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 agree and hate all the inappropriate pop culture clothing too. No 6 year old needs a stranger things t shirt. I did put band t shirts on the kids when they were tiny, but consider that worthwhile as ds1 now loves guns n roses. I also accidentally sent ds2 to nursery in a red striped t shirt and fedora and only realised when I handed him over that he looked like Freddy Krueger.

She is a very creative creature, no idea where she gets it from. I wish I could be as individual as she is too!

16 now and still as creative and unique. She's going to a Halloween house party as Gene Wilder's young Frankenstein... But in black and white. As in she's painting herself greyscale, her whole outfit is greyscale, she's even got grey contacts and black dye to colour her teeth, gums and tongue greyscale. Mad.

The Branston will always be my favourite though.

"No 6 year old needs a stranger things t shirt. I did put band t shirts on the kids when they were tiny, but consider that worthwhile as ds1 now loves guns n roses."

There's zero difference. You're judging people for doing what you did. Fucking bizarre 🤣

I've just had a look through photos from a Halloween party last night and the kids were dressed as Spider-Man, a vampire, a zombie soldier, a Harry Potter, hermione, a ghost and a sparkly pumpkin dress. Personally I think most people dress their kids appropriately, I've not seen any kids with fags or Jimmy saviles running around

I remember a year or two ago being at a birthday party at a friend’s house around Halloween. There was a woman there with her son about 11. He was wearing a big pair of fake glasses and the mum said “yeah he’s really into Jeffrey Dahmer at the moment.” I was like wtf.

Not costume related but I am really shocked by some of the comments on the various online debates about under 15s not being allowed to watch Five Nights At Freddie's at the cinema. I've seen several parents declaring that their 10 year old (or similar) is obsessed with the Saw films and loves watching them.
Sorry but, wtf?!

I remember being around 8 or so and a friend of my DM and her partner dressed up on halloween as what my child brain thought at the time were "olden day clothes and wig" it wasn't until a few years later i remembered and mentioned it to my DM and she said that they were in fact dressed up as hindley and brady 🙄

Except there's rarely an age limit on music unless it contains explicit content. There's plenty of Guns N Roses you could pop on Alexa whilst the kids are having a dance to it. I wouldn't pop Stranger Things on whilst the kids are up.

Putting a Guns r Roses t-shirt on is different to me dressing DS in Peter Rabbit because I like him. They're both just parents taste and choice.

@MindIfISlytherin my ex's daughter was ten in 2005 which was when she had the playboy party! I thought it was awful but as you say there was playboy stuff in all the shops.

I went to a festival in September where fancy dress was prevalent, and there was a man dressed in a nurse's uniform, dangling a baby doll by the foot, and a name badge saying Lucy. I was disgusted. Jimmy Savile was also there.

As for children's fancy dress, we've had some early tick or treaters, dressed a witches and zombies, nothing inappropriate so far...

I don't like this either- not because the costumes are necessarily inappropriate (although they might be) but because it seems really pathetic for an adult to commandeer what's supposed to be a fun occasion for children and turn it into an opportunity for a shit joke for their own adult friends ("look, here's Noah dressed as Boris Johnson, hahhaha what am I like?")

There again, I also don't like seeing babies in band Tshirts for bands they've never heard of. A baby is a person not a billboard for their parents' tastes- if they're in a band Tshirt it should be the Wiggles not the sodding Ramones. So I am a bit zero tolerance about this stuff.

@BoothsChristmasBook of course there is a difference. He has been bopping around to music since he had muscle control. No one gets graphically eaten alive in sweet child o mine.

He also spent several months singing nothing but baby shark, so plenty of child specific music too.

A couple of years back I had two younger teenagers trick or treating dressed as Tubs and Edward - asking if I had local sweets for local people - I almost gave them the whole lot - they were fabulous

But yes - I agree that some costumes are OTT - mine always wanted to go as zombies, cats or Doctor Who characters - if you want to know how to knock up a TARDIS costume out of a blue pillowcase I'm your woman!

@TheIsleOfTheLost Welcome to the Jungle on the other hand 😉

Band tees on babies ffs. Exactly the same thing, parents using their kids to express their own adult tastes.

I love the branston pickle jar!! I take a lot of joy in different halloween costumes, other notable ones I've seen that really tickled me was a cashline machine, a banana, and a sheep made by gluing about 500 cottonwool balls on to a jumper.

@BoothsChristmasBook I have a welcome to the jungle door mat 😂

And full parental settings on youtube, so I can't listen to half the stuff I want to on youtube, even when the kids aren't in.

This year they have chosen minion and generic red and black with cape costumes. Long past when they would let me choose their costumes.

@Lemonllama have you posted this "for clout?" mums net badge of honour 🎖️. Whilst I don't entirely disagree with your thoughts on grown up Halloween costumes I know my opinions are for my own family, there's no need for a thread bashing others. Mumsnet need a new forum for the judge Judy's, you can call it "Am I the best mum, because I do/don't.....?"

What's horrific about Liverpool shirts?

Do you think all kids should be dressed in plain white until their old enough to express a preference? Otherwise babies are always a billboard for their parents tastes. The baby doesn't care if it's clothes come from the White Company or Lidl, is muted shades of green or covered in zebras.

My 5 year old dictated what she wanted for Halloween and she got it lol. 'I wanna be Wednesday from that hands hands dance' is what I was told and I eventually found a good replica + wig for about 13 quid
Thanks Temu!

I find it very very weird for a kid who's at the age that can talk and watch TV to be dressed on something that they've never seen or liked. Wtf are these parents on dressing kids with fags and bottles from shows the kids wouldn't even heave heard of! Fine for the adult but not for the kid.

@Ponoka7 that's a whole other debate. As a Saints fan, most horrific would be P*rtsmouth followed by Liverpool....

DTs have chosen and made their own costumes since they were old enough, we have had a taco and a burrito, dead zombie horse kids, glow stick people, dead zombie cheerleaders (there's a theme there). I much prefer to let them get on with it and they have fun doing it.

They won a make the guy competion on fireworks night a few years ago, it was shit but they had made it themselves. The guy said they won because it was obvious they have made the effort and not the parents.

Gets me off the hook anyway.

How did u know it was madeline mccann ?

My child has a dress up day today at nursery. She’s 3. I told her she could choose one of her 2 halloween costumes (cat & witch) or one of her usual dressing up rail costumes. She chose sleeping beauty. Sorted. No hassle and I don’t care if its ‘uncool’ it’s appropriate and she picked it herself!

This 🤣. Or within that “My DC’s would never…”

Just remembered my kid once went as a "dead kitten".

Every couple of minutes he dropped to the floor and "died"