There are as many different styles of clothing worn for line dancing as there are people who line dance.
When you’re watching a movie on TV and they show some people dancing in a line, usually in a little cafe in the back of the afterlife, women usually wear skinny jeans, a belt, and a very tight shirt with the buttons open to the waist. half. by the forehead! The men will be dressed more or less the same, with their shirts buttoned up to the neck and, sometimes, with one of those little string ties, and almost always with a hat, even indoors. Of course, everyone will be wearing those nice big heavy boots they put on that morning to do their homework.
In Hawaii, the women who attended the classes where I took line dance classes wore very short twisted skirts, cropped tops or elegant tight tops, tights or pantyhose, and line dancing boots, which are much lighter than normal boots and have smooth soles so they don’t stick to the dance floor. They almost always decorated their boots with a “boot bracelet”, on a single boot, which sparkled when they danced.
The men, as a rule, dressed much like the men in the movies. The “George Strait” look was very popular. In fact, so was the “Collin Raye” look, and one of our dancers won a Collin Raye look-alike contest.
Of course, being in Hawaii, people would show up to class in shorts, tank tops, and “gum slippers.” They would soon find out that this just didn’t work for line dancing. Sometimes they just ditched their rubber shoes and tried to dance barefoot, which was a little better, but they had to watch out for splinters on the wooden floor. He made doing the line dance steps a little awkward. Most of them, if they came back for another class, would at least bring the proper boots!
Sometimes I would wear a long flowing skirt because I liked dancing to “Waltz Across Texas” to Collin Raye’s “Dreamin’ My Dreams of You” and I loved the way the skirt swirled when I twirled.
When the dance team performed in public, in shopping malls, parks at events or even PowWows, or at tourist resorts, they had costumes that they wore. Women’s blouses and men’s shirts would all be the same. Women would add short skirts, tights and boots to their “look” and men would wear jeans and big belts, boots and hats. They all looked great and very professional. Many times when they performed, they had to pack a folding wooden floor because it was impossible to dance on grass or asphalt parking lots. They even brought a big flatbed truck into a mall and danced above the crowd and then invited people up for line dancing instructions. It was always a lot of good, clean fun!
No matter what they wore, everyone always had a good time, and if the event was in a mall parking lot, we’d all go to Baskin Robbins for ice cream afterward!