About Us
Established in 1976 COSTUME HIRE by Vintage Years was soon serving the people of Leicester and surrounding districts in their needs for fancy dress.
It was quickly realised by the founder Mike Berman that there was a much greater need for proper high quality professional costumes to a much wider variety of clientele. These included amateur dramatic and musical societies and a growing number of businesses who wanted costumes and properties for advertising, training, promotional and other purposes.
Now many years later COSTUME HIRE by Vintage Years have become probably the most comprehensive suppliers of costumes and accessories in the Midlands.
Who We Supply
The general public; Companies for corporate events; training schemes; seminas; publicity and advertising; public relations and other specialist needs.
Television and film companies; Local Councils; Shopping Centres; Amateur and Professional Dramatic and Musical Societies; Schools and Youth Theatre; Period or themed Weddings; Re-enactment groups; 1940's themed weekends and events such as Goodwood Revival etc:
We have many other specialist areas including Victorian and Edwardian, Medieval, Military and Wild West and these can be found on our other pages.
We have a number of residential highly skilled specialist staff who are the backbone of the business and are continually designing and manufacturing new costumes of all types to the highest standards and accuracy.
We also have an extremely comprehensive library of reference books and printed literature to refer to when needed which is constantly updated.
Find Us
St. John Street is situated at a junction with traffic lights by a footbridge across the dual carriageway opposite St. Margarets Bus Station on "Burleys Way" which is located on the A594 Central ring road through Leicester City. There is a yellow sign on the corner of a factory wall on the left directing you down St. John Street also on the left.Turn into St. John Street and at the bottom turn RIGHT (not left) in to a courtyard. We are opposite with yellow signs and windows.
You can email us for more specific directions.