Giving the Bugle Boy something to Boogie Woogie about!

In this era of technology phones have cameras, music players are date books, refrigerators have TVs and your stapler probably does your taxes.

Thus, pageant contestants are like animals in a zoo; despite the “do not feed” sign, society keeps them filled up with images of “normal,” yet “questionable” behavior and Facebook and online photo albums serve as the cages that allow us to watch. In a zoo we point, stare and expect the animals to look cute, do tricks and be awake when we stand in front of their habitat. Wild life safaris, on the other hand, are where all the celebutants, brawling male movie stars and everyone’s own do-no-wrong-college-age child live. We don’t expect anything from these animals; they can be dirty, misbehaved and unpredictable and that’s okay.

Okay, enough with the bad analogies… A particularly difficult or potentially troublesome time of year for pageant women is Halloween. (Just ask Amy Polumbo!) Like it or not, on most college campuses Halloween is the time of year when the ladies can get away with dressing as slutty as possible without really being judged. It’s like Christmas in October for all the boys.

What’s my point?

Simply that my first thought when I saw the following costumes from Miss Ohio’s recent “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” production number was, “Good for those contestants! They just got a cute, free Halloween costume that NO ONE can say a word about!!!”




So as you can imagine, I about died with laughter when a message board link led to Miss Cuyahoga Valley, Katie Wolford’s blog, where she revealed the costumes were indeed sold with the intent of being sexy, with the name “Dreamgirl Major Tease.” She found THIS link.

Here’s the only thing I have a problem with – why didn’t I know Katie Wolford had a blog?