When I hear the phrase "dress to impress" for salsa events, the
contents of my closet floats around in my head and I quickly have to discard
half of my clothes because they are not “salsa appropriate” – I’d get too hot
if I wore this, my boobs would pop out if I wore that, the colour would show
ugly sweat stains, blah blah blah – and then I get a little cranky because I
just want to dance and not worry about the Facebook paparazzi and my outfit-of-choice
being immortalized in cyberspace.
Now, before I continue, let me pre-empt any
rebuttals, as I can already hear my fashionista friends say something to the
effect that we have to bring class back to salsa, instead of looking like slobs
in sweat pants…I do confess that I bought a new dress for an upcoming big dance event,
but my point is this:
I go out dancing to have a good time – to
live in the moment. When I live in the moment and embrace life, does it really
f*cking matter what I’m wearing? Because seriously, worrying about my wardrobe
is a pretentious way to approach life…and salsa.