22 Halloween Costumes That Would Get You Sent to HR

It’s the most wonderful time of the year when opening any social media app means being bombarded with images of people decked out in their Halloween costumes. Most costumes are divided into three categories: spooky, sexy, or funny. The most creative Halloween enthusiasts are able to combine two or all three into something impressively obscure and often perfectly inappropriate.

'Gay Halloween' was all the rage this year, inspiring many to come up with extremely specific costumes that are perfect for the chronically online crowd, but not so fitting for your friends and family. Trying to explain most of the costumes I saw on my timeline to an alien would almost certainly convince them to leave Earth immediately. And that’s the true spirit of Halloween right there.

Here’s a roundup of costumes that did numbers online but would get you a meeting with HR if you wore them to work.