Costume clearout: Stephenville theatre decluttering ahead of Halloween

If there's anyone who knows a thing or two about costumes, it's people who work in theater. Now, here at the Stephenville Theater Festival, they're doing a massive clean of their costumes just in time for Halloween. At the Stephenville Theater Festival, we produce shows all year round, primarily in the summer. All manner of shows, and every show we do here requires many, many costumes. So, they can build up after so many years. so i think it's halloween's on the way so we're gonna have a costume sale it feels like a trillion of thousands i would say yeah yeah over the years it builds so you know and every manner of actor every size and shape every role you can imagine there's different characters different plays we do different musicals so yeah there's all types of different costumes for what everybody anybody might need you know costumes can be pretty expensive you go to the store to buy them But, you know, I think here you can accessorize. I mean, everything in this room is going to be between $2 and, well, if you want a wedding dress, that's about $25. It's pretty cheap. But, yeah, you can get skirts and pants and shirts and jackets and belts and hats. You might not have a Halloween idea for a costume when you come in the door, but by the time you leave, yeah, you'll have a great costume set up. Often, if you end up way in the back of our storage, you can kind of go a little loopy. but it's been really nice going through and going oh I remember we used this in this show five or six years ago or we used this one two years ago and just going oh this is actually a part of history and we can't part with that. We have 48 seasons of costumes here and as we're leading to move up to the 50th we need to make some room so there's some things we want to keep but other things we just need to get rid of so that we can keep making more costumes year after year we have a very like crafty community there are so many people who have come in and they went oh i know exactly how i can repurpose this or i can take a little bit of this and put it with this and then bam i have a new halloween costume we have a great community of crafters sewers um and i don't know i think it's a great way to get people involved we don't have many thrift stores here we only have one um so finding secondhand clothing is not always easy so we're just doing a little bit of our part well if you'd like to look as fabulous as i do or you just like to get a glimpse into the history of the Steubenville Theater Festival the costume sale is happening on october 17th amy phan cbc news steubenville