What people wear to game
Live-action role-playing gaming offers the enjoyable opportunity to completely become one's character. To my mind, this makes decent costuming mandatory, although I am not always in the majority on this. To get some idea of what various LARPers see at their games, I informally polled friends and people on alt.games.whitewolf. Here are some of the results, categorized by clan and liberally sprinkled with my own editorializing...
-- By Trystan L. Bass
Brujah
Black leather jackets, ripped jeans, camouflage pants, Goth/industrial/heavy metal band t-shirts, 70s/grunge styles, Doc Martins, babydoll dresses, short leather skirts, cutoffs, bondage pants, studded belts, ripped tights and fishnets, gangsta fashions, work shirts, super baggy pants, vinyl fetish wear, combat boots, as well as trench coats, professorial tweed jackets, corduroy pants.
Gangrel
Peasant shirts, middle-eastern tunics, dhoti pants, broomstick skirts, scarves, moccasins, tie-dyed shirts, love beads, backpacks, safari-style bush jackets or vests, denim jackets, jeans, hiking boots, flannel. Some also add animalistic makeup such as facial fur, animal ears, long fangs, dark or colored makeup, and claws (a clever effect I've seen: glue very long fake finger nails onto brown gloves).
Malkavian
Could wear anything at any moment -- ratty jeans and t-shirts, lab coats, formal attire, underwear worn on the outside, Hawaiian shirts, trashed vintage dresses, or even completely "normal" outfits.
Nosferatu
Jeans and t-shirts, bondage wear, "Phantom of the Opera" masks, capes, pinstripe suits, and trench coats. Some use makeup and theatrical prosthetics to achieve the true Nos' look -- stuff like gnarled fingers, bald cap, pointed ears, and scars. They can also use "Mask of 1000 Faces" all night so they don't really have to dress up at all!
Toreadors
Ruffled shirts (Renaissance or Victorian style), black pants tucked into tall boots, silk shirts, leather or tapestry vests, tight black skirts, lacy blouses, fancy hats, leather jackets, punk/Goth accessories and makeup, slutty short-shorts worn with fishnets, bimbo tops, cocktail dresses, vintage suits and dresses, velvet or wool capes, leather trousers, all kinds of jewelry, tail coats, tuxedos, full-length evening gowns, paint or clay stained jeans and t-shirts, artist's smocks, 70s retro outfits, black capri pants, sleek black tops, and berets.
Tremere
Long capes, trench coats, top hats, suits, robes, crystals, symbolic jewelry, tarot cards, and every last one seems to have some kind of cane.
Ventrue
Suits (especially double-breasted and Armani styles), button-down silk shirts, trousers, wingtips, conservative ties, Chanel-style women's suits, pearls, matching shoes and purses, preppie/Oxford styles, polo shirts, sweater vests, chinos, loafers, anything by Ralph Lauren, and possibly clean, unripped jeans. And then there were these Ventrue that Jana Wright told me about... they "wore suits mostly, except for the German Anarch Ventrue that had recently fled Vienna. They (well, we) looked like we should have been guests on "Sprockets" (SNL joke). Turtlenecks, straight tight pants or skirts, black tights, slip-on shoes, and the little round glasses."
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