Most unfortunate costumes in history
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Texans think we are either our own country, or part of the southwest... 
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When you live in the midwest there are a lot of places that don't seem like midwest. Texas is one. A lot of the time they consider KS, OK & TX as the southwest. Also, anything north of Iowa, east of Missouri doesn't seem like it although Arkansas does. I guess it just depends on where you live.
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D&L (dance team from Canada) have had a couple of costume mishaps the past couple of seasons. One competition her dress was caught in his blade and another competition she had on a Japanese style Kimono and their was too much material - cost them some marks!!! I am glad to see they are getting more sensible about their costumes.
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In one of the threads with COI pictures Rudy Galindo is wearing a tragic one armed unitard....
And Irina looks naked...
Ok the links didnt work, but check out the thread started by littlewild1 to see what i mean
And Irina looks naked...
Ok the links didnt work, but check out the thread started by littlewild1 to see what i mean
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Care Bear Staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeee!!!! I thought that when I saw it too. But I think it was still somehow a little better than the really long skirt she used in the final LP.
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soogar, I noticed Mike from VA in the Union Army (sort of) uniform. And it was even stranger yet to watch him skating in it at Atlanta. The only weirder thing he could have done was to skate to Marching Through Georgia as part of his Patriotic Medley.
Mike Weiss Marches Through Georgia
Things got odder still when Ryan Bradley came out and skated to Dixie and Duelling Banjoes in a redneck outfit. Don't tell me about the new south and how this is insulting. The audience ate it up. (BTW, I have no problem with this costume)
.Ryan Duelling the Banjoes
And while we're doing historical What The Heck Is This About, there were FP/M that skated to Irish music in plaid outfits that looked like Scotch rather than Irish, but were weird in any case. They used different costumes at Worlds than at Skate America.
Fusar Poli/Margaglio at Skate America 1999
Mike Weiss Marches Through Georgia
Things got odder still when Ryan Bradley came out and skated to Dixie and Duelling Banjoes in a redneck outfit. Don't tell me about the new south and how this is insulting. The audience ate it up. (BTW, I have no problem with this costume)
.Ryan Duelling the Banjoes
And while we're doing historical What The Heck Is This About, there were FP/M that skated to Irish music in plaid outfits that looked like Scotch rather than Irish, but were weird in any case. They used different costumes at Worlds than at Skate America.
Fusar Poli/Margaglio at Skate America 1999
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I definitely must be in the minority here but apart from a couple of costumes (Romeo & Juliet with wings) I quite like most of FP&M's costumes, particularly the dracula costumes and the Lord of the Dance costumes. Yes the LOD costumes were mosre Scittish warrior than Irish but the did use music from Braveheart and actually in Irish folklore warriors wore quite similar garb so they were not that far off the mark.
I will say that even though they are my fave ice-dance couple of all time I did not care for Rahkamo & Kokko's FD costume for the 1992 season!
I will say that even though they are my fave ice-dance couple of all time I did not care for Rahkamo & Kokko's FD costume for the 1992 season!
I do agree with most of the ones already mentioned. I do not like any of Michelle's for the past few years. And my biggest beef is anything with a wedgie, why can't they put a little more material where it is needed?? Also don't like the top so low that they expose upper body parts either. 
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The comment was not about the horridness or not of the FP/M Lord of the Dance costume. It was an example of an odd historical mismatch between the music and the costume.
The name of the 1999/2000 FP/M is listed as Lord of the Dance (Irish step dances). The music itself is 2 cuts from Lord of the Dance and one from Braveheart. The orange color for and Irish dance is historically peculiar, as the Orangemen are the Protestants of the North of Ireland. BTW, I know when I listened to it at SA 1999, I had no idea what Braveheart sounded like, and I don't yet. It didn't have that memorable a sound track IMO.
The name of the 1999/2000 FP/M is listed as Lord of the Dance (Irish step dances). The music itself is 2 cuts from Lord of the Dance and one from Braveheart. The orange color for and Irish dance is historically peculiar, as the Orangemen are the Protestants of the North of Ireland. BTW, I know when I listened to it at SA 1999, I had no idea what Braveheart sounded like, and I don't yet. It didn't have that memorable a sound track IMO.
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I get what you are saying about the historical mismatch. My apologies if I sounded like I was criticising what you said, that was not my intention.
My intention was simply to point out that FP&M costumes were indeed representative of what was worn during the time of High Kings and warriors. As for the choice of colour, my recollection is that the costume was in fact red and not orange, although I could be wrong on this as in fact they could have had two versions of the costume. To be honest most people in Ireland, North included, would not have read anything into the choice of colour had they been orange any more than they would have read anything into the fact that Shae Lynn and Victor wore green for their Riverdance program.
My intention was simply to point out that FP&M costumes were indeed representative of what was worn during the time of High Kings and warriors. As for the choice of colour, my recollection is that the costume was in fact red and not orange, although I could be wrong on this as in fact they could have had two versions of the costume. To be honest most people in Ireland, North included, would not have read anything into the choice of colour had they been orange any more than they would have read anything into the fact that Shae Lynn and Victor wore green for their Riverdance program.
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I was going to start a "before they were famous for bad costumes" thread, but alas can't find the pictures.
A while back someone posted a podium picture from 94 junior worlds. Not only was MK wearing her pink puffy sleeved nighmare, but Irina had truely outdone herself with this white monstrosity that seemed to be covered all over in cotton balls.
I suppose 95 worlds would do as well. Who remembers MK's dirty pink, when tie-dye goes bad, puffy sleeved dress and Irina's bad greek waitress uniform?
A while back someone posted a podium picture from 94 junior worlds.
Not only was MK wearing her pink puffy sleeved nighmare, but Irina had truely outdone herself with this white monstrosity that seemed to be covered all over in cotton balls. I suppose 95 worlds would do as well. Who remembers MK's dirty pink, when tie-dye goes bad, puffy sleeved dress and Irina's bad greek waitress uniform?
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diver chick, That's interesting that the Irish in Ireland don't care, while the Irish in CT did when I was a kid anyway. I would not wear orange on St. Patrick's day in Boston or NY in the US, for example. It didn't work for me when I was a kid (and totally clueless about this) in Groton, CT. The Irish kids pinned my ears back for what would today would be called being culturally insensitive. Of course, US St. Patrick's Day celebration is more of a big deal in states than in Ireland, go figure. Less of the Wearing of the Green stuff. (My husband happened to be in Ireland for St. Patrick's on business one time, and although there was more drinking than usual going on in the pub in Limerick where he was, he did think it was quieter, than NY City on St. Patrick's Day.
And if we are to believe Braveheart, Scotch chieftains at war wore kilts with nothing under, rather than palazzo pants. Which with the No Pornography Ice Dance rule, would probably have resulted in an interesting deduction for Maurizio if he had chosen to go with more authentic.
And if we are to believe Braveheart, Scotch chieftains at war wore kilts with nothing under, rather than palazzo pants. Which with the No Pornography Ice Dance rule, would probably have resulted in an interesting deduction for Maurizio if he had chosen to go with more authentic.
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To be honest altough St Patricks day is celebrated throughput Ireland, it is very much celebrated more enthusiastically by the Irish abroad. I guess it helps them maintain links to home. Like most nationalities Irish people are proud to be Irish and I guess that becomes more important when one leaves Ireland. I know it did for me.
Having spent time both in the Republic and the North, as well as in England and Wales, I can say that in my experience most people here really don't have much interest in what goes on anymore. Most of my friends in Ireland, when asked, would say to just let NI stay part of Britain while most British people I have discussed it with say just give it back to the Republic. As for the people who live in NI a lot of them have had to live with this for generations and at this point just want it to end and as such on both the Catholic and Protestant side there is a healthy amount of people who say they don't care who governs them as long as they can live in peace and have a good quality of life.
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I agree that Maurizio's trousers were not entirely representitive in that yes warriors generally did wear kilts of some kind (Ireland too) but I can't imagine how much of a deduction he would have gotten for that had he been really authentic!
Having spent time both in the Republic and the North, as well as in England and Wales, I can say that in my experience most people here really don't have much interest in what goes on anymore. Most of my friends in Ireland, when asked, would say to just let NI stay part of Britain while most British people I have discussed it with say just give it back to the Republic. As for the people who live in NI a lot of them have had to live with this for generations and at this point just want it to end and as such on both the Catholic and Protestant side there is a healthy amount of people who say they don't care who governs them as long as they can live in peace and have a good quality of life.
And just so I can't be accused of hijacking the thread
I agree that Maurizio's trousers were not entirely representitive in that yes warriors generally did wear kilts of some kind (Ireland too) but I can't imagine how much of a deduction he would have gotten for that had he been really authentic!
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But we can't really believe Braveheart now, can we? The kilt can only be definitively traced to the late 1500s in Scotland (and this would be the voluminous "great kilt", not the modern version, which is Victorian). Medieval Scottish clothing would probably have been similar to the Irish at the time, or English in the lowlands. And they didn't paint their faces blue, either (At least not after the 2nd century, which was 1000 years before Braveheart was set.)
Still, Maurizio in "regimental" would have been entertaining now, wouldn't it? I'm surprised Phillippe Candeloro never thought of it!
The picture of FP&M's costume immediately brought the word Klingon to my mind. The right make up and they would look like extras.
Yagudin's Broken Arrow costume was awful. Wearing bullet holes and blood stains as a decorative motif is just plain tacky.
I believe it was L & A [my memory might be faulty] who pioneered the short-lived flesh colored panties look. I had to go through web archive to find the picture Just scroll down. You'll know which one I am talking about immediately.
What could they have been thinking? They could not have believed that was anything close to tasteful. Were they out of shape and hoping to distract everyone's attention from their skating?
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Yagudin's Broken Arrow costume was awful. Wearing bullet holes and blood stains as a decorative motif is just plain tacky.
I believe it was L & A [my memory might be faulty] who pioneered the short-lived flesh colored panties look. I had to go through web archive to find the picture Just scroll down. You'll know which one I am talking about immediately.
What could they have been thinking? They could not have believed that was anything close to tasteful. Were they out of shape and hoping to distract everyone's attention from their skating?
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