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The dress, a gray elbow-length-sleeve style, was one of 150 items sold, and it proved to be quite the investment for seller James Tumblin, a former head of Universal Studios' hair and makeup department, who bought it for $20 (yes, 20 bucks!) at a costume company

Based in Southern California, and catering to a handful of high-end designers and specialty baby stores, Newport Cottages is frequently chosen to furnish many celebrity nurseries

With the surge of African-American figures populating the mainstream this year, blacks now have plenty of other costume options than the generic witch, writes Beti Gathegi for The Grio.