To borrow a quote from the Tina Fey masterpiece Mean Girls, "Halloween is the one time a year that a girl can dress as slutty as she wants and no other girl is allowed to say anything about it."

This exactly captures the feel of this year's ladies' Halloween costumes. It's all about putting your best Lindsay Lohan forward and finding your inner stripper.

However, it's not to say that these costumes aren't cute, because some of them I would wear in a heart beat, while others, well, not so much.

And for the fellas the selection isn't as sultry, in fact it isn't much of anything other than lame.

There's a handful of costume options and the rest is mainly celebrity masks and accessories.

I'll start with the been-there-done-that and the haven't-and-will-most-certainly-not-go-there costumes. The last few years, everyone and their mom was an angel; it's been beyond -- beyond -- overdone; it's verging on the "Spice Girls costumes of the late '90s" overdone. Not to mention no one believes you because you aren't an angel when your skirt is so short the whole world can see your goodies.

Which brings me to the next bad idea: the devil. It's just as unoriginal as the angel.

Think outside the afterlife, people.

A new thing this year, a rather crude creation, is rubber body parts that are to be worn on top of your clothing. I need not elaborate as to the details as I'm sure you all can imagine, but the point is it's un-humorously disgusting.

But neither of these choices annoy me as much as the purple pimp costume. To all boys planning to be a 'purple pimp' this year, my message is simple: you aren't a pimp, girls don't like you, go away. Unfortunately, however, I know my saying this won't do much to defer harebrained boys from renting said costume. So I make a suggestion and, with it, say "touché."

Ladies, take a cue from Miss Heidi Fleiss; gather up some guy friends, tell them to dress Chippendale's style. You dress in a black suit and be a "fan," and then tell them the reason they're chained to your legs is because you don't want to lose them throughout the course of the night. Yay, feminism!

But back to wearing provocative cleavage-showing outfits. If you're hell-bent on wearing something short and sexy, Leg Avenue, www.legavenue.com, has quite a few options. Some of my favorites being the way-cute bumblebee, construction worker, or naughty Dorothy costumes. However there's a fine line between tastefully risqué and just looking like a harlot. The main thing is to choose whether you want to show off legs or bosoms and then please cover the other one up. Basically even though it's Halloween, do your hussy-ness in moderation.