Cops & Robbers

October 12, 2009, 20 year old Megan McCauley walked into a Spencer’s store in Myrtle Beach. After walking into the store, she grabbed a “sexy cop” costume made by Leg Avenue, and headed into the changing stall. She stuffed the costume into her purse, and fled. She was caught soon afterwards, returned the costume, and was arrested.


Who is to blame for the theft? The woman who stole the costume, or Leg Avenue for pricing their outfits at $60.00. We are living in a bad economy, companies need to be more understanding and lower the amounts. On the other hand, why did McCauley feel that she needed to steal a costume. Many people just create Halloween outfits out of things they have around their house. For example, take a dress, some make-up, and a veil or wig and you can make yourself into a zombie bride without spending a dime. But society isn’t too crazy on such ideas. If a woman isn’t wearing something that shows more skin than cloth, then it isn’t “sexy”, and who wants to cut up a really pretty dress. Halloween for women really isn’t a very empowering holiday.

To some people, especially women, it could be degrading. It would be incredibly hard to find a women’s costume in that store without the word “sexy” in it. Quite frankly, it is hard to find a women costume anywhere that doesn’t have the word “sexy” in it, or doesn’t stop below the knees. On iParty.com, they have a top ten adult’s costume list, to show what is popular this year. The men’s costumes completely cover everything up. Number three on the list is an M&M costume, with both a male and a female option. The men’s M&M costume is a blue treat on the torso with black fabric over the arms and legs, covering the male completely. The women’s costume, on the other hand, features the green M&M, and the woman’s features. The tiny, skimpy, green dress hardy can be called a dress at all. The dress stops mid-thigh, and leaves no room for imagination. The list goes on and the costumes don’t change much. The men’s costumes- featuring “party guys”, vampires, and Star Trek, cover the entire body. The women’s costumes continue to get shorter. Coming in number four on the list is “storybook”. These costumes are based off of story book characters. Based is a loose term in this context. Dorothy is reasonable. The dress goes down to the knees and shows no cleavage. The Alice costume, on the other hand, is incredibly short. The tiny dress stops about a quarter of the way down the thigh. Although long socks come with the costume, this one screams for attention. Ninth on the list is ‘bugs’. No surprise that these costumes would also be very tiny. Lastly on the list, is a male-female couple’s costume. Although this one covers every part of the body, “plug and socket’s” main focus is not electricity. The plug is conveniently located at the man’s hips, and the double sockets are located at the women’s chest and hips.

There are many flaws with women’s Halloween costumes being too short. Most girls who wear these are teenage to mid-twenties. These women are the ones who usually go partying and hang out with friends on Halloween night. These parties usually have alcoholic beverages, and raging men. Teenage girls looking for attention will often do anything- even drink. Men that go to these parties look at these girls, already a little intoxicated, and decide to make the moves on them. This may lead to the man and the woman going upstairs and doing somethings that both of them will most likely regret in the later years.