Line Dance Instructions - What Clothes Do Line Dancers Wear?

There are as many different styles of clothing wornjust abandon their rubber slippers and try to dance
for line dancing as there are people who line dance.barefooted, which was a little bit better, but they
When you're watching a movie on TV and theyhad to be careful for splinters in the wood floor. It
show some people line dancing, usually in some littlemade doing the line dance steps a bit awkward. Most
cafe in the back of beyond, the women are usuallyof them, if they returned for another class, would at
wearing tight jeans, a belt, and a very fitted shirtleast bring the proper boots!
with the buttons open half way down the front! TheSometimes I would wear a long, flowing skirt
men will be dressed about the same, with their shirtsbecause I liked to dance "Waltz Across Texas" to
buttoned all the way to their neck, and sometimesCollin Raye's "Dreamin' My Dreams of You" and I
one of those little string ties, and almost always theyloved the way the skirt swirled when I twirled!
will be wearing a hat, even indoors. Of course, theyWhen the dance team performed in public, in the
will all be wearing those nice, big heavy boots thatshopping malls, the parks at events or even
they put on that morning to do their chores.PowWows, or at the resorts for the tourists, they
In Hawaii, the women who came to the classeshad costumes they wore. The blouses of the women
where I took line dance instructions wore very short,and the shirts of the men would all be the same. The
twirly skirts, crop tops or fitted fancy t-shirts, tightswomen would add short skirts, tights, and boots to
or panty hose, and line dance boots, which are muchtheir "look" and the men would all wear jeans and big
lighter than regular boots and have a smooth sole sobelts, boots, and hats. They all looked just great and
you don't stick to the dance floor. They almostvery professional. A lot of times when they
always decorated their boots with a "boot bracelet",performed, they would have to pack a foldable
on one boot only, which sparkled when they danced.wooden floor with them because it was impossible to
The men, as a rule, dressed much the same as thedance on grass or asphalt parking lots. They even
men in the movies. The "George Strait" look wastook a large flatbed truck to a shopping mall and
very popular. Actually, so was the "Collin Raye" look,danced above the crowd and then invited people up
and one of our dancers actually won a Collin Rayefor line dance instructions. It was always a lot of
look-alike contest.good, clean fun!
Of course, being in Hawaii, you would have peopleNo matter what they wore, everyone always had a
show up for class in shorts, tank tops, and "rubbergood time and, if the event was in the parking lot of
slippers." They would soon discover that this just dida shopping center, we all would go to Baskin Robbins
not work for line dancing. Sometimes, they wouldafterward for some ice cream!