1.   Simon bought up the costume store and set himself up in premises in Southwark, under the name Snogogram International.

2.   Across Los Angeles, other costume stores also showed Bush in the lead.

3.   In the little Oregon village of Progress, at a costume store called Party Depot, the manager, Nick Apap, was asked about business.

4.   It used to be that Halloween was the turf of candy shops and costume stores.

5.   So White and a colleague spent all night visiting costume stores in Manhattan until they found where the suspects bought the masks, according to a Business Week profile.

6.   Word of the campaign trickled down to some of the costume stores and party rental businesses that were trafficking in purple dinosaur outfits.

7.   Tourists can still find tattoo parlors, cheesy souvenir shops and tacky costume stores next to upscale nightclubs and boutiques selling the latest fashions.

8.   A Washington costume store was packed with feverish shoppers as the hours ticked down to darkness.