Opinion: Halloween costumes put pressure on teenage girls Avianna Echelmeyer, Staff Reporter October 29, 2021
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![FIVE TO TWENTY FIVE: Junior Sarah Kubasek poses in her third grade homemade cat Halloween costume. With a black t-shirt and skirt, bow tie, headband, and a little makeup, she created her own costume— school appropriate and completely modest. Starting at age eleven, costumes such as these sold at stores become oversexualized, extremely specific to certain body types, and unsuitable for most teens. Often, these store-bought costumes only run in sizes extra small to medium. “The outfits [offered are] either really immature or excessively short or just not [made] for my body type,” Sophomore Juarez said. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Kubasek.)](https://thescarletscroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/938AFC08-4306-419B-8937-F75E065674DC-900x900.jpeg)
