When thinking of costumes, fun and candy the holiday that comes to mind is Halloween; reminding people of childhood trick-or-treating.

Owner of Grand Ball Costumes, Jayne Ball-Saret said her favorite part about Halloween is how freeing it is when dressing up and how a person can open up by impersonating someone else.

Grand Ball Costumes has about 70,000 costumes to rent which range from $29 to $69. This price includes costume rental, costume cleaning and alterations.

Ball-Saret makes most of the costumes except for certain brands because of copyright laws.

Grand Ball Costumes are beginning to take walk in customers October 12 for the Halloween season.

According to www.livescince.com, Halloween is a celebration because October 31 marks the last day of the Celtic calendar.

The Celtic-Folklore believed Halloween was a day of celebration before the cold seasons. To the Celtics winter brought the death of life and nature as well as the harvest, www.livescince.com said.

Ball-Saret said that the last three weeks in October is the only time where she has to hire extra help because it is the busiest time of the year.

She said that through the other months she does sell costumes for theater. According to www.livescince.com, people dress up for Halloween to scare the evil spirits of the winter months away.

“The four most popular costumes this year are Caitlyn Jenner, The Minions, Donald Trump and The Pope,” Ball-Saret said.

The most popular costumes are usually tied in what is going on around us she said.

“My favorite part about making the costumes is the custom aspect of it, I love knowing that my customers get a one of a kind costume,” Ball-Saret said.

Grand Ball Costumes has many selections of costumes and to make it easier to choose from Ball-Saret has many binders in the store to help people choose which costumes they want.

She has many different kinds of costumes to choose from, including cute, group, couple, scary, group and many more.

Ball-Saret said some of the most popular group and couple costumes are Wizard of Oz, vampires, witches, devils and super heroes.

Halloween is a great time to see what it is like to become someone else, she said.

Grand Ball Costumes business is located on 609 Sixth st. Charleston, IL 61920 and its phone number is (217) 345-2617.

Lexi Stickel can be reached at 281-2812 or [email protected].