[HANASHIR:4690] Re: kids' choir clothes

[Meris Ruzow <meris...>]

For my kids' chorus of about 20, I had boys wear dark slacks and blue
turtlenecks.    Girls wore dark denim skirts (because most of them had
them).  They also wore the royal blue turtlenecks.   Lucky for me, one of
the kids' moms was a seamstress and made ALL the kids nice white linen-like,
"bolero" style vests with gold piping.   They really looked cool and loved
the special attire.    So ask around..... you never know who can help!
Meris Ruzow
-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Boyd Leon <cbleon (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Sunday, December 26, 1999 3:49 PM
Subject: [HANASHIR:4683] Re: kids' choir names


>My volunteer adult choir wears white blouse/skirt or white shirt/dark suit.
>I'm encouraging but not requiring the women to wear long skirts.  I really
>like the uniformity and the comraderie the similar clothes help create.
The
>"uniform" also works beautifully when we do an interfaith service with a
>church choir; for that one, the church choir leaves their choir robes in
the
>closet and instead matches our black-and-white.  At Confirmation our
>students wear white robes, and our rabbis always wear robes at services,
but
>I really don't think my adult choir would want to do the same -- although I
>remember feeling very special putting on a blue choir robe in my high
school
>chorus.  Maybe it just has to do with being comfortable with what you're
>used to.
>
>While I'd love the appearance of an adult choir with each member wearing a
>tallit, I'm not comfortable with telling people they must wear one.
>
>My youth choir (grades 3-8) has no uniform (other than choir t-shirts which
>they can wear to rehearsals and outings but not to services), and I don't
>want to do the black-and-white thing with them.  But I've thought of, say,
>long royal blue skirts for the girls and blue ties for the boys along with
>their own white shirts.  I'd love it and I think at least the girls would,
>too.  The issue, though, is both finances and some people not wanting any
>kind of "enforced" uniform for the kids, and that's why so far nothing's
>happened.
>
>I also loved the suggestions for bulletin column names.  I chose "Chai
>Notes," which seemed especially appropriate because Chai is my Hebrew name.
>-- Carol
>
>Carol Boyd Leon
>Director of Music, Temple B'nai Shalom
>7612 Old Ox Road, Fairfax Station, VA 22039
>Temple fax:  703-764-2904
>E-mail:  CBLeon (at) hotmail(dot)com
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