Re: [TANGO-L] Appropriate clothes

[astrid <astrid @RUBY.PLALA.OR.JP>]

> So my question is, how to influence such people, what to tell them to wear
> more appropriate clothes?

We got a new man in our milonga a few months ago who, had I not known that
he was the partner of that very skillful Japanese dancer who always shows up
with her son at the practicas, would have made me think he is a Yakuza- a
gang member of the Japanese Mafia.
He was always wearing dark sunglasses and never took them off!
The second of third time he asked me to dance, I told him: "You know, in
Buenos Aires people don't wear sunglasses. This is not suited to tango." He
was very surprised and wanted to know why. "Because like this you can't do
any eye play." (I just made up that word in Japanese.) "Eye play??? What's
that?" I explained it to him (cabezeo and stuff). "I see !", he said, and
hesitatingly took them off. and shyly looked around. "You know, I have never
taken off my sunglasses for half a year", he said. Since that time, he
always dances without glasses.