standard dress fashions

Laura

Laura

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Based on what I saw in the Championship Standart at Nationals, here are the "in" things:

chiffon or organza underskirts
Not enough to make the skirt poofy, but enough to make it drape and flow nicely

no horsehair braid or satin banding on hems
only a very very few dresses had these

floats
lots of them. big ones. layered ones. pleated ones. not a lot of neck-scarf styled ones, except either as part of a big one attached to a wrist or in combination with several other sizes and styles of floats.
 
big floats are dangerous... did you see how girl in purple dress (was it Olga?) almost chocked another girl with her float? what can be done to avoid it?
 
one woman i saw at Empire this weekend danced half or more of several standard dances with her blue float covering her face like a shroud. it was SURREAL - she made no move to uncover it, just danced blind all over the floor.
 
Laura said:
floats
lots of them. big ones. layered ones. pleated ones. not a lot of neck-scarf styled ones, except either as part of a big one attached to a wrist or in combination with several other sizes and styles of floats.
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Whatsa float?

Jay (new student, never been to a competition)
 
Indiana_Jay said:
Laura said:
floats
lots of them. big ones. layered ones. pleated ones. not a lot of neck-scarf styled ones, except either as part of a big one attached to a wrist or in combination with several other sizes and styles of floats.
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Whatsa float?

Jay (new student, never been to a competition)
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If i am correct, look at Laura's post of Kat dancing. The piece of material from the dress linked to her arm is called a float. Here is a link to it.

http://www.dance-forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=10863&start=90
 
cl5814 said:
If i am correct, look at Laura's post of Kat dancing. The piece of material from the dress linked to her arm is called a float. Here is a link to it.

http://www.dance-forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=10863&start=90
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Oh, now I see. Thanks, cl. Lovely dress, Kat. Now that I've seen the pic, I recall seeing several dresses with floats in the Gere/Lopez film, "Shall we Dance." At the time, I had no idea that piece of material had a name!

Jay
 
Apparently, large, unwieldy, colorful things used for parading around- double entendre! LOL :wink:
 
Well...Murphy's Law would apply...anything that can happen will happen

... I'd get tangled up somehow in the float

... My dance partner would get tangled up in the float

... Someone else would dance by too close and get tangled up in the float

Maybe it might depend on how the float was attached to the dress.

(Ok, I admit it. I'm a klutz, and if there's a way to get tangled up in something or trip on it, I'll do it. :oops: )
 
One or two dresses had multi-layered skirts, which I thought accented movement very nicely. I did NOT like the wedding cake peach and white dress (Laura has a picture of it with her photos from Nationals). It certainly was attention-getting, but a little over the top for me. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if it didn't have what appeared to be a huge glob of shaving cream in the bosom area.

And I know we aren't talking about latin - but I loved the latin dancer with a single black feather in her hair. Together with the costume it looked like a classy, toned-down version of a showgirl.
 
I hated the cake like gown in standard. I like the white one Erica wore in earlier rounds a lot more.. I like some of the multi layered dresses, there were lots of ruffles and flowing fabrics...
 
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