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I am an attorney by profession and an aspiring blogger. So if you see me with wings, a baseball outfit and baseball glove, just remember, I am the Angel in the Outfield even though I am not wearing a tiny white dress to prove it to you. Halloween is going to be the one day in a year where I can be as creative as possible. Guys will oogle at us all year, anyway (yes, I said oogle). So, I guess my goal is to make funny the new sexy.

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Seeing it on TV made me realize this has now become the accepted norm: if your girl don’t dress like a tramp on Halloween, she’s just not bringing sexy back even though she has the only costume no one else is wearing. Halloween parties for adults have basically become parades where women get ranked from 1-10 based on how revealing they are but creativity is not valued.

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Every Halloween party for 20-something year olds is about showing of and judging the amount of skin shown off.

Or to have my guy friends tell me on several Halloween, “Ehh…yeah she was dressed funny, but where’s the sexy in that?”Īnd maybe I am hanging with the most pompous crowd on Halloween nights, but this kind of seems to be the case for the majority of Halloween celebrations, enough to actually be shown in pretty much every TV show.

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I was obviously thrilled to talk to someone who was nerdy enough to fall in love with the movie like I did…and as conversation went on, he finally confessed it didn’t matter what I was dressed as, the point was, my skirt was short enough to have him indulge in conversation though the leggings underneath were just not cutting it. For example, there was the Halloween where I went dressed up as Ramona Flowers from Scott Pilgrim versus the world and ended up talking to this cute guy who said my outfit rocked. And this isn’t about how I only am basing this off of chic TV shows (though, that seems to be all I watch these days).

This isn’t a rant on Hollywood because art mimics life.

Or in Ben and Kate where Kate is encouraged to dress all sexy to impress this neighbor when she is actually going as Babe Ruth Bader Ginsburg costume (whatever that is),but ends up wearing a tiny umpire outfit underneath. Or maybe in the Mindy Project where the guy told her he would only take her as a date to a party if she dressed in the right way for his Halloween bash (although that did have a pretty cute ending, so yay! At least funny gets one point). On the one day of the year where its okay to dress as freely and as creatively as possible, somehow, its okay for a guy to say, “Well, you didn’t dress the part of slut.”įor example, in this week’s New Girl episode (*spoiler alert*), a main character dumps his long, steady girlfriend because she didn’t come dressed for night-time fun, but came as a Queen wearing a cloak of dogs and cats because she was “Reigning Dogs and Cats.” I thought that was pretty hilarious and clever, but apparently, not enough to keep your man around because you didn’t throw on that naughty nurse costume. But what really struck me is that apparently, men are looking to Halloween as a way to assess if a woman has sex appeal. Now, I say power to the women courageous enough to walk around in sailor-outfitted bikinis. Then, the awkward teenage years hit, and the award for best Halloween outfit went to the girls who took the opportunity to dress as scandalously as possible, a tradition which continued for all other Halloweens, for all women eventually when we stopped going through puberty physically, but arguably, not mentally. Let’s go back to childhood Halloween for a second, if you were a girl and you were younger, you were either going to be Dorothy, a Disney princess, or some equally dainty, protagonist, female character.

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Actually, it wasn’t just those shows- it was just kind of all over the media-year after year…The never ending dilemma for all 20-some women everywhere celebrating Halloween: how to be sexy enough for the holiday while quashing every desire you have to be funny or creative. It all seemed so trite and redundant, and then, the answer presented itself to me as I watched my weekly lineup of Fox shows- New Girl and The Mindy Project. The problem was, what to write about? The scariest day I’ve ever had? The one time I was haunted by the ghost of Bloody Mary in my mirror reflection? The most fun Halloween I’ve ever had? The worst Halloween I’ve ever had? The must-see scary movies? Costumes to avoid? Now, I know I have not written in a while but I simply could not let the most festive American holiday go by without a mention.

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Happy Halloween dear readers! I hope 2012 has brought you a fair share of opportunities to dress-up and eat candy guilt free this year.