I know holidays always change as you grow older but I feel like Halloween has changed for everyone in the past decade and not just because I am no longer going trick or treating. Halloween as a kid was all about candy and dressing up like a favorite Disney princess, a scary witch, or a spooky ghost. Now I feel like Halloween is all about dressing up in as little clothing as possible and girls making sure their costume is revealing enough. As I said, I know it changes as one gets older and Halloween in college is drastically different than Halloween in grade school but I feel like people of all ages are concerned about dressing scantily clad.
When I was at Party City a week ago looking for a Halloween costume, I looked at the children's costumes because they are always so cute. I noticed that there were not as many "cute" costumes as I remember there being in the past, and there were so many costumes that are specifically made for young girls that were very revealing. For young girls to already be dressing slutty for Halloween in grade school is setting a terrible example. They are going to grow up thinking that it is alright to dress that way just because it is Halloween. But it doesn't matter what day it is, how you dress is a representation of yourself.