Grown up girls exchanging cowls for corsets
October 19, 2006 
While the image of little girls dressed up as witches or princesses at Halloween is a familiar sight, increasing numbers of women are forgoing their traditional costumes for something decidedly racier this month.
Gone are the angel wings, fairy dresses and witches cloaks, exchanged for miniskirts, knee-length boots and corsets.
"It's a night when even a nice girl can dress like a dominatrix and still hold her head up the next morning," the New York Times quoted Linda M. Scott, author of Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism and a professor of marketing at the University of Oxford, saying.
This evolution in women's Halloween costumes has come as a surprise to many, coming decades after the rise of feminism which was supposed to engender more neutral modes of dress, even at Halloween.
But whether it is PC or not, increasing numbers of women are taking advantage of the opportunity Halloween presents to cut-loose and let out there sensual side.
"I'm not normally going to wear a corset to go out," Rebecca Colby, from Milwaukee, who has previously dressed up as a minidress-sporting bumblebee and a Gothic witch complete with low-cut bodice.
However, this year she said she is most likely to go as a vixen pirate, complete with corset.
"Even though you're in a costume when you go out to a party in a bar or something, you still want to look cute and sexy and feminine," she said.
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