# Where are all the non-slutty Halloween Costumes? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 16, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231 "2008-10-16T17:25:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/61 "2013-10-15T16:21:42Z")
Slutty zombie? ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/62 "2013-10-15T16:34:42Z")
Chris March has some really fun wigs at Target this year. They’re made of foam rubber and super light weight but they’re in that huge, eye-catching, style he likes for his own wigs. I especially like the Medusa one. > **[Chris March Celebrates Halloween Wig Line for Target](https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-SEB-77303)** > > Halloween may be a month away, but skeletons, geishas and Medusas came out last night to celebrate the launch of designer Chris March's Halloween wig collection for Target. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/63 "2013-10-15T16:42:36Z")
Since it’s still a [relevant question](http://fucknosexisthalloweencostumes.tumblr.com/tagged/halloween-costume), here are a bunch of [cool, non-slutty costumes for women](http://takebackhalloween.org/). ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/64 "2013-10-16T12:51:01Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Slutty zombie? Oh, I do go for a gal with parts fallin’ off of her. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/65 "2013-10-16T13:05:57Z")
> [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Since it’s still a [relevant question](http://fucknosexisthalloweencostumes.tumblr.com/tagged/halloween-costume), here are a bunch of [cool, non-slutty costumes for women](http://takebackhalloween.org/). Sorry. Those are extremely uncool costumes. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/66 "2013-10-16T13:36:08Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Sorry. Those are extremely uncool costumes. Right, sorry. I meant to say “totally nerdy”. They’re “cool” to me\* and other nerds, but not to, like, normal people. \*If I were at a party, and saw someone wearing one of those, and I asked, “Who are you?” (because I’d have no idea), and they responded: “[Ada Lovelace](http://takebackhalloween.org/ada-lovelace/)” or “[Hedy Lamarr](http://takebackhalloween.org/hedy-lamarr/)” or “[Sojourner Truth](http://takebackhalloween.org/sojourner-truth/)”, I’d say, without a trace of irony, “_Awesome_! That’s so cool!” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/67 "2013-10-16T13:48:15Z")
Wear a big brown bag and zombie facepaint. Tell people you’re the Walking (Milk) Dud. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/68 "2013-10-16T14:07:04Z")
> [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Right, sorry. I meant to say “totally nerdy”. They’re “cool” to me\* and other nerds, but not to, like, normal people. > > \*If I were at a party, and saw someone wearing one of those, and I asked, “Who are you?” (because I’d have no idea), and they responded: “[Ada Lovelace](http://takebackhalloween.org/ada-lovelace/)” or “[Hedy Lamarr](http://takebackhalloween.org/hedy-lamarr/)” or “[Sojourner Truth](http://takebackhalloween.org/sojourner-truth/)”, I’d say, without a trace of irony, “_Awesome_! That’s so cool!” It’s just kind of painful though. That site clearly just wanted to talk about women in Science history and shoe horned it into Halloween. If someone explained one of those costumes to me (and they’d have to) my immediate thought would be “I guess someone’s trying to make a point”. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/69 "2013-10-16T15:54:33Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > It’s just kind of painful though. That site clearly just wanted to talk about women in Science history and shoe horned it into Halloween. If someone explained one of those costumes to me (and they’d have to) my immediate thought would be “I guess someone’s trying to make a point”. The problem is, Halloween costumes are like jokes, they lose most of their effectiveness if you have to explain them, and those costumes take a lot of explaining. For example, I know who Ada Lovelace is, and I think dressing up as her at any number of events would be cool, but I have no idea what she looked like and how she dressed other than “1800s.” Same with most of the others. Anyway, like most guys, I LIKE slutty costumes for women. Sue me. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/70 "2013-10-16T15:58:51Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Anyway, like most guys, I LIKE slutty costumes for women. Sue me. Nothing wrong with liking slutty costumes, or liking to wear slutty costumes, if that’s what you’re into. But it _is_ pretty frustrating when looking at costume ads and seeing things like: Men’s: Policeman, Fireman, Superhero Women’s: Slutty Policewoman, Slutty Firewoman, Slutty Superheroine A choice would be nice, for those of us who actually might like to dress up as the actual version of something, not the “slutty” version. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/71 "2013-10-16T16:05:22Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Nothing wrong with liking slutty costumes, or liking to wear slutty costumes, if that’s what you’re into. But it _is_ pretty frustrating when looking at costume ads and seeing things like: > > Men’s: Policeman, Fireman, Superhero > Women’s: Slutty Policewoman, Slutty Firewoman, Slutty Superheroine > > A choice would be nice, for those of us who actually might like to dress up as the actual version of something, not the “slutty” version. 😕 Buy a smaller size “men’s” costume maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/72 "2013-10-16T16:16:44Z")
Oh, sure, there are plenty of ways around it. But it’s annoying that by default, the men’s costumes are “normal” and the women’s costumes are “slutty.” So if a woman wants a non-slutty costume she usually has to either put it together herself or settle for a weirdly-fitting men’s costume (some women fit fine in men’s costumes–fortunately for me I’m one of them. But many don’t–and many would actually like to have the costume fit them properly so they can, you know, look like a female firefighter instead of a small male firefighter in an ill-fitting uniform. :P). That kind of sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/73 "2013-10-16T18:40:22Z")
But real female firefighters look like small male firefighters in ill-fitting uniforms. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/74 "2013-10-16T20:14:00Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Oh, sure, there are plenty of ways around it. But it’s annoying that by default, the men’s costumes are “normal” and the women’s costumes are “slutty.” So if a woman wants a non-slutty costume she usually has to either put it together herself or settle for a weirdly-fitting men’s costume (some women fit fine in men’s costumes–fortunately for me I’m one of them. But many don’t–and many would actually like to have the costume fit them properly so they can, you know, look like a female firefighter instead of a small male firefighter in an ill-fitting uniform. :P). That kind of sucks. I can see why it would suck a little but that’s not only area it kinda sucks to be a minority consumer. Clearly slutty sells. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/75 "2013-10-16T21:06:13Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Sorry. Those are extremely uncool costumes. They have [pirates](http://takebackhalloween.org/anne-bonny-mary-read/), too. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/76 "2013-10-16T21:11:59Z")
“Slutty” ghosts? [http://www.pinterest.com/pin/18718154670921944/](http://www.pinterest.com/pin/18718154670921944/) ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/77 "2013-10-16T21:32:52Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > They have [pirates](http://takebackhalloween.org/anne-bonny-mary-read/), too. Haha, the jokes on them. ISTM the real point of all those costumes is so that people will ask “Who are you supposed to be?” so the feminist hallowiener can explain about an important woman in history. With that one everyone will just think “Oh. Pirate”. lol. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/78 "2013-10-16T22:08:18Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > Oh, I do go for a gal with parts fallin’ off of her. > > 😃 I haven’t thought of John Valby (aka Dr. Dirty) in years. NSFW printed lyrics: [at the bottom of the page](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.music.dementia/0RARawrOHnc) Yes, he sang (still sings?) this song ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/79 "2013-10-16T22:20:06Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Men’s: Policeman, Fireman, Superhero > Women’s: Slutty Policewoman, Slutty Firewoman, Slutty Superheroine > > / To be fair, “real” SuperHeroine costumes start at a pretty high bar for slutty. Not really much of a change for Halloween. Never seen anyone go as Mystique however. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231/80 "2013-10-16T22:20:21Z")
Just from my experiences I suppose, but I never knew that there were any other kinds of adults/adult costumes who dressed up for Halloween. I remember when I was 12 (and not even a very well-developed one or anything) and took my younger siblings with me trick or treating. I was told by several adults that I was way too old to be dressed up for Halloween. Perhaps that scarred me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-non-slutty-halloween-costumes/468231.md?page=5)