Heaven forbid we get some over the top costumes for a game series that's a total raunchy, over the top game that parodies numerous genres from sci fi to horror to silly gangsta stuff.
I really don't think the Freckle Bitch costume is any sillier than the superhero costumes, or the hot dog costume that been in SR2, 3, and 4. Not sure if it was in the first game since well, they didn't port it. But after playing the SR2 port I'm glad they didn't because that was a piss poor port, not as bad as the RE3 port though. To be fair to Capcom they were porting that between Windows 98 and Millenium, and the gpu they were focusing on was the voodoo chipset, which went belly up shortly after RE 3 came out.