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"For Halloween this year, 11-year-old Ruby Karp dressed up as a hipster pumpkin&amp;amp;#8212;she wore an orange velour costume made by her friend&amp;#x27;s mom, black-and-orange tights, and orange Converse. Other kids may have opted for store-bought tween costumes&amp;amp;#8212;like this Goldilocks tween super-miniskirt costume (with a choker?), left&amp;amp;#8212;but not Karp. Turns out the pre-teen costume market is plagued by the same problem as the women&amp;#x27;s costume market&amp;amp;#8212;i.e. too little costume, too much skin. &amp;quot;Can you imagine trying to decide what costume is sexy and which is not with your mom?&amp;quot; Karp writes in a blog post. &amp;quot;Do you know how embarrassing that is? Well, believe it. I have to do that every Halloween.&amp;quot; A quick Google search for &amp;quot;Tween Costumes&amp;quot; shows Karp is right on the mark. On the first page of results, we found these two costumes, above&amp;amp;#8212;a tween French maid and this &amp;quot;Nurse Sexy Costume: Tween and Teen Nurse Costume.&amp;quot; Seriously, do pre-teens (or anyone, really) need to be dressed up as sexy French maids and sexy nurses for Halloween? Karp is outraged over it. She writes:I love Halloween, I love trick-or-treating with my friends, I love the way the neighborhood turns into a magical place with cobwebs and spiders and everything spooky-safe. And ever since I was 7, it&amp;amp;#8217;s been hard for me to find a costume that isn&amp;amp;#8217;t above the knee or low-cut or has a choker involved. Like this year, I wanted to be Elmo and my friend was going to be Cookie Monster but where were the fuzzy costumes? NOWHERE. Instead of fun costumes that I would have a hard time choosing between, I found super-short dresses that aren&amp;amp;#8217;t cute, they&amp;amp;#8217;re inappropriate for me. How does Snow White turn into a girl in a sports bra that&amp;amp;#8217;s blue and a yellow mini skirt and super high heels that are bright red? Tell me, how is that Snow White? What do you think about all this? Should manufacturers make sexy costumes for pre-teens? Is it ultimately up to parents to guide their kids&amp;#x27; costuming decisions or should consumers put pressure on costume makers to pull sexy tween Halloween looks from shelves? PLUS... &amp;amp;#183; Celebrity Halloween costumes &amp;amp;#183; Not A Bad Idea: Celebrities Turn Their Party Dresses Into Halloween Costumes &amp;amp;#183; Let&amp;#x27;s discuss the furry animal hat trend More Ways to Get Glamour: Get the latest fashion updates via Twitter on @glamour_fashion Check out our chic Tumblr! Read Glamour magazine on your iPad&amp;amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Like freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Sign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#x27;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise). And, did you know you can read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;amp;#8217;s the ultimate boredom buster."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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