Re: [TANGO-L] Appropriate clothes + Dress and class in tango

[Derik Rawson <rawsonweb @YAHOO.COM>]

Dear Dani and All:

Please put your thinking caps on...lol.  Astrid was
trying to help the Japanese man communicate.  Tango is
all about communication on all levels. When one person
literally has "no eyes" to speak with, he is working
at a serious disadvantge.  Her story was great and to
the point.  The point is to improve communication
between all people from all levels of society and
cultures around the world.  Tango includes everyone.
That is why it is so wonderful.

PS- Lunfardo is Argentine "rap".

Derik
d.rwson  @rawsonweb.com

Chere Astrid:

Alors!  Ca va!  Excellent story.

Derik
d.rawson  @rawsonweb.com

--- Dani Iannarelli <dani  @TANGO-LA-DOLCE-VITA.COM>
wrote:

> Hello, Astrid.
>
> I think its a damn shame that youve successfully
> influenced some poor
> submissive bloke into changing what he considers his
> personal style. . .
> that being to wear sunglasses.
>
> I paraphrase your quote: Sunglasses are not suited
> to tango?????!!!
> Suited to tango????? !!!!! Whats THAT all
> about???
>
> Apart from the obvious recommendation of
> smartening-up for
> milongas/practices (which I certainly subscribe to
> as I hate it when people
> turn up with jeans and trainers etc and dont make
> an effort  its almost
> as bad as smelly people), people shouldnt be
> hassled about wearing what
> they want to wear and when they want to wear it. If
> he wants to wear
> sunglasses, let him. Dont interfere nor attempt to
> influence, control or
> belittle. Mind your own business (Im not being
> aggressive to you, by the
> way  just matter-of-fact and logical). Anyway, it
> didnt do Roy Orbison any
> harm! :-):-):-)
>
> Take the analogy of the hordes of mindless
> automatons who in paranoia
> subscribe to wearing whatever the so-called
> fashion happens to be at any
> particular time. Why suppress individuality, be it
> in personal dancing
> style, musical tastes, anything. . . including the
> wearing of attire
> preferred by any individual of which this issue of
> sunglasses happens to be
> one.
>
> Who is to say what is suited to tango and what is
> not?!
>
> If you want to discuss general tango cultural style,
> then its easy to see
> that it comes from a tradition of tackiness and
> indeed kitsch. Come now,
> red drapes hanging from walls with uncoordinated
> colours of lacings and
> ribbons festooned from tables and light fittings,
> yecchhy candles and Bombay
> Mix, cheap oversweet Champagne (served in cheap
> plastic glasses) the label
> of which bears no resemblance to any known genuine
> D.O.C and probably
> concocted from the cheapest cider with a blob of
> honey mixed in for good
> luck, etc etc etc  the list is endless. Tango
> classy style came in when
> tango was introduced to the ballrooms of Paris and
> London in the 19-teens
> and 1920s when the men wore top hat, white tie and
> tails and the
> ladies/debutantes of the day worse the finest gowns
> from Paris and Milan.
> Yes, I know this was simultaneously the start of the
> degrading process of
> tango into the sickening ballroom rubbish of today
> because of the nature of
> real tango being too risqui for the social classes
> of the day. The rot sets
> in.
>
> Anyway, back to personal choice of attire; perhaps
> Ill go to the next
> milonga or ball wearing a balaclava . . . or isnt
> that suited to tango? ;-)
>
>
>
> Dani
>
>
>
> >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.
>
>
>
>


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