Dress Code

✨ Dress Code: Broadway After Dark ✨

When the curtain falls, Broadway gets a little stranger.

The stage lights dim, the velvet curtains part, and the glamorous misfits, mysterious strangers, decadent performers, and creatures of the night take over.

This year’s dress theme is Broadway After Dark, inspired by four gloriously theatrical worlds:

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Cabaret
• Moulin Rouge
• The Phantom of the Opera

Think corsets and tailcoats, fishnets and velvet, feathers and masks, glittering performers, gothic romantics, strange scientists, creatures in heels, tragic divas, and people making spectacularly dramatic entrances.

But most importantly: this is just for fun.

You do not need to know the musicals. You do not need an accurate costume. You do not need to spend money, sew anything, or arrive looking ready for a professional stage production.

Take the theme as far—or as little—as you like.

🎭 Choose Your Stage 🎭

Rocky Horror Rebels Camp, chaos, fishnets, lingerie, leather, lab coats, sequins, dramatic makeup, playful gender-bending, and wonderfully questionable scientific experiments.

Cabaret Creatures Dark nightclub glamour, smoky eyes, suspenders, stockings, waistcoats, bow ties, worn-out elegance, decadent performers, and mysterious figures watching from the shadows.

Moulin Rouge Royalty Red velvet, lace, feathers, corsets, satin, rhinestones, showgirls, bohemians, poets, courtesans, aristocrats, and beautiful people making bad decisions.

The Phantom’s Masquerade Masks, opera gloves, capes, dark suits, gothic lace, candlelit elegance, dramatic romance, tragic ghosts, and creatures hiding beneath the theatre.

🖤 Mix It, Twist It, Make It Yours 🖤

There are no strict categories and absolutely no costume police.

Become a masked Rocky Horror alien. A gothic Moulin Rouge dancer. A Cabaret performer haunted by the Phantom. A corseted opera ghost in glittering boots. Or something that makes no sense at all but looks fantastic under stage lights.

This is not a cosplay competition. It is an excuse to play, experiment, exaggerate, and wear something you might not usually wear.

The most memorable looks are often not the most expensive or elaborate. They are the ones that feel playful, theatrical, and unmistakably yours.

✨ Keeping It Very Simple ✨

A black outfit with one theatrical detail already works.

Add any of the following:

• A mask
• Fishnets or patterned tights
• A feather or flower
• Gloves
• A bow tie or suspenders
• A waistcoat or tailcoat
• A choker
• Glitter or dramatic eyeliner
• Red lipstick
• A cape
• A corset, harness, or leather accessory
• One gloriously unnecessary piece of jewellery

Some very easy combinations:

Rocky Horror: black clothes, fishnets, eyeliner, and a bow tie or leather detail.

Cabaret: black trousers or a dress, suspenders, a waistcoat, stockings, or smoky makeup.

Moulin Rouge: something red or black, with lace, satin, velvet, a flower, feather, or sparkling accessory.

Phantom: black clothing, a white shirt, gloves, lace, a cape, or a simple mask.

Even regular clothes with bold makeup or one ridiculous accessory can be enough to join the show.

🎩 We’ll Dress Up Together 🎩

You do not have to arrive fully transformed.

We’ll also provide a small collection of masks, feathers, glitter, accessories, and theatrical bits and pieces at the event. You can add something to your outfit, experiment with a different look, help dress up a friend, or slowly become more dramatic as the day and night continue.

Maybe you arrive in a black T-shirt and leave as a glitter-covered opera villain.

Maybe someone gives you a feather boa.

Maybe a mysterious mask appears.

Maybe your sensible outfit develops fishnets, gloves, and an entirely new personality.

That spontaneous transformation is part of the fun.

🌙 An Invitation, Never an Obligation 🌙

The dress code is here to create atmosphere and inspire play—not to create pressure.

Come in a complete handmade costume. Come in something assembled from your wardrobe. Come in regular clothes and pick up an accessory when you arrive. Come exactly as you are.

There is no required level of glamour, kink, nudity, femininity, masculinity, or theatrical commitment.

How much—or how little—you dress up is entirely your choice.

Wear something that lets you move, relax, play, and enjoy the event.

🌟 Consent Takes Centre Stage 🌟

A costume is never consent.

Revealing clothing, fetishwear, lingerie, nudity, flirtatious styling, or dramatic performance does not automatically invite touch, photographs, comments, play, or interaction.

Admire freely. Ask clearly. Accept every answer gracefully.

Everyone gets to decide how they participate, how they are approached, and when they step out of the spotlight.

The stage is waiting—but nobody is expected to audition.

Come elegant, excessive, mysterious, ridiculous, seductive, gothic, glittering, understated, or gloriously strange.

Come dressed for the show, or let the show dress you.

The curtain rises after dark. 🎭✨