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> “At a public ball, it is exceptional for a gentleman to offer to escort a lady home: she is pretty sure to refuse, unless ____ but we need not supply that bla
by riazrizvi 9y ago
> “At a public ball, it is exceptional for a gentleman to offer to escort a lady home: she is pretty sure to refuse, unless ____ but we need not supply that blank!”
On the contrary, you need.
- pjc50 9y agoIn that climate (and frankly still present in a lot of places), it's a major character slur to imply an unmarried woman going home with strange men. (as mentioned at #11, this is the time when the waltz was still a bit racey and mildly controversial)
- SimbaOnSteroids 9y ago123, 123, 123. The thing Victorian teenage day dreams were made of.
- viewer5 9y agoI'll bet you're just thinking of the box-step (the super basic step where you basically walk in a box shape). If I'm not misremembering my lessons--to do some of the turns properly, the woman has to be essentially straddling the man's upper leg. It was a pain to do some of those with partners who weren't comfortable with that kind of contact.
- SimbaOnSteroids 9y agoI believe one of the defining characteristics of the Waltz is that its done in 3/4 time.
- viewer5 9y agoRight, I just mean that the way you phrased it sounded like you were picturing a super vanilla, middle-school-dance-esque box-stepping couple (in 3/4 time). All's I meant is I can see how waltz was considered risque; as a sheltered guy, I was caught really off-guard when our instructor positioned my partner and I in the way I described.