On October 23rd, Halloween giant Spirit Halloween announced on their website that they would pause sales of “sexy costumes” until 2027, as they had “run out of things to make hot.”
“We need time to come up with ideas. I mean, we’ve done it all: vegetables, religious figures — hell, we even made sexy Elmo. There’s, quite literally, nothing left,” explained Spirit CEO Steven Silverstein in a press conference.
This decision was met with immediate social media backlash from students worldwide. “This is bullshit. I wanted to go to the SDSU frats on Halloween, but now, I can’t be a slutty nun. There’s no way they’ll let me in unless I’m hot,” read an anonymous post on r/UCSD.
Others reacted positively to the announcement. “You know, there’s so much pressure to be sexy on Halloween. Like, there’s nothing wrong with sexy costumes, but it gets to a point,” said second-year UCSD student Cass Kett, adjusting the hat of her Abraham Lincoln costume.
Many students decided to go ahead and make their own costumes on short notice. Polls conducted on the 27th reported that costumes seen at parties over the weekend included sexy Geisel Library, sexy midterms, and sexy John Muir — who reportedly “wore nothing but a bikini, suspenders, and a fake beard.”
The MQ’s publicity editor and tavern wench, Claire is allegedly a second-year theatre major. When not doomscrolling for post ideas, she can be found slithering around the Galbraith basement, trying to bring back “forsooth”, and listening to Kate Bush’s hit 1978 album The Kick Inside.
