[Tango-L] Why Argentine tango looks more like French ballet each year.

[johnofbristol@tiscali.co.uk]

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: tempehuck at gmail.com
>Date: 04/07/2011 17:57 
>To: <tango-l at 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
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