Petalviolet

Thank you! I'm going to give it 24hrs with Mr Norrell on top of it and then decide.

Good tutu training is a thing!

That's a shame. I had whimsical ideas of proper ballerinas having to walk around initially peeking over their tutu skirts for a bit. Like how you have to break in pointe shoes? And so you would have to train your tutu.... And then a dead tutu would be a floppy one and some flop quicker than others...if you have a really flexible torso yours would flop quicker but if you weren't strong enough In your....torso...your tutu wouldn't train at all and you'd never be able to be a ballerina - cos you couldn't train your tutu cos of your....torso. This makes total sense to me.

Drat.

Yes I think I should just for peace of mind. Do proper tutus lie straight away then? At least I know a floppy tutu is much much worse. Floppiness is never a good sign in anything much apart from....cats.

Perfect, thank you that does make sense now. Good excuse to not persevere with a War and Peace as I need it for tutu training purposes. Or my hardback Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel, that's not getting much use.

Thank you. Laying it flat is all spread out? It won't curry any favour or butter any parsnips (not sure of the correct festival terminology) but it would look a lot nicer if it wasn't scraping her chin.

http://ids.co.uk/1st-position-velour-applique-tutu.html Hope this works? It's the child's version. But I don't think there's any difference to the structure.

Right ok it is bear with me.

Yes that is my worry that the body is being stretched. Also I don't want to damage something that I have to send back by efforts to get it to look right? Problem is I don't know why it doesn't look the way it should? We should have ordered both sizes.

No it's not hooped!! That is waaaaaaay too proper a tutu for the likes of us. I blush to imagine what might spring to a Balletco poster's mind when I use the word tutu. It's not that. Think....Smiffy's. :-(

*No results shown for "tutu taming". Right. New topic time. Ok so when you get a new tutu is it ok/normal if you can hear shrieks of laughter from the changing room and your DD prances out with arms straight up in the air as the skirt bit is sticking up into her arm pits? AND IT WONT GO DOWN?!!!! It looked like it might go down a bit but DD tried her first move...tip toe on, slide right leg forward (immediate outrage as supposed to be left) stretch other leg behind and sort of present herself, dip forward into a bit of a bow and then tutu skirt part flips right up behind her? I would say like a peacock but maybe more the proud feathery quiff of a turkey's backside? Is this because it is not a handmade proper tutu but a £30 jobbie-thatsallyourgettingsoyoubetterlikeit from the large well thumbed trade dance catalogue and that's why it doesn't sit? Or do all tutus do this even the posh ones? This is for her first festival and I just am dreading her being the comedy entry! She's not helping either as she finds it hilarious and only encourages and cultivates it to flip up. So her teacher needs me to tame it. Or she might have said train it? Train it with towels. Ummm. How do you train a tutu with towels?! Do I whip it into submission, flailing towels at it like a lion tamer? OR Layer it with the weight of towels? But how should it be positioned? With the skirt all splayed out then towels on top or folded as if it was hanging up and then put the towels on top? It's just a stretchy velvet body but it's very tight as the smallest size was ordered by mistake. It just fits but there's no room for growth. Could it be this is not helping matters coupled with DD's long torso? Could this be keeping the skirt riding high? It's made of stiff netting which her teacher was surprised and pleased to see considering the cost but I'm worried that it's not sitting right as its being pulled a little? I didn't want to ask about torso length in front of DD as we've already had the discussion about no suitable school tutus to borrow which I understand as you can tweak berth but not girth (not actually meaning of berth I know but it kind of works) and I don't want her to feel self conscious that she won't look as good or as suitable but I just can't spend £150 plus on a properly fitted tutu especially when it's only her first competition and she is still very young and will be wearing it for all of two minutes? I just don't want her to stick out....literally :-(

Especially up a flight of steps!

I don't know but I think I need one.

Spreadsheets- ok but Swanprincess has a colour coded mind map!!!? Genius.

Sorry missed you Amos had to go in and chat about possible need for orthotics? I know there's lots about this here so I'm going to have a search later. Hope was a good class back xx

I love that you had to check. This is the forum for people who totally understand that you had to check. A ballet thing? I don't know but certainly a Balletco thing! I can sleep now. More resolutions please!

Yes..you do that, excellent. I shall retreat to mind palace (steeples fingers) and try and remember where I read about lilac. Or we could just wait for a mod? I tend to attract a mod eventually. Possible additional resolution- stop mod bothering.

I'm sure it was here....I don't want to cast aspersions! Maybe it's an urban legend...? I hope it's true, I rather like these type of stories plus it's a bit 'insider' and I don't have much ballet to be inside about?

2) righteous and admirable 6) this is my car plus it's sticky too in areas.. I don't know why. 10) with your charger that charges chargeable phone portable charger...phone..charger..that.....ports.

You read my mind - the more I know the less I understand :-( :-(

Me too! However Miss Lewis... I've heard not so keen?

PV has cake ennui. And that rhymes. ....Drops mic, leaves stage.

Lilac! ..thinking of new cake resolutions that can be inserted into a dance thread.... I've managed it before. I've been there done that cakey wise. .....thinking....

We haven't done this yet? Here are mine which have been ranked in order of achievability - first being simply a matter of time, last being pure whimsy. DD to enter and win 2016 Prix De Lausanne. Buy lotto ticket. Win. Spend winnings on vocational training for...all of us. Lure one of my cats into that little dress up fairy tutu skirt long enough to take photo. Find a clever, witty, classy, superior riposte whenever anyone says "oh, she doesn't get it (ballet) from you" NO she doesn't but.....but......gggrrrrrrrrrrrr. Invent an antidote to or learn to suffer the complaints of DD's early morning "hairspray in the mouth" syndrome. Finally move on from the horrendous episode that was DD getting sandwiched between the ticket barriers at Charing Cross and let her insert own ticket and go through. It's been over a year now. *Sew end of yoga mat carry bag so yoga mat stops sliding out on escalators. (*celotape) Despite there being a confusing handle REMEMBER door to main ballet studio is a PUSH not a PULL to avoid twice a week idiot fumble. If invited to watch/video rehearsals stop sitting primly then slouch as soon as the teacher's back turned. She knows. They always know. Send off DD's EYB audition forms. Then contemplate but chicken out of sending her in Tring uniform PLUS nanny's hand knitted Xmas present of... Lilac mohair snood Lilac mohair short sleeve cardigan Lilac mohair fingerless gloves Buy more than ONE PAIR of ballet tights at a time to last year. Check uniform needs a wash before tomorrow. Over to you.. X