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Old 10-31-2010, 03:30 PM
 
Location: Australia
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"There's not a child in Hollywood can do the things Elvira can do..."
Neither little girls dressed in skimpy outfits not pushy mothers are new.
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Old 10-31-2010, 04:24 PM
 
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Nor are people complaining about them, or gossiping about what terrible mothers must let their girls dress as they do.

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The owners of a child star are like leaseholders—their property diminishes in value every year. Time's chariot is at their back; before them acres of anonymity. Miss Shirley Temple's case, though, has a peculiar interest: infancy is her disguise, her appeal is more secret and more adult. Already two years ago she was a fancy little piece (real childhood, I think, went out after The Littlest Rebel). In Captain January she wore trousers with the mature suggestiveness of a Dietrich: her neat and well-developed rump twisted in the tap-dance: her eyes had a sidelong searching coquetry. Now in Wee Willie Winkie, wearing short kilts, she is completely totsy. Watch her swaggering stride across the Indian barrack-square: hear the gasp of excited expectation from her antique audience when the sergeant's palm is raised: watch the way she measures a man with agile studio eyes, with dimpled depravity. Adult emotions of love and grief glissade across the mask of childhood, a childhood that is only skin-deep. It is clever, but it cannot last. Her admirers—middle-aged men and clergymen—respond to her dubious coquetry, to the sight of her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed with enormous vitality, only because the safety curtain of story and dialogue drops between their intelligence and their desire.

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Old 10-31-2010, 05:36 PM
 
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I think all you old women are just jealous
Would you let your 11 year old trick or treat in this?

Amazon.com: Everlast Boxer Chick Costume: Clothing: Reviews, Prices & more
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Old 10-31-2010, 05:45 PM
 
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Would you let your 11 year old trick or treat in this?

Amazon.com: Everlast Boxer Chick Costume: Clothing: Reviews, Prices & more
No I definately would not allow this.

Nor would I allow my 14 yo.

My wife on the other hand could wear it but only in the bed room and only if all the kids are sleeping over somewhere else.
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Old 10-31-2010, 06:14 PM
 
Location: NE Oklahoma
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Would you let your 11 year old trick or treat in this?

Amazon.com: Everlast Boxer Chick Costume: Clothing: Reviews, Prices & more

Ummmm NO to put it in 1 word. And I can tell you what my husband would say too.. "Not NO but HE!! NO!!!!!!"
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Old 10-31-2010, 06:34 PM
 
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No I definately would not allow this.

Nor would I allow my 14 yo.

My wife on the other hand could wear it but only in the bed room and only if all the kids are sleeping over somewhere else.
My son's friend wore this and her boyfriend wore the matching boxer's costume. They took pictures (not bad pictures) and posted them on Facebook and I was shocked that her parents would allow her out of the house dressed like that. She is 16.
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Old 10-31-2010, 07:19 PM
 
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My son's friend wore this and her boyfriend wore the matching boxer's costume. They took pictures (not bad pictures) and posted them on Facebook and I was shocked that her parents would allow her out of the house dressed like that. She is 16.
I wonder if we are bluring skimpy with sexual. By this I mean, look at that bit of black and white video with the little girl in a short dress dancing. Is it sexual? sort of but not really. Skimpy yes but not overtly sexual in the way that the amazon halloween costume is.
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Old 10-31-2010, 07:26 PM
 
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I wonder if we are bluring skimpy with sexual. By this I mean, look at that bit of black and white video with the little girl in a short dress dancing. Is it sexual? sort of but not really. Skimpy yes but not overtly sexual in the way that the amazon halloween costume is.
I agree. My son's girlfriend wore a girly referee costume to our house today (we had a party). It was short but not particularly sexual. She looked great in it and it was a little skimpy but she looked cute. She wore black socks and shoe and wore a whistle around her neck. They looked really cute together as a football player and referee.
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Old 10-31-2010, 08:07 PM
 
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That everlast costume is "sexy" because the model is staged that way. The shorts are high waisted, the midriff top is bigger than many bathing suit tops. Take away the gogo boots, the stockings and the boobs and it's not much different than lots of other kid's outfits.

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Old 11-01-2010, 08:04 AM
 
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Would you let your 11 year old trick or treat in this?

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Ummmm NO to put it in 1 word. And I can tell you what my husband would say too.. "Not NO but HE!! NO!!!!!!"
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My son's friend wore this and her boyfriend wore the matching boxer's costume. They took pictures (not bad pictures) and posted them on Facebook and I was shocked that her parents would allow her out of the house dressed like that. She is 16.
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I wonder if we are bluring skimpy with sexual. By this I mean, look at that bit of black and white video with the little girl in a short dress dancing. Is it sexual? sort of but not really. Skimpy yes but not overtly sexual in the way that the amazon halloween costume is.
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I agree. My son's girlfriend wore a girly referee costume to our house today (we had a party). It was short but not particularly sexual. She looked great in it and it was a little skimpy but she looked cute. She wore black socks and shoe and wore a whistle around her neck. They looked really cute together as a football player and referee.

How is this costume any different than this?:

Banana Cabana "Polynesian Punch" Floral Stripes Boy Short 2 Piece Swimsuit - Padoodles
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