Victoria Silman | Assistant News Editor
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As hoards of people flock to Value Village to pick out their festive wear, it’s important to think about what is appropriate and what is not—and I’m not talking about cultural appropriation.
I love Halloween. I love dressing up, and doing FX makeup—it’s something you never really get to do any other time of the year. Halloween is all about becoming something you aren’t, or something you want to be, even if just for a night.
However, deciding on a Halloween costume is hard. Whether it’s deciding to dress warmly and comfortably, choosing to apply some heavy FX makeup (that you hope you remember to clean off your face at the end of the night in your drunken stupor), or letting it all out in an attempt to look sexy, the question remains: “What am I going to dress up as for Halloween?”
What I enjoy most about the holiday is when people unironically choose to dress up in a sexy costume of characteristically unsexy things.
In the Kardashian world, where we hold our booties to the highest honour over, say, creativity, it’s no surprise that flocks of individuals are dressing up as our favourite childhood characters with a ‘sexy’ thrown into the title.
What isn’t creative is turning a Minion, one of the most annoying characters on the planet, into a ‘sexy Minion.’ Why all the skin? Even turning them into sex symbols isn’t going to help their reputation.
This isn’t to say all costumes are inappropriately sexy. Some are hilarious, some are cute—hell, some are downright attractive. For example, a mermaid tends to reside on the sexy side of costume ideas. Even Ariel, our beloved little mermaid, only wears a bra on-screen, but she still manages to do so tastefully.
Then there are the trashy types—people intentionally dressing to expose themselves. Aren’t you cold? It did snow recently. On the off-chance you aren’t dressing up as a porn star or Christina Aguilera circa 2002, I recommend you put that ass away. Your body temperature will thank you.
So, the next time you are rummaging through the skin-tight, barely-there costumes at your local thrift store, take a moment to reflect: If you have to ask yourself if it’s too much skin, it probably is.
