I am having to dance with an unbuttoned jacket. Last night I was dancing an energetic jive with a lady who was wearing a lacy top. As she spun away, my jacket button got caught in the lace, was pulled off, and pinged away, never to be seen again.
John Ward normally Bristol UK, but now at the Tangomarkkinat in Finland >----Original Message---- >From: [email protected] >Date: 04/07/2011 17:57 >To: <tango-l@mit. edu> > > I'm going to evade talking about the dancing, but instead >bring up the clothing. Am I the only one fed up with the current >trendy notion that it is somehow "cool" for a man to dance tango with >an unbuttoned jacket? > > I think it looks awful. The sloppiness of the open jacket >wildly flapping around obscures and ruins the sharp, elegant, and >disciplined lines of the body that compose one of the nicest and most >beautiful features of tango. > > An open jacket looks great when you're relaxing at a cocktail >party sipping a martini, and in that setting, a closed jacket would >almost seem ridiculous. But dancing tango, I believe the opposite is >true. > >Huck >_______________________________________________ >Tango- L mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l> _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
