The evolution of the Halloween costume is an interesting one. It is always funny to see how we went from dressing as pumpkins when we were toddlers, to Disney princesses when we were preschoolers, to pop stars when we were in elementary school. The way in which our attitudes change toward the Halloween costume in college, however, is especially funny.
Freshman Year
It is our first year in college, aka our first year of freedom. Automatically, the insightful words of Cady Herron come to mind (“Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it”), along with the image of Regina George dressed as a playboy bunny in front of her crying dad. Luckily the ’rents were not around for this Halloween. We all went as the sluttiest version of our various costumes as possible – slutty police officers, slutty nurses, even slutty ___ (who knew that could be slutty??).
Sophomore Year
We got the totally slutty year out of our system, but we still want to look cute. Second time around we progressed slightly, moving from slutty to sexy. The fraternities are hosting their still relatively new to us “date party” and obviously we have to go looking hawt. This year we dressed as sexy black cats or cute little bumble bees – just add animal ears and it’s cute, right?
Junior Year
Halloween is starting to get kind of old at this point. We are sick of seeing scantily-clad freshmen going a little too crazy on this particular night of the year. We made our junior year costume a complete joke – bacon and eggs to loofas to tacos. We just want to have a good time.
Senior Year
Are people even dressing up this year? Halloween barely registers with us senior year, and we didn’t even plan out a costume in advance. We just took whatever we had in our closets and made it work. First priority is warmth. This means resorting to a head to toe body suit if we have to.