You know who I love?
Love her. Wish I had that body, think she's nuanced and layered and capable and just... what a character!
I've seen some pretty good Joan Halloween costumes online over the years. Real fans of hers can pull it off, putting together perfect vintage outfits for curvy figures. They use their natural red hair or natural looking dyes or natural looking wigs. They find little gold pen pendants to wear around their necks. They are meticulous.
Even with all the effort, some people still probably ask them if they are Wilma Flintstone or some kind of conservative Jessica Rabbit, because people hardly ever get Halloween costumes based on little seen but critically acclaimed AMC shows.
My public service announcement is this: If you have red-red hair (like the colour of a tomato, or a fire truck or a cherry jolly rancher), then you aren't wearing a Joan costume just because you wander around with your usual hair and some clothes. Some clothes do not a Joan costume make. Nor does that shade of red.
I find Joan (and Christina Hendricks) to be beautiful and admirable, so I find this lazy form of costuming particularly offensive. The principle works for other characters/people too, however.
I have dark curly hair. Now, let's say I wanted to be April from Parks and Rec for Halloween next year. If I decided, "well, we both have dark hair and are women" does that mean I don't have to do anything else as a costume?! I am allowed to put in no effort to actually costume myself like her?!
Are you just okay with being SOME GUY who is not in a suit (or rather a tuxedo, what are you a farmer?) and just saying "I'm Jack Donaghy. You know... 30 Rock?" Is that a thing we do now as a society?
My friend Jen went out as Baby Spice this year. They are both blond. By the lazy logic I kept seeing this year, I guess she could have just worn a shirt and pants and told people "I'm Baby Spice." That wouldn't have been Baby Spice, that just would have been a blond woman. That would have been Emma Bunting!
If you don't want to wear a costume, then fine.
Halloween didn't want you either!
But don't go out and present such bullshit to the public.
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