Halloween and hallowoes

Halloween is the most magical holiday around. For one night, we can be whoever we want to be. When we were kids, it was all about being our favorite Disney character or who we wanted to be when we grew up. Our goal was to consume as much candy as we could, which led to candy hangovers the next day.\nThis special holiday changes as we get older, however. Naturally, consumption of candy progresses to something that leads to stronger hangovers. As our costume ideas might mature, our creativity in assembling them doesn’t always. \nFor me, Halloween means becoming one of my favorite heroines, or just something straight up contradictory. For most girls, however, this implies dressing up as a slutty version of anything from Little Bo Peep to Raggedy Anne. We’ve all seen “Mean Girls,” so we know that “Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” \nExcept, I dare to say something about it. I don’t mind the sluttiness factor at all – I’m all for everyone showing off their best assets. Yet every Halloweekend, I find it quite depressing to see a line of ladies walking down the street, half of them wearing the same costume. What really irks me is the sheer lack of creativity in most Halloween costumes these days. With a little thought, you can be a sexy anything. Even a sexy Hillary Clinton. \nAnd since most costume manufacturers assume every lady wants to be slutty for Halloween, this is how they tailor all their wear. Just this past week, I was in search of my outfit when my blood pressure hit an all-time high. You see, for Halloween I plan on being Nicole Richie during her brief jail sentence. And ideally, I was searching for some sort of orange jumpsuit. I foolishly entered Spencer’s in the College Mall, and found $50 worth of a skimpy orange minidress. A male, who looked straight out of a porno, accompanied the lady on the cover. Now, the costume also came with a pair of handcuffs, which were actually less high-tech than the $2.99 pair I purchased from Kroger. \nSo I went over to Cactus Flower, and thankfully found a black and white striped jumper. The top was equipped with the aforementioned handcuffs, oversized sunglasses, boots, and a name tag that said “LA County Jail.” I transformed into the incarcerated Nicole. \nLadies, it is possible to be cute and creative. You don’t have to settle for typical and clichéd outfits. They’re overpriced and unnecessary. Halloween is meant to be different than any other night, but it just ends up like every other one. And drunken dudes are going to hit on you all whether you’re a rubix cube or a Playboy bunny. Unlike the portrayal of Halloween in “Mean Girls,” you can be something in between Lindsay Lohan’s “ex-wife” costume and everyone else’s lingerie with cat ears. \nAnd for those of you who dared to challenge the norm this year, mad props.