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    <description>The email lands in the school app on a Tuesday and asks for a &#039;simple&#039; talking donkey by Friday. Here&#039;s how to raid the dressing-up box, buy only what&#039;s worth buying, and send a costume out there that survives three performances and a grandparent with a phone full of storage.</description>
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    <description>Panto season lands fast and demands a lot: a dame, a villain, a fairy and at least one principal boy, often by the same weekend. Here&#039;s how to build convincing characters out of what&#039;s already in your dressing-up box, plus a short, cheap shopping list for each one.</description>
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    <description>A charity-shop costume has already survived one childhood, which is more than most new ones manage. Here&#039;s the honest case for buying second-hand, what to check before you hand over your coins, and how to pass outfits on so they actually get worn again.</description>
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    <description>Halloween is barely in the bin bag and the Christmas socials are already appearing in the group chat. Rather than adding to the pile, spend one hour in mid-November working out what your dressing-up box already holds - and what it will cost you per wear.</description>
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    <description>Most costumes get one outing and then live in a bag under the bed until they are outgrown. These fifteen - nine for children, six for grown-ups - are the ones that come back again and again, from World Book Day to New Year&#039;s Eve.</description>
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