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Parents Talk: Why Are So Many Girls Halloween Costumes Inappropiate?

01.01.70

Patently, witches aren’t ugly anymore -- they’re risqu.

So are pirates, pumpkins and princesses. At least, that’s the conclusion I’ve rush at to after several years of combing through little girl costumes for Halloween.

The girls garb aisle looks more and more like a lingerie trust in with an increasing array of halter tops, midriff-baring shirts and miniskirts, while get-up catalogs and websites teem with images of pouty preteens in suggestive poses. 

For admonition, a girl isn’t an Army cadet anymore, she’s a “Main Flirt,” complete with black fishnet stockings and a studded choker. Female firefighters also be dressed stockings now, and even Little Bo Peep comes with a corset, tiny skirt and lacy petticoat. 

Complaints about suggestive girls costumes are nothing new. But its seems like the exertion is ramping up towards younger and younger groups of girls. 

These days, it’s not proper tweens who are pressured. Six- and 7-year-old girls are now featured in catalogs wearing neonate-sized versions of the skimpy costumes that used to be cool for boudoir photo shoots. On Amazon, you can even buy an tack called a “Child’s Chamber Intact Costume.”

Source: Patch.com

Magic Valley Kids Have Just Six Days To Put 'Snow White' On Stage

01.01.70

Couple FALLS • As she orchestrated the seven dwarfs and a demanding princess at the Twin Falls Center for the Arts, Hannah Barudin watched Madison Quinton carefully.

“Snow Pallid, remember, you are the girliest girl in the world,”Barudin told the teen. Be more fussy.Quinton said her lines again, and Barudin nodded her concurrence.

Only 24 hours after getting her script, Quinton already had many of her lines memorized. And those seven dwarfs had their hi-ho ado down pat a day after learning it.

Barudin and Laura Barron are directors for Missoula Children’s Acting, a Montana-based traveling production that uses county children for its cast in each town it visits. In Look-alike Falls this week, the pair is helping a tint of almost 60 prepare to perform “Snow Pale and the Seven Dwarfs” on Saturday.The allure?The kids have only six days from auditions to get ready for the show. To leverage it off, Barudin andBarron stick to a precise plan.

Missoula Children’s Theatre sends teams of directors across North America to put on productions using children from kindergarten to 12th estate. In each town, the pair of directors holds hour-elongated group auditions on a Monday. Rehearsals open that evening, and by Saturday, the cast is ready to do two shows.

Source: Twin Falls Times-News