There’s a lot coming up in the near future–from RetroFest to the start of Opera season. Be sure to check out our Events Page to stay up-to-date with what’s happening in the theatre community around Greenville.

On a related note, those of you getting ready for RetroFest should definitely check out our shop! Our online store contains mostly sale costume and accessories, but our physical location has a fantastic selection of vintage and vintage-styled rental outfits. We carry everything from bell-bottoms and polyester pants to daishikis, pimp suits, leisure suits, and some great one-of-a-kind dresses. That’s right, our rentals are all unique–you won’t see someone at a party with the same outfit as you.

Definitely check out our selection online, though: we’ve got some retro costumes here, as well some choices of men’s platforms and women’s go-go boots.

Aside from that, we’ve also got a huge selection of Retro/hippie sunglasses and shades–big, small, blue, clear, green, gold, sparkle; all sorts–and several different wigs that are just perfect for hippie costumes. We’ve got afros, long hippie wigs, bobs, and gogo-dancer wigs. Come by the store and try some on!

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There are two exciting events coming up soon–other than Halloween, of course–so add these to your calendars: Masquerade on Main is on Friday, October 23; and the Twilight Ball, celebrating New Moon, is Friday, November 13th. Some quick info on each…

Masquerade on Main benefits the Pendleton Place Children’s Shelter, and takes place downtown at Zen on 924 Main Street, in the West End of downtown Greenville. The entire event is black-tie formal, and a masquerade. There will be an open executive and designer bar, and food, desert, and entertainment are included in your ticket.

The Twilight Ball will also be held at Zen on 924 Main Street. Proceeds from the Twilight Ball will benefit the Pendleton Place Children’s Shelter Library. The event will include music, entertainment, dancing, a laser-light show, prizes, giveaways, and, of course, birthday cake. Either a costume or semi-formal attire is required for admittance.

For both of these events, we’ve got a great selection of costumes and accessories to help you show up and look the best. We’ve got several beautiful masquerade masks, as well as gorgeous, one-of-a-kind, handmade 18th Century dresses. Not only do we carry them–we custom-tailor them just for you, at no extra charge. And if you’re going to the Twilight Ball–we’ve got you covered, whether you want fangs, blood, makeup, capes, dresses, suits, or tuxes. We’ve even got glitter, if you’re into that sort of thing. Lots of glitter.

Anyway, we hope this info will help everyone to prepare for these events…check back soon, as we’ll be uploading some pictures of our gorgeous masquerade masks shortly…

Thanks again for reading! If you’d like to stay in-the-know about upcoming events around Greenville, or just follow our site, feel free to subscribe to us by clicking here or follow us on twitter.

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Halloween’s only 20 days away. If you don’t have a costume yet, you might want to start thinking about it–yesterday! We’ve still got a huge selection of costumes left, but they’re going to start disappearing soon…

We’ve still got a great selection of fangs (everything from long shredders to short, cute, “sexy bites”), both professional and affordable makeup (anything you can imagine really, to make almost anything you could ever imagine), as well as tons of costumes (period wear, sexy party costumes, masquerade dresses and masks, and even couples costumes and ideas).

And if you’re worried about whether or not we’ll have something for that totally obscure character from some film that only showed twice three decades ago, don’t be! Just bring in a picture of what you’re looking for, and we’ll do our best to match it as closely as possible.

Because of how busy we are right now, we probably won’t be adding much stock to our online store until Halloween passes–look for a great deal of new items to be added in November, however. For now, feel free to call us (at 864-271-4269) or email us at costumecurio@bellsouth.net anytime! Just ask us if you’re looking for a particular costume–any costume–and we’ll reply as quickly as we can with whatever information you need, from sizes to colors to prices.

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We’ll be open later in October, to meet the increased demand for costumes. Our extended hours start on Saturday, October 3rd. You can view our extended hours below, as an image (.jpg) by clicking on the thumbnail below, an .ics calendar file, or a Google Calendar.

We’ll also provide a calendar download Halloween Hours – Costume Curio as an .ics file. If you’d like to subscribe with any other platform, the link for our shared Google Calendar is here.

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…and there are just so many in our store! You may have noticed the links on the left side of this page–yes, they are shortcuts to our men’s, women’s, and children’s costumes. Don’t be disheartened by our small online selection of kid’s costumes; we’re adding them into our database now. Soon there will be many more–the same goes for accessories, as well as wigs. Please bear with us while we’re adding stock (we’ve got thousands of items). We’re currently getting in several things–like Michael Jackson costumes, several different wigs, and more costume shoes (including go-go and lace-up boots, among other things).

If you don’t see what you’re looking for, just call us at 864-271-4260 and ask! We most likely have what you need, and if we don’t, we’ll do our best to direct you to where you can find it. We’re more than happy to answer any questions during our business hours, and if we’re closed when you have a question, just email us at costumecurio@gmail.com anytime and we’ll get a response your way as soon as we can!

Thanks again for reading, and remember to subscribe here to stay in-the-know about the shop!

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For those of you who are counting, Dragon*Con’s only two days away (except for those lucky few of you that are heading down Thursday night). Well, we’ve got plenty of costumes here for D*C–for example, Harry Potter costumes and accessories (like robes, ties, wands, glasses, scarves, and other items–even Dumbledore’s hat, hair, and beard or McGonagall’s hat), or Star Trek costumes and uniforms (original or new), several items in the style of Tolkien’s universe, a full selection of theatrical makeup, stage blood, all sorts of wigs, black or white feather wings, demon horns, pirate outfits (including boots and hats), as well as several other costumes and accessories that are perfect for Dragon*Con. We also have parade costumes and furries!

The majority of these items aren’t on the site yet (except for the makeup), but feel free to come by and check out what we’ve got in-store. Hopefully we can help you with picking out something fun, interesting, and unique–and save you from going to D*C without anything to wear!

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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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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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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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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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