First off, I grew up in the "scary" costume era and during that time, I also went to church. So, in my Halloween costume wearing years, my normal choices of;
a vampire,
ghoul,
monster, etc now became
Bible Characters.
Bible Characters.
Think about it, the book that parents and clergy use to warn us about the "evils" of sex, we were now using it to create a list of Halloween/Harvest time costumes from.
I actually prayed and begged God to allow a few girls I had crushes on to come as Rahab the Prostitute, Salome the dancer, or Eve (pre fig leaf), but God said no to my creative prayer.
Let me be clear, I was glad my church even had a Halloween/Harvest opportunity to wear a costume at all. Some of my friend's churches didn't even celebrate holidays, so I guess I picked a better church to go to. I can remember my non-holiday celebrating church friends and I would sneak off to the Renaissance Fair and dream. Sigh.
So, my church's Halloween party night came, and the girls came to the church Halloween party as;
The 10 Commandment tablets (her boyfriend came as Moses),
Angels (there were 10 of those),
Joy (Ya know, one of the Fruits if the Spirit. Turns out there was a group of girls that were going to come dressed as all the Fruits of the Spirit (I mean, how cool would it be to go dressed up as 'Self Control'? Yep uber coolness.), but then the other girls changed their mind, came as angels, and never told the girl that was coming dressed up as Joy. The girl dressed up as Joy beat up a few angels at the party when she finally found out. It was quite a scene, angels with black eyes and bloody lips. It turns out Joy had a mean left hook.),
and a Zombie (turns out she got to stay on a technicality. She said she was dressed up as the little girl in the Bible story that Jesus brought back from the dead).
I almost got kicked out of the party, too. I put on a suit, carried a Bible and said I was dressed as Jimmy Swaggart. Yup, I was a Halloween rebel in 1987.
So, women can now come dressed as sexy (anything), and (normal looking) guys have the choice of;
fat Elvis,
a box with dots all over it (case of the measels),
Hobo,
Baseball player,
or not go the party and say they came dressed as the Invisible Man.
Halloween is still a cruel joke for a guy.
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I'm not a fan of Halloween at all! I hate to be scared. I do remember some costumes I was as a child and none included biblical characters! A hooker, a vampire, a witch, and an old man. Now, I opt for more sexier costumes as an adult last year a sexy referee, and before that a sexy little nurses outfit. I can't say I even look at any men costumes but at the party stores they seem to out number the women costumes.
What gets me is that have always looked forward to that one night of super scarey fun, trying to look my ugliest and then what heppens? If I go to a party I am ignored because of all the "ladies" prancing around leaving nothing to the imagination. What's so creative about that? Any "ho" can do that. Sheesh!
Im with you, back in the day everyone wore a scary costume.
Now a days, I feel as if it is a free for all to let women dress like sluts.
I went to a concert recently where there was a costume contest.
Honestly I felt over dressed.
Let me just add that I am not a prud by any means.
I am a very sexual person, I just dont think that I need to save it up all year for one freakin day.
Just sayin........
Recently, the people going out during Halloween wear costumes that do make me feel that I'm overdressed. Yes, even guys do that dancing-fireman-in-a-cake thing during Halloween. I usually dress up as someone from KISS, wearing either one of my wife's Modu wigs or one of my sister's Motown Tress wigs. Yeah, that's it. I miss those days when people would just wear something scary and not something sexy.
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