The Dark Approach: Christina Ricci in The Addams Family

Is it too late to pull off this look?

Let's talk about Wednesday Addams (Christina Ricci) from The Addams Family (1991).

When is it acceptable to dress like Wednesday?

• Halloween
• Today
• Tomorrow
• Yesterday
• All other days and nights.

Same could be said of Morticia, actually. Perhaps Wednesday's wardrobe is more casual though.

Although Lydia Deetz from Beetlejuice (1988) may have been the original Emo, perhaps Wednesday was the one to bring day-time Goth glamour into style (because her mother was undoubtedly the Goth Queen).

Yes, this will be the look to aspire to from now on.

Halloween Costumes: The Plastics in Mean Girls vs. Ghostface in Scream(s)

"Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut
and no other girls can say anything about it."

Those were the infamous words of Cady Heron (a.k.a. Lindsay Lohan) from one of the greatest films of all time, Mean Girls (2004).

Whether you agree with the statement or not (personally, I still judge the slutty-looking girls), Halloween appears to give certain girls permission, if you will, to roam around as naked as they possibly can be, expecting no judgement. After all, what they're wearing is a "costume". But is it really?

Instead of masquerading as a slutty animal ("I'm a mouse, duh!"), shouldn't they just be dressed as scantily-clad girls? I suppose it's alright if you dress up as a character (like Catwoman) or celebrity (hello, all of you dressing up as Miley Cyrus) who themselves dress a little slutty. But wearing something you have previously worn in everyday life and throwing on animal ears/fairy wings/a silly mask, doesn't make it a costume.

If you throw on blood though, that's different.

I think if I were to go slutty for Halloween, I would go sultry, like Vampira in Ed Wood or Morticia Addams. 

But not this year. This year, I will be the legendary Ghostface (from another one of the greatest films of all time), and scare my friends sh*tless. 

Kind of like Cady did. Scary always beats slutty.

The Icon: Sarah Michelle Gellar in Scooby-Doo(s)

Head-to-toe purple is perfectly acceptable when chasing ghosts/ghouls/monsters.

Daphne Blake has been a style icon since the late 1960s. And if you're in your twenties like I am, chances are we all grew up watching the Scooby Doo cartoon and idolizing Daphne's purple dress, purple headband, purple shoes and green scarf (or was that just me?).

When the real-life Scooby-Doo (2002) film came out, I could hardly contain my excitement. I have literally been obsessed with the Scooby Doo cartoons since I was little, which is probably where my love of horror films stemmed from. Here it was. My favourite childhood TV show had come to life.

The film was a bit of a disappointment (even more so for the second one), as I was hoping for something genuinely scary. Or at least a little scary.

Thankfully though, Daphne never disappoints. Neither does her wardrobe. 

Daphne is a chick who kicks some serious monster-ass, whilst rocking a mini-dress and go-go boots. Could she do it in pants and combat boots instead? Sure, but that's not her. She's a girly girl at heart who likes to wear dresses, so that's what she's going to wear.

Props to her for working the catsuit and boots at the end of the first one for her battle with the wrestler. 

Halloween is less than two weeks away, and I've decided that this year I will have two costumes. I think Daphne may be my second.