SKIRT-DANCING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 62, 6 December 1907, Page 3

SKIRT-DANCING.

S f t It is said that skirt-dancing is once more i. coming into vogno. Possibly oven now (says y a society paper) there arc maidens, eagerlj e practising step's for winter • uso, and panting • for the opportunity —long, missed —of nchiev- -- ing fame in-back drawing-rooms and.paroch>r ial halls. ' The news of the coming revival is ih welcome, however. Skirt-dancing is a prettj |y accomplishment, and though, like all crazes, y, and, as in former days, when it was Society's :o pet diversion, it is. sure to be overdone, it is will at least he godd to begin with, and will II certainly do something to foster grace, sc ie sorely needed in ballroom dancing nowadays, k- What is more, wo have learned a good deal is about dances since the days when every giri it, twirled in accordion-pleated skirts banging lio tambourine or twisting herself into knot:

with the aid of a scarf. Wo have studied ths old dances and acquired a good deal of knowledge about costume, so that we may undoubtedly look forward to tho reproduction of some of the old and statelier measures, Which will also afford opportunity for tnoso wlio illustrate them to wear picturesque dress of tlio periods to which these dances belong. We ought, therefore, to get some "very pretty effects, and to give a warm welcome to a craze which has so much to recommend -t. No doubt it will be done to death, but it will serve a> pleasing purpose while it lasts, which is much more than .can be said ~1 many fashionahlo fads, while it is bound to leave its mark on dancing in general. Mhe old skirt-dancing made our girls graceful for a time: in its new form it should lnrgsly tend to improve the romping style into wnuli dancers have fallen of late.