All That Skate Summer

Once again, we apologize for the uncharacteristic delay between posts. We're living together for the summer and our internet reception has been spotty at best, so we haven't had much of a chance to find photos from summer shows. We'll be updating as we find new competition costumes for the 2010-2011 season, but right now we're going to talk a little about the costumes from All That Skate Summer.  

Kwak Min-Jung

Short Program: Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel

Min-Jung debuted her new short program at ATSS and we love it, both the program and her new costume. Min-Jung is one of our favorite rising ladies' skaters and this costume is gorgeous. Even though the combination of white dress and Pachelbel's Canon normally screams 'wedding,' we think this looks really age appropriate.

Best of 2009-2010

Now that we're finished with our 2009-2010 Retrospective, we wanted to summarize our feelings about this season. These are our examples of the most well-designed, well-executed, appropriate, aesthetically-pleasing costumes from this season. The skaters in this post exemplify what we're looking for in costumes when we're judging them.

2009-2010 Ice Dance: Part Four

2009-2010 Season In Review: Part 16 of 16

Ice Dance: Part 4 of 4
 

Isabelle Delobel/Olivier Schoenfelder. Current World Ranking: not ranked

Compulsory Dance 

We tried to make witty comments about the little triangle pendant on Delobel's dress, but we were tripped up by the fact that we genuinely can't tell what it is or what it's doing there. Is it a crotch shield? Anyway, we're not crazy about the pinstripes either. Bee thinks they look a little too mob boss and Elle thinks they should have gone with solid black since Delobel's wearing black.