{"id":52266,"date":"2013-10-27T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=52266"},"modified":"2013-10-17T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T20:39:56","slug":"halloween-costumes-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/10\/27\/halloween-costumes-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Costumes: Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become a tradition, every year about this time, to have a national conversation about the rise of sexy Halloween costumes, especially for little girls. \u00a0But are they really sexier than before?<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough. \u00a0Jessica Samakow at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/25\/sexy-halloween-costumes-for-girls_n_2011943.html#slide=1687821\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a> put together a gallery of then and now photos, sent along by Katrin. \u00a0See for yourself:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/51.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52308\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/51.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/214.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-52305\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/214-500x383.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/214-500x383.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/214.jpg 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/71.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-52310\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/71.jpg\" width=\"365\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/62.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52309\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/62.jpg\" width=\"351\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/43.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-52307\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/43.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/38.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-52306\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/38-500x382.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/38-500x382.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/38.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/122.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-6\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-52304\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/122-500x450.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/122-500x450.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/122.jpg 527w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/82.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-7\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-52303\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/82-500x412.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/82-500x412.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/82-110x90.jpg 110w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/10\/82.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about sexy costumes for women and girls: <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/10\/25\/boy-and-girl-toddler-cookie-monster-costumes\/\" target=\"_blank\">boy and girl cookie monster costumes<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/30\/when-sexy-overtakes-all-reasoning\/\" target=\"_self\">when sexy overtakes all reason<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/10\/29\/sexy-femininity-and-gender-inequality\/\">sexy femininity and gender inequality<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/2007\/10\/02\/just-in-time-for-halloweensexism\/\" target=\"_self\">sexy scholar<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/28\/the-sexualization-of-children-harem-girl\/\" target=\"_self\">Harem girl<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/29\/jane-doe-body-bag-sexy-halloween-costume-for-your-fucked-up-pleasure\/\" target=\"_self\">sexy body bag costume<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/10\/24\/a-halloween-gender-binary\/\" target=\"_blank\">a Halloween gender binary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become a tradition, every year about this time, to have a national conversation about the rise of sexy Halloween costumes, especially for little girls. \u00a0But are they really sexier than before? Sure enough. \u00a0Jessica Samakow at the Huffington Post put together a gallery of then and now photos, sent along by Katrin. \u00a0See for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":56601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,55,2099,2102,253,254,120],"class_list":["post-52266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-history","tag-history","tag-holidays","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/09\/Screenshot_5.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52266"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57707,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52266\/revisions\/57707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}