(See what we did there? Like the love child of ‘Got milk’ and ‘You’ve been tangoed’)
Laura Reynolds looks at the hype surrounding the collaboration.
Just a week to go until the man in red arrives...
How many times have you gone out on the town in York and seen hordes of scantily dressed girls dressed in “fancy dress”, making a drunken beeline for Ziggy’s? One night I was almost impressed to see a girl dressed as a sexy post lady. It’s very hard to make a post lady sexy, but somehow this girl had managed it. But this begs the question, why would you want to make a post lady sexy? The traditional erotic fantasies of female fancy dress involve maids, nurses and secretaries, but a post lady? Why do we, in our overly-sexed society, feel the need to sexualise everything? One need only type “sexy Alice” into Google to find sultry blonde models dressed in skimpy, Alice in Wonderland outfits. Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, takes place on 4th May, Alice’s seventh birthday. Seven years old and grown women are dressing in a sexualised pastiche of her outfit? It all just seems a bit wrong.
It’s exactly the same situation at Halloween, and it all seems a bit irrelevant. Some of the most popular outfits amongst girls are some kind of animal or a devil. These involve the least amount of work possible and consist basically of some cheap plastic ears or horns and the skimpiest outfit possible. This quote from the film Mean Girls (2004) sums up the process beautifully: “Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” It seems ironic that “slut” is seen as an acceptable substitute for “scary”, that you can ask someone what their Halloween costume is and they can say, “A mouse, duh,” and not question the fact that mice, well, they’re not really that scary. At all.
I myself am not against fancy dress. In fact I love dressing up, and there is a certain joy in the freedom to dress unusually, to maybe show a little more leg than usual, in the name of your character. But originality is needed, and an effort to make your costume at least relevant to the occasion. Ok so, you want to dress as a French maid for whatever reason for Halloween. Just cover yourself in fake blood, add some pointy plastic fangs and be a French maid who has been turned into a vampire. Sometimes the most fun costumes are the ones that are totally odd, for example turning up as a haunted Ouija board, complete with cardboard sandwich-board style outfit. Be original and maybe you will be appreciated for your sense of humour and creativity rather than your body.
I like the fact that you've mentioned girls "making a drunken beeline for Ziggy's" and then that the picture includes a woman dressed as a bee.
I also like this fact. Unfortunately, they missed the opportunity to say that Ziggy's is often "buzzing".
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