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