Burning Man’s Fashion Is Wild, but There Are Rules

[steve2470]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/us/at-burning-man-a-counterculture-festival-the-fashion-police-walk-the-beat.html

SAN FRANCISCO — Glitter is a no-no. Sequins are frowned upon. Feathers were verboten, though they have still infiltrated in trims and turbans, to gnashing controversy.

The rules for costumes at the Burning Man festival, which began on Sunday in the scorching desert of northern Nevada, are complex. Governed by a quasi-spiritual principle to leave no trace behind, festival organizers are committed to cleaning up every speck of party detritus from the sand — “Matter Out of Place” or Moop, to use the festival’s term.

Shedding feather boas and stray sequins are a scourge of the playa, or desert basin, where the revelers — known as Burners — strut and frolic for eight days, while anticipation builds for the giant man-shaped bonfire that is the raison d’être of Burning Man.

Such restrictions have not stopped Burning Man from being one of the biggest modern costume shows for adults outside Halloween. Unicorn masks, head-to-toe bird-of-prey outfits, Mylar spacesuits, glow-in-the-dark disco gear — as the scene has grown in psychedelic outrageousness, so has the need among Burners for ever more inventive costumes.

[olddots]

1. wanna see some really weird costumes ?

Go to a republican fund raiser .

[longship]

2. Yes, but that is all polyester.

And far too much hairspray... in the guys' hair!

(Not that I would be that interested in Burning Man either. Just had to respond to your post.)