Dressing up in a banana suit or a clown costume inspires laughter, starts conversation, and often helps celebrities escape the notice of paparazzi. Attract or escape attention with today’s Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of costume rentals at Disguises in Lakewood. Except for holiday and mascot rentals, each costume loan covers a two-day period, and the average rental costume ranges in price from $40 to $50.

Disguises outfits soon-to-be alter egos with a plethora of costumes, wigs, and accessories for celebrations and theatrical performances. Modern women can transform themselves into Victorian ladies with outfits that embody the lacy frills, parasols, and steam-powered tea hats of that era. Halloween costumes lend aspiring zombies, vampires, and skeletons a freshly undead look, perfect for terrifying groups of cartoon ghost hunters in disused fairgrounds, and fans of the Star Wars franchise can don getups such as a full Darth Vader suit, a Jedi cowl, or Stormtrooper armor.