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Guide to choosing
your flamenco dance wardrobe. Special feature
If you're gonna dance
flamenco, get the right gear!
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When you turn up for your first flamenco dance class you
need a basic kit consisting of shoes
with a heel and press-stud fastener and the right clothes.
The key garment is the layered skirt, which must not only
be comfortable, but also designed and made from material that
allows it to move freely. In reality, it acts as an extension
of the bailaora's body, and even requires a specific technique
to set it in motion in time to the music. So it needs to be
made from a light, manageable material, hanging loosely. The
most basic models are:
If the skirt needs a more generous flare,
the designers create models incorporating ‘godet’
- wedges of fabric which are inserted between the seams to
give the garment much greater width.
Rehearsal
skirt .
Godet model without ruffle
Sometimes this piece is utilized to make the garment more
showy, and is made from polkadot material, as is the case
of the:
Godet
skirt with polkadots
Using these basic types of skirt as a starting point, designers
create more imaginative, more flamenco models, adding a characteristic
element of this dance form's traditional costume: ruffles.
Once the technique of moving the skirt is mastered, if the
garment has ruffles a much more aesthetically pleasing effect
can be obtained. You can try, depending on your taste, one
of the following models:
Skirts known as ‘rocieras’, rather than clinging
to the hips and waist of the bailaora, are gathered at the
waist, or cut at the hip to make the skirt fuller and give
it even more bounce and volume. So that this is even more
the case, they normally have one or two ruffles and, according
to the design, polkadot fabric used in different combinations.
Choose from the following:
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