Costume shops should be places you want to visit all the time, not just when holidays or pop culture events roll around. That's just what happens at Mardi Gras, where aisles filled with costumes ...

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Phoenix’s Yuhki Kanetani ... "Cosplay was just starting to be popularized around when we (first) did the costume contest," Kanetani says. "At the time, one of the anime vendor booths wanted ...