Escapade announce extended opening hours for Halloween

27 Oct 2010

 Escapade has announced that it will be opening some of its stores for longer this Halloween season so that customers have more time to shop for their costumes.

With queues forming earlier than ever before outside of the Camden Superstore and online sales reaching record highs Escapade fancy dress is predicting that Halloween 2010 will be the biggest celebration of the holiday since the turn of the millennium.

Escapade has extended the opening times of its Camden Superstore by two hours every day with the Camden Fancy Dress Superstore now open between 10:00 am and 9:00 pm Monday to Saturday and between 10:00am and 5:00pm on Sundays.

 
Due to an increasing amount of customer queries and phone orders over the seasonal period Escapade has also extended the opening times of its online sales department, which will now also be open on the weekends for the first time in their 28 year history. The online sales department will be open between:

 
8:30 am and 9:00 pm Monday to Friday.
10:00 am and 7:00pm on a Saturday.
10:00am and 5:00pm on a Sunday.

Escapade director Bhupendra Maisuria said: "We make sure that customer satisfaction is our top priority and in order to cope with the excess demand of this exciting Halloween season we have substantially extended our opening times to ensure that all of our customers are taken care of."  

 
In order to deal with the increasing amount of customers Escapade is encouraging those who still need to pick up their fancy dress costumes for Halloween to arrive earlier in the morning to avoid the seasonal rush.

 
Escapade can also reveal the costumes that customers are most likely to see for Halloween 2010. Seasonal favourites such as vampires, skeletons, devils and scary clowns are selling strongly alongside iconic horror film characters. Sales figures are indicating that the most popular costume of the season thus far is the Mad Hatter costume, or variations of it from Alice in Wonderland. However, the real surprise of the season is that comedy related costumes continue to sell better than they have in previous years leading Escapade staff to believe that this will be one of the funniest Halloween seasons in recent memory.

About Escapade:
Escapade has been established for more than 28 years having been founded in 1982. Escapade has thousands of specialist fancy dress costumes and accessories including army fancy dress costumes, 70s fancy dress, Christmas fancy dress including a Santa costume and kids fancy dress. Escapade also provides unique ladies fancy dress costumes such as maternity costumes, TV and film outfits and sexy costumes.

Over its 28 years in business Escapade has built up an enviable client list - supplying to retail customers, businesses, schools, charities and many TV companies including BBC, CBBC, Walt Disney, MTV, Nickelodeon and Channel 4. Escapade costumes have helped to provide many iconic moments including the "House of Fun" video by Madness and Comic Relief's Celebrity Apprentice which were filmed at Escapade's Camden store. Many Escapade fancy dress costumes were also used in the popular TV series "Trigger Happy TV" starring Dom Joly and the store was featured on Gok Wan's "How to look Good Naked".