Oh what do you know, this Saturday regrettable-costume emporium Ricky’s opened. And just in time for you to buy something special for Halloween. This afternoon, Bwog wandered inside the rabbit hole. Join us, as we try to make sense of this thing.
First of all, upon entering and snapping a few pictures, a Ricky’s employee approached Bwog and told us that it was “against the law of Ricky’s” to take pictures. Camera in pocket, we advanced past the front of the store’s collection of kids costumes and masks and towards the “costumes for playful adults,” as their packaging announced.
The two brands of costumes most represented included the instructively named “Forplay” and the cryptic “Leg Ave.,” which is maybe some sort of trashy underworld euphemism for “skirt.” Who knows.
There was also your typical selection of Unchaste Soccer Player, Sexually Indiscriminate Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader, and Wanton Race Car Driver, etc., but there were also some surprising variations on the theme of Thing Which Is Not Usually Suggestive But Is Made To Be. For example, Ricky’s boasted Sexy Ghost Buster and Sexy Corpse Bride costumes.
There are also plenty of the wigs, glittery things, capes, and makeup that you’d come to expect from a Ricky’s, assuming you’ve come to expect anything from a Ricky’s.
Bwog spoke with an employee and asked if business had been booming since Saturday’s opening. “I guess so. I just got here.”
23 Comments
@i didn't know us columbia students were getting so much to have a whole store serving our baser needs
@Wait Isn’t Sexually Indiscriminate Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader being a little redundant? I thought that was part of the audition…
@random This Halloween I will be dressing up as a slutty Sarah Palin.
@and i will be a slutty john mccain
@so.. …what you mean is you’ll dress up as Sarah Palin.
@yes can we please all boycott Ricky’s?! also, if we don’t, the stationary-cum-costume shop at halloween on broadway between 111th and 112th will close!! and everyone who works there is so nice (as are the owners) – plus, it’s a neighborhood establishment.
DOWN WITH RICKY’S!
@Oooh I didn’t know that occurred. When does the switch happen?
@Hmmm That stationary shop you speak of is also grossly overpriced! I’m not saying we should take care of our costuming needs at Ricky’s but that other place is not a good alternative.
@I agree That’s definite agreement — major rubbish.
I MISS KIM’S.
from cheap, great movie selection, to cheap grating whoredom. whoopie.
@seriously seriously, Morningside Heights? there were no better alternatives?
@THIS SUCKS I miss Kim’s so much! How do y’all get your movies now? Torrents and Netflix?
@order them through NYPL- free!
@im gonna go old school for halloween and just be a slut. none of this fancy-schmancy sluttery for me
@ouch my dignity hurts
@...... Can we all just agree to never buy anything from this place? Market forces, we need you now.
@ick dreadful
@Nobler What is the mechanism through which Ricky’s will transform into a beauty store?
@well when it sells out all the trashy costumes, t’will be much more beautiful.
@or perhaps chaste slut
@damn it why’d you have to tell everyone my costume idea?
@sweet I bet they have some real original costumes:
slutty nurse
slutty cop
slutty nun
slutty pirate
slutty minuteman
slutty cheerleader
slutty teacher
@edub slut richard nixon?
@Oh, brave new world We lost Kims for THIS?! Epic fail.