Article 14976 of rec.arts.sf.fandom:
From: hoey@pooh.tec.army.mil (Dan Hoey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
Subject: Re: 1995 DISCLAVE
Date: 20 Jun 1995 16:36:17 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC

Avedon Carol (avedon@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
: ... The a.s.b. party wasn't exactly "open" - you had to sign a
: release to get in, for one thing, and pass through a couple of
: layers of internal security.  They certainly weren't letting kids
: wander in there.

There was a certain amount of congregating in the hallway outside the
ASB rooms, though.  I didn't notice anything untoward there, but the
hotel is a little nervous about it--apparently the Tailhook affair set
a precedent that hotels have liability for sexual misconduct in the
halls.

: If you are going to get into a panic because you see someone walking
: through a hallway in a short black leather dress, well, I'd prefer
: you stay at the church social where you belong and not come to sf
: cons...

Though if the someone in the short black leather dress is leading
someone else by a chain, and the someone else is wearing a leather
suit and manacles and studded leather collar, it starts looking a
little less like escaping _to_ a church social than escaping _from_
someone's private bondage scene.  I didn't try to stop it--mainly
because I don't think the people who would really mind it recognize
the B&D overtones--but I was not comfortable with the situation.  I
don't want to get in the business of defining a Disclave dress code,
but if it freaks the mundanes we may need to do something.

Dan Hoey                                Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil
Chair, Disclave '95