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Halloween goes PG-13: this year's borderline inappropriate costumes
Joshua Aromin
Issue date: 10/31/08 Section: Entertainment
10/31/08 - It's that time of year again. The air is colder. The leaves have changed colors. We're mid-semester and with Halloween tonight, it's time to take a look at four of the more classy costumes readily available at a store near you.
1. T-shirts with a clever message printed onto the front have become a pretty big fad over the years and a popular article of clothing. And now they're also making their way into the Halloween circuit. The first costume is merely a white t-shirt with a plush monkey attached to the right shoulder. The shirt reads, "Spank My Monkey for 25 cents." Indeed for many, spanking monkeys is a universal pastime, but now it's evolving into a cooperative activity for the bargain-basement low price of 25 cents. This costume is not only simple, but it's quick, straight to the point and relatively inexpensive. You could also use it as an everyday shirt, but that's probably not a good idea.
2. Throughout past Halloweens, vendors have created a new area of costumes. They forged the "sexy" genre of costumes by taking ordinary characters and occupations and transforming them into more revealing alter-egos of their previous selves. Usually, there have been "sexy" costumes such as a police officer, doctor and even a Hermione Granger-like wizard. This year, a new masquerading marvel has hit store shelves in the form of the sexy Spongebob. Yes, that's right! Your favorite yellow, square-panted individual has made his way from Bikini Bottom into the creative mind of a marketing fiend, and has finally landed at your favorite Halloween store. Though Spongebob's face is planted on the costume's shirt, the bottom of the costume is a skirt, totally going against the idea of "square pants."
3. Throughout autumn- not to mention the rest of the year- we're all prone to catching a cold or two. It's always a good idea to have a box of tissues around. But this year, you can be a box of tissues! Again, we have another play on words with this bulky, yet ridiculous, box of tissues. The costume is a blue box that goes over the top like a shirt with a headpiece in the form of a tissue. On the front, the phrase "Blow Me" is printed. We are told that there are (conveniently) 69 tissues in a box.
4. Another Halloween-time favorite is the Snake Charmer costume. Like the other costumes on this list, the Snake Charmer is more, uh, interesting than it sounds. It's more than simply an outfit that comes with a basket and a plush snake.
The fancy deluxe Snake Charmer costume consists of the usual headpiece, flute, matching shirt and vest, as well as a snake protruding from the crotch area. I'm sure this sort of fun is exactly what Sir Mixalot had in mind when he expressed the feelings of his anaconda in the hip-hop classic "Baby Got Back."
Well, there you have it. For those of you just don't want to be a pumpkin for the fifth year in a row- or if you're afraid everyone and their mom is going to be Batman or the Joker for Halloween- the collective minds of designers around the world have done some painstaking work in order to produce the most sophisticated and admirable costumes ever.
1. T-shirts with a clever message printed onto the front have become a pretty big fad over the years and a popular article of clothing. And now they're also making their way into the Halloween circuit. The first costume is merely a white t-shirt with a plush monkey attached to the right shoulder. The shirt reads, "Spank My Monkey for 25 cents." Indeed for many, spanking monkeys is a universal pastime, but now it's evolving into a cooperative activity for the bargain-basement low price of 25 cents. This costume is not only simple, but it's quick, straight to the point and relatively inexpensive. You could also use it as an everyday shirt, but that's probably not a good idea.
2. Throughout past Halloweens, vendors have created a new area of costumes. They forged the "sexy" genre of costumes by taking ordinary characters and occupations and transforming them into more revealing alter-egos of their previous selves. Usually, there have been "sexy" costumes such as a police officer, doctor and even a Hermione Granger-like wizard. This year, a new masquerading marvel has hit store shelves in the form of the sexy Spongebob. Yes, that's right! Your favorite yellow, square-panted individual has made his way from Bikini Bottom into the creative mind of a marketing fiend, and has finally landed at your favorite Halloween store. Though Spongebob's face is planted on the costume's shirt, the bottom of the costume is a skirt, totally going against the idea of "square pants."
3. Throughout autumn- not to mention the rest of the year- we're all prone to catching a cold or two. It's always a good idea to have a box of tissues around. But this year, you can be a box of tissues! Again, we have another play on words with this bulky, yet ridiculous, box of tissues. The costume is a blue box that goes over the top like a shirt with a headpiece in the form of a tissue. On the front, the phrase "Blow Me" is printed. We are told that there are (conveniently) 69 tissues in a box.
4. Another Halloween-time favorite is the Snake Charmer costume. Like the other costumes on this list, the Snake Charmer is more, uh, interesting than it sounds. It's more than simply an outfit that comes with a basket and a plush snake.
The fancy deluxe Snake Charmer costume consists of the usual headpiece, flute, matching shirt and vest, as well as a snake protruding from the crotch area. I'm sure this sort of fun is exactly what Sir Mixalot had in mind when he expressed the feelings of his anaconda in the hip-hop classic "Baby Got Back."
Well, there you have it. For those of you just don't want to be a pumpkin for the fifth year in a row- or if you're afraid everyone and their mom is going to be Batman or the Joker for Halloween- the collective minds of designers around the world have done some painstaking work in order to produce the most sophisticated and admirable costumes ever.
