Here's an interesting bit of fancy dress ephemera: an actual dance card from a masquerade ball given in Wisconsin on February 10, 1900. Scans of the cover and inside are at left; click to enlarge.
This is a lady's card, with men's names filled in for the first half of the ball. The ball — their Third Annual Masquerade — was sposnored by the Y.M.P.S. in a town whose name is unreadable due to damage to the card but which I would guess to be Westboro. The red cord attached at the top was to hold a pencil for filling in names.
The dance mix on the card is a typical late Victorian mix, primarily couple dances (waltz, polka, schottische, two-step) and quadrilles. Interestingly, the Grand March, typically the first dance (perhaps after a series of tableaux vivants), is placed ninth instead. I place the Grand March in the middle of the ball at my own Fancy Dress Ball because I do it as a costume-announcing parade, so I want to wait until everyone is there, but don't want to delay the start of the ball. Perhaps this group did it for similar reasons.
The opening dance is a quadrille, which might have been or followed a special Fancy Quadrille, in which a group of dancers with costumes matching a particular theme would perform.
I discussed this card from a dance perspective a while back at my companion dance history blog, Capering & KIckery.