Why don’t girls dress up as Queen Esther?  She’s the one who used her wiles to save the Jews of Iran when the book explicitly says the king had just decreed that all the men in Persia should know to rule over their wives.  All right, she didn’t operate as a feminist, but she really turned the country around in every way.  And all the other women in the book screwed up.  Vashti simply wouldn’t follow orders, and Zeresh gave Haman terrible advice, and only Esther turned the rules upside down by keeping her mouth shut until the right moment.

That’s it – I’m putting on my belly dance costume and veiling my face.