To Tape or Not to Tape?... An Irish dance question.

Do you tape?  Is tape even necessary?

When I competed this year at the North American Nationals, I did not line my hard shoes with the white tape.  When I looked back at the pictures, my feet did not look neat and clean. In addition to that, my dress is a bit too long so I think it made me look shorter than I really am.

Also, I really like the way the white tape looks on stage.
I guess I just answered my own question: I am taping my hard shoes from now on.

Something else I noticed at NAN's was that a lot of girls were taping their soft shoes, too I really liked the way it looked. The tape makes  the leg look really lean  especially in the back as it blends with the sock.  .

It is interesting to think that socks are getting shorter on the leg and now we must tape the shoe to make the leg look longer.  Can  Irish dance have anymore weird trends?

I also saw a lot of girls who used white laces on their soft shoes.  For me, I tie my laces around my shoe several times and I like that the black laces blend in.  I'm thinking white laces might be too distracting.  What do you think?

I was wondering what you thought of the white tape on the ghillies?
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