But really, you're always you and one can tell a lot about a person from their choice of Halloween attire. Really, there are five types of costumes (and only five types of people!), and we'll dissect them—and what they say about their wearer—after the jump.

The Sexy Blanks
Arguably the most popular costume for women, the sexy/slutty variant costumes run the gamut from slutty ironic (Sexy Sarah Palin!) to the shatteringly mundane (Sexy Nurse, Sexy French Maid, Sexy Sex Worker). The implication of these costumes is by no means that the be-Sexied are, in fact, promiscuous women in the light of day, but that the whole enterprise of a Halloween party is, for some, an excuse to finally play into creaky and ugly sexual mores about what men want and what women are willing to give them. If it's all pretend, if it's all for a joke, then Gloria Steinhem won't mind! And then in the morning, when they wake up next to a coyote ugly whose name they think might be Gary and they tiptoe out in their torn fishnets and shiny plastic skirts into the cold November 1st air, it may seem like a sad mistake. But come 363 days later, they'll probably be shopping for the same kind of thing. Unless they get married! (There is a gay guy equivalent for this, and it usually involved Sexy Prep School Harry Potter.)

The Ironic References
Wouldn't it be funny to be, like, Zack from Saved By the Bell? Or, um, what about that guy from Head of the Class? The allure of

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