A costume exchange for the stage and beyond

The one-stop costume marketplace theater has been waiting for.

Encore Closet was created for an industry that needs this now more than ever: a welcoming, legitimate place where theaters, schools, costume rental houses, and production teams can buy, sell, rent, source, and organize production-ready costumes on a national scale.

Browse Marketplace List Costumes Find Designers

National stage inventory

Search by show, era, item, package, seller, and production need.

0approved listings

0full show packages

0approved designers

Why this exists

Theater people are resourceful. The tools should be, too.

Costume sourcing has been scattered across private groups, old spreadsheets, personal contacts, and photos buried in message threads. Encore Closet was created to give the theater community a more searchable, trustworthy, and production-aware way to move costumes from one stage to the next.

The goal is simple: help valuable costume stock keep working, help buyers find what they need faster, and give designers and rental houses a polished place to be discovered.

What you can do here

A marketplace built around real production workflows.

Buy, sell, rent

List costumes with theater-specific details.

Sellers can upload images, mark full show packages, add weight for shipping estimates, and receive order requests.

Production pulls

Save options by show.

Buyers can build pull boards, compare pieces, and keep sourcing decisions together instead of losing them in separate messages.

Vetted designers

Find approved costume professionals.

Designers apply before going live, share portfolios and IMDb links, update availability, and collect employer testimonials.

Trust layer

Know who you are working with.

Seller profiles, listing detail pages, message threads, and admin review make the exchange feel more reliable than a social feed.

For theaters and schools

Source faster for the next production.

Browse available inventory, save possible pieces to a pull, ask sellers questions, and start a quote request when a package looks right.

Start Browsing

For rental houses and costume owners

Turn stored inventory into revenue.

Create an account, add listings, show buyers who you are, and manage inquiries from your dashboard.

Create Account

For designers

Be discoverable when productions are hiring.

Submit a profile for review, link your portfolio, share your specialties, and keep availability updated.

Apply as Designer