alone in thinking some parents use Halloween dress up days to show how "cool" they are by dressing up their kids as inappropriate characters?

By inappropriate I mean characters off of TV shows and films that they have never seen. Just seen a 7 year old dressed up as a character with a bottle of wine and fag off a TV show that she hopefully has never heard of . I find it odd, won't the children have to explain all day who they are?

How is a 3 year old meant to tell people she is meant to be Mrs hinch or a politician ect . It's just for the parents clout and to post all over Facebook.

I think in America people dress up as anything and everything for Halloween not just spooky themed stuff.
We seem to be emulating their traditions now.

It's inappropriate but I've not seen it happen

I love your daughter and would like to be as individual and in touch with myself as she is. 💪

The costumes I hate the most are highly flammable plastic glitter dresses.

The Mrs Hinch ones drive me insane.

All so they can tag her in the photos and when she re-shares them the parents are like “oh god shes shared our so an so”. Social media’s warped peoples brains.

I admit I chose DS's costumes as he's non-verbal and autistic, so needs his sensory issues taken into account.
However, they are usually based around his interests (if I am able to buy or make something suitable) In, always age appropriate.

(He loves guising but wouldn't know what to dress up as or be able to communicate it)

It always bugs me that males get
Werewolf,
Clown,
Frankenstein,
Frankensteins Monster, Zombie etc etc

and females get
Sexy Witch
Sexy Zombie
Sexy Zombie Cheerleader
Sexy Scary Nurse
Sexy Werewolf
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Every outfit an opportunity for unnecessary sexualisation of the female form 🙄🙄🙄🙄

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Yes, in Canada and the States, you dress up for Halloween however you want which I think is the fun part because people can get creative with it. There are Halloween Costume Contests and it is usually one of the creative, handmade types that were often winners. I remember a classmate winning because she went as a bag of jelly beans in primary. She was pretty much wearing a clear plastic trash bag with different coloured balloons and a cardboard with thin string around her neck that hung around the middle with the brand name of the jellybeans in the front.

There’s only so many “scary” age-appropriate things you can be for Halloween as children.

Last year I friend of mine posted a pic of their 10 year old son dressed as jimmy saville and she thought it was hilarious. Wrong in every level just awful

Is there going to be any joy left soon? Jesus Christ half the costumes are already banned because of 'appropriation'.

Where's the joy in dressing as Jimmy Saville? Am I missing something? Very Daily Mail comment.

@SlashBeef you honestly think dressing a child as a man who sexually abused hundreds of children is ok? You need help

Where did @SlashBeef advocate for that? I think you need to read comments properly before you jump down posters throats.

excellent name @SlashBeef btw

My ex's daughter when she was ten had a Playboy bunny party. It was girls only and they all wore white leotards, bunny ears and a Pom Pom on their bottom and lots of themed playboy stuff. Gifts for the birthday girl included playboy bedding, playboy lampshade and lots of playboy themed clothing and accessories.

I kept my mouth shut but was saddened by it all.

Apologies @SlashBeef I'm an idiot. Jeez I need to go back to bed lol 🙈

😅 no worries!

Those were the days ! it was a case of using what ever was lying around and being creative (same for any fancy dress at any other time of the year). Black school leotard, black plimsoles and thick black tights, homemade ears (probably from a cereal box) attached to an Alice band and whiskers/nose drawn on using Mums eyeliner pencil. One leg of a pair of black tights stuffed with whatever and safety pinned to your backside as a tail ! Much more fun than ordering something from Amazon but not particularly "insta" worthy.

She sounds brilliant!!! And that's a perfectly acceptable dress up for a 5yo.

Unless the jar of sickle was smoking a fag and drinking wine? 🤣

YANBU. My 10yo DD asked if she could wear my Handmaid's Tale costume this Halloween. She's never read or seen THT, obviously. I said no because it's a character from a grown-up story and it would be inappropriate.

My 7 year old has never seen IT but she knows who Pennywise is from gaming YouTube videos were he is mentioned or featured etc. I watch them with her, she isn't scared by him in these videos, but knows that he is "scary" and eats children or whatever. She knows Ghostface from Scream, and Michael Meyers, despite not seeing the films. She wanted to be Ghostface this year I said no because it's not for children and people will think you've seen the films when you haven't 🤷‍♀️ so she's a scary version of an animal this year (making use of an old costume she used for a school play and adding scary face paint and blood, and an axe).

Gifts for the birthday girl included playboy bedding, playboy lampshade and lots of playboy themed clothing and accessories.

This takes me back to the 00s. I didn't have a themes birthday, but when I was 10/11 I had some Playboy rubbers in my pencil case, then got Playboy bedding, a Playboy school bag... There seemed to be lots of Playboy stuff marketed at kids. I had no idea what actual Playboy was, of course, I just liked the bunny! It was wholly innocent on my part, I liked black and pink and the patterns.

I went to a Halloween party at uni (early 2000s) and some guy was dressed up as Madeleine McCann…

i often wonder if that guy ever looks back and cringes at his utter crassness. Probably not.

I also remember the Playboy craze in about 2005-ish. Had no idea what it was until I was much older but the cool girls had Playboy pencil cases, notepads, folders, knickers (which were shown off while changing for PE!).