Beings throughout the known Universe All of us here love Renaissance Faires and other places where the ordinary, everyday World gets to be part of a larger, more imaginative World, of greater possibilities!
Now, most Renaissance Faires have modern conveniences, accepted credit cards, and don’t tend to need to have the citizens rise up and man the catapults against immanent raids of werewolf hordes, like they did int he old days. Similarly, we aren’t going to check to make sure that all of your garments have been manufactured in Nevryone and shipped to Otherwhen from Neverwas.
But we do absolutely encourage you to come in costume, garb, fancy dress, character, persona, fursona, or pretty much whatever you’d like, within reason*.
Don’t worry that it won’t be ‘enough’ of anything. You CAN get as fancy as you want, and we all respect and admire people with fantasmic and elaborate gear!
But what makes a Wonderplace are the people, not the clothes**. So don’t worry and don’t be afraid to experiment! You’ll also have a chance to see what other people are wearing via our upcoming social media.
This is the time to:
- Scour your closets for interesting things you’ve not worn in a while
- Check the thrift shops! They have fascinating things!
- If you’ve lots of lolly, consider supporting independent creators who make clothing and costumes! Some of them are our vendors!
- Alternately, you could attempt to supplicate the Dark Demons of Clothing and sacrifice a leisure suit on an alter to Bajoombah, the Vile Bane of Polyester. We don’t recommend it. But you could.
- You can wear your everyday walkabout stuff! That’s all right as well!
- You can get your things AT the fair from our vendors! You can even talk to our vendors in advance about things they can make and hold for you.
- You could visit our sponsors. They sure wouldn’t mind.
- Yes, you can totally get your gear at Spirit. Plenty of us do. If Spirit Halloween didn’t extrude itself into your reality, we’d have to invent it. Same with Hot Topic, Spencer’s, and That Store Everyone Says Is Cringe But Everyone Secretly Really Wants To Go Into
* “Reason is in the tentacle of the beholder”, as Voltaire said.
** Nearly all of our clothing merchants have lodged a formal complaint against this ridiculous and unfounded idea.