the Last Online Shop

The fourth and the last store I checked out is partycity.com, which has 74% sexy costumes in its 'top costumes' list for women. Again, this shop has more than 50% sexy costumes; looking back at the other 3 online stores, there's only one out of 4 shops which sell less than 50% sexy costumes. Here're some of the costumes offered by this store

Despite the fact that there must be other shops that offer more scary costumes rather than revealing outfits, I think it is obvious that the amount of sexy costumes sold will be more than scary and funny combined. 


From just one aspect of the physical store, I've made a conclusion that women ARE being sexualized because there're so few costumes which don't have the word sexy or flirty on it. But then exploring the online store proved how hundreds of frightening-creepy costumes are available. Even though those online shops mostly have at least 50% sexy costumes, they still provide other themes for Halloween.  So are women being sexualized just because of the high percentage of sexy outfits? I personally don’t think it’s necessarily so. Women have a bundle of options to choose from, and if they determine they want to be sexy, it’s definitely wrong to blame the seller. Who is then to blame the change in theme of scary to sexy in Halloween? Or does Halloween have actually lost its theme? In order to address these questions, I’ll do interviews and those will be the last two posts of my blog. Hopefully I’ll get the answers! :)