It totally should, though.
I've always thought so. Maybe there's a place where I can fill out some paperwork, get an exemption.
Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!
Oz ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 33 1/3
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Mar 21, 2005 11:23:31 am PST #9189 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Nutty - Mar 21, 2005 11:25:07 am PST #9190 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
When skirts disappeared from bathing suits, they disappeared from some ballet costumes.
This was my thinking. Also, hips are like the rebar of the body, right? If I am looking at the body, I like to see how its structure all works together, not just the finials and wingdings and jazz hands. You know?
But my classmate argued that there were aesthetic reasons to hide the hips, not just modesty ones.
tommyrot - Mar 21, 2005 11:27:21 am PST #9191 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Plus if you hide the hips? easier to also hide the hip flask.
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2005 11:27:34 am PST #9192 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are (were?) female ballet dancers supposed to look like structure and mechanics? While it's obviously an athletic pursuit, I can see as dressing it as one may be completely irrelevant.
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2005 11:28:06 am PST #9193 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
if you hide the hips? easier to also hide the hip flask.
Horizontal or vertical pocket?
tommyrot - Mar 21, 2005 11:29:18 am PST #9194 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Horizontal or vertical pocket?
Vertical. Except you must be extra careful that the flask doesn't tumble out at awkward times while sitting.
Ginger - Mar 21, 2005 11:29:20 am PST #9195 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I have this weird thing where I catch the pockets of dress pants on the arms of work chairs or door handles.
The door handles at my last job were those lever type and I once was running for the phone and caught the door handle in the pocket of a pretty nice suit jacket. Nice, but not worth the cost of three inches of reweaving. Sigh.
It took several years of karate before my body would go to where my mind was telling it to go. No one has ever heard the word "graceful" and pictured me.
Scrappy - Mar 21, 2005 11:30:23 am PST #9196 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Also, the short tutu makes for some interesting visual geometry in choreography. It creates a strong horizontal axis as it emphasizes the angle of both the upper body and the legs. It also makes a circle if the dancer leans over.
sj - Mar 21, 2005 11:30:32 am PST #9197 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2005 11:33:09 am PST #9198 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.