Yahoo! every year votes us "The Top 10 Worst Sexy Halloween Costumes" or something like that and we always win. ![]() ![]() What are the biggest criticisms of your costumes? Our average top seller isn't all that much sexier than what a girl wears out to like a dance club in Scottsdale, you know, when I go out. I think some of the backlash we get is just from people that haven't gone out in a long time. But I think that just goes along with girls wanting to look good and feel good and feel attractive. Have your sexy costumes always sold better than the ones you would consider to be not sexy?įor us, our top sellers are always usually on the sexier side. So we were like one of the few places you could go to buy these and there was a huge demand because this was what girls were interested in. The mainstream stores like Party City and Spirit didn't really carry those at this point or not that much selection if they did. There wasn't that much competition in lingerie, but there was even less competition for sexy Halloween costumes. So the first Halloween in the garage, the lingerie manufacturers that we were working with had these sexier Halloween costumes and we stocked just a little bit of it. It just took off. How did you transition into making sexy costumes? It never really played out like that but I think 30 percent of our customers probably fall into that category. I felt like everyone was looking at me like, "What is this guy doing in the store?" I honestly thought when we started it, that most of our customers would be male buying gifts for their wives or girlfriends. ![]() Actually, a funny story, I had a fiancé at the time and I went to buy some lingerie for Valentine's Day at Victoria's Secret and I just thought it was the most uncomfortable experience in the world. We just felt like lingerie was the perfect thing to sell online because it's one of those things I felt that people would want to buy in the privacy of their own home. We came together to try and start an e-commerce-based business because we knew that was the future of business. Me and my brother started Yandy in 2005 out of my two-car garage. How does a dude like you get into the lingerie business? Yandy CEO Chad Horstman, 37, spoke to about how things like Sexy Jellyfish come to be, what costumes are too controversial to ever realize, and the one vegetable he has just not been able to make as a sexy Halloween costume. We scoured the Internet and found some other bizarre, unnecessarily sexy and controversial new costumes that make the “sexy Big Bird” conundrum of last year look like child’s play.Yandy, the lingerie company that produces Halloween gems like Sexy Olaf, Sexy Barney, and, most recently, Sexy Pizza Rat, has a long history of astounding people with its wonderfully silly and sexy costumes. The costume bearing a resemblance to Osama bin Laden was eventually pulled after being deemed “offensive to 9/11 victims" and described as encouraging "negative stereotypes about turbans and beards that have led to violence and discrimination against Sikhs and other minorities."Īnd it doesn’t stop there. “It was never our intention to offend anyone and we apologize to any customers who may have been offended by the name of the costume," a Walmart spokesperson told KATU.Īnother controversy erupted in late September when the Sikh community put pressure on Walmart to pull its "Turban Beard Adult Halloween Instant Costume” from shelves. Comprised of a full-skirted dress and headpiece, the $19.97 costume was pulled from stores after the chain received complaints from patrons that it over-sexualized toddlers. The season's first sexy-costume controversy happened in late September when Walmart came under fire for stocking its shelves with a “Naughty Leopard” Halloween costume for little girls. What do Osama bin Laden, Heisenberg of “Breaking Bad,” pizza, Barney, and corn on the cob have in common? They’re all among the sexed-up costume choices this trick-or-treat season.Įvery Halloween season, costumes run the gamut from weird to sexy to controversial, and this year we'll likely see plenty of scantily clad Miley Cyrus spoofers in the mix. What do Osama bin Laden, Heisenberg of “Breaking Bad,” pizza and Barney have in common? They’re some of this year's bizarre and controversial Halloween costume choices.
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