Why oh why are all the women at DH's work dressed as 'sexy witches'

We live somewhere with a huge number of students, and you should see the fancy dress on display, every night of the year nowadays too. The vast, vast majority of the girls wear next to nothing, you can't be a bumble bee you've got to be a SEXY bumble bee ffs. Grrr!

Same here Yuno - went to a Halloween party with a mate many years ago. I was the Blair Witch Project (black extremely NON-sexy witch outfit, photo of Tony Blair - hilarious, non?) and my friend was Carrie from the horror film (fake blood).

Every other woman in the place was a sexy devil, sexy witch etc (like you say, underwear with horns or pointy hat).

Double sigh.

This kind of dressing up is all such shite. It reminds me of the 'Back to School' crap when I went to University. I wore my actual old school dress: calf-length with lime green stripes and a money belt. Surrounded by agahst Britney Spears-alikes.

I worked in a pub once where we all had to dress up for Halloween. All the girls agreed to dress up at witches and I duely arrived with green face, warty nose, blacked out teeth talon fingernails and spiders.

ALL the other girls were essentially wearing underwear and a pointy hat.

I felt a bit of a wally.

And I had no excuse. The previous fancy dress had been a pyjama party, to which I wore a big pair of checked pyjamas, a wee willy winky hat and some fluffy bunny slippers. WRONG. Everyone else was in babydoll pjs, satin slips and fluffy mules.

I work in a school and on our last fancy dress day the majority of female pupils were dressed as sexy versions if fairy tale characters. I felt quite depressed.

A friend of mine lives in the US and dreads Halloween as she says it's an excuse for women to dress like sluts (her words not mine). It annoys me that women collude with this crap. Yes it's their right to do so. I just wish they'd exercise those rights a little more constructively.

I went to my DSis's house party last night as a flying monkey from the Wizard of Oz, DH went as a severely bloodied and yucky zombie. However I did manage to make it a kind of burlesque monkey with a brocade corset and a little pillbox hat... I love dressing up and never get to go out with DH so a sexy (ish!) costume was what I felt like going for.
I did manage to unnerve a few people by poking them in the back with the end of my monkey tail, which was the size and shape of a willy though not the colour!

I'm watching X Factor (shamelessly!)

I also thought that about Wagner's backing dancers. Tbh, if they take the attention away from his inability to sing then I think they are there for a good purpose!

In a similar vein, is anyone watching the X Factor (watching for DH honest guv )?

What is it with the backing dancers for Wagner week on week? Can they put some bloody clothes on the women please? It's really pissing me off that each week he has semi naked women gyrating around - I bet the ones in the full length skeleton costumes tonight were men!

i saw a bloke dressed as woman for fancy dress the other day and had a go at him for it (was drunk myself)

I was in Office today looking at shoes and all the staff were dressed in costumes.

There were 3 female staff members: one sexy cat, one sexy pirate and one French maid. The sole male staff member was wearing a toga. He had bare legs, the females were wearing tights, so I suppose out of the 4 of them he was showing the most flesh.

(actuall I am over 25 and going to a party dressed as Madonna tonight so I can't really comment - although I promise my hair will be really really stupid)

I disagree EvilAnts - in America I think people are far more likely to be in full-body bumblebee costumes, or dressed as Obama, or Buzz Lightyear, whereas in the UK the dressing up is restricted to more 'Halloweeny' things (Vampires, Witches, Zombies). 'Sexyness' depends on whether you are aged 18-25 and feel the pressure to be sexy even when in fancy dress.

That's great Posie - he's obviously been listening to you (or reading your books when you're not around).

I think it's more of an american trend to be dressed as something "sexy" for halloween - most adult females in the UK are surely more likely to be a zombie or a normal witch or a skeleton or something?

lol posie at your dh .......ive never really been into fancy dress since my mothers actions -and I didnt even win.

When I was about 10 years old school held a fancy dress to raise money for 'band aid'..........my mother sent me as a .....

Bunny girl*

-complete with leotard fishnet tights and highheels.

But isn't it the girls right to dress as sexy witches - I doubt they were made to do so

boak

where they're all trying to outdo each other with how outrageous they are