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Journalist Joel Stein suggests an alternative: Slut Day.
  • what a REAL slutty Catholic schoolgirl looks like

    My Halloween and/or Mardi Gras costume: for six years now I have been the pregnant Catholic schoolgirl.

    I got a real Catholic schoolgirl jumper and Peter Pan blouse at Goodwill. The blouse buttons up to my throat and the skirt of the jumper comes to the middle of my kneecaps. I got a set of white knee socks and a pair of saddle shoes. I put my hair in pigtails and took off all my makeup and jewelry except for a crucifix necklace. And I made a "baby" out of a beanbag pillow and a truss made of pantyhose. I have seriously fooled many people into thinking I was about seventeen years old and nine months pregnant in real life while wearing this get-up.

    I did it because I got sick of seeing the cliche porno slutty Catholic schoolgirl costume--barely-there skirt, low-cut blouse, hooker makeup, thigh-highs, FMP Mary Janes, etc. No real Catholic schoolgirl, slutty or virginal, could get by with going to school like that.

    What was interesting was that one year I was teaching preschool, and the teachers had to dress up for Halloween. I wore my costume, sans baby, largely because it was completely modest as well as comfortable and practical for chasing kids around in all day. The kids just thought "Miss Leeandra dressed like a little girl for Halloween!", but boy, did I catch flak from the other teachers!