Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Dress To Impress


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.