Appreciated Kiltbook's post about the place of the kilt in Irish Dancing. I will take you back to the 1960's when I was in grammar school in a predominantly Irish-American neighborhood and several of my classmates participated in Irish Dancing. The boys did wear solid color (dark blue, I think) kilts and, kids in Chicago being what they are/were, got a lot of sh*t about it...just so those of you who get sh*t about showing up in a kilt don't think that it's a recent invention. I figured that it was part of the uniform and that it was odd that it wasn't tartan but whatever...
The girl's outfits were very nice and NOT these neon-day-glo shock troop things that they wear today...nor were there the springy, curly unnaturally red wigs that seem to be standard issue today. Actually, the old outfits were lovely green and white and blue with simple celtic patterns embroidered on them and the girls wore dark tights instead of the white socks...hair just held back by a band...very simple and classy and nice.
So now you see what happens when you live in the Post-Riverdance-Irish-Step-Dancing-Zombie-Apocalypse!
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Last edited by auld argonian; 10th August 12 at 05:35 AM.
ANOTHER KILTED LEBOWSKI AND...HEY, CAREFUL, MAN, THERE'S A BEVERAGE HERE!
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