How To Choose Figure Skating Dresses

A figure skating coach explains how to choose figure skating dresses. Figure skating dresses come in many varieties and materials. What's most important is that you're confident in what you're wearing. Enlarge

How To Choose Figure Skating Dresses

A figure skating coach explains how to choose figure skating dresses. Figure skating dresses come in many varieties and materials. What's most important is that you're confident in what you're wearing.

I'm here to tell you how to choose figure skating dresses. Firstly, the skater needs to feel perfectly confident in what they're wearing. The costume has to actually be made to measure so it fits very, very well, very comfortable, and very snugly to the body.

You need a different collection of dresses, a variety of dresses, all depending on the what kind of routine you're performing. So if you're doing a free-skating program which is very flamboyant and very exuberant, you might need something with bright colours. If you're doing something that's a little bit more subdued, it might be a little bit more low-key.

There are all different types of materials we can use, different textures - there's velvet, there's nylon, there's chiffon, there's body stocking and there are all different kinds of accessories that we can actually put on the accessories as well. I would also advise you to go to see a dressmaker that actually specializes in making skating dresses. .