montanarose
12-09-2005, 12:50 PM
Last September somebody here (skyblue, I think?) was looking for a pair of black pants that fit tightly over one's boots -- as opposed to jazz pants (sorry, Joanna :) ) -- and somebody else recommended a style offered by Six0. Since I was also interested, I ordered a pair from River's Edge Dancewear and they just arrived (yes, it took about two months to get them).
Haven't skated in them yet but right now I'm prancing around the house wearing them and my skates. They feel like they'll be toasty warm, as they have a fleece-like interior, but are smooth (not shiny) on the outside. The fabric is a lycra/spandex blend so they fit like a dream, yet it feels like there will be enough "give" in them to accomodate a pair of tights as well as my knee and hip pads :oops: And -- their distinguishing feature -- they have a wide bottom which is elasticized so that you can pull them down over the boot heel, eyelets and laces. It feels like they will stay nicely in place when skating, unlike the black dancewear tights I usually skate in that end up rolling up around my boot tops no matter how much I pull them down to begin with.
Drawback? The price, @ around $60 plus $10 shipping 8O , is steep. But they appear to be so well-made that I am hoping I will get LOTS of wear out of them, thus amortizing the cost to a very minimal cost-per-wearing.
For anyone who's interested, they are SixO item #FT05 and you can see a picture of them at www.sixoskatewear.com (sorry, I don't know how to do the link-to-the picture thing).
If I have a bad experience actually skating in these -- as opposed to just clomping around the house in them -- I'll post again.
Cheers,
Ellen
Haven't skated in them yet but right now I'm prancing around the house wearing them and my skates. They feel like they'll be toasty warm, as they have a fleece-like interior, but are smooth (not shiny) on the outside. The fabric is a lycra/spandex blend so they fit like a dream, yet it feels like there will be enough "give" in them to accomodate a pair of tights as well as my knee and hip pads :oops: And -- their distinguishing feature -- they have a wide bottom which is elasticized so that you can pull them down over the boot heel, eyelets and laces. It feels like they will stay nicely in place when skating, unlike the black dancewear tights I usually skate in that end up rolling up around my boot tops no matter how much I pull them down to begin with.
Drawback? The price, @ around $60 plus $10 shipping 8O , is steep. But they appear to be so well-made that I am hoping I will get LOTS of wear out of them, thus amortizing the cost to a very minimal cost-per-wearing.
For anyone who's interested, they are SixO item #FT05 and you can see a picture of them at www.sixoskatewear.com (sorry, I don't know how to do the link-to-the picture thing).
If I have a bad experience actually skating in these -- as opposed to just clomping around the house in them -- I'll post again.
Cheers,
Ellen