Girls wearing costumes with pants

Mommy912 ↓

Wed, Feb 15 2006, 10:08 am

Up to what age do you let your daughter wear a costume with pants?

mali

Wed, Feb 15 2006, 11:26 am

My parents let us wear pants on Purim even past Bas Mitzva age. I think I wouldn't let my daughters wear pants past the age of 3. Tznius rules apply on Purim as well. (Then again, they only want to dress up as Queen Esthers and kallahs anyway, so I don't have a problem).

chocolate moose

Wed, Feb 15 2006, 12:00 pm

I think it's accepted in Lub. until age three.

I actually saw a 14 year old girl from a fancy Lub. family in a rented "pants" outfit but I don't think it's the norm.

deedee

Wed, Feb 15 2006, 11:20 pm

till 3. unless its pants with a skirt over it that comes to the knee- I guess kinda like a genie outfit.

supermom ↓

Tue, Feb 21 2006, 4:54 am

my daughters this year are going to be in giraffe costumes they are pants but next year I am going to start only putting on my daughter that will be five by then skirts.

shabbatiscoming ↓

Tue, Feb 21 2006, 6:38 am

this question is sort of the opposite. what about men wearing skirts? I have seen it before. and I know that the man that was wearing a skirt asked a rav and said that it was ok for a man to wear a skirt on purim.
so in that regard, why couldnt a girl wear parnts on purim as well?

↑ Mommy912

Tue, Feb 21 2006, 9:31 am

I know a story where a girl dressed in pants went with her brother to visit his rebbe. She got a kiss from the rebbe too Exclamation

It is easier to tell that the person in a skirt is a guy than the person is pants is a girl.
(Who do those drag queens think they are kidding?)
Guess girls are better at deception..

cindy324 ↓

Tue, Feb 21 2006, 10:12 am

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I know a story where a girl dressed in pants went with her brother to visit his rebbe. She got a kiss from the rebbe too

Oh yeah? I know a married woman who got dressed up as a chassidishe bochur, and when a bunch of bochurim came into her house to dance and sing, she took their hands got into a circle with them and danced around. Confused

↑ shabbatiscoming

Tue, Feb 21 2006, 10:52 am

Mommy912 wrote:

It is easier to tell that the person in a skirt is a guy than the person is pants is a girl.

thats not true. I mean, if you look at girl's feature's and guys feature's, well, at least to me, they are VERY different. even when my sister dressed up as a rav, nobody thought that she was a guy. and a guy can always put on a mask with the skirt, so then you would have no idea that it was a guy. I know someone who did that and nobody was the wiser Very Happy

Crayon210

Tue, Feb 21 2006, 1:26 pm

ytwh1 wrote:

so in that regard, why couldnt a girl wear parnts on purim as well?

Because while (I guess theoretically Confused

) one could dismiss the issur of wearing clothes of the opposite gender, there is still a tznius problem with girls wearing pants, which I would be surprised to find a heter for.

Actually, in this day and age, I probably wouldn't be so surprised.

gryp ↓

Tue, Feb 21 2006, 2:35 pm

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Oh yeah? I know a married woman who got dressed up as a chassidishe bochur

something I dont get about this story. Confused

what about the beard???

chen ↓

Tue, Feb 21 2006, 2:39 pm

RG wrote:

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Oh yeah? I know a married woman who got dressed up as a chassidishe bochur

something I dont get about this story. Confused

what about the beard???

she must have been thin and young and dressed up as a very young bochur.

Chanie

Tue, Feb 21 2006, 4:42 pm

I dressed up as a chassidishe boy once while in High School. I borrowed a hard hat and a beketche too (thus I wasn't walking around in pants alone)
I went delivering Meshloach Monas with my oldest brother, and a few of his friends asked me how Israel was thinking I was my brother who was at the time about the same hight that I was.

↑ cindy324

Wed, Feb 22 2006, 11:04 am

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Oh yeah? I know a married woman who got dressed up as a chassidishe bochur

something I dont get about this story. Confused what about the beard???

she must have been thin and young and dressed up as a very young bochur.

Yes, she's very petite, thin and put on the thick black plastic framed glasses, she also had payos, not sure how she did that! Nobody gave her a second look! Believe me I was there, I saw!

↑ supermom ↓

Wed, Feb 22 2006, 11:27 am

she could have used her sheital and made payos as a non married girl would do with her own hair not to complicated

mompete

Wed, Feb 22 2006, 12:32 pm

why should purim be a day where tzinius does not apply?

lucky

Thu, Feb 23 2006, 12:05 am

I think Purim has the same guidelines as any other day. Confused

↑ gryp

Thu, Feb 23 2006, 9:27 am

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I think Purim has the same guidelines as any other day

well, it should be that way. Confused

except that kids are given cigarettes. Confused

↑ chen

Thu, Feb 23 2006, 1:30 pm

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except that kids are given cigarettes. Confused

say whaaa? real ones? to smoke? health concerns aside (v'nishmartem m'od l'nafshoseichem), in the US of A it is illegal to give or sell tobacco, cigarettes or tobacco products to a person under 18 years of age. dinoh d'malchusoh dinoh.

↑ supermom

Thu, Feb 23 2006, 3:55 pm

yep I have seen it too and liquor and wine too not normal and that is when the trouble starts.