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...moved...
I've decided to move Chic Skate, for personal convenience purposes...I guess I'll keep journal until I figure out what to do with it...
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2006 Skate Canada: Free Dance -- Canadian Pride
Aside from being happy that Canada finished 1-2 stop the ice dance podium (with my favourites Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir [could they get any cuter?!] taking silver in their first Grand Prix event!), I'm actually astounded at how nice Tessa's and Marie-France Dubreuil's FD dresses were. These dresses deserve big, detailed photos:
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2006 Skate Canada: Ladies' LP -- Hey Fumie, I've seen those dresses before
So before I commented on Fumie Suguri's Halloween SP dress, but after seeing her LP dress, I think I know what's going on here. Aside from the orange fixation, Fumie's two dresses seem to be the poor man's versions of two of my all-time favourite costumes, worn by Sasha Cohen mainly in the 2002-03 season. See what I mean:
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2006 Skate America: Pairs LP
Despite the fact that I need to slow down or I'll run out of material by the end of the season, these 3 couples caught my attention for various reasons in the pairs' free skate:
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2006 Skate America: Ladies SP
Huzzah, Grand Prix season is upon us again, and a new season means new costumes. As much I want to go ahead and dissect every single costume right away, that would leave no fun for a long season to come, so I'm going to do this bit by bit. I'll start with one good and one bad from this week's ladies' short program.
The Good: Kimmie Meissner, USA
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Companion to the 2006 Worlds: Men's Skating Fashion
I would like to take this opportunity to present what I like to call Dressing for Skating Success: Men's Ice Fashion 101. Unfortunately for the boys, there are far more windows of opportunity for them to miss the mark fashion-wise than the ladies. Girls have more options and can get away with more without being made fun of. In view of that, I will ( Read more... )
