Orem costume shop specializes in Halloween
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OREM -- Looking to startle the neighbors? Become your hero? Get a
laugh? While Halloween costumes have traditionally been donned by
kids for cozen-or-treating and school parades, more and more adults
are getting in the Halloween eagerness and dressing up.
Adults are using the holiday as a darkness to relieve the stresses
of life by becoming someone else. Nearly 120 million Americans will
put on a costume for Halloween this year, according the Patriotic
Retail Federation.
For Archive Costumes in Orem, Halloween is its progress time. It has
a stock of 15,000 costume pieces within reach for rental. Most of
Archive's costumes were made for productions at the Able-bodied Center
Theater and so if you're looking for quality and authenticity, it's
a adequate place to go.
Archive Costumes rents out full costumes and idiosyncratic costume
pieces. It has some children's costumes but most are for adults.
The expenditure ranges from $20 to $45 for one-day rentals.
Adults rig out up to attend parties or impress trick-or-treaters
at their door. Many businesses also forward their employees to
dress up for work.
Source: Daily Herald
Halloween expected to scare up loads of sales
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With a less-than-animating holiday shopping season on the horizon, retailers are pinning their hopes on a booming Halloween.
The spooky vacation is expected to generate record sales this year as consumers look for an dodge from the gloomy financial news. More Americans are dressing up, throwing parties and decorating their homes and front lawns as the desire to splurge overshadows broader economic troubles.
"We're on follow to do better than last year," Ray Smith of Spirit Halloween said of sales so far this year at the partnership's seven temporary stores in the Richmond close.
Early in the season, customers come in for decorations, then along to costumes 10 days before Halloween, said Smith, the quarter's special-projects district sales executive.
A record 69 percent of Americans aim to participate in Halloween this year, according to an annual scrutinize from the Washington-based National Retail Confederation. Roughly 44 percent of survey respondents chart to don a costume, up from 40 percent in 2010, and 34 percent project to throw or attend a party, up from 33 percent last year.
Source: Richmond Times Dispatch