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Here at Carnival Store, we pride ourselves on hiring and selling quality fancy dress costumes and accessories. Our dedicated team focuses on helping you get the most from your party, event, or celebration by finding an appropriate outfit or accessory. Whatever the occasion you want to dress up for – Carnival, Halloween, Christmas, Easter, or a masquerade party – we can provide a suitable quality costume or accessory. We are a family business with a shop in Hiddenhausen near Hannover. Carnival Store was established in 1952 and continues today, still a Stephanides family business. Over the last 60 years, we have built up a reputation for selling a vast range of costumes and accessories. We are certain we can cover all of your dressing-up needs. We pride ourselves on covering many themes – animals, book characters, circus, Disney, funny, military, movies, pirates, sailors, Roman centurions, sports, Star Wars, superheroes, army, cowgirls, fair trade, nurses, fairytales, Harry Potter, TV, film, and uniforms for men, women, and kids. We cover the decades 1920s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, if you are looking for a historical theme. Events that we provide for include Christmas, Easter, Hen and Stag nights, St Patrick's Day, World Book Day, Festivals, Oktoberfest, Halloween, Valentine's, and – the big one in Germany – Carnival! We get very busy in the time leading up to Carnival, but this doesn't prevent us from meeting your fancy dress requirements (our Carnival headdresses are very popular, by the way!). We're also very good at providing more unusual fancy dress costumes. For example, our leprechaun costumes are quite a hit! Also unusual are our skater girl, rockstar, vintage bathing suit, Ali G, and gangster costumes. In October, we have a substantial footfall of customers checking out our beer fest, Bavarian, lederhosen, and beer girl costumes – everything connected with Oktoberfest, in fact! And then there's the festive season, during which we always make sure we're well stocked with Santa suits, sparkling elf outfits, reindeer costumes, angels, shepherds, Christmas tree costumes, and all sorts! Throughout the year, as these kinds of costumes are not seasonal, we get a regular throughput of fun-loving and party-loving customers who are interested in our range of stag night and hen-party costumes and accessories. On the subject of fancy dress accessories, we stock cowboy hats, historical hats, pirate hats, animal masks, eye patches, Halloween wigs, afro wigs, celebrity wigs, beards, tutus, waistcoats, tinsel, fake teeth, fake tattoos, belts, necklaces, props, novelty items, and the list goes on! Do you want to go to a party dressed as a TV or film character? We'll help you out! Whether it's Ghostbusters, famous pirates, Mickey Mouse, Batman, Lawrence of Arabia, Yoda, a Star Wars trooper, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Scooby-Doo, Beetlejuice, a musketeer, buccaneer, angel, Muppets character, Wizard of Oz, cartoon, or many, many other characters, we can assist! If we don't have the costume or accessory in stock, we'll try to get it in store for you. You'll love our shop in Hiddenhausen near Hannover. We're very warm and welcoming, attending to your fancy dress party requirements.