POST-POST-POST-FEMINISM? Halloween is a day to flaunt your inner vixen.
TRICKS Seemingly innocuous characters have a sexy edge in costumes, which evoke male fantasies and reinforce a larger cultural message: younger is hotter.
Posted on 10/19/2006 7:17:27 PM PDT by mathprof
IN her thigh-highs and ruby miniskirt, Little Red Riding Hood does not appear to be en route to her grandmother’s house. And Goldilocks, in a snug bodice and platform heels, gives the impression she has been sleeping in everyone’s bed. There is a witch wearing little more than a Laker Girl uniform, a fairy who appears to shop at Victoria’s Secret and a cowgirl with a skirt the size of a tea towel.
Anyone who has watched the evolution of women’s Halloween costumes in the last several years will not be surprised that these images — culled from the Web sites of some of the largest Halloween costume retailers — are more strip club than storybook. Or that these and other costumes of questionable taste will be barely covering thousands of women who consider them escapist, harmless fun on Halloween.
“It’s a night when even a nice girl can dress like a dominatrix and still hold her head up the next morning,” said Linda M. Scott, the author of “Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism” (Palgrave Macmillan) and a professor of marketing at the University of Oxford in England.
The trend is so pervasive it has been written about by college students in campus newspapers, and Carlos Mencia, the comedian, jokes that Halloween should now be called Dress-Like-a-Whore Day.
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POST-POST-POST-FEMINISM? Halloween is a day to flaunt your inner vixen.
TRICKS Seemingly innocuous characters have a sexy edge in costumes, which evoke male fantasies and reinforce a larger cultural message: younger is hotter.
I'm in!
They're witty, and always want to dirty things up in a major way.
Those costume are also (with or without their parents permission) allowing teens and pre-teens to flaunt their inner vixen.
These outfits put a whole new spin on the old chestnut "Trick or treat?", depending on whether cash changes hands, one assumes.
Well it's increased my circulation.
Niiiccce...
patton says he'll buy me that witch costume...lol! :)
honestly, i saw a series of reports about how costumes similar
to these are being marketed to 10-15 yr old girls. i find this
terribly disturbing. what on earth has happened to little
girls just dressing their age???
nice watch
Now, why do you have to go make a perfectly purient thread about censorship?
It doesn't get that cold in Uruguay, does it?
who really cares what the bums want to look like?---if they aren't giving it away yet, they will be shortly----all part of the dumbing down and pigging up of this Nation---"why buy a cow when milk is so cheap"
I admit to being an 'old goat' but you can "take it to the bank" that I have seen the best of the USA--it is all don hill from here
All Hallows Eve is a christian tradition, and folks who absteem seem to me holier-than-thou.
Like Mardi Gras, All Hallows Eve celebrations involve people in the ancient Roman Catholic tradition, getting in a little worldly nastiness, before they have to act straight, the next day.
That does not make us all saints.
Many RC holidays are born in pagan roots - Christmas, for one. Saturnalia, the roman holiday, etc.
So what? Such is life.
Oh yea.. Scholars opine! Trash only fit to print in the NYT
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