Costume Rental

If you had come to A Cut Above to rent your costume, here's how it would have gone:

You walk in the door, to a small, bright, busy room, with a desk, two sewing machines, and hooks on the walls, laden with costumes on hangers. The room is lined with heads--from Ronald Reagan to Beavis and Butthead.

You are greeted and asked what you're looking for. If you look confused, we hand you a list, several pages long, of costumes we have created in the past. You walk through into the warehouse, and we wait for the inevitable, "Oh, Wow!!" You are in a huge cavern, dimly lit, compared with the front room. The upper walls are covered with hats. Rods are suspended from the ceiling, in some places, two-deep, laden with costumes. Wigs hang at crazy angles, pinned to styro heads which have been impaled on coathangers and hung from suspended rods.
Shelves rest above the standing racks, on which are lined up heads of all sorts. Animals, monsters, public figures, cartoon characters, all staring blankly with empty eyes. Around the outside walls are the really huge heads; mascots of various kinds.

To add to the surreal effect, country western music underscores the entire experience.

Every rack is crammed with clothes. Petticoats burst forth from their hangers. Wings reach out and grab you as you go by. It's Aladdin's cave! You snag one of us and say, "Help!"

You tell us your idea. A vampire, for instance. We find you a tailcoat, a frilled shirt with a cascade of lace down the front, a black and red brocade vest, formal trousers and a crimson jewel for your throat. A pair of patent shoes--maybe in red and black, and a suitable dramatic cape, and bob's yer uncle! There are as many styles of vampire as there are people who choose that costume. Because we assemble your outfit, piece by piece, you have much more individual input into the design of the costume that you've had with any other. It will fit, it's real clothes, and you're going to look like a million bucks.

For this, you'll pay from $45 to $85, depending on the costume.

I'll tell you what...do it once, and you'll never again buy a packaged costume from a Halloween Store!