On Halloween, no age is too old to be dressing up. Anyone at any age can be whoever he or she wants to be.
It is a night where lots of children and young adults go out trick-or-treating with their friends in hopes of getting a lot of candy. Other holiday traditions around Halloween include having costume parties and carving Jack-o’-Lanterns to put out on the doorstep.
In the eyes of a college student, the Halloween scene has changed, and instead of sticking to the tradition of going out trick-or-treating, they wait in anticipation to go to upcoming Halloween parties with their friends.
How has Halloween changed compared to when we were younger?
“Halloween used to be about going out with your friends to get candy,” Anthony DiMartino, junior accounting major, said. “Now, instead of carrying a pillow case, were carrying a case of beer.”
“We’re kind of past the point of going from house to house knocking on people’s doors for candy,” Ben Roda, junior accounting major, said. “Instead, now we go door to door and drink beers with our peers.”
Not only does the tradition of how college students celebrate change, the costume choices do, as well.
Girls commonly dress in a more provocative and revealing way when Halloween comes around. Everyone has their own personal opinion on why it is acceptable or why they criticize what these girls do.
What do college guys think about these costume choices?
“I am completely okay with girls dressing up in a revealing way on Halloween because it is a time where they can be themselves and they have an excuse to look that way,” DiMartino said.
“I don’t think that it’s okay for girls to dress that way on Halloween,” John Underwood, junior international buisness major, said. “I think that they should have more respect for themselves than to dress in a more provocative and inappropriate way.”
“Girls should cover themselves up and not expose themselves as much as they do on Halloween,” Roda said.
Students dressed up in their favorite costumes for Saturday’s Boo-B dance.
It seems too much that as the years go on, so have the decisions by girls to dress up this way.
Why do guys think that girls in our generation dress in such a provocative manner?
“I think girls get the idea of dressing up that way from seeing costume ideas from TV shows like Keeping Up with the Kardashians and other TV channels such as MTV,” Roda said.
“I think that girls got the idea to dress in an inappropriate manner from the movie Mean Girls,” DiMartino said. “That’s where society got the idea that girls have an excuse to look revealing on Halloween.”
The movie “Mean Girls” is one of the most popular movies that relates to a girls atti- tude in regards to how they dress up on Halloween. There are many girls that wear the same costume choices that the characters in the movie wore today.
There are many popular costumes that girls commonly pick each year based upon current trends. There are also some more traditional costumes that girls decide to go with every year.
What are the most common Halloween costumes worn by girls?
“There are a lot of girls that dress up as minions,” Underwood said.
“The top three Halloween costumes that girls pick are definitely a bunny, a cat and a private school girl,” DiMartino said.
“Every single girl that I know wants to be risky business on Halloween,” Roda said. “It is so annoying and I’m done with it. It’s too cliché.”
