Websites for costume and fancy dress hire businesses
School panto or stag do, every costume hire starts with a size, a fitting and a date.
PrimeStart designs a website around your company, then hosts it, updates it and looks after it for you. Built to answer what a comparing hirer wants to know — your costume ranges, how sizing works, and a fast way to ask about a fitting — from £99.99 a month with £0 upfront design fee.
Example enquiry — not a real customer
Example design — fictional business
Why a website
A theatre company or party-goer checks stock and sizing before anything else.
A drama teacher booking for a school production, a theatre company dressing a cast, or a private customer planning a party is usually working to a character, a size and a date, and a site that answers stock and sizing plainly wins the enquiry over one built on atmosphere photography alone.
They check what you actually stock
Theatrical, period, character, party or fancy dress ranges, named clearly, is the first thing a customer working to a brief looks for.
They check how sizing works
Whether a fitting is needed, and how alterations are handled, matters directly to whether they can commit to a costume.
They check hire periods and deposits
How long a costume is hired for, what a deposit covers, and any cleaning charge are practical questions a customer wants answered before they commit.
They want a fast way to ask about a fitting
A form that starts the conversation efficiently, so the next step is a fitting rather than an unanswered email.
Getting found
A costume search usually begins the day the character and the date are agreed.
"Costume hire for school production", "fancy dress hire near me", "theatrical costume hire" — searches a drama teacher, theatre company or private customer makes once the practical planning begins. Website + SEO is the ongoing work of being visible when they do.
- Local searches, agreed with you. We pick the three searches that matter most to your company — say, "costume hire York", "fancy dress hire" and "theatrical costume hire" — and work on them every month.
- Google Business Profile. Set up and kept current, so you appear on the map with your ranges, coverage and a way to reach you.
- Reviews handled carefully. A simple way to gather genuine reviews from customers you've worked with, shown as written and never used to imply a result we can't confirm.
- Content that answers real questions. How a fitting is booked, what a deposit actually covers, and how far ahead to book for panto or Halloween season, written accurately for a customer planning their production or party.
- A monthly report you can read. What moved and what we're doing about it — in your Client Platform, without the analytics jargon.
We never promise rankings or a number of new bookings. We do promise consistent, honest work on being found — and to show you exactly what we did.
Built for you
A customer against a character and a date needs your stock fast, not a page of costume photography.
With a production date already fixed, stock and sizing have to answer first — the costume photography can wait its turn.
Every PrimeStart website is designed from scratch and custom coded on WordPress in HTML and PHP — no page builders, no theme bought off a shelf with your logo dropped in. It's built around what a comparing customer needs to decide quickly: your stock, how sizing works, and how to reach you.
"A customer with a fixed production date doesn't need endless costume photography. They need to know, clearly, whether you can fit their cast and when."
Why stock and sizing sit above the fold on every costume hire site- 1
Theatrical, period and party costumes told apart
Never one generic "costumes" gallery that makes a customer guess what's actually available.
- 2
Fittings and alterations, described accurately
So a customer can check the process against their cast or their own size immediately.
- 3
Hire periods, deposits and cleaning, as your own policy
Never implied or assumed on your behalf.
- 4
A fast way to ask about a fitting
Never a live ordering system we haven't built — a form that starts the conversation efficiently.
What's included
Everything a website needs to run, handled for you.
You don't need to learn hosting, domains or WordPress. Every PrimeStart website comes with the technical side done and looked after — for as long as you're with us.
Design & build
- Custom design around your companyApproved by you
- Custom coded on WordPressHTML & PHP
- Up to 5 pages to startMore via your platform
- Mobile-first, fast loading
Hosting & security
- Hosting, included
- Domain name & SSL certificate
- Daily backups
- Security monitoring & updates
Changes & management
- Small changes when you need themWithin service scope
- WordPress & plugin updatesEvery month
- Enquiry forms to your inbox
- Support from real people
Your Client Platform
- See your site's progress
- Request changes in a click
- Order extra pages
- SEO reports (Website + SEO)Monthly
We're on the website. Updates, fixes, backups and changes happen in the background — you'll only hear from us when there's something worth hearing.
How it starts
Choose your plan
Two plans. The difference is whether you want help being found.
Both give you a complete, managed website. One adds ongoing SEO work to it. Pay monthly, or pay upfront for the year and save 25%.
Website
A professional costume and fancy dress hire website, looked after for you.
£99.99a month
Save 25%
12-month plan. £0 upfront design fee.
Start my websiteDesign, build, hosting, domain, SSL, backups, updates, small changes, support and your Client Platform login.
Website + SEO
For costume and fancy dress hire businesses who want help being found on Google.
£349.99a month, in total
Save 25%
Includes your managed website. SEO runs for a 6-month minimum.
Start Website + SEOEverything in Website, plus three agreed local searches worked on monthly, Google Business Profile, reviews, technical fixes and a monthly report.
First payment at signup, no setup charges. Monthly customers own their site after the agreed 12-month term; upfront customers can take early handover once the site is complete and approved. Full terms on the pricing page.
Questions
What costume and fancy dress hire businesses ask us.
The commercial questions, answered plainly. Anything else, ask us — a real person will call you back.
Not sure which plan?
Tell us how much of your bookings come from search versus repeat school and theatre bookings, and we'll say honestly whether SEO is worth it for you yet.
Request a callCan the site show our terms clearly, including deposits and cleaning?
How much does a website for a costume and fancy dress hire business cost with PrimeStart?
Can the site take orders or bookings online?
Can the site show different information for schools, theatre companies and private customers?
Can the site name our past productions or clients?
Do we own the website?
How quickly will I see a first draft?
Get started
You dress the part. We'll run the website.
Choose a plan, tell us about your stock, and see your first design before anything goes live.
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