Its a comment I overhead a woman zombie say to her vampire friend on a bus last Halloween. We were crawling down a Granville Street packed with Vampy babes, with so much skin I felt like I was in the adult section. Dont get me wrong, eye candy can be a pleasant distraction on the bus. But its weird when the kiddies emulate these salacious costumes.
A friends 14 year old sister got a fake id to buy a sexy costume from the adult film+toy store. She said the lineup at each store on Granville ran down the sidewalk.
I wonder if this is something new. Is Halloween English North Americas Mardi Gras (Carnival). It seems like every womans costume is a sexy something, a sexy devil, a sexy witch, etc.
What I always liked about Halloween was that it allowed everyones inner freak to revel in an assumed identity fed by high doses of sugar. Halloween has always allowed plenty of room for sexy. The realm of vampires and monsters and many of the Halloweeny things could be sexy, one need only look at Pulp Magazine Covers of Old Comics to see how the image of sex lends itself to macabre and exotic haunted stories.
There are only a few general exceptions to the all halloween costumes are sexy rule. One is the zombie. The zombie is the truly asexual creature of Halloween and one of the more horrific. But the pure ghoulishness of zombies is not as fun as sexy costumes.
The ideal way to describe the tone of Halloween costumes for adults is a balance between the sexy camp of Rocky Horror Picture Show and the Horror of Evil Dead.
I have also noticed with this costume trend, that every other woman looks like Betty Page and there is nothing evil about that. Happy Halloween.
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