Word: accoutrementsã
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There are years when fashion is alive with a sort of electric promise, when each collection is a wildly inventive and witty romp through the wonder of clothing and last year’s styles by comparison seem frumpy and full of odd, useless accoutrements??such as shoulder pads. This year is not one of those years. This year in fact makes last year seem like a glistening beacon of originality, and leggings a glorious flattering invention (I know you may find this hard to believe; I do too, because I looked like Jean Paul Sartre...
...once too cynical to think an undergraduate education would change me at all. I was wrong, for a transformation has taken place. My education—including what I took to be obscure and trivial accoutrements??has subtly made me into a citizen of the world. Such a fellow may well be more an oddity in Montana, but he’s surely relevant elsewhere. Right? Maybe? Dean Gross...
...assumes no experience at all and starts with the basics of hip movement and hand placement. For the precocious, Johara also teaches an intermediate course which culminates in a very public demonstration—a class clubbing night. For those without the proper accessories, Johara sells all the necessary accoutrements??hip scarves ($35-$50) and finger cymbals ($10). And at the cost of $12 for drop-ins, with a discount for long-term students, Dance Complex is financially accessible. Johara describes belly dancing as a “celebration of womanhood”—which...
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