| There are as many different styles of clothing worn | | | | just 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 they | | | | had to be careful for splinters in the wood floor. It |
| show some people line dancing, usually in some little | | | | made doing the line dance steps a bit awkward. Most |
| cafe in the back of beyond, the women are usually | | | | of them, if they returned for another class, would at |
| wearing tight jeans, a belt, and a very fitted shirt | | | | least bring the proper boots! |
| with the buttons open half way down the front! The | | | | Sometimes I would wear a long, flowing skirt |
| men will be dressed about the same, with their shirts | | | | because I liked to dance "Waltz Across Texas" to |
| buttoned all the way to their neck, and sometimes | | | | Collin Raye's "Dreamin' My Dreams of You" and I |
| one of those little string ties, and almost always they | | | | loved the way the skirt swirled when I twirled! |
| will be wearing a hat, even indoors. Of course, they | | | | When the dance team performed in public, in the |
| will all be wearing those nice, big heavy boots that | | | | shopping 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 classes | | | | had 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, tights | | | | women would add short skirts, tights, and boots to |
| or panty hose, and line dance boots, which are much | | | | their "look" and the men would all wear jeans and big |
| lighter than regular boots and have a smooth sole so | | | | belts, boots, and hats. They all looked just great and |
| you don't stick to the dance floor. They almost | | | | very 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 the | | | | dance on grass or asphalt parking lots. They even |
| men in the movies. The "George Strait" look was | | | | took 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 Raye | | | | for line dance instructions. It was always a lot of |
| look-alike contest. | | | | good, clean fun! |
| Of course, being in Hawaii, you would have people | | | | No matter what they wore, everyone always had a |
| show up for class in shorts, tank tops, and "rubber | | | | good time and, if the event was in the parking lot of |
| slippers." They would soon discover that this just did | | | | a shopping center, we all would go to Baskin Robbins |
| not work for line dancing. Sometimes, they would | | | | afterward for some ice cream! |