Gross Anorexic Costume for Halloween By Howard Davidson Arlington MA

1. Gross Anorexic Costume for
Halloween
by
Howard Davidson, Arlington, MA
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2. Gross Anorexic Costume for
Halloween
Halloween is a tricky time for social mores, as the rules
of what’s acceptable are rewritten. It can be hard to
find the boundaries. It’s fine to have hellish skeletons
in every Rite-Aid, for example, but a terrible idea for
Julianne Hough to dress up in blackface. So it should
come as no surprise, then, that the “Anna Rexia”
costume has shown up again with an online costume
retailer, and that it’s caused some controversy.
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3. Halloween costumes are legendary for getting more and more
inappropriate (“Sexy Bert and Ernie”, really?), but the “Anna Rexia”
costume takes the cake. Designed by Dreamgirls International in 2007,
it features a tight, sexy-cut black dress with a skeletal design and a
measuring tape waist, not to mention the tagline, “You can never be
too rich or too thin.” Tasteful.
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4. The costume was the focus of an online
protest in 2011, which caused some online
major costume retailers to yank the costume.
But this season, Halloweenparty13.com has
been selling the discontinued costume again.
It’s not the only ghoulish thing that is
upsetting to positive body image advocates.
Mattel has seen great success with its
Monsters High line of dolls and multimedia,
which focus on female offspring of famous
monsters. Many childhood welfare advocates
worry that the ghoulish girls featured are
designed to be so thin that they make Barbie
look curvy by comparison.
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5. While the stick-figure dolls of Monster High
may be just wrong to market to
impressionable young girls, there still is the
question of where to draw the line for
Halloween costumes. “Anna Rexia” may be
terrible, but the costume is just as gross as
any number of zombie costumes that will
be a popular sell this year.
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6. While the stick-figure dolls of Monster High
may be just wrong to market to
impressionable young girls, there still is the
question of where to draw the line for
Halloween costumes. “Anna Rexia” may be
terrible, but the costume is just as gross as
any number of zombie costumes that will
be a popular sell this year.
Slide By :- Howard Davidson Arlington MA