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Ally Benjamin

When risky steps out of bounds

October 30, 2015

It’s the time of the year again when people of all ages are getting their Halloween costumes ready, or scrambling at last minute to still find one. Everyone wants to find the “perfect costume,” but is the perfect costume really the most revealing costume?

When you google images of  Halloween costumes, among the mix of children’s outfits come the “sexy cop costume,” the sports bra and underwear referee costume and numerous other exposing costumes. If you try to search for the women’s section at any Halloween costume website, you will mostly find skinny girls with little clothing. Halloween costume stores and websites even have their own categories for revealing costumes. Party City’s category is called “Sexy Costumes.”

Sexy Halloween costumes are stepping over the line when childrens’ costumes are being modified for adults to wear, with half the amount of clothing.

We’ve all heard of the sexy nurse and the sexy schoolgirl costumes, but recently these costumes have gone to an extreme.  Today they’ve created literally any costume you could think of and have made it “sexy.” There’s even the “Sexy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Costume.” If you ever need to take a trip back to the 80’s, don’t worry because Halloween costume creators have transformed innocent children’s costumes such as Dorothy, Little Mermaid and Little Bo Peep into promiscuous adult versions. And if these costumes aren’t scary enough for your spooky Halloween costume party, stores have even created the “Sexy Soul Stealer Reaper Costume.”

Halloween has been around for over 2,000 years and dates back to the ancient Celtic Harvest Festival, Samhain. The Celts celebrated their holiday by dressing in costumes, but I don’t think that when they pictured the future of their holiday it would be filled with costumes such as the “Angel Baby Sexy Dress.

According to the National Retail Federation, the top adult costume for this year is a witch. As per usual, when you google search “witch Halloween costume” the first link that comes up leads you to the “sexy witch costumes.” On average, people spend around $31.52 on Halloween costumes, according to Statistic Brain. People are willing to spend this much on costumes, should get their money’s worth and buy one with more material?

I’m not suggesting to leap far to the right of sexy and dress as a nun, but I just don’t think it’s acceptable to be dressed as “sassy Elmo” for Halloween- especially when the original Elmo idea was designed for children. Sexy Halloween costumes are stepping over the line when childrens’ costumes are being modified for adults to wear, with half the amount of clothing.

Halloween is late October, almost November and it’s freezing in Cleveland. Not only will an appropriate costume make you feel better about how much you’re revealing, but also about the lack of frostbite. Before you leave the house or snap a picture in your sexy nurse costume, ask yourself if you’d want your parents to see you right now. Or if you’d want to see your future child dressed like this.

You can still feel good in a Halloween costume without being half-naked. Halloween is a day to express your creativity, to dress up and go all out. Any costume can be fun and unique, but it doesn’t need to be overtly inappropriate.

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