Who can play an elf? LARP's thorny issue

Who should be allowed in a LARP to play what sort of character? Need there be restrictions? What are the minimum costume standards?
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LARP = Live Action Role Play (dressing up and playing fictional characters in improvised dramas).

Immediately after the Fairweather Manor game had finished, I sat down in my room for a few minutes with Raquel to discuss an issue that comes up a lot in LARP. Personally, I would say that I should not play a dwarf in a LARP, because it will make it so difficult for all the other players looking up at me to imagine that they are looking down. Dwarves should not loom. On the other hand, insisting that only blond[e]s can play elves strikes me as unnecessarily restrictive.

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