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  • Are Halloween Costumes Too Sexy For Kids? 
    Reported by: Emily Baucum

    Friday, Oct 30, 2009 @08:04pm CDT

    On Halloween tomorrow night, ghosts and goblins will ring your doorbell, yelling trick or treat. But what if when you opened the door, instead of a scary witch, you saw a sexy french maid?

    Kids are dreaming of dressing up and collecting bags of candy, but some parents tell us the costumes available in stores are so risqué, they don't want their kids leaving the house.

    Among the tiaras and masks, the witches and Dorothys, nine-year-old McKenzie Mendenall chose her dream costume.

    "I was going to be Gabriella from High School Musical," she says.

    But her father Michael took one look at the dress.

    "Too skimpy for that age group," he says.

    Down the row, he found sexy devils, sexy french maids, even fishnet hose -- for pre-teens.

    "That sort of thing is popular with kids, but it's not popular with dad," Michael says.

    Some parents say that these costumes, made for a 10-year-olds, are just too sexy for kids. They wonder, what happened to the good, old-fashioned witch hat?

    "I like seeing the kids all dressed up and stuff," Lis Gambriel says is her favorite part of Halloween.

    But as she helps her granddaughter Keara Maples pick out a costume.

    "You don't know if you want this or not?" Gambriel asks.

    She's also finding the outfits are just too risqué.

    "Showing too much of their body," Gambriel says. "Like this one here shows their belly and stuff. I don't like that."

    Ten-year-old Keara agrees.

    "I think it's too much for adults, and I think Halloween is turning too much into adult things," Keara says.

    They left the store disappointed and empty-handed.

    Back at the Mendenall house, McKenzie's being creative by fashioning a costume from scratch.

    "I'm going to be a hobo," she says.

    Michael hopes to teach his daughter halloween's about dressing up -- not undressing.

    "As a parent, I don't think that any child should be put out like that," he says.

    Parents tell us it's not just one store selling risqué costumes -- it's every store.

    Their frustrations don't seem to be affecting sales. The manager of the Halloween Spirit Store says business is so good, he's concerned he won't have enough merchandise for last-minute shoppers.
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