Halloween 2015 Sexy Costumes For Adults to Watch

Halloween 2015 Sexy Costumes For Adults to Watch:Halloween makes for a great holiday for college students and grown-ups. It’s also a really exciting opportunity to make bad decisions about costumes that’ll kill your career and your social life. It wouldn’t really be Halloween without some white guy putting on blackface to celebrate a racial stereotype, or maybe some wiseguy (and wisegal) pairing up because they have a really relevant costume based on making light of domestic violence.

Then, of course, you have to be sure to post the pictures of your offensive outfits all over Facebook and Instagram. Otherwise, you might miss out on some media exposure when a bored journalist decides to create a quick brouhaha over all of your innocent fun. (Although it was a little less innocent when an Official Naked Girl joined the Wildest Halloween Costumes of ASU.)

Anyway, we’re way past the point where Halloween was only dangerous because of some urban legends about razor blades in apples. Now people can slit their own wrists (figuratively)–and there’s no end of goofballs grabbing really offensive and inappropriate Halloween costumes. Check out some really bad decisions. Or, if you’re kind of crazy, get some exciting ideas for this coming Halloween. Just don’t act like you know us later on…

Halloween 2015 Sexy Costumes

Why Does Everything Have to be “Sexy”?!

I realize that some people like to use Halloween as an excuse to dress in a way in which they’d never normally dress. Suddenly, usually modest ladies are breaking out the mini-skirts, form-fitting spandex and/or leather, and plunging necklines (please note that the original Queen of Hearts doesn’t even have CLEAVAGE).

What gives?! Why does “dressing up for Halloween” also mean “dressing like a street-walking prostitute”?

A simple Google search of “women’s halloween costume ideas” comes up with images like the following:

How do they trick-or-treat in those heels?!

Okay, I get it: if you’re proud of your body and want an opportunity to show it off a bit more than you would normally, perhaps a slightly suggestive Halloween costume is a solution.

But what happened to creativity?! What happened to coming up with the best costume idea? And why, oh why, do women feel more pressure to look “sexy” on Halloween than to come up with the best costume?

Bring Back the Good Halloween Costume Ideas

I don’t know if I’m living in a fantasy world where once upon a time the most important thing about a Halloween costume was how creative it was, but I say, bring that time back.

To me, the whole fun of dressing up for Halloween is planning the perfect outfit. One year, a friend threw a cross-dressing Halloween party; everyone had to go dressed as someone of the opposite sex. I won’t include photos or go too far into the details (this is a family blog, after all–I think), but I will say that I dressed as a flasher. No, it wasn’t sexy. It was simply brilliant and hilarious. It was the night of my greatest triumph.

Other greatest hits include dressing as a laundry basket (truly terrifying) and as the woman from “Psycho” who gets stabbed in the shower.

See? A potentially “sexy” costume idea made simply brilliant (and appropriately warm for Northern England on the 31st of October).

Dressing “Sexy” Is a Cop Out

Frankly, if you have no more creative ideas than to prance around in your underwear on October 31st, then you have missed the spirit of Halloween.

Halloween is a family holiday. Yes, there are often “grown ups only” parties, but the whole trick-or-treating thing and dressing up is all about fun for the kids.

Plus, what kind of example are we ladies giving to young girls who want to dress up for Halloween? With all these sexy firewomen, sexy policewomen, sexy nuns (yes, NUNS), etc., what message are we sending to girls?

We’re basically telling them that Halloween is about dressing in skimpy outfits to try and attract as much (I would argue negative) male attention as possible.

No. Just, no.

Go Out and Get Creative

Halloween is about fun, creativity, and having a good laugh. If you want to dress in a sexy Halloween costume, go ahead. But at least make it inventive. This year, make an effort to come up with a brilliant Halloween costume idea. After all, having the best and most creative–not the sexiest–costume is what usually gets you the prize.

And just for a giggle, here’s this: