Hussy Halloween

     I am a big fan of making Halloween costumes for a couple of reasons.  One, I hate to spend money on something that will be worn for only a few hours.  Two, the Halloween memories I treasure most involve costumes that I made with my mother's help.  Over the years my kids haven't always liked my reluctance to buy costumes but they certainly are prouder of the costumes they have worked on than ones we have bought.  (It's also nice that you won't find someone else in the same costume as you at the school parade.)
     Now I am finding a new, wonderful and surprising benefit from pushing them to make costumes all those years.  My teenager is still making costumes instead of dressing "Hussy Halloween".  If you have bought costumes for your kids, you have noticed the slutty selection for anyone over the age/size 10-12.  

Okay, this isn't as slutty as what's coming but still definitely suggestive.  I saw it labeled as Va Va Vampire...







     When she has a boyfriend, in just a few short years, they can go as members of the US Navy!  Because this IS what they wear in the Navy...

If she's not dating anyone, I'm sure it'll be easy to "hunt down" a new boyfriend when she goes as a Commando!



[Shiver] I am trying to hold off the slutty costume years as long as possible...



      Last year, my daughter was starting to wonder if she was getting too old for Trick or Treating.  I told her there were kids older than her that came to the door but it annoyed me when they came for the free candy but made no effort to dress up.  Just a top hat? Come on!  You want the candy, do the work!  So she planned a costume with a friend.  They enjoyed making them and made great, original and totally fun costumes without a bustier in sight!  Creativity trumped skank!  I love it when that happens. And it makes me feel better about the times, when all they wanted was a store costume, that I forced them to think of something homemade...  
     Maybe (Please!) they will never get into the hussy Halloween wear.  Is it, because I steered them away from the store bought, that they never had that crap seared into their minds during their formative years or is it genetics?  Sometimes I wore less clothes than usual for Halloween and wanted to look cute but I never wanted to look like I was attending the Adult Film Awards.  And I never had the desire to wear this when I was pregnant!!

I saw this at Target labeled "Sexy Devil Mom-to-Be Costume". (Although it seems more like a Walmart find, said M. I agree and I bet it doesn't have to even be Halloween to wear this in Walmart...)