Costumes and Halloween, masks and masquerades, pantyhose and robberies, the one cannot be without the other. Their use? to deceive or hide. Why deceive? Why disguise? The reason is because there is always something to hide. Whether that is to be, to feel, or to do something else.
In a way today we don't need physical costumes...we disguise and distort our physical appearance. At some point in our life we want to act a different way, but we don't because that would unmask or reveal too much of ourselves. Whether it is not calling a guy, not trying something new, overall not taking chances.
Every girl has grown up with the dream of going to a masquerade and meeting their 'prince.' It is a fantasy that has been instilled in our minds since our first viewing of the hopeless romantic videos: Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty. Someday our price would come, at least that is what we hope. In our minds we hope for a prince to come and meet us at a ball (much like the all too perfect story of Cinderella) and fall in love with us before he even knows who we are.
We all hope for a prince who isn't trying to disguise or deceive, yet in the process we end up doing it to ourselves. We expect our prince to not use a disguise. So why is it so enticing for us to be masked when our prince won't? We deceive and yet expect not to be deceived in return.
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