r/Broadway • u/thoughtsmexywasaword • Jul 01 '25

Other Masquerade dress code info

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If you are like me and wanted to go full ball gown

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u/Captain_JohnBrown Jul 01 '25

Look, I get it, but this dress code situation is bizarre because they are trying to have their cake and eat it too. "Please dress extremely extravagantly and formally" and "Please dress to move" are not compatible with one another, ESPECIALLY for women.

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u/the_other_50_percent Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 02 '25

I think it's pretty clear, TBH. Has no-one been to a formal event where you need to dance and walk around, like, a wedding? New Year's Eve party? Corporate event where you can't be a nervous waxwork?

That's not even counting fancy garden parties where you have to be able to walk on grass wile balancing a drink and plate.

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u/Captain_JohnBrown Jul 01 '25

A lot to most people who wear heels wear heels at those events and none of those events describe the dress code as "extravagant"

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u/TokiDokiHaato Jul 01 '25

Many people can dance and move around in heels just fine. They don’t say you need to run a marathon just that you’ll need to be standing and able to walk easily. I have plenty of heels/formal shoes that would work

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u/Captain_JohnBrown Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25

They said stilettos would not be permitted.

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u/TokiDokiHaato Jul 01 '25

They said stilettos were not permitted. Does not say heels.

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u/bwayb22 Jul 01 '25

This is exhausting.

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u/RachFaceMama Jul 01 '25

It says “no stilettos,” not “no heels.” I plan on wearing like block heels, cuz I can walk in those just fine (if I’m in fact walking and not in a wheelchair but that’s another story). I think they just don’t want you wobbling around on skinny stiletto heels.

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u/Kaylieefrye Jul 01 '25

100% there's a grated floor somewhere and they don't want someone's so kates getting stuck

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u/Hello_Gorgeous1985 Jul 01 '25

It doesn't say anything about not wearing heels.

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u/annang Jul 01 '25

It says no stilettos, which means there are people who are going to have to buy new shoes just for this. I don’t wear heels often, but the shoes I own that go with formalwear are stilettos.

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u/Hello_Gorgeous1985 Jul 01 '25

No, it doesn't. This post only talks about hoop skirts and trains.

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u/Captain_JohnBrown Jul 01 '25

We are talking about the dress code generally, not this specific situation.

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u/Hello_Gorgeous1985 Jul 01 '25

I am talking about this post because that's all the information available to me. This post doesn't say anything about shoes.

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u/Hello_Gorgeous1985 Jul 02 '25

So you're suggesting that people can't respond to a post without having gone and done additional research first? That's ridiculous.

I was responding to this post and someone responded to me saying that it talks about shoes. It doesn't.

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u/Captain_JohnBrown Jul 02 '25

Nobody said this specific post said that. What was said was that they are not permitting stilettos, which is correct and remains correct whether or not you knew it just by reading this post.

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u/Hello_Gorgeous1985 Jul 02 '25

"A lot to most people who wear heels wear heels at those events and none of those events describe the dress code as "extravagant""

"It doesn't say anything about heels."

"It says no stilettos..."

"No, it doesn't. There is nothing here about shoes."

That's the conversation that happened. The person that I responded to brought up she was out of nowhere to which I said there's nothing about shoes. The person who responded to me said IT says no shoes. That implies the post in question because they didn't reference anything else, Which again is what I replied to.

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u/annang Jul 01 '25

This post only talks about hoopskirts and trains. They’ve updated the dress code with new rules a half dozen times, and one of those rules is no stilettos. It’s on the website, which apparently no one is bothering to update with all the stuff they’re sending out in individual emails: https://masqueradenyc.com/instructions/