You know what bothers me most of all? It’s not so much that women choose to be, and are encouraged to be, and are in fact provided with few choices other than to be, openly and provacatively sexual on Halloween. It’s that for so many, it actually doesn’t represent a change of pace from how they dress the other 364 days of the year. My costume this year isn’t remotely sexy (I’m going to be a Celtic harvest-festival celebrant, in honor of my ancestors with whom so many of our current Halloween traditions originated), but I would enjoy dressing up in a sexy costume purely for the experience of dabbling with a new persona for the day. But then, I never dress provacatively in the first place! What’s the point of dressing up in a costume, when its most striking feature (i.e., sexiness) is no different than the most striking feature of what you wear the rest of the time anyway?

I would like to disagree with Abed Yamout. One does not dress in a sexy manner to “express oneself.” By definition, unless a woman is a sexual narcissist, her choosing to dress “sexy” refers only to how she will be perceived in the eyes of others. If she truly wanted to express herSELF, she would think first about what she wanted to convey from within, what she wanted to see when she looked in the mirror. Yes, she would consider how others would perceive her, but it would be in the sense of communication – not that they would perceive her as an inherently desirable object in herself, but that they would see her as she wished to be seen. A person who hasn’t been correctly perceived can hardly be said to have “expressed herself” to her satisfaction, no? Unless this theoretical young woman is an empty mass of pulsing lust, I doubt what she would truly want to express herself as is eye candy. Women don’t dress in provocative outfits for themselves – do you really think anyone wears fishnet stockings when she’s alone at home? Women do this because they’ve been fed the lie that it’s the only thing to do, the only way to be, the only way to fit in, and that fitting in is paramount. They’ve even been told that it’s what they need to do to be happy. They’ve been told this is what they want, and they’ve been told it’s liberating, and they actually believe it. But that placebo effect, like the shallow sex appeal it promotes, is only skin deep.

You dont have to embrace nor buy into the nonsense that society forces on you. In fact, flying in the face of that and dealing with the blowback is the only way to take back your humanity, diversity and individuality from society, which is ultimately about forcing everyone through the same mould. Facing the fear of going against the nonsense is possibly the most difficult obstacle. But ironically, its only a product of one’s own thoughts, mentations and ideations that one has unwittingly integrated into a falsified sense of self. And to that extent one need only change their own minds… which is quite simply.

“The Dark Angel Tween Girl’s Costume, sold at SpiritHalloween.com, comes with a lace bustier, fishnet footless tights, and fishnet fingerless gloves. Similarly, Devil Delight Tween Girl’s Costume has a butt-skimming miniskirt and chest-baring bodice.”

http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-trick-or-treating-or-turning-tricks/

I definitely think that making costumes is the best way to go. It’s much more fun and creative, and usually cheaper.