When I was a little girl, I didn’t want to be a princess or a cheerleader for Halloween. I hated the color pink and I definitely didn’t want wear anything I’d be cold in.
Instead I painted my face to look like a zombie, carried around a plastic mallet and wore a ripped up flannel. My costume choices may have been slightly different from a lot of other girls, but at the end of the day, I still played with “Barbie” and wore nail polish.
For me Halloween has always been about bobbing for apples, hayrides and cool gross stuff. But then a strange thing happened; I went to college and saw a whole different perspective of Halloween.
When a 10-year-old says she’s going to be “Snow White” for Halloween a certain image comes to mind. A floor length blue and yellow dress with a red cape and maybe a basket. But when a 19-year-old woman says she’s going to be “Snow White” it’s a little different.
Sitting outside my dorm I saw the adult “Snow White” and her seven doofuses drunkenly trailing along her side. Her blue corset and yellow miniskirt went well with her white fish net stockings and four-inch stilettos. She even had a basket but I’m not sure if the real “Snow White” carried beer in it.
I think Lindsay Lohan said it best in Mean Girls: “Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.”
And it’s true. Why is it okay to have 75 percent of your body exposed to thousands of beer guzzling college guys? Because it’s Halloween and what may be ridiculous to some people might be pretty normal for others.
Different strokes for different folks. And really, many women like the attention. What girl doesn’t want to feel attractive? Who would be a nurse for Halloween if you had to wear “Tweety Bird” scrubs and yellow “Crocks?”
I’m not bashing the idea of sexy Halloween costumes. I am embracing being a woman and wearing what you want. Feel beautiful in your own skin, but do it with class. Have a safe and happy Halloween ladies.