Re: [TANGO-L] TANGO-L Digest - 14 Apr 2006 to 15 Apr 2006 (#2006-97)

[andrea <ako31@NYC.RR.COM>]

on the heels of patrick crotty's 'tango house shoe page' (no pun
intended) i snooped around the sight and
as a designer i wonder at why the reference to tango's early days in
the brothels of la boca has been embraced as the standard
 wardrobe for sale for women to dance tango in today.

why is what only could be called 'cheap and tacky' equated with a dance
that is anything but?

elegance and authenticity seems to continue to be forsaken in the name
of looking what is titled 'beautiful and sexy'.

here i was thinking that ideals that once equated men with being
admired for what they 'do' in terms of accomplishment and women for how
they 'look' in a terms of sexual  desirability were well buried in the
last century. then again, i really dont know when trying to look like
'sexy' ever really did.

as someone just wrote here " good dancers have their own style", then
why the barbie outfits to do so in?

who's idea is it to keep dragging these antiquated ideas as sub-text
into wardrobe? i want their email address.

andrea-