Dancing in pants

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pygmalion

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Just curious. After almost a year in DF, I've formed a few hard and fast opinions. Just checking to see if my prejudices are right.

My view is that whether or not dancing ladies wear pants is greatly influenced by the type of dance they do.

Ballroom ladies go for dresses. Salsa ladies like dresses, too, but occasionally wear pants. Country and Western ladies go for pants. Tango ladies like dresses. Swing ladies who like retro, like swirly skirts (dresses.) Swing ladies who do contemporary clothes, do pants. Did I miss anybody with my gross generalizations? :roll: :lol:

Okay. So how'd I do? :wink:
 
Around here, the tango women were both pants and dresses. When it comes to swing, pants are dominant, but more dresses appear on dressing up occasions.
 
This CW gal prefers her skirts. I do wear jeans in the winter...but I like the skirts the "fly out" when I turn :) Of course, being a competitor might influence my choices more...since I try to show up more than I want to blend in most of the time.
 
I like the way skirts feel, too. 8) I very rarely see any in the C&W bars around here, though. It's jeans and boots all the way. *shrug*
 
Lots of jeans here too. I just get too warm to fast. The club I dance at, you can tell those of us that compete...we all seem to have a preference for skirts.
 
I prefer black pants and a more flashy/colorful top for dance......specifically ballroom. I look better in pants than dresses......well, at least that is what the mirror makes me believe.
 
Like Larinda, I dance in pants most often because I can wear my coaching shoes. I both lead and follow so I need to have comfortable shoes that will allow for that.

However, if I am going out to predominantly dance follow, and if I am going out to a new venue, I wear my girly shoes and dresses or skirts because previous experience has shown that an unknown follow blends into the woodwork if she is of a certain age and wearing pants :cry: , but a lady in a dress or skirt gets asked to dance more often, even if unknown :lol: Sexist, but nontheless true. :roll:
 
Im a ballroom girl and although I would love to wear skirts all the time, I cant because like Larinda said, its not practical, and short skirts look awful when you are supposed to be gracefully dancing a Waltz or Foxtrot.

If I were to go to a night where they only danced Standard, you can bet your last dollar that I would go in a lovely long skirt.
Same deal for Latin, Id go in my favorite swishy skirt ( which, just between the small DF family an me, I sometimes wear around the house because I adore the swish when I practice! :lol: :lol: )
BUT... I only know of one place that has a night that only one style is danced..and thats New Vogue! :lol: :lol: :lol:

So pants it is for me.
 
Women who contra dance wear skirts. Some of the men wear skirts, too :-)

I think you're generally on the mark although there are skirts among the country dancers I see, and the incidence of skirts is pretty low in all sorts of dance around here. But the Bay Area is not very representative of the US demographically, ethnically, socially, economically, or politically.
 
I agree with the previous two posts about shoes & pants. Jazz shoes look dorky with dresses(for salsa). I feel I can get wilder when I wear pants. They are also easy to coordinate, fashionwise. Black pants, flashy blouse, etc. Have dozens of pairs of spandex/lycra/poly etc blend jazz pants. I wear them not just for dancing but for everyday use. Good for this humidity, too as they dry quickly!
 
bjp22tango said:
lady in a dress or skirt gets asked to dance more often, even if unknown :lol: Sexist, but nontheless true. :roll:
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Someone mentioned that before, in an older thread called "Your partner's clothes," or something like that. Hmm. I wonder why. Food for thought. :?

BTW, I love jazz pants for practice. They look quite nice with practice shoes.
 
pygmalion said:
bjp22tango said:
lady in a dress or skirt gets asked to dance more often, even if unknown :lol: Sexist, but nontheless true. :roll:[/quote

BTW, I love jazz pants for practice. They look quite nice with practice shoes.
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They look good with suits, bikini tops, and camisoles, too! :D
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I've gotta try the bikini top look. :wink: Not for dancing, though. I don't want anything to fall out. :shock: :lol:
 
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