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We hire children's costumes for school events, World Book Day and Halloween etc. Ever had to buy a costume which your child has only worn once?
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Borrow one from us instead! We reuse and recycle all our costumes saving you money and reducing landfill waste

12/03/2024

Reuse, recycle, save money and help the planet a little along the way. Why buy when you can hire? Enjoy affordable children’s costumes and accessories with Costume Story Co 🌍 👗♻️

09/03/2024

More glorious World Book Day spam! So chuffed to see the smiles and receive all the wonderful reviews. We’ve so enjoyed helping you all look fabulous ❤️🌍📖

08/03/2024

We hope you had a fabulous World Book Day. A big thank you to all of our customers for your support and social media shares. So many people enjoying recycling, reusing and saving money with Costume Story Co. The heroes of course are always the children and seeing a smiley face in a costume they love is the BEST! It’s what drives us on ❤️WBD

18/02/2024

Do you have a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fan? Are they an Oompah Loompa or Verruca Salt? Or perhaps W***y Wonka himself? We even have a giant Golden Ticket costume. Make your World Book Day magical for them and easy for you.

17/02/2024

A quite unique Moaning Myrtle. Fits 9-10 year old. Wonderful jacket with silver hood, tie and pinafore. £10 to hire. Make your World Book Day easy. Don’t buy when you can hire.

15/02/2024

By far our most popular costumes for World Book Day last year were some of the classics. These Railway Children costumes were much admired. Just wear and return. Easy costume hire at affordable prices.

13/02/2024

World Book ideas to sooth your costume conundrums. We have a range of Mary Poppins to choose from. Prices start from £8 for these costumes. Just wear and return, we’ll even do the washing for you.

11/02/2024

Is World Book Day a costume nightmare for you? Don’t worry - we’re here to help. Prices start from £7. Do you have a little someone who wants to be Rat Burger, Where’s Wally or a pirate? One striped T-shirt can be so many things with the right accessories! Why buy when you can hire?

07/11/2023

Costume Story Co for all your Christmas costume wishes. Why buy when you can hire?

31/10/2023

Wishing all our fabulously dressed customers 🧛🏻‍♂️ a very Happy Spooky Halloween 🎃 . May your celebrations be filled with fun 💀. Thank you for hiring from Costume Story Co 🖤

27/10/2023

A Zombie Doll - with or without cloak. Perfect for a child size 10-12 years. Team with striped tights or leggings and black boots. Dress £6 to hire, with cloak £10.

27/10/2023

Make your costume count (sorry 🧛🏻‍♂️) this Halloween. Make an impression and save some money. Why buy when you can hire? These adult vampire costumes are size Small/Medium or Large/XLarge. £8-£10.

26/10/2023

Loads of you are mix and matching your hire costumes this Halloween. We love this! Look at this one - is it a Skeleton, Skeleton Bride or a Zombie Bride? You choose, it’s your event. Dress £8 to hire, with cloak £12, with headdress £14. Adult dress size 8-10. Why but when you can hire?

25/10/2023

Release your inner glamorous witch this Halloween. It’s one of our favs ❤️💀. Adult dress size 8-10. £10 to hire the dress, with cloak £14.

24/10/2023

Fancy being a Convict? Or maybe Zombie Convict? Adult dress size 10-12. £10 to hire. Halloween costume sorted ✔️

23/10/2023

Make this costume happy and take it out this Halloween. It’s never been hired before. Brand new. Hire with or without the slightly terrifying mask (the eyes follow you around the room 👀). Size small adult £10 to hire. £8 without the mask 🫣!

23/10/2023

More adult Halloween opportunities! Vampire dress, team with one of our red and black capes. Dress size 12-14. £8 to hire. £12 with a cloak. Why buy when you can hire? Save some money and help the planet a little along the way ♻️🌍

22/10/2023

Another adult size costume (16-18) for Halloween shenanigans £10 to hire…

22/10/2023

Halloween’s approaching. Are you adults looking forward to a spooky party or trudging around the streets with the kids Trick or Treating? We’re normally all about children’s costumes but we do have some Halloween stuff for grown ups going on….. A Riddler size XL - just £10 to hire.

02/08/2023

It’s definitely time we had a Donation of the Week! We’re always so lucky during school holidays as our customers have a good clear out and they think of us. A special thank you to Rachel this week who has given us the following beauties: a Toy Story Bo Peep, a Pirate and a pink rose ball gown. Recycling and reusing costumes so that they live on and on - that is our mission.

31/07/2023

We believe in the right costume for the right child and every now and again we get an extra special costume donated, that finds its way immediately to another child who loves it. A navy jacket made into an Admiral costume by a lovely Mum, Julie, for her child over 5 years ago, was an instant hit for a child this summer who needed a Captain’s costume for a Year 6 show. A different hat and a bit of braiding and the costume gets an encore, the first of many. That’s what we do.

03/07/2023

Alice in Wonderland or Dorothy? It’s one of those dresses we love to mix and match with. Why buy when you can hire? This costume is £7. Save yourself some money and help the planet a little along the way.

30/06/2023

Dragons 🐉. Full onesie or just a cape. Whatever you prefer. We believe in the right costume for the right child. If you have a particular request, we’re more than happy to help.

28/06/2023

It’s Wednesday’s donation of the week! Who doesn’t love 80s fashion? The big hair, blue mascara, denim jackets and Converse… Well we want to say a big thank you to one of our favourite customers, Lisa Wood, for donating this glorious dress with matching metallic scrunchy.

25/06/2023

A phantom costume fit for any musical loving star. Just £8 to hire. Why buy when you can ask Costume Story to help?

21/06/2023

A Will Scarlet costume for a budding actor. All secondhand and the cape is made from some kindly donated lounge curtains! £7.50 to hire. We love to recycle. We love to reuse. Saving the planet a little along the way.

14/06/2023

Evacuee costumes for hire. Prices start from £6.50. Never worry about a school costume day again! Hire from us, save some money and help the planet a little along the way.

11/06/2023

Need a bumble bee or a wasp for a school or dance production? Don’t get stung (sorry) buying a new costume, hire one from us. £6.50 to hire tabard, antenna and wings. Why buy when you can hire?

07/06/2023

Glorious Tudor costumes for hire. Just £7.50. Don’t worry about a school costume day any more! We’re here to help. We have the whole curriculum covered. Why buy when you can hire?

05/06/2023

We love making stuff as well as hiring secondhand costumes. One of our favs was this clear umbrella, transformed into a jelly fish. Great parade or school assembly costume. Just £5 to hire.

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Wednesday	09:00 - 17:00
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Showcase 2 of Halloween costumes for hire. Starting at £5 - Why buy when you can hire? #kidscostumes #costumeideas #recyclefashion #costumes #halloweencostumes #kidscostume #recycledfashion #halloweencostumeideas #halloweencostume

You’re all so organised! Halloween requests are already coming in, so here’s a little taste of what we have. More reels to follow. Costumes start at £5 hire. Why buy when you can hire? Save yourself some money and help the planet a little along the way. #kidscostumes #costumeideas #recyclefashion #costumes #halloweencostumes #kidscostume #recycledfashion #halloweencostumeideas #halloweencostume

It’s Wednesday and it’s donation (or in fact donations) of the week. 2 eternally popular costumes brought to life by 2 lively customers! Who doesn’t love Dennis the Menace and Lego Batman? A big thank you to Catherine Rowley and Rochelle Oakley for donating these legends 🤩. They’ve given lots of children much joy. #kidscostume #costumeideas #costumehire #recycledfashion #costumes #kidscostumes #recyclefashion

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Why we are all about the costume...

I love costumes. Well, that is to say, I love costumes now. I used to be terrified of dressing up as a child. I blame my parents. At the age of 13 they made me dress up as a Frenchman with a string of real onions around my neck! I had to take this costume on a school ski trip to France and we were to entertain the hotel guests with a fancy dress costume competition. YES - real onions in a suitcase with all my clothes. YES - dressed as a Frenchman to entertain some poor French guests who kindly accommodated what they no doubt consider a strange English custom!

As I grew up, I started to realise that costumes could be fun, if you had some say in what you were wearing! Then as a Mum I had many an experience where, with virtually no notice, I had to create or source a costume for a school event. Determined to make sure my children loved costumes (to make amends for my childhood trauma) I set about making or sourcing costumes for them to enjoy.

I have bought costumes, I have adored making costumes and my children have enjoyed wearing costumes. Mission accomplished? Well no, as always in my heart I feel a bit sad that after all the effort or financial outlay, the costume is shown in all its splendour for such a brief moment. Then where does it end up? In a wardrobe. Never to see another outing or performance.

2 years ago myself and a friend set up a costume store for our school. We called our store Mr Ben. It has been the best experience and has ignited a real costume passion in me. Parents donate costumes and we hire them back for class assemblies, school outings, Halloween, Nativity plays, World Book Day to name but a few. All hire fees go to the school PTA and they in turn buy essential extras for our children. We have a team of Mums running Mr Ben now and about 300 costumes and accessories. We save parents money and we set an excellent example with our re-use, recycle and reduce landfill waste ethos.

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