FORMAL MASQUERADE DANCE

Thank you for your interest in participating in The Anthro Northwest Formal Masquerade Dance. The Masquerade Dance is a slow, romantic evening dance featuring glamourous costumes with influences traditionally from the New Orleans region of Louisiana.

DRESS CODE

We encourage all of our attendees to wear their best attire, fursuits included, and to ornament them with traditional masks and accessories.

The minimum attire requirement for clothing is semi-formal, such as:

• Dress shirt and slacks
• Cocktail dress, no shorter than the point on the legs where the fingertips touch in a resting arm position
• Ball gown
• Suit jacket and/or vest (optional)
• Dress shoes, heels
• Cultural semi-formal attire such as a kimono or cheongsam

You may also wear a full or partial fursuit. Full fursuits are exempt from the semi-formal attire requirement. If you wear a partial fursuit, your clothing should adhere to the requirements listed above.

Masks or fursuit heads must be worn for admission. Acceptable masks include full-face masks, traditional masquerade masks, Venetian (stick-mounted) masks, and face-painted masks. If you wear a fursuit head, you do not need a mask for your fursuit, but feel free to wear a mask over your fursuit head if you like. Note that you should wear your mask or fursuit head for the entire duration of the ball unless you have a health or safety issue.

Anthro Northwest will have some masquerade masks available should one be needed. However, since this is a formal event, we do ask everyone to wear their best attire and contribute to the calmness and beauty of the dance atmosphere.

MUSIC SUBMISSION

If there is a romantic or semi-formal song that you especially love, you can request for us to play it at the Masquerade Dance below.

Submit a request for a song to be played at the Masquerade Dance here.