Slutty zombie?
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.
Since it’s still a relevant question, here are a bunch of cool, non-slutty costumes for women.
Oh, I do go for a gal with parts fallin’ off of her.
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” or “Hedy Lamarr” or “Sojourner Truth”, I’d say, without a trace of irony, “Awesome! That’s so cool!”
Wear a big brown bag and zombie facepaint.
Tell people you’re the Walking (Milk) Dud.
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.
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?
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.
But real female firefighters look like small male firefighters in ill-fitting uniforms.
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.
They have pirates, too.
“Slutty” ghosts?
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.
I haven’t thought of John Valby (aka Dr. Dirty) in years.
NSFW printed lyrics: at the bottom of the page Yes, he sang (still sings?) this song
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.
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.