That’s right, most of the Leg Avenue costumes are up on the site. These costumes are perfect for Halloween–or even all sorts of themed parties. You can check them out here or just search for them on the left. We’re currently adding more keywords for all of our costumes–and we’re still trying to add as much stock to the site as we can. We’ll keep you updated on how things are going; thanks again for reading!

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We’ve now developed three different search engines–and we’ve currently got a new one to test out. Essentially, you can now type manufacturers, sizes, costume names, or whatever, and the search engine automatically sorts out the optimal results for your query. This actually supports up to ten words in sequence, though if anyone expresses a need we can make it support much more.

Also, we’ll open up the page for comments so if you’ve any suggestions, you can post there or you can just email them to us at costumecurio@gmail.com.

In the next few days we’ll be integrating all three of the search engines into one–that way when you search, just like always, you’ll be directed to the results page; but once you’re there, you’ll see even more relevant results. Specifically, the top results will be exact (or very near) what you were looking for (if we have it in the database yet), immediately followed by related results you might also be interested in. All of this development is to make everything on this site more accessible for our customers–so we want to know if it is indeed helping you!

If things don’t seem to work right, or not in the way you expect, or if you just want to tell us how you’d like things to work, please do!

Thanks for reading, and as always, we’ll keep you updated on all news.

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That’s right–our Leg Avenue costumes are starting to appear in your searches. We’re uploading them as soon as we tag and organize the stock photos from Leg Avenue. These costumes are absolutely fantastic for Halloween and other themed parties, so if you like to get your costume picked out early, this is the place and the time to do it.

You can just click on this picture of Leg Avenue’s “Raspberry Girl”–or if you want to see our growing Leg Avenue selection, just type “Leg Avenue” (capitalization doesn’t matter) into the search to your left or select “Leg Avenue” from the manufacturers drop-down menu. After you click “Search” the results will be displayed.

If you’ve got any questions at all, just let us know. We’ll keep everyone updated as to new developments on the site–thanks again for reading!

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That’s right, the most elusive “Add to Cart” button has been resurrected from internet purgatory. You’ll find that everything is back to normal, and no matter what operating system or browser you’re using, it should work.
Also, look out for our Leg Avenue inventory to show up in the online store soon–we’ve just gotten the pictures in, and all we’ve got to do now is sort them out and upload them to our server. Essentially, most of our Leg Avenue costumes will be online within the next few days. Those will be followed by Disguise, Eddie’s, and Rasta Imposta shortly.
As always, thanks for reading!

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There’s a problem with Internet Explorer rendering our “Add to Cart” button–we don’t know why this started, but our first record of it happening was yesterday morning (Wednesday the 12th). As far as we can tell, there is a known bug in Internet Explorer in which “button” commands are not displayed when inside of a table. We’re sorting this out as quickly as we can, and we’ll let you know when it’s been taken care of. We apologize for any inconvenience, but we’ll try to cater to this idiosyncrasy as fast as we can.

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Alright! Sorry about the delay, but now the databases are back up to normal functions–we sure hope you find all of the pages up and running faster than they were before. The store is fully functional, and all we are waiting on to add even more inventory is stock photography from our manufacturers. We’ll be adding Pleaser and Demonia shoes, which will be followed shortly by our Leg Avenue backstock. The information is already in our database, and we’ll be adding the pictures soon and these products will be available for purchase as well.

We’ll keep you up-to-date as always; thanks again for reading!

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We’ve just switched hosting companies, but we’ve got to sort out a kink or two–so you’ll find that the search, results, browse, and info pages are temporarily down. We’ll have this taken care of tomorrow afternoon, as all of the DNS changes take effect. Thanks for being patient, and we’ll keep you updated as to how things are unfolding!

Our site is now proudly powered by Laughing Squid, and all of the problems we’ve been having with our old hosting company have been not only resolved, but completely removed. You’ll probably notice that the site will be faster, and it will be able to handle more traffic much more easily. Their use of modern MySQL installations and up-to-date PHP also lets us add more features to our online store than we ever could before. In short, all of these improvements will serve to make your experience on our site more enjoyable and intuitive.

Thanks again for reading, and happy Sunday!

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That’s right…we’ve got our online store started, and all the makeup inventory you’ve been passively browsing through is now available for purchase. All you’ve got to do to buy something is click on the nifty “Add to Cart” button that has appeared under each product’s price on its information page–and it will show up in your shopping cart on the right side of the screen. To checkout, just click on “Checkout with PayPal”, but don’t worry; you don’t have to have a PayPal account (though it makes things a little bit quicker). PayPal accepts all major credit cards, and their site is completely secured. As soon as you pay through PayPal, we’ll receive notification of your order and ship it right away. We can only ship during our store hours, though–and you can see those just to the left side of this page.

If you’ve got any questions, don’t hesitate to send us an email or check out our FAQs page.

In other exciting news–we’ve got our Leg Avenue shipment in for Halloween! We’ve already organized and priced everything, and as soon as we get the stock photography from the manufacturer we’ll have those on the site for purchase as well. It’s actually several hundred costumes, not counting the several other manufacturers and lines of costumes that we also carry. Those will be on the site soon!

Thanks again for reading, and remember to bookmark us or subscribe to our site to keep make sure you don’t miss anything new!

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…should make finding things easier! Now, you can search by manufacturer, and sort the results however you’d like–alphabetically, to make finding specific items easier, or by price, to save you money. Just head on over to our revived Product Search page and see how easy it is to find things. For example, if you want to see only the makeup adhesives made by Mehron, just type “adhesive” in the search box, and select “Mehron” from the drop-down menu. To further sort, select “Price – ascending” to put them in order from cheapest to most expensive.

We hope this makes things easier on everyone. Soon, we’ll have our online store up and running–within the next few days–and all of these features will make it easier for us to supply you with what you need to do your best. Look out for more updates, as we keep adding features to the site. By now, you’ve probably noticed the redirect from “costumecurio.com” to “blog.costumecurio.com”–this will make finding us online easier, so don’t forget to update your bookmarks!

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You may have noticed a new feature on our site–look to your left–and you’ll see “Product Search”! We’ve finally moved the blog to our dedicated servers, and linked the blog to our database, allowing all of our customers to search our inventory for products, read descriptions, find out prices, and whatever else they’d need to do. If you’d like to see particular features in the search process (be it the search page, results pages, or product pages) just let us know at costumecurio@gmail.com. We’ll do our best to make this as intuitive as possible, and look for a shopping cart in the near future.

The only inventory online now is the majority of our makeup stock–well over 500 products. But for now, some pages will not have a product image (but we’re working on that, and hope to have all of the images in by the end of the week). Let us know if you have any problems, and as always, we’ll keep you updated as to how things are coming along. Our top priorities now are adding all of our product images and finishing configuring our shopping cart–allowing our customers to purchase makeup online through PayPal, using their own PayPal account or any major credit card.

Thanks again for reading!

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