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    Personal Hygiene

    Most organisers have pepermints available on the entry desk - but what about B.O. - this must be the biggest turn off in dancing and I have been told not necessarily directed towards men

    If dancing clothes are not washed the odour it is as bad if not worse than fresh B.O. and I have found this on a couple of experience (and popular) dancers. OR if you have eaten a highly spiced meal prior to dancing the odour appears to venture through the sweat glands

    I must have a very sensitive nose as I can't stand this (my sense of smell must be acute due to my bad eyesight)

    I have to admit all the forumites I have dance with do not have this problem, they either smell devine or are completely odourLESS

    Any ideas to pass on to organisers to help the situation ?


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    Re: Personal Hygiene

    Originally posted by Minnie M
    Any ideas to pass on to organisers to help the situation ?
    Trouble is, what can the organisers do? Put up a notice saying "no smelly people admitted"? Regrettably, the whiffers probably aren't aware of their state, and this is what makes it so difficult.

    I think about this in the following way:

    I say to myself, suppose I smelt bad. Would I prefer to be told straightaway, and have the opportunity to do something about it pronto, or...

    ... would I prefer to have ladies dance with me, suffer in silence and say nothing, maybe week after week. I would thereby build up a rep as a whiffer, people would talk about me, people would avoid me, and all the while I would know nothing...

    ... until...

    Somehow I found out.

    I would realise I'd been stinking at people for weeks, maybe months... I would suddenly understand why I'd been blanked by some as I approached them for a dance... why others looked liked they weren't enjoying dancing with me...

    ... and I would realise, that since the girls talk amongst themselves, I would have a reputation as a stinker.

    Well, all I can say is that although being told up front would not be the most pleasant experience, the latter would be MUCH WORSE.

    I vote for biting the bullet, ladies, and, as gently as possible, telling the guy.


    Fortunately the number of ladies with the same problem is miniscule by comparison.

    Chris

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    Perhaps Franck could install a "metal detector" arch like thing at the pay-desk that spreys anti-odour on all those who walk through to pay? Perhaps with a foot pump linked to an under-counter, perfumed shotgun to target the really smelly ones?

    On a more serious note, I think that a paragraph on a 'beginner's fact-sheet' would/should alert people to the possability.

    {I must try and stop people feeding me garlic/curry/haggis/cabbage/beans/... before going out ...but it tases so good....anyone know if you get charcoal biscuits for humans?}

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    At my first beginners class the teacher got straight to the point

    “Every one please. Before you come dancing, have a shower,
    put on a clean shirt , use a deodorant and cut your nails”

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