What are you going to be for Halloween? If you don't know, don't feel bad. Most people don't figure it out until the last minute.That makes running a costume shop a challenging business. If you don't have a enough of the costume people want, you don't have time to re-stock it. If you order too many of this year's hot new thing, you are stuck with the extras.The key to success in the costume business is having the right mix of costumes and hedging your bets. Think about it like putting together a stock portfolio.Richard Parrott runs Ricky's NYC, one of the biggest costume shops in New York, and he says the blue chips in his world are "pirates, princesses, witches, vampires, and superhero costumes."You've got to balance these old favorites out with high-risk, high-reward bets. This year, Parrott's hot pick is costumes from the Disney movie, Frozen. Parrott has a six-year-old son. He says after they saw the movie together earlier this year, he thought "I'm going to buy absolutely every
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