Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted October 5, 2021 Report Share Posted October 5, 2021 Didn't there used to be a song with the words, 'A man chases a girl, until she catches him!' Might have been inspired by Ben! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,424 Posted October 5, 2021 Report Share Posted October 5, 2021 Mine caught me and I only saw her home after the dance. A hound should be able to run better than that, but I guess I wanted to get caught. Went to the pictures next night. Ritz Carlton. I was living high. Lousy film but neither of us cared. Felt like the Beagle that caught the Rabbit. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted October 6, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2021 This one Jill ?.............love Donold's shoes.........i'll look in Bulwell ''Charity shops'' bet they have some........ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted October 6, 2021 Report Share Posted October 6, 2021 Tap shoes. I'll bet there are loads of them in Bulwell! When we were children, dad put metal segs in our sensible shoes. This made them almost like tap shoes or, as my sister put it, made her sound like a carthorse clip clopping down the road. She hated the sensible shoes dad always bought us as children. She wanted fashionable footwear. As dad said, 'When you're paying for your own shoes, you can have what you like!' 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted October 7, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2021 That year again..63.......loved this instrumental..''Perfidia''......10 bob for caravan.......after dancing....in 'happy Days club...... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,713 Posted October 8, 2021 Report Share Posted October 8, 2021 Nice tune Ben. I don't recall hearing the Shads version. It's very relaxed. The one I knew best was the Ventures rather more frantic version: Perfidia has been recorded by hundreds of artists.. but the other one I recall is Glenn Miller's. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,218 Posted October 8, 2021 Report Share Posted October 8, 2021 14 hours ago, benjamin1945 said: .loved this instrumental..''Perfidia'' Perfidia does not fit with your persona Ben In Spanish it means faithlessness, treachery or betrayal, I am sure that none of those represent our Ben 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted October 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2021 Lol.....thanks OZ......I Did look it up.......and its not me............ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,089 Posted October 8, 2021 Report Share Posted October 8, 2021 Not Perfidia but I did know a lady called Perdita. It means lost, leak or waste. Whatever were her parents thinking? She was a character in Shakespear’s Winter’s Tale, maybe that’s where it was taken from without any prior investigation. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted October 8, 2021 Report Share Posted October 8, 2021 I also knew someone with that name but she was always known as Dita, for short. The name Cordelia, also from Shakespeare (King Lear), runs through my mother's maternal line as a middle name. I rather like it but it wasn't given to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,089 Posted October 8, 2021 Report Share Posted October 8, 2021 She was a solicitor. Did you know her from that? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted October 8, 2021 Report Share Posted October 8, 2021 No. If I remember rightly, she was connected with the Cooperative Arts Theatre. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted October 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 Actually Danced here..about the same year this was filmed...........funny night 99% of the customers were Chinese............good night though....Danced with several Chinese girls...at least i think they were different girls.... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted October 10, 2021 Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 I used to watch Come Dancing on the tv when I was a child. Both my parents were keen and, so I'm told, talented ballroom dancers. I coveted one of those huge net dresses the women wore in those days. It appears they have gone out of fashion these times. I was already having ballet lessons, so ballroom was not on the agenda! At Manning, we had a ballroom dance club at lunchtimes, taken by a young teacher named Miss Steele. As it was a single sex school, we had to take it in turns to be the male. I remember having a dance with my father round the sitting room and he complained, 'You're leading!' Reminds me of that immortal line from Some Like It Hot "You're leading again, Daphne!". Joe E Brown to Jack Lemmon. However, it was useful to learn all the ballroom dances: the waltz, the Viennese waltz, foxtrot, paso doble, tango, quickstep and many others. Rare happy memories of time in the Manning School hall. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,089 Posted October 10, 2021 Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 We had a sixth form dancing society with girls from Brincliffe on a Friday afternoon. I only went once. My dancing career never progressed any further. Just couldn’t get the hang of it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted October 10, 2021 Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 Come Dancing. Always used to watch it, the announcer would describe the woman's dress, who made it and how many sequins were sewn on, etc. Once a night was formation dancing. It fascinated me how the dancers would cross between each other. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted October 10, 2021 Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 Those dresses were, in reality, mainly net underskirts with a couple of layers of voile or silk tarlatan comprising the actual "dress'. It fascinated me to watch the floaty upper layers waft about as their wearers were dancing. Goodness knows how much net was required to make one of the underskirts. I know how much net went into a standard ballet tutu. A lot more than you would think from looking at the finished product. Ballroom skirts must have cost a fortune in net. Perhaps that is why they fell out of favour. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,893 Posted October 10, 2021 Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 Both my son and daughter did competion dancing and won quite a few trophies and medals. I used to make all my daughters ballroom and latin american dresses. Almost a bale of net would make a full underskirt for my daughters dresses. But they were made in a way that the underskirt fit all her dresses, fitting them with velcro. One lady whose daughter went to the same school of dancing , was a dressmaker working with theatrical costumes. She made her daughter a dress for her exams and the judges said to get her a dress that was adapted for ballroom and old time dancing not a Shakespearian play. She asked me to make her an underskirt and after that every girl wanted one. I think I supplied the whole school ( girls only) 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,893 Posted October 10, 2021 Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 On 10/8/2021 at 11:36 AM, philmayfield said: Not Perfidia but I did know a lady called Perdita. The Reminds me when we were in R.O.T. Chatting to one of our customers she said she loved Italy and had given her daughter an Italian name. I had to turn away because she called her Padella , ok it sounds nice and Italian but it means frying pan. 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted October 10, 2021 Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 A variant of paella or, perhaps, patella. She'd send people weak at the knees! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted October 10, 2021 Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 Short tutus were a bu**er to make. I only made a couple. They incorporated a wire hoop and were stored by hanging them upside down from the crotch to keep the layers of net turning upwards when worn. Classical ballet costumes were much easier to make as they are longer (ankle length) and don't incorporate the 'pants' section. They require far less net than ballroom underskirts. The amount of net used in those would have interfered seriously in a female dancer's elevation and, in pas de deux sequences, it would have been impossible for the danseur to get anywhere near his female partner. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,893 Posted October 10, 2021 Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 They were soft so all the net was pushed to the rear and were made with gathered strips of net sewn to a circle of net and the next layer was sewn onto the edge of the previous layer, so all the fullness was at the edge and was shown off to perfection. The dress being separate and just rested on top. They used to take me a week to make one. Never had to make a tutu though, think it would have driven me to desparation. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted October 10, 2021 Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 I wouldn't recommend it, nonna. Net, especially black net or dark colours, has an unfortunate effect on the eyes and I found i couldn't do much work on it at any one time without taking frequent rests. Then there was the dreadful business of boning! Tutus are supposed to fit like a second skin and, for that reason, incorporate stays, either metal or flexible plastic, sewn into the bodice. Not the most comfortable things to wear and then there's the painful deformity of the feet caused by dancing en pointe. Looks good. Hurts like hell! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,594 Posted October 10, 2021 Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 I definitely agree with you, Jill, about dancing on points - I was put on points too soon when my foot bones weren’t ready for the pressure. I never felt pain but it made my feet a different shape! I only had one tutu which was when I was only 11 so I didn’t need any bones in the bodice. My mum made it and stitched the layers of net upside down (if that makes sense). It had a lemon satin outer layer and green satin leaves because I was supposed to be a primrose!!! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,893 Posted October 11, 2021 Report Share Posted October 11, 2021 Black with any needle work is pure torture. Working on fine linen on complicated cross stitch nearly drove me insane. It wasnt black but pale blue with lots of different shades of blue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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