The pandemic edition of the 25th Annual Costume Boo-tique will be held Saturday, October 24, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.  in the corner lot of St. Claude Avenue and Spain Street, which is owned by longtime sponsor, the New Orleans Healing Center.

Masks will be mandated, as well as sold, at the socially distanced outdoor market, which will showcase a vast array of one-of-a-kind creations by New Orleans’ most inspired costumers, hatters, assemblage artists, mask-makers, and purveyors of fine vintage costumes.

Now a quarter-century old, the Halloween Costume Boo-tique grew out of the annual Carnival Creations Bazaar on Frenchmen Street. When Café Brasil closed, both events migrated to the Blue Nile, site of the Great Blue Nile Costume Bust of Mardi Gras 2011.  Threadhead Cultural Foundation stepped in as a nonprofit sponsor and the biannual sales rose from the ashes at the Blue Nile and moved to their new home at the New Orleans Healing Center in 2013.

More than a dozen longtime local favorites will be on hand: Oliver Manhattan, Tracy Thomson, Howlpop, Calamity, Cree McCree, Kate McNee, Liz Blaz, Chloe Rose, Lana Guerra, Sweetwater Vintage, Deesguise, Dana Embree, Alita Edgar, and New Orleans Independent Fashion.

For more info on the Halloween Costume Boo-tique, contact Cree McCree via email [email protected] or by calling (504) 505-4113.