Talk:Ballet shoe

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I see that the image Ballet_feet.jpg has gone dead. Busy finding out a) How/where to restore/replace the photo myself, and b) the appropriate tags to put on -- so far I've added {{Image requested}}Rfwoolf 01:51, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I was reading up on Bill Nye and apparently he holds the patent for Ballet Shoes. I'd recommend a section on the origin of the ballet shoes. 11:57, 29 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.116.241.109 (talk)

Is this significant?

I removed the following paragraph from Construction. There may be some useful info buried here, but I'm not sure (1) what point is being made, or (2) what supporting evidence exists for these statements, or (3) whether it belongs in Construction or somewhere else:

The material of ballet slippers can correspond with the type of flooring is used. Wooden floors are sometimes slippery and the "stickiness" of leathershoes can help counteract this. Marley floors already have some adherents and canvas shoes help a dancer move more easily.

Lambtron (talk) 06:15, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

I included this information because the construction of ballet slippers and the choice of material is directly correlated to the type of flooring used.

You can see more at this blog and this great resource ("Another way to influence your decision is to consider the type of dance floor in which the shoes will be worn. Leather shoes work well with wooden floors, but canvas shoes are better suited to floors made of vinyl." and this very reliable source ("Most of the company wears canvas," says Betsy Erickson, ballet mistress at San Francisco Ballet. "On Marley and linoleum, you can stub your toe or trip in leather. In multiple turns, leather slippers can stick on Marley." Isaac Akiba, a dancer in Boston Ballet II, agrees: "I feel like if I wore leather I wouldn't be able to turn as well, and it would be hard to move on the floor.").

So this information about the choice of material used in a ballet slipper is definitely relevant to the flooring and the info should be included here. [1] Perhaps there is a better way to include this information? 38.109.88.196 (talk) 18:11, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

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