A thought-bubble while I was dancing last night:
Oops - I am wearing the Wrong Dress to dance with you.
These high-street wraparounds are comfortable, washable, practical, and flattering, but they're wraparounds. Perhaps I should have put on the underskirt. Or possibly worn the invisible skin-toned knickers.
For a beginner, this dress was fine, but now my legs are whirling around in a bit more of the fancy stuff sometimes. At least I wasn't wearing holdups, they just make it too obvious.
A couple more pairs of dancing trousers might be in order.
Sunday, 11 May 2008
The Wrong Dress
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Wearing wraparounds are like playing with fire. They WILL unwrap at the worst possible moment on the dance floor.
Same thing with wraparound tops, too.
Good PSA there, Ms. Hedgehog.
I ought to have learnt from example when a certain tall, elegant professional wore one to perform at the Welsh Centre - the frequent probability of knickers, and the occasionally actual knickers, were quite distracting from the performance. It's not that my wrap dress comes undone - a double knot at the back, and sometimes some tit tape, take care of that - but that they never really wrap far enough in the first place for some people's crazy boleos.
What's PSA?
Don't let the double knot lure you into a false sense of security. Even the toughest knows can come undone and not even intentionally.
I also don't hold much faith in that tape...from what I can tell, all it does is leave sticky goo on your clothing and you still end up exposing yourself.
A psa is a Public Service Announcement and usually something silly you hear on the radio, but yours actually is quite practical.
Yes, sometimes I can feel a partner's, uh, "assets" in some sort of imminent danger of being exposed, usually in close embrace giros, so being the gentleman that I am, I take more care to mitigate the risk.
With (really) close women friends, I will even whisper..."your left boob is about to pop out".
never leave home with it!
hollywood fashion tape
i always have 4-5 strips in my purse, just in case....
i meant: "without it."
(time to clip my long nails.)
What would you say is the best thing to wear when dancing? I seem to get it wrong again and again - I wear a pencil skirt so tight I can't move my legs, or a full skirt that entirely blocks my lower half from view, or a top that seemed quite respectable until I was pressed up in a close embrace and emerged to show the whole room my cleavage. Advice anyone? I’m running out of clothes! - Charlotte, a hesitant tango obsessive.
Charlotte, so much can go wrong. I think that deserves a Girlie Post to itself. My tango-wear has definitely evolved over time.
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