At the rinks where I skate the attire is all over the map, even for advanced skaters. The younger skaters tend to wear dresses, but the adults are really varied - some wear skirts or dresses, others wear various types of sweat pants with tops and still others wear leggings and big tops. The female partner of the most advanced ice dance team always wears a skirt over tights or leggings. I won't touch tight stretch pants or leggings, simply because with my figure that would look ghastly on me. On the other hand, maybe Santa will bring me a home liposuction unit for Christmas, in which case anything goes.

Aw, thanks! I do love that dress. My coach's mother made it for me.

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I usually train in a skirt now. I have around 4 skirts I use solely for figure skating. In our rink like the others, the really serious ones wear pants, while the others just wear skirts. But since our rink is mostly public (only durig evenings are freestylers allowed to use the rink), wearing a skirt is like a way of saying and warning them about the things we figure skaters usually do. haha

Wow I never thought about that. On public sessions I bet people try to keep some distance since you look like you might bust out a spin or a jump!

Tiara

I must remember to try that...*remembers self glowering and hockey skaters who seem to attach themselves [with their steward friend!!] to the middle circle, despite the rules saying it's for figure skaters...*

Seriously though, not many people wear skirts or dresses at our rink. Some of the little ones do (girls ) - under sevens and such, and there's a few teenagers who wear skirts during patch, but I don't often see adults wearing them. That might however, be because I have my lesson during a public session (until after Christmas!! ) and no sane adult would skate when school kids are there - unless they had too. I do see a few in leggings though - personally, as I'm not particularly advanced (and I seem to have put on a lot of weight in the last 3 months...), I just skate in jeans for the time being.

haha. it works most of the time. ) plus the white skates. )

Most adults at our rink wear stretchy pants but not dresses.

I tried my new Freeskate dress on the ice on Friday (http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...t/Celtic2t.jpg) - competition isn't until February but I thought i should see if it needed any alterations but it's fine.

The one thing I hadn't really noticed (since I haven't skated in a dress in awhile) is that movement is freer even though my stretchy slacks didn't SEEM restricting. Have to figure out how to keep my legs from freezing and go back to a practice dress ....

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spirals generally don't work too well if i'm wearing a ton of pairs, but other than that its not so bad. maybe its because they have so many holes? most of my tights are a total disaster.

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haha and yes, going pee can be a work out all by itself lol

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Beautiful dress! I love the color.

In the summer, I usually skate in dresses because it is warmer and like the others have said I feel more like a skater! The less clothes the better I can move. In the winter I usually skate in unitards, tights underneath, and some kind of fitted black top. Under armour or some top from Target or Kohls. You get the picture.

I don't really like leggings or skirts (two pieces) it feels like the waist bands are cutting me in half. Eeeewwww.

Most of the adults where I am where some kind of stretch pants/leggings and fitted top. On a public session I never wear a dress. I feel stupid when I do that. Just my own personal feeling when I wear it at these times.

I usually wear stretchy athletic pants. Sometimes, I wear longer shorts with tights if it's not too cold. I stay away from even semi loose pants after I tripped over them, and when I tried to get up, they kept getting caught in my blades making me fall again and again. It was like a comedy act watching me try to get up wit my blades stuck on my pants leg of the opposite leg