Do you know what you’re gonna be for HOLLAween? Show it off!
We’ve teamed up with HollabackPhilly and Beauty Redefined to create an alternative to the widespread pornification of Halloween, and we need YOU to help us make it happen! Submit your spookiest, creepiest, punniest, funniest, most creative and brilliant costumes to our Costume Contest for the chance to win amazing prizes (including an iPod!). But we don’t want just any store-bought costume–like SPARKteam member Melissa says below, this contest is about creativity.
For full rules and details, visit HollabackPhilly’s website. Happy HOLLAween!
Love, love, love this idea. I can’t wait to see the winning entries. This is such a great way to combat the proliferation of “sexy” (read: objectifying) costumes. I went to the local costume store before I’d decided what I wanted to be this year, and I was so angry by the time I left I was shaking.
The ONLY available costumes for women were barely noticeable variations on a short skirt/dress combo, fishnets and various patterns that indicate what “sexy” thing the costume is supposed to be. For little girls? Princesses. For the guys: SO MUCH VARIETY (as well as some horrifically stupid male-as-female costumes: “Anita Waxin'”? Spare me). There are realistic, clever costumes for guys and boys to wear.
I don’t mind if people want to dress up in a sexy way on Halloween – go to town, have fun, do something that makes you feel attractive and empowered, if that’s what does it for you. But when that’s the only option that’s provided, when that’s what is expected of me because I happen to be a woman, that’s not okay. This is a problem. I’m so glad there’s something out there to combat it.