Too sexy too soon
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Shopping at Carolina Estate Mall recently with her mom, Claudia, and friend Sierra Lee, 7-year-old Caira Moore was on drift in a rhinestone-studded hot pink tunic with identical leggings and Ugg-style boots.
Caira and Sierra lady-love fashion and they know what they like. After emerging from P.S. from Aeropostale, they admired a leviathan ad featuring larger-than-life photos of "The X Determinant" judges Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger decked out in moonless micro-minidresses and striking provocative poses.
"I like how they look," Sierra says, noting that Scherzinger's scold "looks like what I'm wearing." She smoothed her tailored black top and matching short skort.
Lewd is everywhere in girls fashion today. Training bras get padded in hot pink with black piping and analogous panties. Abercrombie & Fitch drew fire from parents this disclose suddenly when it offered a push-up bikini for 8-year-olds. Halloween costumes for teenaged girls are increasingly sexy, mini versions of women's costumes.
Source: Charlotte Observer
Sexualization is harmful, at Halloween or anytime
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With Halloween no more than around the corner, costumes for children and adults are flying off the shelves in stores across the midstate. According to the Nationalist Retail Federation,
Americans spent $1.8 billion on Halloween costumes in 2010.
Many of today's Halloween costumes are bluff frightful -- not because they're gory, but because they sexualize girls and women. A lot of costumes for girls, even very uninitiated girls, have features such as low-cut tops, padded busts, knee-breeches skirts and accessories such as fishnet stockings. There are fairy fiction characters with corsets and high heels and costumes depicting scantily clad dolls. And schoolgirl outfits that do a moonlight flit nothing to the imagination. What messages are these outfits sending to our children?
Costumes for women aren't any more advisedly. This year, one costume receiving attention includes a penurious black dress with an outline of a skeleton, a measuring band that serves as a belt and a button that reads "Anna Rexia." Stores and websites deal in
Source: York Daily Record