It was a garage sale gone wild Saturday
morning at the PCPA Theaterfest One-Day Halloween Costume Sale in Santa Maria.
About 40 people waited in line for the 10 a.m. start of the sale at PCPA's costume warehouse on South College Drive.
Once given the go-ahead to start shopping, the crowd filled the storage shed lined with costumes and snatched items from the racks, piling dresses, hats and shoes into bags to take to the cash register.
A variety of custom creations including period pieces, sequin-laden dresses and gaudy tropical-print shirts, all used in Hancock College PCPA Theaterfest productions, were available for purchase. Most costumes were priced between $5 and $25.
The annual Halloween Costume Sale, which is in its third year, benefits PCPA.
Costume Shop Manager Tracy Ward explained the large turnout.
“I think it's just mainly because they know that they get really good deals, and the costumes are really nice,” Ward said. “PCPA has a reputation of really outstanding and well-made costumes.”
She added that the sale provided an opportunity for customers to buy a costume worn by a favorite actor in a local production.
“Whatever you find here, you won't find anywhere else,” Ward said.
The Grizzanti family from Santa Maria found plenty of goodies to sell at their family-owned boutique store, Pink Trash and Treasures in Buellton.
Their finds were piled high outside the warehouse, where sisters Yazmin and Ginger Grizzanti kept watch as their grandmother continued to shop.
Said 12-year-old Yazmin of her grandmother and mother, “They're shoppers. They've been shoppers for a long time, and they always know the best dress to pick.”
Yazmin showed off her favorite hats in the pile, which were a bejeweled and tassled crown,She said there were some uniform costume possibilities in the pile. and a pirate hat. She said there were some Halloween costume possibilities in the pile.
Ginger, 7, wearing a headband with a stuffed animal dangling from it, was also enjoying herself at the sale.
“I really like it because there's all sorts of different things like hats and cute dresses,” she said.
Her favorite dresses in the heap were a ruffled pink and purple number, and a dress with sheer polka dot fabric over feather-printed fabric.
The girls' mother, Jennifer Grizzanti-Pribyl, said the event offered unique costumes not available at traditional Halloween stores.
“We just like coming here every year just to stock up on costumes,” she said. “They have great period pieces, and also we like to get the frilly skirts and all the petticoats and hats.”
The period pieces were especially appealing to Hannah Weekley of Santa Maria, who scored a pouffy skirt and matching bodice for an upcoming Civil War-era themed dance with her home-school.
Her fellow students were making their costumes for the dance, but now she wouldn't have to, Weekley said.
Weekley's friend, Jennifer Allen of Santa Maria, carried a pair of Tweedledee and Tweedledum costumes inspired by “Alice in Wonderland.”
She hoped to wear one of the costumes for Halloween, but also hunted for an outfit reminiscent of the popular book and movie “Hunger Games” for her daughter.
“I'll be 'Dum and let someone else be 'Dee if they'll do it with me,” Allen said with a laugh.
About 40 people waited in line for the 10 a.m. start of the sale at PCPA's costume warehouse on South College Drive.
Once given the go-ahead to start shopping, the crowd filled the storage shed lined with costumes and snatched items from the racks, piling dresses, hats and shoes into bags to take to the cash register.
A variety of custom creations including period pieces, sequin-laden dresses and gaudy tropical-print shirts, all used in Hancock College PCPA Theaterfest productions, were available for purchase. Most costumes were priced between $5 and $25.
The annual Halloween Costume Sale, which is in its third year, benefits PCPA.
Costume Shop Manager Tracy Ward explained the large turnout.
“I think it's just mainly because they know that they get really good deals, and the costumes are really nice,” Ward said. “PCPA has a reputation of really outstanding and well-made costumes.”
She added that the sale provided an opportunity for customers to buy a costume worn by a favorite actor in a local production.
“Whatever you find here, you won't find anywhere else,” Ward said.
The Grizzanti family from Santa Maria found plenty of goodies to sell at their family-owned boutique store, Pink Trash and Treasures in Buellton.
Their finds were piled high outside the warehouse, where sisters Yazmin and Ginger Grizzanti kept watch as their grandmother continued to shop.
Said 12-year-old Yazmin of her grandmother and mother, “They're shoppers. They've been shoppers for a long time, and they always know the best dress to pick.”
Yazmin showed off her favorite hats in the pile, which were a bejeweled and tassled crown,She said there were some uniform costume possibilities in the pile. and a pirate hat. She said there were some Halloween costume possibilities in the pile.
Ginger, 7, wearing a headband with a stuffed animal dangling from it, was also enjoying herself at the sale.
“I really like it because there's all sorts of different things like hats and cute dresses,” she said.
Her favorite dresses in the heap were a ruffled pink and purple number, and a dress with sheer polka dot fabric over feather-printed fabric.
The girls' mother, Jennifer Grizzanti-Pribyl, said the event offered unique costumes not available at traditional Halloween stores.
“We just like coming here every year just to stock up on costumes,” she said. “They have great period pieces, and also we like to get the frilly skirts and all the petticoats and hats.”
The period pieces were especially appealing to Hannah Weekley of Santa Maria, who scored a pouffy skirt and matching bodice for an upcoming Civil War-era themed dance with her home-school.
Her fellow students were making their costumes for the dance, but now she wouldn't have to, Weekley said.
Weekley's friend, Jennifer Allen of Santa Maria, carried a pair of Tweedledee and Tweedledum costumes inspired by “Alice in Wonderland.”
She hoped to wear one of the costumes for Halloween, but also hunted for an outfit reminiscent of the popular book and movie “Hunger Games” for her daughter.
“I'll be 'Dum and let someone else be 'Dee if they'll do it with me,” Allen said with a laugh.
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