Here’s your hallowe’en costume sorted!

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www.the-pool.com/news-views/fashion-news/2018/38/Yandy-makes-sexy-handmaids-tale-costume-for-Halloween

I am jack’s total despair at humanity....

Usual non apology shit and waffle about ‘empowerment’ ... 🤦🏻‍♀️

Wow.

I think for the name alone the Bondage Naughty School Girl wins, although it's quite hard to tell she's meant to be a school girl in the costume. But so creepy.

Yeah, just wow.

I googled "Tasteful Halloween Costumes"

This British site came up. Whilst there are some short skirts and nurse costumes most of them are ok and at least have a horror theme. (The graveyard dress and a couple of other dresses are not a million miles from dresses I've had in real life)

www.smiffys.com/collections/womens-halloween-costumes

When I clicked on the thread I was honestly expecting to see a picture of Pippa Bunce in the pink dress...

I think that would be a great Halloween costume.

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That made me laugh (in the nicest possible way) Tasteful halloween costumes

I need want the Medieval Costume.

www.smiffys.com/products/medieval-vampiress-costume

It's so Fenella Fielding, RIP.

Thank you placemats. I love that scene.

It’s interesting that Margaret Atwood’s writing has become mainstream enough for a company to consider doing a handmaid outfit.

Doing a ‘sexy handmaid’ is gross.. I think that’s what the OP is saying, and if she is, I agree. But would wearing a “ genuine” handmaid dress and hat that looked just like the one in the series on Halloween be OK?

Would that be a bad Halloween thing to do? Or do people think that would be bad taste.

Personally I wouldn’t. I’d be too scared it would be taken the wrong way.

Fucking hell. I despair.

Would that be a bad Halloween thing to do? Or do people think that would be bad taste

I think it would be in bad taste. Being slightly serious , given I don't really care about Halloween, the difference between the Smiffys' site and the awful one in the opening post is Smiffys has characters which are meant to be scary- zombies, vampires, ghouls, pirates etc. Whilst these might come to a bad end, they are all characters with power.

The idea of a society with handmaids is frightening but that is because of what is done to the handmaids - not what they do. Wearing a handmaid's costume is appropriating a victim's role.

Women have used realistic handmaiden costumes to protest in: its a powerful image.

That is fine. It's a completely different context of course.

I think this is one of the places where there is a big difference between here and the US. UK has to be scary- USA has anything goes.

Mr Bean looking very tasteful and classy (except for the earrings and decolletage).

Just change it from red to orange and say she's Dutch.