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Witch Weekly · October 28, 2019 – 2:31 AM

How the Halloween Spirit Killed Fashion
Most women preparing for any sort of fancy-dress party have faced the familiar dilemma: to prioritize the costume, or one's ability to move and dance, or the otherall elegance and appeal of the outfit? While for masquerades and other themed parties, most usually keep the latter goal in mind, Halloween costumes this year have taken quite an alarming turn towards the distasteful.

Take, for instance, Mrs. Ophelia Devine. Once held up as a paragon of fashion sense and good taste, Mrs. Devine was seen at a Halloween party last week dressed as a dementor. Even a stylized version of such a horrific being would have been incredibly crass, particularly as rogue dementors have featured in the news recently and several members of society have had negative experiences with them in the past. Adding insult to injury, her costume was decidedly unattractive, with a shapeless, tattered grey cloak and a garish amount of make-up that made her eyes look as though they'd sunk three inches back into her skull! How far the mighty have fallen.

Another example of Halloween costuming taken a step too far is Miss Helga Scamander, who used either charms or make-up (or possibly both?) to give all of her exposed skin a sickly pallor. Miss Scamander might very well have been dead. Come to think of it, this might have been her intention, since there was nothing else about her attire that seemed to play into any sort of cohesive costume idea; her dress simply looked old-fashioned. While it may have been a convincing attempt to portray a corpse, it certainly didn't make her an appealing young lady to strike up a conversation with, or dance with!

Bringing our unpleasantness full circle, we have reports that Jemima Rosier intends to arrive at her mother's Halloween ball with visible physical wounds. We have, at this point, moved so far from good decorum and etiquette that it's hard to tell where we started. A woman of society should strive to bring light and humor to every room; to entertain her guests in all circumstances; to bring a special sparkle to each and every interaction she has. Our current generation of young women seem more interested in shocking their guests to an early grave, or at the very least inducing them to nausea over dinner. The one silver lining is that the Halloween season doesn't last forever, and at least these women are not forcing us to face down their distasteful disguises during the rest of the year — at least, not yet.

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