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Date sent: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:35:41 EST
Subject: Re: Choir Dresses
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I believe this is one of those no-win situations. I have yet to be in any
choir which required a "uniform" dress that wasn't hated by most, if not all
the women in the group. I agree that a simple 3/4 sleeve, round neck, black
a-line is one's best bet.

In our college choir, the director's graduate assistant chose a sleeveless,
slit-neck with gathers right below the bosom. EVERYBODY hated it, except the
gal who chose it. She even used the same pattern in different colors years
later for her bridesmaids' dresses. Yeesh!

Rosy Freudenstein, mezzo, who finds even the rags that are my costume in
Boris Godunov to be preferable to that black choir dress!