October is here, which means the Halloween costume hunt has begun. Whether you want to look funny, spooky, scary or just plain horrifying, Tuscaloosa has a lot of places to find the perfect costume for you.
Theatre Tuscaloosa will make its costumes available to the public for the first time in a costume sale this Wednesday and Thursday from noon until 7:30 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Jeanette Waterman, Theatre Tuscaloosa’s resident costumer, organized the sale to create space for new costumes and raise money.
“Halloween is the most ideal time for this sale,” said Cassidy Evans, Theatre Tuscaloosa’s audience services manager. “We will be selling old costumes, shoes, hats, accessories, jackets and vintage or modern-day clothing. A lot of it is just plain fun stuff.”
The costumes will be sold by the bag, which will cost $5 each, and the sale will take place at Theatre Tuscaloosa’s costume shop located in Room 2925 of Shelton State’s Martin Campus.
If you don’t find what you’re looking for at Theatre Tuscaloosa’s sale, a popular place to purchase Halloween costumes every year is Spirit Halloween, which is located in McFarland Plaza at 2600 McFarland Blvd East. Spirit Halloween is a chain that opens stores all over the United States and Canada during the fall. They carry everything you need for Halloween – not just costumes, but also hats, accessories, masks, wigs, makeup and Halloween decorations.
“I love Spirit Halloween because they have such a wide variety of costumes. From Pee-Wee Herman to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre…from a clown to a piece of pizza…they have it all,” sophomore Paul Shashy said.
Candy Apples Costumes is an online retailer that offers costumes year round, but they also have a retail store that is located at 3875 Greensboro Ave. and, like Theatre Tuscaloosa and Spirit Halloween, they have a large selection of costumes.
“I ordered my gorilla costume from Candy Apples Costumes last year. My order was here in no time, and the workers were very professional,” senior Meredith Murphy said. “The gorilla was a huge hit.”
