Why is halloween sexy?

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It shouldn't be.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link

It means you can wear whatever sexy/revealing/fetishy nonsense that turns your crank, and do it in public.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Satan is a master of the G-Spot.

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 October 2004 14:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Vampire costume to thread!

― NotPinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link

A female friend of mine has gone the last few years as Sexy Lincoln -- stovepipe hat, fake beard, fishnets, heels -- specifically to point out the cliche that all costumes for women are "Sexy [Occupation]."

Last year, I must admit, I went as a glam lumberjack.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link

The prevalence of fishnet stirs up the juices alright.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Plus, candy is dandy.

― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Satan is master of the G-Kit

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

satan is master of G-unit

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Satan drives a GM truck!

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 October 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link

sexy: halloween, unsexy: hello, ian.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello!

http://www.therightaddress.co.uk/lineup_pictures/cpage023.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Your search - ian mccaskill fishnets - did not match any documents.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link

jaymc is the winner of this thread. halloween is an excuse for girls to dress like whores, thus the sex.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I live in a college town.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Sex is violent.

― Perry Farrell (kenan), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

The prevalence of the line "I'm not like other guys".

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Dressing in costumes is akin to getting drunk -- you lose your inhibitions. You're "someone else."

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

otm

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Roleplay

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the fishnet argument's a pretty strong one.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.partydomain.co.uk/d-commerce/media/SM22628-L.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

is that meant to be sexy or scary

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

my twin towers costume last year gave me that "dangerous" quality with the ladies that i normally lack

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Sexy until you get to the face, then a bit weird I think. A tiny bit like Bernard Bresslaw in a wig.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

do you think costumes can give that "dangerous" quality tracer?

I don't think it'd work for me.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

http://base58.com/ilx/chickenreason.jpg

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

jaymc is correct way up there. c'mon, we've all seen Mean Girls ... (and it's been true long before mean girls came around)

― lemin (lemin), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

i guess i really CAN'T do irony :(

you fat-ass

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh sure, Jaymc can feel all on the money ... right up until his "friend" runs into SEXY DOUGLAS.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

jaymc, it's not a glam lumberjack . . . last year you coined "glamberjack!"

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't think halloween is sexy. i think it's annoying.*

*opinions of 6pm friday grinch lauren may not actually reflect reality.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

genteel adult halloween parties where everyone dresses up and smirks at each other are totally annoying. UNLESS there is at least one absolutely bona-fide crazy person there to stir things up and actually raise the hell that must be raised in which case i really really love it. i had this halloween party at my apt in brooklyn a couple of years ago and it attracted the predictable assortment of tinsel-wig "costumes" at which point ally walked in with two guys wearing ruffled shirts and powdered wigs. one of them (otis!) immediately fell asleep on the couch and the other one made out with ally and threatened my guests. "there" i thought. "everything's gonna be all right."

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Actual, honest-to-God drag queens are a must.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Sexiest costume combo I've ever seen: man and wife dressed as bishop and Catholic schoolgirl; shortage of seats led to wife sitting on husband's lap; it was like a real-life porn was about to break out.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not even sure the effect was intentional.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't like that devil costume at all. Since when do devils wear bow-ties? And the shoes don't go with the tights.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Also it's my experience that the devil has bigger boobs.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Her legs look like they've been scalded.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Cathy do you think a double windsor more appropriate?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Has anyone ever attended the San Francisco Exotic-Erotic Halloween Ball at the Cow Palace. I think that looks like the worst fucking thing one could ever attend. I would come as a TrenchCoat Mafia and lay waste to the lameness.

― andy, Friday, 29 October 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

http://xcalibur.cc.tut.fi/gallery/halloween97/gypsy.jpg

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 29 October 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Burlap is sexy.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 29 October 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

It's that time again

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 28 October 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

here is an article about it.

I think there was one in the NYT this week as well (must be a slow week for them).

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 28 October 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"Tonia Farinha, director of marketing for Spirit Halloween stores, which has 434 stores across the country, says she has noticed the trend in the last few years but would rather say that women are wearing "feminine" costumes, not sexy ones."

Spirit Halloween stores have utterly ruined halloween, from what I can see. They're worse than the Gap as far as homogenizing culture goes.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 28 October 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

that said, our baby is wearing a little bear outfit from the Gap for halloween. but costume options are limited for 4 month olds and he's only dressing up so we can pimp him out for candy that we are going to eat.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 28 October 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going as the sexy Hamburglar this year!

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 28 October 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

ROFFLE ROFFLE

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 28 October 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

the sexy time is in full effect, judging from the folks leaving the shitty mouthbreather bars last night

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 28 October 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

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^^^I wanna roll her up into my life.

― en i see kay, Thursday, 11 October 2007 07:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Why do West Virginians think Halloween is sexy?

Because they get to pump kin!

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 11 October 2007 09:47 (sixteen years ago) link

hyuck...

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 11 October 2007 09:47 (sixteen years ago) link

"don't like that devil costume at all. Since when do devils wear bow-ties? And the shoes don't go with the tights."

His Dark Highness The Great Lord Satan probably has more important things to worry about than whether his sexy sidekicks have matching outfits.

― mei, Thursday, 11 October 2007 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link

getting tits out is a classic no matter what the situation

― ken c, Thursday, 11 October 2007 11:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Hard to fault ken's analysis there.

― aldo, Thursday, 11 October 2007 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link

x-post

― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link

ENBB, we call those people "That Girl". They frequently wear cat-ear headbands as their whole costume, for some reason -- if you don't count the costume-quality fishnets/stockings/garters.

― Laurel, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link

ken c is nabisco!

― chaki, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link

three years pass...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=75206

as my friend put it, "SHOULD TWEENS BE SEXUALIZED? WE SEXUALIZE SOME TWEENS TO FIND OUT"

― akm, Saturday, 23 October 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link

I feel sad walking through the costume aisles at Wal-Mart because every costume is just a sexy dress with a ballroom mask or the much loathed ear headbands.

― Just breaking it in, feels comfy (MintIce), Sunday, 24 October 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link

My wife's sister's best friend used to go as a ketchup bottle every year. So we thought it was hilarious when the Onion published this classic:

http://o.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/7171/onion_imagearticle427_jpg_630x1200_upscale_q85.jpg

Also, this Onion radio news nugget:

http://www.theonion.com/audio/sexy-nurse-having-trouble-finding-halloween-costum,12804/

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 October 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link

I just dress the same way I do on other days but call my clothes a Sexy Recluse costume

― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 24 October 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link

Add spray-on tan and you're a spider.

― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Sunday, 24 October 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link

A couple of days ago, another of the school bus drivers I work with started singing:

Too sexy for my bus, I'm
Too sexy for my bus...

Being an honorary octogenarian, I did not get the reference, but I appreciated the sentiment.

― Aimless, Monday, 25 October 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.cracked.com/article_18834_26-sexy-halloween-costumes-that-shouldnt-exist.html

― A brownish area with points (chap), Monday, 25 October 2010 12:11 (thirteen years ago) link

wish i had a camera moment:
walking by lingerie store Brooklyn Fox, seeing their sign for "Sexy Halloween Costumes."
i can't hate too much because halloween is a holiday where people should get drunk and have fun and get laid so, whatever, show off yer ass, i'm cool with that.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link

two years pass...

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_laz3zqVS2f1qazvpdo1_400.jpg

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 12 September 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link

omg

― fresh (crüt), Thursday, 12 September 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

http://i.imgur.com/kMMKLSq.jpg

― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Saturday, 25 October 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link

If I was a smurf or a demon I would be very offended

― LB-426 (latebloomer), Saturday, 25 October 2014 23:32 (nine years ago) link

Oh I thought this was the racist thread

― LB-426 (latebloomer), Saturday, 25 October 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link

five months pass...

I know, it's a little early for this. Maybe a little late. But anyway.

― pplains, Thursday, 23 April 2015 02:20 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/QjUsgwt.jpg

― pplains, Thursday, 23 April 2015 02:20 (nine years ago) link

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― pplains, Thursday, 23 April 2015 02:20 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/kjLbYfw.jpg

― pplains, Thursday, 23 April 2015 02:20 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/mrDZppf.jpg

― pplains, Thursday, 23 April 2015 02:20 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/aVumhRm.jpg