Katy Perry wowed the crowd in a latex toy soldier costume at Z-100’s Jingle Ball in NYC Friday night. Justin Bieber, B.o.B., Selena Gomez and Michael Buble also performed.

Singer Katy Perry brought her usual dose of sexy fun to the Z100 Jingle Ball last night by wearing a colorful toy soldier costume that would have every straight soldier on the planet begging to be put on K.P. duty!

The DO ask, DO tell costume came complete with an amply plumaged military top hat, red and gold jacket, white criss-crossed Perry berries suspenders, a curled handlebar mustache on a stick and a pair of shiny blue hot pants that would make Wonder Woman proud. In other words, Katy Perry was nutcracker sweet!

And speaking of Nutcracker Suite, here’s Katy “presenting” herself in grand fashion at the Jingle Ball concert, beginning with ballet dancers and music from the Nutcracker musical and culminating with Katy popping out of an over-sized Dr. Seussian gift box!

And here are some photos from her performance, during which she wore the toy soldier costume the entire time! (I have to confess women do have it a little more difficult than men sometimes, at least in the pop music realm.)