Farrel Levenson ’11 & Eliza Hamburger ’10
Opinion Editors
| Photos on Facebook the day after Halloween will undoubtedly show lots of smiles, lots of candy, and lots of leg.
Halloween night is fraught with girls in inappropriate costumes, from bumblebees to nurses, French maids to policewomen. While some find this trend degrading, others find it harmless and fun. However, this wearing of revealing costumes often occurs around Halloween at school as well. |
“It’s an epidemic,” Greg Lawrence ’11 said of the revealing costumes girls wear to school. Fellow classmate Alec Lundberg ’11 echoed that statement.
“Every girl I know dresses that way in school on Halloween,” Lundberg said.
However, many male students at Staples, Lundberg and Lawrence included, believe that this kind of attire at school isn’t a problem.
“I think it’s a beautiful expression of creativity in school,” Mike Beispel ’10 said.
Jay Cawley ’11 had a similar opinion. “It’s their way of asserting their power: hotness,” Cawley said.
When Ben Brancucci ’11, was asked his opinion on this style of dress, he responded with one word, “Approved.”
Several female students, however, felt differently regarding the subject.
Susan Greenberg ’11 doesn’t necessarily approve of this trend, but doesn’t disapprove either. “I’m indifferent about girls dressing inappropriately. If you want to look like a whore, you can look like a whore; it’s not my problem,” Greenberg said. “I’m not going to come to school in booty shorts and tank top, but if other girls want to, whatever.”
Maddie Kamble ’12 is not a supporter of this popular occurrence.
“I think some girls have to have some dignity with how they dress,” Kamble said. Kamble recalled when girls wore Halloween costumes to Staples last year.
“I saw some things I didn’t need to see,” Kamble said. “I think they can dress a little skimpy…it’s another thing to be practically naked.”
However, Jillian Ciferri ’10 viewed the wearing of revealing costumes on Halloween day from a different point of view. “Its kind of like an unspoken tradition that every year the senior girls wear their slutty costumes,” Ciferri said. “I think everyone is used to it.”
“I don’t think it’s a problem but it might be awkward for the teachers,” Ciferri said.
Many male teachers didn’t recall girls wearing inappropriate costumes to school on Halloween.
“I don’t really remember seeing anyone dressing all that badly,” science teacher Dr. Nicholas Morgan said.
Math teacher John Mills shared a similar sentiment with Morgan.
“Nothing stands out in my mind,” Mills said.
However, Science teacher Michael Aitkenhead differed slightly from Mills.
A few girls were wearing “things that weren’t really appropriate,” Aitkenhead said. He didn’t have any of these students in his classes that day, but still believed seeing students wearing these outfits could make teachers uneasy. “I could imagine it might be uncomfortable,” Aitkenhead said.
With regards to boys dressing up for Halloween, students didn’t recall many of them dressing up.
For instance, although Lundberg remembered many girls dressed up, he only saw “boys occasionally.”
Nevertheless, Brancucci thought of one memorable male costume.
“Last year one boy wore a condom [costume] to school and said, ‘I’m a ghost,’” Brancucci said.
Look around today and see if this trend has continued.
