Did you survive Halloweekend?

Halloween is easily one of the most anticipated weekends in college. College students trade in the one night of trick-or-treating and exchange it with potentially three straight nights (Thursday, Friday and Saturday) of partying in a various of costumes.

According to Urban Dictionary, Halloweekend is defined as: “the weekend before Halloween (starting on Thursday and ending on Sunday or whatever day Halloween falls on). It does not matter what day of the week Halloween is because parties happen all weekend long. Halloweekends are usually at colleges where they party hard. Many people have multiple costumes for each night of Halloweekend.”

So when you go to college, costumes are still a thing. But, when you cross over the imaginary line from childhood to college Halloween, the costumes drastically alter. For most girls, it almost becomes a competition of who can wear the least amount of clothing but still be considered in “costume.” Or how to make childhood costumes sexy.

For example, very stereotypical Halloween costumes for girls are being animals, mainly animals derived from the feline family: household cat, cheetah, or lion. Basically these costumes only require an animal-eared headband, a black dress and heels.

Other “classic” girl Halloween costumes include hot nerds, sexy cops, Risky Business, clowns, Hermione Granger, Waldo, Thing 1/Thing 2, sexy Minnie Mouse, and of course Karen from Mean Girls (“I’m a Mouse Duh!”). At least half of the costumes listed are just a reinvention of the innocent childhood version.

For guys, I think they actually win in the creative category. I truly feel that guys dress up better for Halloween because they dress up “funny.” Some classic funny costumes include: Pope, Rabbi, being a girl (Basic White Girl), super heroes, and various TV/Movie characters.

In general, there are “funny” costumes for both guys and girls and if pulled off right they are normally really funny. The fruit suits are always a big hit, whether it be the banana suit, or I’ve seen people dress up in lime suits. Some other trending suits are pizza, hotdog, Breaking Bad meth cooker outfit, the infamous Miley Cyrus jumpsuit and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Well, this ends my rant on Halloween costumes. If anyone took any offense to what I said, I’m sorry but these are just the facts.

Halloween isn’t for another 362 days so we all have a lot of time to think of whatever creative/basic/funny costumes we want to wear.