“Today, you can find countless girls in Disney Princess socks and light-up sneakers, and you can’t walk through a supermarket without seeing the princesses on diapers and tubes of children’s toothpaste. And while Franklin says the characters are based on personalities crafted in the movies - Ariel is independent, Cinderella is a good friend - it’s hard to see those differences when you’re looking at their pictures on a bedspread. To little girls, these fairy tale heroines are pretty ladies, nothing more. And perhaps to adults, too. Disney has introduced a line of Disney Princess costume wedding gowns, designed, Franklin says, “for women who have always dreamed of their wedding as the day they’re a princess.”
