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…

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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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…but they were slight (though designed to be as helpful as possible). We’re still adding more stock to the site–if you look to the left, you’ll see a “Sale Costumes” category and a “Rental Costumes” category. We’re trying to make it easier to browse our stock, though you’ll find that our rental costumes are not available (for purchase) on the site, since they’re rentals. What we have posted, however, is a set of thumbnails that serve as a quick summary of some of our period clothing. We’ve many times this amount in stock–but we can’t possibly put the thousands of custom-built, hand-made, and completely unique and one-of-a-kind costumes onto the site (well, not yet). It’s simply too many items to take photos of all of them. But this is meant to give you an idea of what we actually carry, and what we can make.

Speaking of, our parade and mascot costumes are starting to appear on the site as well! We’re adding them one at a time–each of these is unique, and comes with an appropriate fur suit, gloves, and shoe covers. If you’d like to rent one of these, they are reserved by placing a cash deposit (during October) equal to the rental amount. We take check deposits, but only if it’s not October. During October, the rental period for parade and mascot costumes is one day–the rest of the year, they rent by three days.

If you’ve any questions at all concerning any aspect of our sale or rental costumes, or even questions or comments about this site, don’t hesitate to call us at 864-271-4260 or email us. You can also subscribe here to receive automatically receive updates of our site and stock.

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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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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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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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We’ve been working on the new site some more–obviously–and can now state that some real progress is being made–the search engine is fully functioning, the results pages are up and running, and the product page templates are almost done. We’re going to put our energy into the layouts at this time, as all we’ve really got to do (other than that) is add products to our database (which, we apologize, will take some time).

Currently, we’ve automated the prices, names, manufacturers, sizes, colors, descriptions–and even the pictures! This means that each page will load extremely fast, and all we’ve got to do to update our stock is change a value or two in our database; meaning that we will be able to keep our stock updated in almost real time (and no more waiting for new products).

During this time, we’ll also be adding a PayPal system into our product pages that will allow our customers to purchase our products online, and have them shipped directly.

Thank you again to all of our customers for being so patient during our web development. Look for more updates soon, as we really start to dig into getting this database built!

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We hope no one–since we put some up and all. Check out our Photos page if you’d like to see some; so far, we’ve got “La Boheme” as presented by Converse College, as well as “Pirates of Penzance” as presented by Furman University. Both of these schools have fantastic opera programs–if you want more information, be sure to stop by their sites: this is the Furman Department of Music’s page, and here’s Converse Opera Theatre’s site.

Both of the shows were fantastic; we definitely recommend catching any of their shows if you get the chance.

Anyway, we’ll be uploading more photos soon, as we find time to do so.

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