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Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it. - From Mean Girls
Unless it's October and you happen to be writing about it in the NY Times. There's the Styles section article about the increasingly provocative Halloween costumes for women today and Monday's Op-Ed piece by Allison Glock. The Styles section article talks to a couple professors, Halloween costume retailers, and sexy Halloween costume enthusiasts for their thoughts, with suggestions about it being a mark of independence, a fun exercise, and part of what everyone's doing. We can understand the appeal - most people don't get many opportunities to go practically naked on a regular day in public, while the possibilities are less limiting here in the city.
Glock's Op-Ed was pretty funny:
I noticed that on the outside of every package was a photo of a woman modeling not only the costume, but teetering heels and bras of the push-up variety. The First Lady costume was not, as one might expect, a red business suit, but a pink crepe mini-dress. At least it had the matching pillbox hat. The angel was dubbed “heaven’s hottie.” Even the witch had a slit up her tattered skirt.Clearly, Glock did not get the note about America needing to find the Hottest Mom.My girls were confused. “Where are the monsters?” they asked. “Where are the superheroes?” I pointed weakly to Wonder Woman and her thigh-high boots. “She’s pretty,” said my 4-year-old. Before adding, “You can see her breasts.”
This year's Halloween Parade is on a Tuesday at 7PM (if you want to be in the parade, you must be in costume). Here's a list of a few Halloween costume shops and our post about Halloween costume contests. An awesome costume would be to recreate William Van Alen's Chrysler Building costume, but let's talk about the costumes we care about most: The ones dogs will be wearing during the Great Pupkin.
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My girls were confused. “Where are the monsters?” they asked. “Where are the superheroes?” I pointed weakly to Wonder Woman and her thigh-high boots. “She’s pretty,” said my 4-year-old. Before adding, “You can see her breasts.”
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The mother is dumb. Mommy dearest you are in the wrong store. Hello!!!
Mommy doesn't know how to sew like her mother did for her growing up.
Regarding "breastests" showing. Yes litte girl and you will have breasts one day too. Until that time, leave the "gettin your sexy on" for the big girls. Leave the adult coutumes for adults. If the 4 year old has no boobs, she wouldn't understand the clevage. Batman has pecks that bulge from his breast plate.
Her girls were confused because the mother was confused. Why would you take a 4 year old to an adult costume store? Go be a little princessa or little red riding hood and call it a day.
One word my friends...
Toshi
To be fair, they were at Target and ran into similar problems at Wal-Mart and KMart.
Yea, "adult" costumes are available wherever costumes are sold. I can't wait to unveil mine...Sexy Hobo Clown. Hot!
I got the flyer for Party City and some other Party/Costume store and they were jam-packed with "sexy" outfits, sexy cop, sexy firefighter, sexy angel, sexy Rainbow Brite, Sexy Strawberry Shortcake, Sexy BEE? Even the costumes for teen and pre-teens girls were of the Hot Diva variety.
ew.
Of course the men's costumes featured a toilet, a Whoopee Cushion and the Fart-o-Meter. Hi-LAR-ious!
You forgot the "sexy ketchup bottle" costume featured in the Party City catalog.
But yo, I totally have dibs on that one so back off.
Whatever happened to the days when kids kids (gasp!) used their imagination and (NO!) made their OWN costumes?
I thought Glock's Op-Ed was kind of ridiculous. And really, wasn’t Halloween the one day modern women could relax about looking hot?, she asks. Funny, I thought one of the perks of being a "modern woman" was that we could "relax about looking hot" whenever we damn well wanted to.
Incidentally, my parents managed to take me trick-or-treating as a child without feeling the need to dress up themselves. I'm sure if they'd wanted to dress up, they could've managed a costume all by themselves without having to buy it prepackaged in a store. As we did with most of our costumes, and as I do today when I go to Halloween parties. Exercise a little creativity, lady. And Halloween really isn't exclusively a 'family' holiday, if the number of Halloween parties my grown friends throw is any indication.
OK, you can be the Sexy Ketchup Bottle and I will be a Sexy Cheeseburger. Check out THESE pickles!
A few years ago a now defunct magazine for 20 somethings in New York had a cover of a girl in a, I kid you not, sexy Chrysler Building - chorus girl/bikini outfit.
BTW, the ultimate in the "we'done everything including a slutty nun" costume has got to be the slutty mental patient, complete with strait jacket.
bees are sexy?
sexy cheeseburger? hahaha
sexy chrysler buildling?? wtf!
make your own costume!
Actually, as the op-ed explains, she WAS making her own costume. She went to Wal-mart and Target looking for pre-made mouse ears to finish it. And don't tell me she should have bought a headband, chicken wire, and felt to make her own. I don't see her shopping trip as an easy way out of creative costume-making. Sometimes you just need a prop!
Speaking of sexy cheeseburger ... check out The top 10 worst Halloween costumes for 2006 (don't worry, it's work appropriate). I think many boys and girls would be confused if there parents had them wear any of these!