All attendees, no matter what capacity, should be in appropriate costume AT ALL TIMES IN PUBLIC while onsite.

Geyserville is sunny and hot in July. Please bring a light headscarf and/or turban, appropriate for male or female. You will find this a very practical accessory. There is a reason they dress like that in the desert. It is the sun!

The designated costuming exceptions are [a] the pool area (at any time), where clothing is optional; [b] the Thursday night "Fundalini Rising" dance, and [c] the late Saturday "RITES of RA & Night Fire of Bennu, the Ba of Ra" a non-demoninational, trance drum & fire-dance experience; [d] Sunday the 22nd is "Egyptomania Day" at Isis Oasis, and costume requirements are relaxed (but then you might miss out on the Costume Contest that day!) [e] also any time you are in your personal (non-public) space, room, dorm, tent, vehicle, etc.

Repeated flagrant abuse of costume guidelines may result in ejection with no recourse and no refund of your registration fees. Please come prepared to play ISIS FEST with us, and to enjoy the communal theatrical pageant and masquerade which we'll create together within the context of the theme: "Celebrating Ancient Egypt & Tribal North Africa". Your costuming should to be a reasonable approximation of ancient Egyptian (common, mercantile, martial, priestly or royal, etc), or of TRADITIONAL ethnic, folkloric North African/Near Eastern tribal styles.

If you plan on coming as a King, a Queen, God or Goddess, please email us. If we like your costume appearance, you may be requested to participate in a formal ceremony. Otherwise you will need to wear some other appropriate apparel during ceremonial events and performances (to avoid embarrassing duplications). Some of these 'Roles' have already been designated, but many have not. Please ask....

The Isis Festival at Isis Oasis, or Isis Fest for short, is a theme event in the genre of Ancient Egypt and the Near East. Everyone attending and/or vending, presenting, performing, teaching, etc. is expected to be in appropriate traditional costume in all public areas. If there is some valid reason for you to ignore this aspect, please email us first & explain. Don't suprise us with your zoot-suit & violin case. Thanks.

We stress 'traditional' clothing, as opposed to modern styles or cabaret dance outfits, etc.** We definitely prefer fabrics and accessories that did exist, or may have existed before 1920, for tribal gear, and before Roman conquest for ancient Egyptian garb.

Here are some costume image resources. There are some potentially inspiring pictures on other parts of the Isis Fest website. You will find many more on the internet, and in many good historical costume books in your library.

** COSTUME NOTE
Visible western style bras (and/or bra-straps) are NOT appropriate to any costuming option for this event. Appropriate alternatives include traditional robes and wraps of North Africa and the Middle East, tribal blouses & cholis, a breast-wrapping scarf (see Bali pix); sarong wrap above or below the breasts; Egyptian full length dress of light cotton (muslin or cotton gauze) and [for the bold] there are many topless fashions of ancient Egypt. Halter tops will be acceptable; they'll never look ancient Egyptian, so at least make them seem convincingly tribal. PLEASE help us project the fantasy of our theme -- celebrating Ancient Egypt & Tribal North Africa.

*** Celtic designs & knotwork are NOT appropriate, very out of period & location. IsisFest is NOT Renaissance Faire.

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Isis Fest is a fund-raising event for the Isis Oasis Animal Sanctuary