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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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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This should be the last post for today, but it’s worth posting…when you search, the results now automatically sort themselves into 16 products per page, in a 4×4 grid. Not only do they do that, but they’ve also got thumbnails displaying preview images of the products (with the exception of the makeup items that don’t have a picture yet). If you want to see more products, just look at the bottom of the page and click First, Previous, Next, or Last to see the respective pages. This new organization will make it much easier for everyone to see what we’ve actually got in stock.

For a sample, click here to see how we’ve redesigned it–now you can browse images and costumes, like the hippie costumes above or the pirate costumes here–or even just click on their respective pictures!

This will help you if you don’t know what you want to be for Halloween or other parties–just type in “nurse” or “pirate” or whatever you have in mind, like “sexy,” for instance, and we’ll show you what we’ve got that’ll work. Now you can just browse through pictures and see if anything sticks out at you.

Naturally, all of this is being done to make everything easier and more intuitive for you. We’ll keep you updated on everything else going on around the shop and the site–thanks again for reading, and remember, if you’d like to subscribe (and automatically receive updates on our store) go here or just click on “Entries RSS” just below “Subscribe” (to the top right of this page). That’ll keep you in the loop as to when new shipments come in, when we add new inventory, and when the site has new features!

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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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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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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’re trying to make information about our company, and what we have, and what we do, more accessible and easy to follow. You can now check us out on the Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or just subscribe to our RSS feed here.

This way, you’ll be in the know as soon as when we get our new shipments of costumes, makeup, and a plethora of other accessories–and get first dibs on those items. After all, we’re expecting our shipments from Disguise, and Rubie’s soon, as well as our massive Leg Avenue order.

Also look out for our posts on upcoming shows (but don’t expect too many of those during the summer) and info on the many Halloween parties and haunted trails we’ll be costuming–we’ll let you know when these are happening as soon as we get the info ourselves.

We’ve got a FAQ now as well, so if you’d just like the rundown on our business, or want to have your general questions answered, you can head over there now.

Remember to check back or subscribe if you don’t want the hassle of checking manually.

Again, if you’ve got any questions at all, give us a call at 864.271.4260 during our business hours
or email us anytime.

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