[Squaredancing] RE: [Square-dancing] Re: funny clothes

[Loren Castro]

I wrote the next two paragraphs a few years ago after another purist 
sounded off about proper square dance attire.  They are the last two 
paragraphs of my little tirade.
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Third, I wear jeans to all dances.  Sometimes they are brown, sometimes 
they are black, and sometimes they are white.  Sometimes they are dark 
blue, and sometimes they are light blue.  I have worn jeans to many 
previous Golden State Roundups, to Silver State, to USA West, to Las 
Vegas, to Bakersfield, to Tulare, to Turlock, and to other smaller 
festivals.  I wore jeans the last time the National Convention was in 
Anaheim, and I WILL wear jeans to Anaheim in 2001.  Nobody has ever 
suggested that I was not "properly attired" or tried to remove me.

Lighten up about "proper attire" or suffer a further decline in the 
number of dancers.
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A local caller (Hi, Eric) teases me about this occasionally.

I thought I remembered that Nasser Shukayr had written one of his wicked 
little satires about this subject.  I save everything he posts here, but 
either my memory fails me (again) or I just didn't save this one.  Maybe 
he'll come up with something.

lfc
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James W. Spinks wrote:

>Group,
>
>I have been a SD'r (Square Dancer) since Sept. 1966 when I
>was a Junior in HS. Below describes how I became a square
>dancer.
>
>A classmate introduced me and several other classmates to it
>via a first nighter. She (the classmate) asked me a several others to
>party on a Friday night a couple of weeks down the road, that she
>was going to attend.
>
>I asked her how'd I get to it as I didn't drive yet (at a rec. center
>in Wheaton Md) 9 or 10 miles from the HS we attended.  She said she
>and her older brother who drove, would pick us up and take us to it.
>My classmate and her brother showed up in his 1962 Ford Falcon
>in "Funny Clothes/Outfits" (Square Dance attire...didn't know it was
>a square dance first nighter) I was shocked, ask her if it was a
>costume party and had she forgotten to tell me. She said "No", I
>would see what was going on when I got to the rec center.  It was
>a first nighter for the "Teen" square dance club she and her brother
>belonged to. Also her brother was one of the club's 3 teen callers.
>
>The Square Dance attire adds to the fun of square dancing. The thing
>I most HATE is people who show up in BLUE JEANS and Blue Jean Shirts.
>I have seen BOTH Men and Women at dances in BLUE JEANS. A matter of
>fact there are TWO couples in one of my clubs that have several MATCHING
>Blue JEAN outfits with "TIE-DYE" patches on the knees and elbows and
>pockets of the jeans and shirts.
>
>The WHOLE purpose of Square Dancing attire is to eliminate the FALSE
>impression that MOST Americans have that Square Dance is a Back Road
>Rural "HICK" activity.
>
>             <snippity-do-dah>
>  
>



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