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Thread #118927 Message #2579779
Posted By: Desert Dancer
02-Mar-09 - 06:50 PM
Thread Name: Wigs/Makeup in kids' Irish dance feis
Subject: RE: Wigs/Makeup in kids' Irish dance feis
Here in the Irish-American Southwest, I have friends with kids who've been involved. The story one gave me about the ringlets is that the whole scene got its standards established in the age of Shirley Temple, when that was what little girls (or their mothers) aspired to, and it's stuck.
My friends daughters were happy to put on the wig for performing and take it off right away, rather than having to deal with the curlers all night and having the curls droop during the day...
I have to say it's not a scene that has attracted me...
~ Becky in Tucson (Arizona, USA)