When you open a party invitation and discover that it reads “fancy dress” at the bottom, you know it’s going to be a laugh. It’s fun to dress up! It’s even more of a laugh if you’re a woman because of the sort of fancy dress costumes you find when you are looking for your perfect one. You can be sure of one common denominator whether you are searching the internet or down at your local party emporium, which is “sexy!!”.

Some things have changed little over the years, like fancy dress costumes that pander to a stereotypical male fantasy . There the almost expected fancy dress costume options which are sexualized version of day to day characters like “sexy nurse”, “sexy policewoman” and “sexy schoolgirl”. Not to exclude the overtly sexually themed fancy dress costumes like “boy toy”, or “stripper”

So in pursuit of a more traditional costume one looks under “fairy tale characters” hoping for a few straightforward princess outfits, and again, there seems to be the need to take even innocent characters from storybooks like “Alice in Wonderland” and “Dorothy” and feature the fancy dress costume with suspender like stockings and again, short skirt low cut top. If the theme is “Pirates” you can be sure the female fancy dress costume will be titled something like “sexy pirate” featuring an incredibly short skirt and low cut bodice.

Maybe an “animal” fancy dress costume seems fun to you. Again, unless you are prepared to wear a costume from head to toe, you can be sure your choices will be fancy dress costumes like “sexy mouse” “sexy tiger” etc..

Are the majority of men’s fancy dress costumes sexual in nature? There are a few crass ones catering to boy’s humour suitable for a stag do, but the majority are not. There is a wide assortment of fancy dress costumes available from science fiction characters to historical figures, full suits of armour, and humour ones as well. There are few fancy costumes that depict men as sexual objects.

Aside from a handful of princess costumes, and some Lord of the Rings themed elf costumes, one is hard pressed to find a fancy dress costume for women that does not try and persuade a woman she must dress like a tart.

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