Have Halloween Costumes Become Too Sexy?
For every Darth Vader and princess in the costume aisle are two sexy nurse outfits — sometimes geared toward teens and tweens. Has it gone too far, or is it all in fun for one day a year?
Witches and ghosts, goblins and naughty Alice in Wonderlands wearing thigh-high stockings — it used to be that the fear of razor blades in apples was the greatest threat to the innocent fun of Halloween. Now, it appears that racy costumes have taken over. A Patch site in Santa Cruz, CA perused a local party store and found that the children’s costume section had been shoved to the back in favor of R-rated fare throughout, in plain view. A reporter for U-T TV in San Diego wondered about the message sent by racy adult costumes in her report. It could just be how California does things. But Patch columnist Heather Geyer posed a similar question a year ago here in Milwaukee. Not everything has gone off the moral cliff, however. At the Party …
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Thomas
1:31 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
I was thinking the same thing, LOL. more ›