Re: costumes
Just read over these last 2 pages....many chuckles..esp Ladskater, RealtorGal, sk8m8....but DorisP takes the prize for me w. her Abt summation: ..."skated through a clothesline full of his mother's lingeree."
Also, thanks for the Yagadin as a clown....I have tapes of Russian public TV skate shows from the 70's, 80's...and clowns rule. Everyone loves them there. It's a part of every skate show....perhaps a rite of passage for every male skater...so, particularly appreciated by me to see Yagadin carry on the tradition.
I probably already contributed to this thread, but, instead of reading over the last 50 pages, and at the risk of repeating myself:
I'll never get over Ilia's giraffe shirt or Alexei's Elizabethan ruffled collar. I swoon even now to think of them. My Russian friends are still angry at me for laughing at Alexei's collar. But, all these years later, if you said my life depended on not shrieking when I see or remember the collar, you'd might as well order up the coffin.
The smelling salts are still on the end table near the couch just in case someone reappears in Tonya Harding's bare-chested uglydress. As I remember, my reaction was: Is there music with this program? What knee-bashing scandal? What broken skate lace? Whadayamean there could be a triple axel? I can't take my eyes off of that big flesh-colored slash on the front of this dress. Someone come and save me! I'm being sucked into a terrible abyss! I mean, I KNOW intellectually that this slash is covered with flesh-colored material, but my fear-factor over-rules. Do the sensors have that little black rectangle ready? Help!
