I've read that Halloween is now an adult thing. Sexy costumes are more popular than My pretty pony or whatever.
Is anyone dressing up on Friday to go out? And what is a sexy pirate?
CHICAGO, Oct. 28 — Step into Frank’s bar and you’ll get a glimpse of what Halloween is becoming. The popular tavern in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood has been decked out for weeks in black and orange, and patrons can order drinks with such names as “Sex on a Tombstone.” On the night itself, manager Robby Ehlert expects to see a number of costumes that won’t be G-rated.
“A LOT OF the costumes are, uhhh, not costumes kids would wear,” he says with a chuckle. “You’ll see sexy cops, sexy pirates — anything sexy basically.”
Marver says most adults used to wait until the last minute to throw together a costume. But this year, he’s already had to reorder some lines of adult-sized garb. (He, too, says pirates are big this year, apparently due to the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.”)
Adults now represent up to 65 percent of his costume sales, a noticeable shift compared with years past.
“This is an adult holiday,” Marver says. “It’s party time.”
sexy pirates, sexy cops, sexy lawyers
