The purchase of the proper fitting dance costumes and good dance shoes can be a difficult or pleasant experience.  This goes either way, depending on the ability to select the right size by measurement guidelines, a well trained shoe fitter or seamstress, or a designer that can help you with the right style for their body structure.  Buying a costume from catalogs is almost a sure disaster, and will more often than not, require extensive alterations.  Regardless, owning a dancewear store is a very evolving business, which I’ve been doing for 30+ years.  Those that are in the dance show/competition dance industry know that the costume can be as important, to the Judges, as the dance technique itself.
Cinda Steiner
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