Reasonable Nuts: Trick or trick

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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Trick or trick

A number of "Sexy Halloween costume" stories have come across the Reasonable Nuts newsdesk in the past few days. Case in point: exhibit A, exhibit B, exhibit C.

They all basically come to the same conclusion: almost all Halloween costumes for women today are decidedly sexed-up. What gives?

Recently, the top five selling women's costumes available through the Spirit Halloween Store Web site, www.spirithalloween.com, were "Sexy Dorothy," a slinky take on the popular Wizard of Oz character; "Stardust Doll," a sexy send-up of the 1980s cartoon character Rainbow Brite; short-dressed "Groovy Go-Go"; a "Ghostly Gal"; and a body-hugging "Race Car Driver" uniform.

The low-brained man in me says "yeah, baby!" I love seeing my wife in such little numbers. But this is generally in the privacy of our home. And that's precisely what has happened in recent years: what was once privy to the bedroom has been mainstreamed.

Men have it far easier...

In contrast, the top five costumes going for men are a beer keg, the Cat in the Hat, a gothic vampire, a department of corrections orange jumpsuit and a beer can.

Were I a woman, I think I'd take the track that this woman suggests:

"Maybe I'll be a boy for Halloween," joked Concord resident Stephanie Gatewood, 21. She decided to veer away from one of her original costume choices after coming across a particularly revealing number. "I was thinking I could be a bee and then I saw that and said, 'Oh no, that's not the bee I want to be."

So, Stephanie - don that beer can proudly! You might wear a pair of thigh-high stiletto-heeled boots under it, just to make it interesting. Mmm... "Sexy Beer Can"... now that's a costume!

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