5261  Shoes-re Trini

Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:43:32 -0300
From: Deby Novitz <dnovitz@lavidacondeby.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] Shoes-re Trini
To: tango-l@mit.edu

No we don't wear lower heels because we know everyone. We wear them
because that is what is best to dance in. Dance sneakers? Not on our
feet. Do you think Argentines making 1200 - 1500 pesos a month rush down
to Comme il Faut to buy 350 peso shoes? Guess again. Who is buying all
those shoes? Not people who live here. Somehow there is this ideal
that in Buenos Aires the women all dance in Comme il Faut or Neo Tango
shoes wearing tango clothes. What are tango clothes anyway?

We dress nicely. We dress simply. We dance simply. No 12 inch strappy
heels, fishnets, cocktail dresses or slit up to thigh skirts. No
boleos, no volcadas. Walking, giros, ochos. Less stress. More fun.

Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:26:34 +1000
From: Victor Bennetts <Victor_Bennetts@infosys.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Shoes-re Trini
To: "tango-l@mit.edu" <tango-l@mit.edu>
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Deby Novitz> Do you think Argentines making 1200 - 1500 pesos a month rush down to Comme il Faut to buy 350 peso shoes? Guess again.

>>From a leader's perspective I did notice in Bs As that the worse a leader's shoes the better they seemed to dance. And if you saw a guy in those two tone show shoes their dancing was pretty well always unbelievably awful. Ditto anyone in the over the top clothes that some of the tango shops sell. On the other hand, from my observations at least, the follower's shoes tended to be in the 'well worn but beautiful' category. For me at least, follower's heels (high medium whatever) are as much a symbol of the dance as a bandoneon and watching them all at the crowded Milongas was quite mesmerising. I am not sure how locals can afford them as they were complaining about the ~12 peso entry fees. Maybe the shoes I saw were all Comme il Faut shoes bought before the peso crisis...

Victor Bennetts


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