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Pierre's Costumes
- Hours:
Mon-Fri. 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
4 reviews for Pierre's Costumes
Three stars for their offering & prices and one more star for its uniqueness, because we all know there aren't that many costume shops in Philly.
I came here to find a Halloween costume (without any idea of what I wanted to be) and ended up as a banana ($35 costume purchase that I'll definitely use again-- and it was hilarious to be a dancing banana all night long. My friend rented a costume, which turned out to be pretty gigantic ("one-size-fits-all-GIANTS") pricey & on a three-day rental, but it was a good costume nonetheless.
The mascot heads are terrifying (I'm with Meghan on that) but honesty, if you need a mascot costume, where else are you going to go? I'm coming here for Halloween and obv. Halloween only, since this place definitely serves its purpose. Customer service is a bit eh, but I'm usually better off looking on my own anyways.
If you love Halloween, then you're robbing yourself of amazingness if you're passing this place up.
It's a huge warehouse in old city that's stuffed to the brim with amazing costumes. A lot of them are hand sewn, in-house!
I can't vouch for any of the costumes, because I was there specifically for the ben nye theatrical makeup. They have a ton! Stage blood, Thick Blood, Minty Blood- lots of blood. Tooth enamels, different powders and color wheels. It's fantastic. They also have a lot of fangs for those vampire loving bandwagon jumpers.
The employees were super helpful as well, suggesting colors and such so I can attain my zombie look.
I even started playing with the color wheel I got on the bus and looked like someone had mangled my hand, it was pretty awesome.
this place is a friggen scam. I found out last minute I didn't have to work on Halloween so I needed a last minute costume- Alice in zombieland to be exact. I came to pierre's in hope of finding a costume that's NOT cheap, tacky, 100% poly slutty Alice, like you find in most places. but that was all they had, in a L and XL. (I need more like a M) ok... im last minute, I get it. then when I asked a girl a question, she pounced on me heading into the fitting room- I can't try it on. are you kidding me?? what woman buys a dress without trying it on?! and of course- no returns. I tried to get multiple employees to reason with me, nothing doing. I bought it out of desperation and will try to make it work myself, but I will never come back here. I feel like a sucker but this is the only window I had to grab a costume. i won't even start on the CREEPY bootleg mascot heads sitting around, like horror movie mickey and minnie...
"Where can I get a realistic Easter Bunny costume?" you ask. Look no further than Pierre's Costume's. This place gets five stars simply because I have never actually seen a store where you can get costumes like this. Pierre's is F'N awesome...just look at their website. They make mascot costume's and it is fun just to look at their selection...even if the Lobster costume you want is $900. But besides mascot style outfits, they also carry cheaper Halloween costumes at great prices. If you are looking for a laugh or a giant Turkey outfit...check out Pierre's.
Specialties
Pierre's Costumes is the only remaining professional costume house left in Philadelphia. Pierre's not only rents and sells unique professionally made costumes, but they also can custom-make costumes for you too.
Pierre's Costumes designs and produces many of the well known icons that you know. The Fruit of the Loom Guys & the Villanova Wildcat came from Pierre's.
When you see Bam Margara in a wild looking costume on TV, it came from Pierre's. Every day Pierre's works with TV and production companies.
Pierre's works with professional and amateur theatres including Disney's Beauty & the Beast's National tour as well as the Bolshoi's Nutcracker tour.
The building is home to over a million costumes in a 200 year old two story city block long building. There are over 50,000 pieces of theatrical and film make-up in stock, and over 10,000 wigs.
This is also the place for great lingerie and sexy costumes. The huge stock keeps the prices low and styles varied.
History
Established in 1943
Pierre Uniforms Inc. founded in 1943, moved into professional costuming in 1961 by purching the tremendous inventory of "Miller Costumier" of Philadelphia - since 1876. With this, Pierre became one of the world's foremost Costumers. Over the past 6 decades, Pierre's has acquired costumes and stock from over 25 other large high end Costume Shops. This allowed Pierre's to add unique & original items while they still added to their stock by building new costumes as well. During the last six decades Pierre has maintained a complete full service professional costume house, designing and manufacturing on the premises.
Pierre services professional and semi-professional theatrical productions, national theatre tours, school & college theatres, motion pictures, advertising agencies, party planners, production companies, professional sports teams, print & TV commercials, major corporations, televised parades, theme parks, and costume shops throughout the world.
Meet the Business Owner: Family Owned W.
Pierre's has well over 1,000,000 different costumes to chose from, making it by far the largest costume shop in the Philadelphia area / Delaware Valley, and one of the largest in the country.
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