Many local Halloween costume stores have found themselves with extra full-coverage costumes on their hands this year and are running out of “sexy” costumes.
Bart McGregor, owner of Halloween Express, blames global warming for the overstock of what he calls “full-body” costumes.
“Our most popular items this season have been Cadet Chelsea, Shayla the Sexy Schoolgirl and Kasey the Kitty-Cat,” McGregor said.
The cadet costume consists of fishnet stockings and a camouflage minidress that hits just above the upper thigh. The schoolgirl costume includes: glasses, a miniskirt, a pocket protector (to be worn over the left nipple) and a handkerchief (to be worn over the right nipple). The kitty costume is made up of a black bikini, a pin-on tail and a pointy-eared headband.
“It’s not that I think more girls want to dress provocatively, I just think there are fewer who want to dress up like scary witches or silly clowns anymore,” McGregor said.
However, some Oshkosh students said that being scantily clad is one of the highlights of Halloween.
“It’s not like I can wear booty shorts out any day of the week,” Lindsay Lickens, a freshman who plans to dress as Miley Cyrus, said. “Plus more guys will pay attention to me if I dress kind of slutty. No guy, like, likes those scary witch costumes.”
Lickens also added that she is “so pumped” for her first college Halloween.
Whitney Fiddle, a junior, doesn’t think global warming has anything to do with girls wearing fewer clothes on Halloween. In fact, she said she plans to get “super drunk” before leaving her apartment so that “she won’t even notice how cold it is.”
“I’m dressing as a chef, but I’m only wearing underwear under my apron, so I’d probably be chilly if I wasn’t drunk,” Fiddle said.
Though many girls are excited for Halloween, they weren’t so excited about how much the costumes cost.
“I paid $70 for a striped onesie,” Erika Walleye, a senior who plans to dress as Jenny the Jailbird, said. “It didn’t even come with handcuffs or anything.”
Though her costume was expensive, Walleye said there was no way she would consider not buying it because then she wouldn’t fit in with her friends.
As for the high sales of “sexy” costumes, McGregor certainly doesn’t mind the extra funds.
“Since the costumes are in such high demand, we are able to charge 200 percent more than it costs to actually make the outfits,” McGregor said. “To be honest, most of the costumes are flammable and probably shouldn’t be allowed in bars where people are smoking, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take.”
Disclaimer: This article appears in our Halloween Issue and is satirical in nature.
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