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Old 20-11-2016, 15:55
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Ward Robe have had a bit of a problem dressing her all series. She's short, chunky and very muscular. Giving her something fitted works best, but they tend to muck it up by giving her a huge updo on the head which makes her look out of proportion with herself.

I grant is isn't easy getting great frocks that look fantastic on everyone, but even when they have given her a good outline, they've done it in a hideous colour or bizarro texture. Her charleston outfit worked, but not much else has. Simpler is always going to be better for her, but she must have shape! Otherwise the poor woman just looks like a randomly wrapped sweetie.
Definitely needs skater style skirts as an absolute minimum to give her some sort of shape other than box.
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Old 20-11-2016, 15:56
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Claudia's dress last week was lovely. Even my husband noticed!
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Old 20-11-2016, 16:12
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Claudia's dress last week was lovely. Even my husband noticed!
Yes it was so it can be achieved.
She is very tiny and muscular. I went to watch a gymnastics competition a couple of years ago and in the flesh the girls are so tiny. They look OK in leotards but obviously some styles don't suit.
The height difference isn't helping either.
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Old 20-11-2016, 17:01
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Ward Robe have had a bit of a problem dressing her all series. She's short, chunky and very muscular. Giving her something fitted works best, but they tend to muck it up by giving her a huge updo on the head which makes her look out of proportion with herself.

I grant is isn't easy getting great frocks that look fantastic on everyone, but even when they have given her a good outline, they've done it in a hideous colour or bizarro texture. Her charleston outfit worked, but not much else has. Simpler is always going to be better for her, but she must have shape! Otherwise the poor woman just looks like a randomly wrapped sweetie.
I did think she looked fab in the opening number. So much for short people can only wear three-quarter length.
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Old 20-11-2016, 17:13
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On that note, has there ever been a really good face plant on the main show? I recall Anya getting her heel caught in her costume, and nearly going down, and Flackers just missed a tumble down the stairs mid AS? Has anyone succumbed fully to a spot of full on inadvertent floor bothering?
I am late to the party yet again but I can only remember poor Ian going for an unchoreographed knee slide during Zoe's America showdance in Season Three
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Old 20-11-2016, 17:18
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I am late to the party yet again but I can only remember poor Ian going for an unchoreographed knee slide during Zoe's America showdance in Season Three
Didn't he fall down the stairs as well on one occassion or was that Brendan?
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Old 20-11-2016, 17:19
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Kara absolutely stacking it around 35 seconds into this remains my favourite just because it took the edge off her ringerness right at the very start. That and the HIDEOUS outfit.

Brenda going over I think is the very end of this
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Old 20-11-2016, 17:22
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I did think she looked fab in the opening number. So much for short people can only wear three-quarter length.
She did indeed look very nice in that, although I notice that they plonked her on top of a box which amused me slightly (I am very easy to amuse though).

Can't multi-quote, but I agree that her VW dress looked good as well.

Nonetheless, I still hold to it that she needs to be clad with care rather than just covered in something shiney and hoping for the best.
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Old 20-11-2016, 17:37
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Wasn't that wowed by Danny's Charleston if I'm honest. It's a shame cos half his dances have deserved 40 based on this years scoring, but not his Charleston. Whole show was a bit pants imo.
I'm the same, it was the best dance of the night but I wasn't massively impressed with it as a Charleston, one handed cartwheel included. It felt rather frantic and he definitely either missed a step or lost timing on a couple of occasions.

Having said all of the above, it was heads and above the best technically difficult routine of the night and I did have a smile at the end of it.

It's my own prejudice, I love a "proper" old style Charleston like the original from Josephine Baker

Kara absolutely stacking it around 35 seconds into this remains my favourite just because it took the edge off her ringerness right at the very start. That and the HIDEOUS outfit.

Brenda going over I think is the very end of this
Ahh yes, had forgotten Kara's little faux pas and Brenda's trip up stairs was so cleverly parodied by Jennifer Lawrence at the Oscars a few years later as I recall
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Old 20-11-2016, 17:40
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I loved it - it was another of those dances that I see myself doing in my head, if that makes sense. With Oti's dress. And legs.

It was, for me, the best dance of the show. Was it a 40 - maybe not but it was better than anything that had gone before so in the context of the show it was in and the scores given previously, it was about right.
Once they had given Cloudier 4 9s for her jive, they had absolutely no choice but to give Danny 4 10s. Anything else would have been even more ludicrous than Cloudier's score of 36. Did the complexity of Danny's routine and the performance of the rest cancel out the mistakes? Matter of opinion really. I agree that whatever the appropriate score, it was the best dance on the night (although for me, Twimsy's Paso was a guilty pleasure ).
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Old 20-11-2016, 17:42
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(although for me, Twimsy's Paso was a guilty pleasure ).
I'm jumping on your guilt, I enjoyed it for the absolute WTFckery of it all, I couldn't believe what she was wearing, at one point it looked like she had caterpillars on her eyelashes, Kevin's trousers deserved to have the floor all on their own but it was one hell of a performance all ends up!
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Old 20-11-2016, 18:03
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I'm jumping on your guilt, I enjoyed it for the absolute WTFckery of it all, I couldn't believe what she was wearing, at one point it looked like she had caterpillars on her eyelashes, Kevin's trousers deserved to have the floor all on their own but it was one hell of a performance all ends up!
Kevin's trousers were part of the voodo ritual for Louizee and her longed for girl child.
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Old 20-11-2016, 18:09
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Can you still get pregnant if you keep your poloneck jumper on?
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Old 20-11-2016, 18:29
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Kara absolutely stacking it around 35 seconds into this remains my favourite just because it took the edge off her ringerness right at the very start. That and the HIDEOUS outfit.

Brenda going over I think is the very end of this
Looking back with hindsight, Kara's expression throughout that screams that their "relationship" started about 24 hours before this routine
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Old 20-11-2016, 18:33
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Looking back with hindsight, Kara's expression throughout that screams that their "relationship" started about 24 hours before this routine
It was a tad wasn't it
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Old 20-11-2016, 18:37
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Looking back with hindsight, Kara's expression throughout that screams that their "relationship" started about 24 hours before this routine
I thought that too at the time.
Check out her look at 50secs in, then her "feely touchy moment" at 1.05 secs and the end.
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Old 20-11-2016, 18:46
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Can you still get pregnant if you keep your poloneck jumper on?
Not if you (he) keeps his willy in it.
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Old 20-11-2016, 18:49
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Not if you (he) keeps his willy in it.
And we're back to Ann Summers.
James thanks you.
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Old 20-11-2016, 18:49
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Looking back with hindsight, Kara's expression throughout that screams that their "relationship" started about 24 hours before this routine
Doesn't it just! I was thinking the same thing.
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Old 20-11-2016, 19:13
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Looking back with hindsight, Kara's expression throughout that screams that their "relationship" started about 24 hours before this routine
Forgot how happy Artem used to look when dancing with Kara. Was nice to see. Dreadful costume though - at the beginning she just looks like she's dying for a loo break.
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Old 20-11-2016, 19:16
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Evening all *mwah* Ready to unappreciate Blackpool some more. Going to be brave and do it sober
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Old 20-11-2016, 19:20
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*mwah*

Well, that was rather busy...
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Old 20-11-2016, 19:20
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That's a lot of pastel...

WTF is Tess wearing?
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Old 20-11-2016, 19:21
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Can you still get pregnant if you keep your poloneck jumper on?
This brings to mind that sequence from Dinnerladies:

Tony: "So you're not pregnant then?"
Bren: "Well not unless sperm can get through a sash window."
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Old 20-11-2016, 19:23
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Haha Darcey is drunk even before she gets into the ballroom. Queen of the DOTs.
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