The Handmaid’s Tale, a Margaret Atwood book turned popular TV show, depicts a dystopian future in which a totalitarian theocracy controls every aspect of women’s lives. It is nearly relentless in its portrayal of inhumane horrors. It also features women wearing red cloaks and white hoods that have entered modern pop culture to the point that the outfit has not only been adopted as a fitting costume for global protests, but, well, by idiot companies, too—companies like Yandy, a lingerie retailer that recently unveiled a very bad Handmaid’s Tale Halloween costume.
The “Brave Red Maiden” item, to the surprise of nobody but the fashion mavericks at Yandy, was pilloried pretty much immediately.