The best costume shops in Sydney

You’ll feel like you’ve stepped into the dress up box of your dreams when you enter the Wardrobe. The store’s bright pink interiors are home to over 30,000 individual pieces of costuming. This place isn't for cheap flimsy outfits. The rentals here are top notch and often personally jazzed up with special fixings. They hae a tailoring room on site, used to customise costumes and create one-off pieces for local theatre ensembles and school productions.

At this treasure chest of a shop in Crows Nest you'll find high-quality accessories like Swarovski-encrusted masks and realistic looking flesh tattoos, plus licenced movie costumes that you can try before you buy. They’ve got an extensive Halloween range to hire or buy instore, plus even more online that ships direct to you from their wholesale suppliers. They even have a tailor on-hand to make minor alterations so that the costume you choose is perfect. 

Tucked away in a Surry Hills side street is the little costume treasure chest known as Snog the Frog. Are you after the perfect Freddy Mercury-style diamond jumpsuit? Or a spooky couples' costume that mashes up Clueless with Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar? Want to emulate an 18th century French duke? Snog's hire range has you covered. They've also got you covered if you just need a wild wig and some makeup, or a mask to accessorise your own creation. 

This party shop has more balloons than we’ve ever seen in one spot before. They’ve also got copious sweets for candy bars, glow sticks galore and plenty of knick-knacks for themed parties. While the two-floor shop brings its A-game on the decorations front, the costume selection isn’t as comprehensive.

This bargain shop has a decent costume selection – but the price cut means a cut in quality. Here you’ll find your run-of-the-mill nun, dentist and army outfits alongside extensive wacky sunglasses, sequined hot pants and fake blood.