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The Winner Takes It All – in Style: What to wear to game day

Equal parts sporting spectacle, party and community gathering, playful and provocative Cultural Deviants The Huxleys invite ordinary citizens from the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies to enter a domain that they may have long dreamed of, but never been comfortable participating in.

Anyone who’s ever felt excluded from sport – whether because of gender, sexuality, culture, background or disability – will get to live out epic sporting fantasies, captured in a series of joyous and surreal photographs.

Participants will spill onto sporting fields in the City of Stonnington in Melbourne’s inner south over two days during the 2024 Melbourne Fringe Festival dressed head to toe in high-camp Huxleys regalia in an all out grand-slam queer takeover of the sporting world.

Want to join the team? Find out more and register here.

 

Glam up for your sporting field debut with expert guidance from your coaches in camp – The Huxleys.

There are no winners and losers in this magical world we are creating. People can make their own costumes, or come in as much or as little regalia as they wish.  Here are some ideas of costumes you can choose from, or you can invent your own!

Sports Realness

It’s giving athLETE. You have the kit and you know how to use it (and even if you don’t, we won’t be checking!)

A collage of different cricket sports people against a background of a cricket stadium. There are black and white images of cricket players running, one throws a fast bowl, while two women look fashionable in their cricket outfits. There is also a small image of a woman dressed as a white ball. In the middle of the cricket pitch is a cartoon cricket insect.
Morning of Sunday 6th of October – Cricket Shoot Inspiration
A collage of images related to AFL and football. In the centre of the image is a Huxley dresses in a bulbous golden outfit with blue arms, face, and a stripe down the centre. Dandrogyny tackles them gracefully with a leg raised above their head in the air. Dandrogyny is dressed in an AFL outfit that is red and blue. Around the border there are various AFL images that look as if they've been cut out, of AFL players running, posing with trophies, and posing as a team.
Afternoon of Sunday 6th of October – AFL Shoot Inspiration
A collage of images related to Tennis. The background is an image of the Huxleys playing tennis, dressed as giant sequined golden balls, with blue faces and blonde wigs. In the foreground are images of cricket players, and Trixie Matell posing as a cricket player.
Morning of Saturday 12th of October – Tennis Shoot Inspiration
A collage of images related to swimming. The background is formed by an image of The Huxleys in big fluffy blue costumes with golden pointy heads and blue faces getting in to a pool. In between them is an atheltic lookng person dressed in speedoes with a swimming cap and goggles. Around the image there are cut outs of different people swimming and dressed in swimwear, including drag queens, lifeguards, models, people dressed as fish, and the Huxleys.
Morning of Saturday 12th of October – Swimming Shoot Inspiration
Huxleys Sports Extravaganza

A collage of The Huxleys running down a race track looking panicked, one wearing a red sequined costume and the other wearing a black sequined costume. Around the image there are cutouts of people dressed in sporting gear, mascot outfits, runners, wrestlers, and a guy doing a marathon dressed as a banana.

Sport is the category but extravagance is the name of the game. The Huxleys will have costumes in this genre to share, but you’re prepared to bring your own glitz and glamour to really up the game

Mascots & Cheerleaders

A collage of mascots and cheerleaders against a background of a sporting stadium.

The mascots don’t have a coordinated bone in their bodies but boy oh boy do they know how to amp up a crowd. The cheerleaders are athletes of the highest order, and they can dance and do flips to boot. They bring the pompoms, and together they bring the chants! Full of team spirit, they might even help hand out the orange slices.

Over-Eager Spectator

A collage of sports spectators looking very amped up, dressed in their team outfits with lots of facepaint. Many of them wear colourful wigs or novelty hats, including a giant wedge of cheese.

At home in the bleachers, you’re ready to wash out the stadium in your team’s colours. You have zinc on your cheek and a jersey you’re hoping you might just get signed. A stage is nothing without a spotlight, and you’re ready to shine bright.

Umpire

A collage of umpires and referees, many looking serious, giving red cards, pointing, waving flags and blowing whistles.

Tin whistles, yellow and red cards, socks so high the eye boggles, you’re a rule fiend and you’ll argue about millimetres on the baseline if you need to. Even if you’ve never read the rulebook, you’re someone who’s happy flying solo and telling the team to get back into line!

 

We will have some costumes and recycled sporting gear for you to borrow and wear in the shoots, however there will be limited supply so please wear something you’re happy to be photographed in.

THE BASICS

Aside from all the extravagance, here are a couple of basic things to take into consideration with your outfit.

Comfortable!: There will be times where you will have to stay relatively still so we can snap that shot, and other times where you might be asked to pretend play sport, so make you wear something you can move in, and nothing so tight it’ll give you a tummy ache

Fancy-functional footwear: We’re using bona fide sporting grounds and we can’t be putting holes in their turf! Wedges are okay, but flat-soled shoes are preferred. No stilettos or spiked shoes will be permitted on the grounds.

Something warm: We live in Melbourne after all and the weather can change on a dime. Bring a layer for those cool-down moments between sets on the oval

Hat: While we won’t be enforcing the no-hat-no-play rule, we strongly encourage bringing sun protection. Your pores will thank you in the long-run!

We are planning to run a workshop or two in September, so if you’d like to be notified when they are announced, make sure you tick the box when you register!