Re: Victorian Ball, Sat. 3/24/07 in Carrboro, NC

[re Dickens Festival and hoop skirts]

Richard Maurer wrote:
    It is no fun dancing with a woman in a hoop skirt.
    There must have been a dip in the marriage rate
    during that era.


Jonathan Sivier wrote:
    I've never had any trouble dancing with women
    in hooped skirts.  I suppose it may depend on
    what sort of dancing you are doing.



Thats true.  I was thinking of waltzes and schottisches
with pivots. Set dances would not exhibit the problem
as much.  It is those couples dances where you head 
directly at your partner once every measure or two
that makes hoop skirts troublesome.


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Richard Maurer              To reply, remove half
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(should I say hooped skirts?)